The latest Seals Lottery draw has taken place with the random number selector ‘button’ being pressed by Youth Academy Head Coach Calum McIntyre, witnessed by General Manager Tony Allan and Directors Brian Burns and Mike Day.
CFU meeting reminder
The next informal CFU meeting will take place in the Blues Bar on Wednesday February 24th, starting at 7.30pm.
Youth manager Calum McIntyre will be the guest speaker for the evening to give CFU members an insight into the youth section.
Also chairman Simon Olorenshaw will be asking for members views on the strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities facing the club as part of the consultation on a new strategic plan which was outlined at the last CFU meeting.
Vice Chair, Neil Bellis, will also be giving a more detailed outline on his trip to Parliament to lobby for changes to the tax laws for community owned sports clubs.
There will also be a Q&A session at the end.
If you can’t make it down to the Blues Bar on the night don’t forget there is a streaming service available to CFU members. If you have already signed up there is no need to do so again but if you haven’t signed up yet then please email neil.bellis@chesterfc.com
Seals Lottery Draw – January 2016
The latest Seals Lottery draw has taken place with the random number selector ‘button’ being pressed by office volunteer Jim Betts, witnessed by Commercial Manager Tracey Smith, General Manager Tony Allan and Director Brian Burns.
CFU Board Agenda – February 17th 2016
The CFU board is due to meet on Wednesday 17th February, we will be considering a number of issues in addition to our standard agenda items which are updates from:
Race night in March and Fundraising committee update
The Fundraising committee have organised a Race Night for Friday March 18th in the Blues Bar at 7.30pm.
Sponsorship of the races and also the horses is available to fans and businesses. The prices are £30 per race and £5 to sponsor a horse in one of the races.
There will also be a raffle on the night.
Tickets are £5 and will be available from the Club Offices on Monday. We expect these to go fairly quickly.
This event has always been well attended and is a great night out so try and make it down if you can!
Anyone who wishes to donate a prize to the raffle, sponsor a race or horse is asked to email ed.jones@chesterfc.com or fundraising@chesterfc.com
Summary of board meeting 14th January 2016
Some of the details from the board meeting will have already been published but in summary these were the key issues discussed:
CFU welcome Government report
City Fans United has welcomed a new Government Expert Working Group report which supports Supporters Direct’s proposals for tax breaks for supporter owned clubs.
The report, which was released by the Government Expert Working Group on Football Supporter Ownership and Engagement today, supports SD’s proposals for incentivising community ownership in sports clubs (COSCs) and says they should be accepted by HMRC as a “legitimate operating model for supporter owned football clubs”. (more…)
Seals Lottery December Draw
The latest Seals Lottery draw has taken place with the random number selector ‘button’ being pressed by first team kit man Jimmy Soul, witnessed by club office volunteer Dave Andrews and Directors Jonny Hughes and Brian Burns.
CFU meeting reminder
Members are reminded that the next CFU members meeting is this coming Thursday, January 21.
This is the first opportunity to meet some of the new board members which have been elected/co opted since the AGM so please make your way down to the Blues Bar at 7.30pm.
If you can’t make it to the meeting don’t forget there is a streaming service which is available to members. If you haven’t signed up already then please email neil.bellis@chesterfc.com for more information. If you have signed up for previous meetings then there is no need to again, we will send you the details out on the morning of the meeting.
The agenda for the meeting is as follows;
Welcome and apologies (SO)
Acceptance of the notes of the last meeting held on 5th October 2015 (MN)
New directors – portfolios (SO)
Matters arising from the AGM (JK)
Finance summary (LK)
Strategic plan (SO)
BREAK
Commercial report (JH)
Youth development (BB/MD)
Communications (NB)
Q & A
Date of next – informal 24th February 2016 (revised date)
Two new CFU board members co opted
Two new co-opted board members have joined the CFU board at tonight’s meeting.
Alan Povey and Ed Jones were asked to join the board by chairman Simon Olorenshaw. Alan will take on the community portfolio with Ed taking on the fundraising portfolio.