The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its regular monthly meeting on Monday, March 20, 2017. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were raised.
Unfortunately Erik Samuelson, football club chief executive, wasn’t able to attend the meeting, but he had submitted his monthly report in advance. It included:
an update on the transfer tribunal for Will Mannion (anticipated to be heard some time in April or May) news of a further payment from..
A summary of February’s Dons Trust Board meeting is now available exclusively for members on the Trust Webjam.
The summary of January’s meeting is now available for non-members in the news section of this website.
The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, January 19, 2017. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were raised.
As this was the first Trust board meeting since the recent election, the first task was to elect officers. Matthew Breach was re-elected chair, Mark Davis was re-elected deputy chair, and Sean McLaughlin was re-elected treasurer. The meeting welcomed Tim Hillyer to the board following his election and agreed..
Can you help the Dons Trust as its new secretary, supporting communications with members or as a minute taker?
Rob McGlinchey, the Trust’s current secretary, plans to stand down in the spring due to pressures of work. To give a feel for what the role of the secretary is you can access the current job description.
While replacing Rob, we would also like to look at the workload carried by the rest of the Trust’s secretariat, including those who assist..
The summary of January’s Dons Trust Board meeting has now been published for members on the Trust Webjam. It will remain there exclusively for members before being duplicated on this website in a month’s time.
Later this week we will be uploading to the Trust Webjam an article about the work being done to introduce a customer relationship management system (CRM system) to the club.
Don’t forget you can use the Trust Webjam to interact with other Trust members and..
Our general meetings for 2017 have been provisionally booked for the following dates:
Thursday 27 April (SGM) Thursday 31 August (SGM) Thursday 14 December (AGM)
These dates will be confirmed nearer the time, as will the venues, but you might want to pencil them into your diary now.
The Dons Trust AGM held on Thursday, December 8 included a presentation and Q&A session on the new stadium, given by project manager Andrew Williams and club chief executive Erik Samuelson. Thanks to volunteers who videoed and edited the presentation, it is now available exclusively to Trust members on the Trust Webjam.
We also videoed other sections of the AGM and these will be posted exclusively on the Trust Webjam site over the next few weeks. So if you weren’t..
Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to our members and all AFC Wimbledon supporters.
Trust chair Matthew Breach said: ‘2016 was another fantastic year for the Trust and the club as our new stadium and our return to Wimbledon got ever closer. And of course on the pitch we were able to celebrate another promotion at Wembley.
‘But as always what makes this club so special is the hard work put in by the many volunteers who give their..
Supporter representatives from the EFL’s three divisions, under the auspices of the Football Supporters’ Federation, met with EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey on Wednesday, November 2.
This was the first meeting between fan organisations and the EFL following the Government’s Expert Working Group (EWG) on Fan Engagement and Supporter Ownership. There is a commitment from both fan groups and the EFL to bi-annual meetings.
This meeting was attended by three fans from different clubs for each division, drawn from the FSF’s..
Dons Trust communications volunteer Rob Crane looks at the rise of a club in Germany that challenges that country’s tradition of fan ownership of football clubs.
German football has often been praised for its approach to supporter involvement, insisting that top-level clubs remain controlled by their members – but that approach has been challenged by the recent rise of RB Leipzig.
Until nearly 20 years ago, German football clubs were owned exclusively by their members on a not-for-profit basis, with..
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