I'm looking for your views please - support, suggestions and constructive criticism.
Just yesterday, I posted that we needed to set up a "war chest" to help support the growing number of fans protests. Some requests for financial help have already been made for individual protest initiatives and several of us have contributed financially to these. However, my view is that the time is now right for a fighting fund to be established, the "war chest". This would be used to meet reasonable requests for financial support for all forms of fans protests against Duchatelet and Meire: leaflets, banners, flags, events, props - whatever, as long as it is legal.
Nothing to stop individuals seeking support for their own protest activities but the advantage of having a fund set up and ready to use is that money would be available virtually immediately.
In brief, the proposal is :
* to set up a Charlton Fans Protest Fund
* the fund would be administered jointly by Davo55 and Curb_It, who has agreed in principle to be my co-organiser if a fund is established.
* we would require a brief statement saying what form the protest will take, how much money is sought and what it will be used for. Using email rather than posting details on Charlton Life - for obvious reasons.
* all funding decisions, i.e whether to support and with how much, would be at our discretion taking into account the strength of the claim and the funds available. To be absolutely clear, people who donate would be putting their money and decision making on distribution into our hands, and while popular opinion would naturally be taken into consideration, those donating would not be able to determine how their contribution may or may not be used. There will be no specific decision making criteria beyond its legality.
* a record would be kept of all funds raised and how they were distributed. This, redacted to exclude personal information as necessary, would be available to all contributors at a later point.
* any money donated but not spent for whatever reason would go the Upbeats.
I would kick the fund off with £100 of my own, and I hope we could together make a real difference, and help to get our Charlton back.
What do you think Lifers?
Cheers
Alan
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Curbishley.
The account I have is dormant and is only ever used for the shirt sponsorship. We still have approx 900 quid in there which is already allocated to the Upbeats as and when we have a project for them.
They haven't caught me yetNoCould have been confusing though....
Can i be the first to volunteer to lead a two week protest around belgium
sampling beeragainst RolandNot the key to my wine cellar though.
Excellent - I'm in
I'm thinking of stopping my membership I have to admit, particularly after we were told the club didnt need the VIP money, and with all these undisclosed fees