Please don't be put off if you missed the first startup meeting for Charlton Athletic Supporter Trust, we still need people willing to put in hard graft and dedication to this project for it to succeed who can commit to this.
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Barnie (interim chair)
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Wish you all the best in your endeavors
MoG.
1. People have Charlton on there mind, having made a commitment to go to the game
2. It would be a good access point of fans who could find out more about the trust, and get involved themselves.
I think it is very important that the trust is seen as an inclusive gateway to support the club in the long term.
So......... anyone got any contact details such as the conservative club or liberal club that are Charlton friendly and that could be approached to let us use part of there premises. Probably have to keep the meeting's to a limited time say 30 minutes, and delegate the details to 'working groups' to report back. People might have kids or on a tight time scale, and people do like myself do like a drink before the match.
Give me a inbox and I will contact the relevant person/organisation........and see if this can be put into action.
Of course I expect the above poster above to be pro active having suggested this.........
I personally feel the match day experience should be separate, and the Trust meetings normally on a different time and date, we need people who are committed with enough spare time to make the separate journey and can deal with the inconvenience. I know this will rule some people out but there are other ways for folk to contribute including ideas on forums, and other ways. It is however up to the trust to decide this, and it might be more appropriate for an AGM, but then that might have time issues too. Would you want to miss kick off if the meeting overran.
Anyway we will work on ways of making the Trust as open and inclusive as possible but this must be in a way that does not inhibit its effectiveness.
Depending on how things go we may need to do some pre match activity though, so hold that thought
BR
I'm guessing that is not what you meant Razil, but for this to work , really work, I think all need to be welcome. If this is going to turn into (and I'm no saying that it will) another of those things that is only going to welcome those in the clique, or those that have the same views then it will struggle. There are just not enough members of the CL Clique to either fund or run something that is going to be able to make any contribution at all.
However I would also say please be patient, this needs to work and be given time to work, paricularly while we go about the unglamorous work of setting everything up. So I humbly ask people to reserve judgement for the finished product, and come to meetings and give your time if you can in that way or by making suggestions, etc.
BR
The first meeting, and in fact the second one, has never been advertised as a "clique only" event. It's been open to one and all to attend.
I was making the point that those that can't drive all the way up from Kent for these meetings as well as for matches shouldn't be made to feel as though they are not included. I made the comparison with the CL clique (and I did say that I didn't expect it to happen) because there is a risk that the events will be social and those that don't know many people that a going might not be inclined to go along.
At no time did I worry about it being a cliquey social event.
At this stage, this is mainly about forming a committee, assuming roles, responsibilities, setting aims and objectives etc.
How can you get absorbed in that if you're not prepared / can't make meetings ??
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1) For the local pubs, where meetings would normally take place, are likely to see match days as pretty much their busiest 23 times of the year. How (and more importantly why) would they be able to give us a seperate room/area when they struggle to accommodate their clientele as it is ?
2) Matchdays are definately a great idea for driving involvement through membership and engagement. However even if we did have a venue for meetings on Matchdays it would be difficult to get people in the room who are truly engaged rather than just turning up for a chat which would quickly eat up the hour and mean very little productive gets done.
However I agree that Matchdays represent a great way of "spreading the message" and we need to think about how we can use this oppertunity to the best of our abilities.
IMHO we need to aim for a flyer/leaflet to hand out to supporters on their way into home games, once the aims etc of the ST group have been discussed & decided. This should be as informative as possible , with contact details of those acting as "officials", date of next meeting etc.
Or a flyer could be produced before this point has been reached ie asking for people's ideas etc and inviting everyone to the next meeting where more viewpoints can be expressed.
At present, the only supporters aware of the proposed ST are Lifers and their contacts. We need to ensure that ALL supporters are aware of the group and have an opportunity to become involved. The Club could also be approached to request that a piece be input into an early season match programme, echoing the contents of the aforementioned flyer. Hand in hand with this , in an ideal world, would be a ST website of course for everyone to view ...
All this has probably been discussed already- if so, apologies to those concerned.
A website, Facebook and Twitter as well as forums such as this are all going to be extremely useful but we need a strategy defining how we engage with our "off line" community as well.