DTB Meeting 8th January 2025 Summary

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Dons Trust Board Meeting Summary

Date: 8 January 2025

The Dons Trust held its first board meeting of 2025 on Wednesday, 8th January.

Board Induction

Before the meeting, the board induction took place, which included talks from:

Mick Buckley (PLC Chair) Michele Little (PLC Vice Chair) James Woodroof (MD) Andrew Stead (Head of Commercial) Elouise Gillete (Head of HR) Laurie Hill (Head of Finance) James Willcox (Head of Operations) Marc Jones (Head of Brand, Marketing, and Comms) Luke Stevens (Head..

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Dons Trust Board Roles 2025

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Dons Trust chair

At our first board meeting the board elected Sean McLaughlin as chair for 2025, previous chair Angus Fox has become vice chair.

The board were unanimous in their thanks for Angus for his work since becoming chair in summer 2024.

Dons Trust PLC Representatives

Sean McLaughlin, Angus Fox and Graeme Price were unanimously voted to be the Dons Trust’s representatives on the PLC Board.

Working groups

The board agreed to start the year..

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Dons Trust to launch new member platform – The Dons Discord server – testing going live soon

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The Dons Trust board is excited to announce the development of a new, modern members platform hosted on Discord. This move aims to create a vibrant and engaging environment for members to interact, collaborate, and stay connected with the Trust. Here’s everything you need to know about the transition:

Why Are We Leaving ProBoards?

ProBoards has served as the Trust’s online forum since December 2019. Initially set up as a temporary solution, its outdated..

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Dons Trust AGM Results

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The following are the voting outcomes from yesterday’s Dons Trust AGM.

 

 

For

Against Abstain Turnout

% in favour

Passed

Resolution 1: To approve the minutes of the SGM on 22 April. (Paper 1)

370

19

38 427 95.12 Yes Resolution 2: To approve the minutes of the SGM on 16 September (Paper 2)

374

12

45 431 96.89 Yes Resolution 3: To approve the..

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Dons Trust Board Meeting 4th December 2024 Summary

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In attendance: Angus Fox (Chair), James Macdonald (Vice Chair), Hannah Kitcher, Mark Lewis, Kevin Rye, Alex Folkes, James Longhurst

Apologies: Graeme Price, Richard Shepherd

The meeting began at 7.00pm.

There was an update on the PLC Chair recruitment process.

There was a discussion and agreement to reinforce the boards wishes about hospitality at certain matches.

There was a discussion about welcoming new board members as observers to the December board meeting.

The board was reminded of the need to conduct a handover to new..

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Craig signs up for the Dons Trust AGM – Monday 16th December

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Dons Trust members who come along in person will be able to hear from director of football Craig Cope on Monday night.

The AGM is at Plough Lane on the 16th December at 7pm – you can find all the details here.

Craig will give members a quick update on the season so far, a look ahead to the January window and the rest of the season.

Members who’d like to ask Craig a question can do so in advance..

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Dons Trust Board Meeting 11th December 2024 Summary

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Dons Trust Board Meeting Wednesday 11th December 2024 Summary The entire current board excluding Hannah were in attendance, Also in attendance were George Jones (Acting Secretary), Reece Wheeler-Kelly (Acting Assistant Secretary) and  Michele Little (Treasurer). Also attending as observers were new board members Ivor Heller, Ian Robinson and Simon Hood. Angus opened the meeting by thanking the current board for all of their efforts over the last 12 months. The board received an update on the progress on their appointment of..

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Dons Trust AGM 2024 – Member resolution withdrawn

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On Friday 6th December the Dons Trust Board were informed by members proposing resolution 16 to the upcoming Dons Trust AGM that they would like to withdraw the motion for consideration.

Following precedent the secretary will withdraw the motion on the night of the AGM, we have included below the accompanying statement sent to the board by the proposing members.

A message to members from Archie Willett, Paul Rolles, Dan Probert, Charlie Talbot, Ed Scott and Kris Stewart, the proposers..

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Dons Trust Election 2024 Results Announcement

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The following are the final results from the Dons Trust Board Elections 2024. 

 

The turnout for this election was 2110, which is a record turnout for a Dons Trust Election by number.  The percentage turnout was 33.65%, which is fairly representative of previous elections.  Given the large increase in the numbers of members due to the new approach to membership, this is an encouraging sign that engagement is not being diluted.

 

The total number of votes for each..

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Dons Trust AGM 2024

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We are pleased to invite you to the Annual General Meeting, to be held on Monday 16 December 2023 at 7.00pm at Plough Lane and online.

The agenda and papers include the annual report and accounts and submitted board and member resolutions.

To make it as easy as we can for you to have your say, we are again using the system used for previous meetings and are asking members to submit proxies via a link which we are emailing..

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