Time For Action
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 5:38 pm
Now that a meeting date has been set, we have just a few days to mobilise ourselves beforehand.
We need to agree a set of actions, and agree who will do them.
I’d like this thread to focus on listing things we can do – and who is prepared to do them - rather than another debate on how we got here.
Here are a few for starters - it's in a fairly random order.
1. Find out how Kidderminster raised funds to stave off the threat of Administration - UNDERWAY.
2. Find out how Wrexham raised significant funds to give the Conference board enough confidence in their future to let them in the playoffs.
3. Set up a generic contact email address for offers of help - COMPLETE - diamonds2011@btinternet.com.
4. Produce a series of webpages explaining our predicament, and encouraging people to contact us with any offers of support - UNDERWAY - the site has dual URLs but the preferred URL is http://www.rdfcsupporters.co.uk
5. Also encourage people to attend Tuesday’s meeting – including getting in touch with fans who have moved away – perhaps getting them to pledge support in another way if they can’t attend the meeting - UNDERWAY (Including Radio Northampton).
6. Publicise the above webpage / email address - UNDERWAY (including Phil Jenkins publicising it on the BBC Non-League Show).
7. Create a list of fans who are prepared to pledge for the future of the club – be it time, money, skills or otherwise. Get contact details for each of these people - UNDERWAY - several inputs received and skills list placed in PROGRESS section of website.
8. Contact local businesses to try to get pledges of support
9. Contact creditors to get their view on the situation - UNDERWAY
10. Contact the Trust to find out what they are planning – see if they are willing to contact their members over the weekend to make sure they are aware of the situation, and make them aware of the above website - STAGE 1 COMPLETE (Meetings held with all Trust Board Members, as well as the release of a Trust Press Release and launch of the site http://rdst.moonfruit.com ). The Trust have a meeting planned for late May which will look at the Trust going forwards, but are also expecting an "all included" Task Group to be set up prior to that date which will meet as appropriate.
11. Look at fund raising options in general - UNDERWAY - several inputs received and placed in PROGRESS section of website
12. Look at the possibility of a wider scheme of fundraising that can appeal to Football Fans in general – e.g. seat sponsorship for next season, with club badge icons on a seating diagram as a way of fund raising - UNDERWAY - inputs received from several sources.
13. Look at how other clubs have succeeding in avoiding administration - UNDERWAY - contacts at Mansfield Town
14. Look at lessons learned from other clubs who've fallen foul of the Conference Board or the FA. - UNDERWAY - a review of the situation at Chester FC.
15. Contact the Conference Board to establish the current rules for CVAs - UNDERWAY
16. Find an expert / offer yourself if you have experience in the area of CVAs - either as a debtor, creditor or financial advisor - UNDERWAY.
17. Make a list of skills that might be useful going forwards - and start to correlate the volunteers with this list UNDERWAY - several inputs received and skills list placed in PROGRESS section of website.
18. Plan and Manage the above - ONGOING.
I’ll take on actions 3, 4 and 10 straight away – we can refine these sorts of things as we go.
Feel free to add numbered actions – or start volunteering to take on any of the actions listed here or below.
You can PM me if you don’t want to reply on this thread – or email me on diamonds2011@btinternet.com (that's action 3 sorted !) - I'll also give you a contact phone number if you send me a PM.
Tony
We need to agree a set of actions, and agree who will do them.
I’d like this thread to focus on listing things we can do – and who is prepared to do them - rather than another debate on how we got here.
Here are a few for starters - it's in a fairly random order.
1. Find out how Kidderminster raised funds to stave off the threat of Administration - UNDERWAY.
2. Find out how Wrexham raised significant funds to give the Conference board enough confidence in their future to let them in the playoffs.
3. Set up a generic contact email address for offers of help - COMPLETE - diamonds2011@btinternet.com.
4. Produce a series of webpages explaining our predicament, and encouraging people to contact us with any offers of support - UNDERWAY - the site has dual URLs but the preferred URL is http://www.rdfcsupporters.co.uk
5. Also encourage people to attend Tuesday’s meeting – including getting in touch with fans who have moved away – perhaps getting them to pledge support in another way if they can’t attend the meeting - UNDERWAY (Including Radio Northampton).
6. Publicise the above webpage / email address - UNDERWAY (including Phil Jenkins publicising it on the BBC Non-League Show).
7. Create a list of fans who are prepared to pledge for the future of the club – be it time, money, skills or otherwise. Get contact details for each of these people - UNDERWAY - several inputs received and skills list placed in PROGRESS section of website.
8. Contact local businesses to try to get pledges of support
9. Contact creditors to get their view on the situation - UNDERWAY
10. Contact the Trust to find out what they are planning – see if they are willing to contact their members over the weekend to make sure they are aware of the situation, and make them aware of the above website - STAGE 1 COMPLETE (Meetings held with all Trust Board Members, as well as the release of a Trust Press Release and launch of the site http://rdst.moonfruit.com ). The Trust have a meeting planned for late May which will look at the Trust going forwards, but are also expecting an "all included" Task Group to be set up prior to that date which will meet as appropriate.
11. Look at fund raising options in general - UNDERWAY - several inputs received and placed in PROGRESS section of website
12. Look at the possibility of a wider scheme of fundraising that can appeal to Football Fans in general – e.g. seat sponsorship for next season, with club badge icons on a seating diagram as a way of fund raising - UNDERWAY - inputs received from several sources.
13. Look at how other clubs have succeeding in avoiding administration - UNDERWAY - contacts at Mansfield Town
14. Look at lessons learned from other clubs who've fallen foul of the Conference Board or the FA. - UNDERWAY - a review of the situation at Chester FC.
15. Contact the Conference Board to establish the current rules for CVAs - UNDERWAY
16. Find an expert / offer yourself if you have experience in the area of CVAs - either as a debtor, creditor or financial advisor - UNDERWAY.
17. Make a list of skills that might be useful going forwards - and start to correlate the volunteers with this list UNDERWAY - several inputs received and skills list placed in PROGRESS section of website.
18. Plan and Manage the above - ONGOING.
I’ll take on actions 3, 4 and 10 straight away – we can refine these sorts of things as we go.
Feel free to add numbered actions – or start volunteering to take on any of the actions listed here or below.
You can PM me if you don’t want to reply on this thread – or email me on diamonds2011@btinternet.com (that's action 3 sorted !) - I'll also give you a contact phone number if you send me a PM.
Tony