The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its monthly meeting at The Cherry Red Records Stadium on Tuesday, May 12. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were discussed.

The vast majority of the meeting focused on issues surrounding the club’s planning application for a new stadium in Wimbledon and the future of The Cherry Red Records Stadium. For reasons of commercial confidentiality most of this discussion cannot be reported at present, but the..

You can help AFC Wimbledon Ladies and Girls expand the number of girls’ teams they run by voting for them in a funding competition.

Next season the girls’ set-up would like to add a new Under-11s team, an additional Under-14s team, and a new Under-18s team so that they can offer enjoyable football to girls of all ages in the local community.

And in an attempt to secure funding they have submitted an application to the Aviva Community Fund.

Although..

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held an additional meeting at The Cherry Red Records Stadium on Sunday, May 3. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were discussed.

This additional meeting was arranged at short notice as there hadn’t been enough time during the scheduled April meeting to cover all of its agenda.

The majority of this additional meeting was devoted to discussing the future of the Kingsmeadow site and engagement with Kingstonian..

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) has recently been discussing the club committing to paying the London Living Wage.

To help members keep up-to-date regarding the issue, the DTB has decided to publish the following documents:

The original paper prepared for the DTB by Nigel Higgs The Living Wage Foundation’s Implementation Guide.

The paper was first discussed at the February DTB meeting.

Wimbledon Foodbank has given their thanks to AFC Wimbledon and the Dons Trust for our continuing support.

For the last few years the club’s fans have supported the Foodbank with donations of food, other specifically requested items and money, all collected in the run-up to Christmas.

And in 2013 the players visited the Foodbank, which is based in High Path, Wimbledon, to deliver that year’s collection.

The club recently received a ‘thank you’ card from the Foodbank which says: ‘We have fed over 5000 people in..

A fantastic video featuring the club’s newly crowned Player of the Year, Bayo Akinfenwa, demonstrates the art of finishing and is now available to view on the club’s official YouTube channel.

Aimed at young and teenage fans learning the game, our final masterclass video of 2014/15 features ‘The Beast’ showing off his finishing skills in training – and missing a few too! There is also unique commentary from Bayo on some of his best goals of the season, including ‘Beast..

The following article appeared in the club’s official matchday programme for the game against Cheltenham Town (played on May 2, 2015).

News from the Trust

The Trust plans to have a higher-profile matchday presence next season, says Dons Trust Board Chair Matt Breach, who also reports on the latest fundraising walk for Wimbledon.

THE MATCHDAY PRESENCE

Thanks to a generous donation from the Womble Underground Press fanzine, we hope to be able to pave the area next to the current ticket collection kiosk..

The Football Supporters Federation (FSF) is backing votefootball.org, a tool that allows fans to contact the parliamentary candidates in their area and ask them directly for their stance on football reform.

It only takes a few minutes, and the site is on course to have answers for every constituency in Britain.

Ahead of the general election, the FSF has also asked all the political parties 10 questions on football governance. You can read their responses on the FSF website.

AFC Wimbledon and the Dons Trust are featured in a new video produced by Supporters Direct, the organisation that promotes fan ownership.

The video includes footage filmed at the recent AFC Wimbledon v Wycombe Wanderers match, which was played at the end of the first Supporter Ownership Week. Both AFC Wimbledon and Wycombe are solely owned by their fans.

Explaining the concept of supporter ownership to those wanting more information, you can watch the video on Supporters Direct’s YouTube channel.

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its monthly meeting at The Cherry Red Records Stadium on Monday, April 20. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were discussed.

The first part of the meeting was an update by Dan Norris, the club’s lawyer, on the potential sale of Kingsmeadow as part of our wider ambition to move to a new stadium in Merton. Trust members will appreciate that, for commercial and confidentiality reasons,..