New casual board member appointedEdward Leek has been appointed as a board member of The Dons Trust (DTB). He fills what’s known as a ‘casual vacancy’, created by the departure of former Chair Kris Stewart, who was asked by AFCW PLC to step into a role to temporarily oversee stadium and club operations as AFC Wimbledon seeks a new Managing Director.
The appointment, permitted under the constitution (Rule 62 concerning ‘casual vacancies’), enables the trust to operate up to and including the..
Dons Trust UpdateThe AFCW PLC board has asked Kris to help out temporarily at AFC Wimbledon while the recruitment process for a new MD gets under way.
To ensure good governance and avoid any confusion over roles and responsibilities, Kris has immediately stepped down as a director both of The Dons Trust and all AFC Wimbledon group companies, including AFCW..
The Dons Trust reopens membership applications and renewalsAs previously announced, the Dons Trust and AFC Wimbledon have been working hard to include the administration of Trust membership within AFC Wimbledon’s ticketing system in order to consolidate contact details and use the Ticketing system’s payment methods.
This work has now been completed and we are delighted to announce that Membership renewals and new Membership applications are now live again (see below).
The new setup allows members to update their own contact details using their Ticketing account. As part..
Board meeting report 07/08/23The latest Dons Trust board meeting was at Plough Lane on Monday evening, 7 August. Kevin Rye let us know beforehand that he’d be on holiday and so not able to join us.
James Macdonald & Chris Phillips weren’t there in person but were present online.
We signed off the minutes for July for publication and they are now up on the website https://thedonstrust.org/dtb-minutes/
Project to locate and record previous DT policies and decisions
Project is progressing well
Review..
Meet The DTB 11 SeptemberThe latest session of Meet The DTB will now take place on 11 September with Michele Little and Chris Philips.
This session will cover Finance and Diversity and Inclusion, with Dons Trust Board Members Chris Phillips looking at diversity and inclusion, and Michele Little providing a finance update, covering some of the consultation and survey work we’re doing on debt refinancing. The new series of Meet The DTB has a slightly different format to previous years. The session will start..
Change of date for Meet the DTBThis week’s planned Meet the DTB has been put back to Monday 11 September at 19:00.
We’re extremely sorry to members for this late notice cancellation, which has happened because of unavoidable circumstances.
We will publish full details to members via the monthly news email and website later this week.
Second Membership Update – lapsed membersOur membership team has confirmed the following additional detail to the current situation with regards to members who don’t renew via Direct Debit
Further update: lapsed members who renew manually
Given the circumstances and line with custom and practice, we will recognise those “lapsed” members who are unable to renew manually for three months after their renewal date, including for the purposes of voting at elections and meetings.
At this stage we are working hard to ensure that the transfer..
The Dons Trust Board is recruiting: updatedThis item was updated on the 23 July with further information about the roles we’re looking to fill.
The Dons Trust https://thedonstrust.org/ is the membership organisation which owns AFC Wimbledon https://www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/ – the football club started in 1889 and which has been fan-owned since 2002.
Our board is looking for two additional members to help us with our work, initially filling two casual vacancies until the 2023 AGM in December. Our intention is then to reappoint successful candidates until the..
Board meeting report 12/07/23The latest Dons Trust board meeting was at Plough Lane on Wednesday evening, 12 July. Mark Lewis let us know beforehand that he’d be on holiday and so not able to join us, but everyone else was there.
We signed off the minutes for June for publication and they are now up on the website https://thedonstrust.org/dtb-minutes/
Dons Trust and Plough Lane Bonds
Michele Little and Kris Stewart reported that the survey on options for repayment/rolling over/exchange etc had been sent..
Hall of Fame put on holdPlans for a Wimbledon Hall of Fame have been put on hold.
The project is a collaboration between The Dons Trust and AFC Wimbledon.
In recent months it has become clear that the significant amount of work and proper internal oversight by the club that will be needed has meant that the project has had to be put on hold for the time being.
Much of the work to this point carried out by a group of dedicated volunteers via..
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