About the Trust
Trust in Yellow was officially formed on the 26th April 2006 by a group of supporters of Southport Football Club disgruntled by a lack of supporter involvement and a growing rift between the board of directors and it's supporters. During the six months which preceded the group had spent time carefully constructing working relationships with the supporters, board of directors, playing staff and media. Whilst wholly independent Trust in Yellow works closely with Southport Football Club to achieve their individual and respective objectives.
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Minutes Of Meeting - 27/09/07
Thursday September 27, 2007
Att 20
Finances – currently stand at £10,246 which covers all coach payments, signs and race night costs. The race night raised around £1300. Phil will speak to James to get the accounts signed off.
Membership – current memberships stand at 249 prior to the meeting. Jon advised the Visiter were planning to put a tear off slip in the paper when space was available.
Minutes Of Meeting - 30/08/07
Thursday August 30, 2007
Att 16
Apologies Alan D
Paul OB
Finances – Phil advised that the accounts stood at £8495.92. There was further cash to bank that would take us to around £8650 and the U'11's sponsorship was still to be paid.
Members – since the start we have had 372 members, however there are 242 current members and quite a few whose membership has expired and is waiting to be renewed.
Race Night – all eight races are now sponsored, the players have taken a race and the horse and jockeys are still being sold. A team of volunteers is required at 2pm on Saturday to help push the sale of ticket and horses and jockeys. Rob advised that the format will be different from last year as we are running the race night ourselves and anyone with technical experience to ensure that the DVD runs smoothly from laptop to projector would be appreciated. The food has been arranged, Alan D has been asked to bring the PA system and Jon is talking to the local radio stations about find a host and also to promote.
Minutes Of Meeting - 09/08/07
Thursday August 09, 2007
Att 39
Finances – The account balance currently stands at £8257.00 and the payment for the heart monitors and the new signs have now gone through.
Membership – 256 members are currently enrolled although and we have had 364 members since the trust formed. Rob advised that he expected the membership figure to rise to around 300 due to members not yet renewing. In addition we have two new corporate members in Brighouse Solicitors and Bargain Booze and one potential new corporate sponsor.
Heart Monitors – Huw has now received 20 heart monitors rather than the 10 initially advised and they are now in use. Huw is delighted and has offered his thanks for the purchase and is happy to provide the trust with any publicity they wish.
Trust in Yellow Ballot Members Regarding Purchase of Heart Monitors
Wednesday July 18, 2007
At Trust in Yellows' meeting with the club (Saturday 14th July 2007) Southport Football Club finally confirmed that there would be no reserve team despite Trust in Yellow successfully achieving its' target of raising £7,000 to purchase a mini bus which would make reserve team football viable.
Minutes Of Meeting with Southport Football Club - 14/07/07
Saturday July 14, 2007
One of Trust in Yellows' major objectives from the outset has been to represent supporters to the club's board of directors. Members, supporters, committee members and the board of directors have all acknowledged the need to formally underpin the working relationship of the two bodies. Having campaigned supporters via the local media and on the trustinyellow.com website - TIY produced an agenda and a series of questions to put to the board, the answers are presented below.
The meeting was held on July 14th 2007 in the Vice Presidents Bar - Grandstand Club, Haig Avenue.
Attendance:
Charlie Clapham (Southport Football Club Chairman),
Sam Shrouder (Southport Football Club Vice-Chairman),
Haydn Preece (Southport Football Club Chief Executive),
Jonathan O'Byrne (Trust in Yellow Chairman),
Andrew Davis (Trust in Yellow Committee Member)
Paul Isenwater (Trust in Yellow Secretary)
Minutes :
Grandstand Bar
Trust in Yellow acknowledged the developments made by the club in respect of the painting of the bar, the CCTV cameras which are in the process of being installed and the new projector. It was also conveyed that "Grandstand Gold" had been well received by supporters.
TIY asked if the club wished to make further progress and if so what plans existed?
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