March’s board meeting summary

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its regular monthly meeting on Monday, March 20, 2017. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were raised.

Unfortunately Erik Samuelson, football club chief executive, wasn’t able to attend the meeting, but he had submitted his monthly report in advance. It included:

an update on the transfer tribunal for Will Mannion (anticipated to be heard some time in April or May) news of a further payment from..

January’s board meeting summary

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, January 19, 2017. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were raised.

As this was the first Trust board meeting since the recent election, the first task was to elect officers. Matthew Breach was re-elected chair, Mark Davis was re-elected deputy chair, and Sean McLaughlin was re-elected treasurer. The meeting welcomed Tim Hillyer to the board following his election and agreed..

Board meeting summaries now online

The Dons Trust Board held two meetings in November. The summaries of these have been available exclusively to Trust members via the Trust Webjam for the past month but are now available to the wider fanbase.

Read the summary of the November 3 board meeting Read the summary of the November 10 board meeting

The redacted minutes of the November 3 meeting are also available. We hope to have the minutes for the September, October and November 10 meetings online soon –..

November’s board meeting summary

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its regular monthly meeting at the Cherry Red Records Stadium on Thursday, November 10. (You can read a summary of an additional meeting held earlier in November.) Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were discussed.

The meeting was joined by the club’s stadium consultant, Andrew Williams, who along with club chief executive Erik Samuelson gave the DTB an update on the project. Trust members will be..

Additional November board meeting summary

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held an additional meeting in November, on Thursday, November 3. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were raised.

This additional meeting was held so that the regularly monthly meeting, scheduled for November 10, can be devoted mostly to stadium-related matters, and to address several issues that recent board meetings haven’t had time to discuss due to the time devoted to the new-stadium project.

The meeting started with..

October’s board meeting summary

The Dons Trust Board (DTB) held its monthly meeting at The Cherry Red Records Stadium on Monday, October 17. Ahead of publication of the redacted minutes, this article summarises the main points that were discussed.

As usual, the start of the meeting was joined by Erik Samuelson, club chief executive, to talk through issues relating to the club. The first topic covered was progress with the new stadium, where Erik gave an update on progress with both the Section 106..

Summary of DTB meeting 8 October

The Dons Trust Board held its monthly meeting on Monday, 8 October, which included the subject of appointing our new first-team manager Neal Ardley.

The meeting was held on the same day as the final interviews for the club’s new first-team manager, and the Board was joined by members of the Football Club Board (Erik Samuelson, Ivor Heller, Nigel Higgs and David Charles).

There was a detailed and robust discussion between the two boards about the selection process, the relative..