Football without fans is nothing

Ahead of the FA Cup clash on Friday 8/11, we invited the Sky Blues Trust to tell us their side of the story behind how Coventry have ended up at Northampton against their supporters’ wishes……

When Coventry City FC was moved to Northampton, I am sure it resonated with Wimbledon fans. Indeed, The Dons Trust as owners of AFC Wimbledon were one of the first to come to our support, publishing a statement condemning the poor decision making ‘process’ of..

Summary of October DTB meeting

This month’s Dons Trust Board meeting was held on Thursday 10 October 2013.

With the Club’s ambition to return to a new stadium in Merton gathering momentum following the recent joint Galliard/AFC Wimbledon submission to Merton Council, inevitably most of this month’s meeting focused on that one topic.

The Football Club Board had invited representatives from the stadium architects to the meeting to brief the DT Board on the latest design proposals. Their detailed and highly-professional presentation was followed by an..

To stand or not to stand – from the Northampton Town programme

David Reeves reports on the Dons Trust Special General Meeting held on 16 September, at which there was an important debate on the future of Dons Trust Board elections. This article originally appeared in the Northampton Town programme on 5 October 2013.

The recent Special General Meeting was very much a meeting of two halves. At the previous SGM in May, members had approved the changes to the Dons Trust constitution that were needed to enable us to launch a..

Coming Home – Manifesto on our proposal to return to Merton

Supporters attending the home match against Accrington Stanley on Saturday 12 October were handed a copy of the Club’s manifesto, ‘Coming Home’.

This sets out the main reasons why AFC Wimbledon should be returning to Merton, and the benefits that we will bring to the community by doing so.

Fans not able to attend the Stanley game can now download Coming Home as a pdf file by following this link.

Coming Home is a summarised version of the Club’s business..

Wimbledon Community Centre:The end or a new beginning?

This article was originally published in the Burton Albion matchday programme on 21 September.

David Hall, Chair of the Wimbledon Community Association and Dons Trust Secretary, laments the loss of a building that has a significant place in the history of our football club.

Anyone who passed along St Georges Road in Wimbledon towards the end of this summer will have seen the demolition of the iconic building at No.28: The Sir Cyril Black/Wimbledon Community Centre. Some may breathe a..

DTB Minutes – June to August

The minutes of the 17 June, 11 July and 7 August 2013 Dons Trust Board meetings are now online. 

The Board apologises for the delay in publishing these minutes, which have had certain items redacted, relating to the Club’s aspirations to return to a new stadium in Merton.  We hope that DT members will appreciate that, for reasons of commercial confidentiality, it has been necessary to redact these discussions and decisions.

Every effort will be made to publish future DTB minutes as promptly..

Summary of September DTB meeting

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its monthly meeting on Monday 9 September.

The first item of business was the approval of the minutes for 7 August’s meeting.  Some of the detail in these minutes has had to be redacted because of  the commercial nature of the discussions, particularly around the stadium proposals.   The amended minutes will be published shortly on the DT website.

Club Chief Executive, Erik Samuelson, then gave the regular monthly report of the Football Club Board..

Direct Debit – correction

The following is the text of an email sent to Dons Trust members paying their DT subscription by direct debit. We hope it satisfactorily responds to comments posted by members on the website about this issue, but please email us at membership@thedonstrust.org if you have any questions or concerns.

Dear Dons Trust member,

You may have recently received an email from First Capital Cashflow, the company that handles our Direct Debit payments. The email was sent in error and did not contain completely..

Don’t forget the SGM on 16 September

A reminder to all Dons Trust members that the next Special General Meeting is on Monday 16 September at the Cherry Red Records Stadium, starting at 7.30pm.

The recent Scunthorpe matchday programme explained why DT members should get along to this important SGM if they possibly can. Read the article here.

And you can download the SGM Agenda and all the meeting papers here.

Can’t make the meeting but would like to register your proxy votes for the SGM resolutions? Please download the..