September’s board meeting summary

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The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its monthly meeting at the Cherry Red Records Stadium on Wednesday 25 September. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points discussed.

Present from the DTB were Rob Crane, Mark Davis, Colin Dipple, Anna Kingsley, Hannah Kitcher, Edward Leek, Jane Lonsdale and Luke Mackenzie. Apologies had been received for Roger Evans and Cormac van der Hoeven.

In attendance from the football club were Joe Palmer (Chief Executive), Ivor Heller..

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A graphic of interlinking communication cogsCan you help our media output?

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Earlier this summer the Dons Trust Board approved a new ‘communications ethos’. We are now seeking two volunteers to help deliver it on an ongoing basis.

The two volunteers will work together to:

attend monthly board meetings and produce a summary of discussions for uploading to the Trust website use Zoho Social to increase the Trust’s presence and engagement on social media use Mailchimp to create monthly emails to members monitor the contact@thedonstrust.org email address to respond to inbound email..

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AFC Wimbledon badgeNext Meet the Manager event

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If you have read the minutes of our August board meeting, you will have seen that Thursday 24 October was suggested as a possible date for our next Meet the Manager event.

In light of the current management situation at the club, it has been decided not to go ahead with a Meet the Manager event at this time.

Trust vice chair Rob Crane explained: “The football club board have assured us that they remain committed to delivering four Meet the Manager events..

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2019 election candidates announced

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With five places on the Dons Trust board up for grabs this year, we have received eight nominations for election. In random order, they are:

Edward Leek Dennis Lowndes Mark Davis Mark Sturges Tim Hillyer Graham Stacey Jane Lonsdale Anne Williams

Their mini-manifestos will be published in the Portsmouth matchday programme (on Saturday 19 October).

Their full manifestos will be sent to members. Voting won’t open until early November, so don’t worry about not receiving voting instructions at the same..

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Junior Dons logoCan you help the Junior Dons?

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The Junior Dons section of the Dons Trust is looking to recruit several new volunteers.

Jane Lonsdale (Trust board member with responsibility for Junior Dons) is looking to recruit several volunteers to assist them.  The adverts are lower down on this page and the roles cover:

Junior Dons Christmas Party volunteers Increasing the member offer for 12–16 year old Junior Dons Junior Dons Working Group members

Scroll down this page to see more details about the different roles.

The Junior..

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Elections AheadUpdate on Dons Trust Elections 2019

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This is to confirm that, subject to candidate and proposer verification of eligibility, there will be a contested election for 2019.

Once the verification process has been completed, the names of the candidates will be announced.

Dons Trust members will be aware that, this year, the Trust is trialling an electronic nomination system. For personal data reasons, the verification process will take somewhat longer than in previous years, but an announcement is expected later in the week.

A question mark drawn on a chalkboardEFL Trophy survey result

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The Dons Trust recently held a ‘temperature test’ survey among our members to help determine the club’s approach to future EFL Trophy matches.

The number crunching has been done and the outcome was that the club should:

continue its existing stance towards the EFL Trophy = 678 votes (74.10%) change its existing stance towards the EFL Trophy by opening hospitality and fully promoting all EFL Trophy matches = 235 votes (25.68%)

Two members spoilt their paper or gave no answer.

Members therefore voted to continue the..

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July’s board meeting summary

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The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its monthly meeting at the Cherry Red Records Stadium on Wednesday 24 July. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points discussed.

Present from the DTB were Rob Crane, Mark Davis, Colin Dipple, Hannah Kitcher and Luke Mackenzie. Apologies were received from Roger Evans, Cormac van der Hoeven, Anna Kingsley, Edward Leek and Jane Lonsdale. The meeting was quorate.

Also in attendance were Trust secretary David Growns, minute takers..

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