30 January
2008
Press Release - Drivers Jonas Report
The survival and continual growth & development of Exeter City Football
Club as a community orientated professional Football Club can be attributed,
in no small part to the financial and operational support that Exeter City
FC has received from the membership of its Supporters’ Trust. To date,
the Supporters' Trust has contributed in excess of £750,000 to the football
club, a sum of money that has aided the clubs survival in recent times.
Following the release of the jointly commissioned Drivers Jonas report executive
summary, and the recommendations therein, the Board of Society and Directors
of Exeter City FC wish to restate their desire to seek a final mandate on
the way forward from the membership of the Supporters’ Trust.
The decision to involve the ECFC Supporters' Trust membership within the
whole process had been taken at the beginning of the commissioning of this
report, and was taken jointly by both the boards in recognition of the debt
owed by the Football Club to its supporters, and was undertaken in the spirit
of being a fan owned Football Club.
Subsequent to the recommendation of the Drivers Jonas joint executive working
group to explore the options to redevelop St James Park, the Board of Society
would like to lay out the process by which the Supporters' Trust will seek
a mandate from its members to proceed forward.
In the coming days the Supporters' Trust will undertake a mass mail out to
the entire Supporters' Trust membership. This mail out will include details
of the process by which members can vote on the way forward for Exeter City
FC. It is also the desire of the Board of Society to provide, where possible,
a cost neutral means of voting for its members and it is with great delight,
that the Board of Society is pleased to announce the completion of an online
voting facility. For all those not online, a postal ballot will be conducted.
The Exeter City Supporters' Trust is proud of the accomplishments of its
members in recent years, and we are fully committed to working in conjunction
with the Football Club to realise our long term aims and objectives. Together
as a fan owned Football Club we are more confident than ever, that Exeter
City will prosper at the heart of the community it serves, wherever this may
be.
Drivers
Jonas Report Executive Summary (PDF file)
25 January 2008
Latest on Grecian Trust
The Supporters Trust would like to thank the following individuals, their
families and friends for the support given to the Grecian Trust Scheme, through
their generous donations, some of which have been sold, or currently at local
auctions and on Ebay, with much more still to be sorted and distributed for
sale.
A financial update will be given soon and contributors will be informed on
how well their items have done if they have so requested.
We have some interesting Car Window Stickers up for grabs as well, depicting
the Devon Flag in Red, White and Black for only £2.50 which also includes
postage. Go to Ebay and search for Username BARDONS to see all the latest
items being sold for the Trust and supporters.
A special thanks goes to the flyers distributors as well, these are Adrian
Hitchcock, Adrian Gibb, Tony Badcock, Roger Conway, Fran Jenkins and Andy
Cole. So good to see so many Board of Society Members leading by example.
Please keep your donations coming in for they are very much appreciated, and
don't forget, you can also make a return for yourself selling through the
scheme, just so long as you donate a minimum of 20% to the Trust. We would
rather have 20% of something than nothing at all.
Virtually anything will be considered, but please call Barry Sansom on 01392
214071 for confirmation to save you a wasted journey delivering items to the
Trust Office, and don't forget, a local home visit can be arranged, (I take
2 sweeteners in my Coffee and I prefer a Rich Tea or Custard Cream biccy).
Many thanks to Tony Badcock, Alistair Yates, Alistair Young, Jim Eastment,
Norman Shiel, Ian Jubb, Adrian Hitchcock, Denise Pratlett, Paul Bennett and
Me for their donations. Must also thanks Roger Hamilton-Kendall for some packing
materials as well, this really does save us some money.
Barry Sansom
18 January 2008
Latest Winner of Director's Box Places
Trust member, Jon Ellis, is the latest winner of 2 places in the Director's
Box, and will take advantage of them at the Conference match against Oxford
on Sunday 20th January.
He was first on the list of ten potential winners.
Also on the list for this prize were: Ian Crook, Tom Stoddart, Philip Gedye,
Caroline Innalls, Melanie Pike, John Baker, Lee Cartwright, W. Penberthy,
Alan Hooper.
The geographical spread this time was: 4 from Exeter, 2 from other EX post
codes (Budleigh Salterton and Exmouth), 2 from London (SE6 and N16), and one
each from Hixton in Staffordshire and Barton Street in Gloucester .
Don't forget if your details are not correct on the database you may miss
out so make sure they are accurate now by checking at www.ecfcst.org.uk/members
- you will have to register first but it may well be worth the trouble!
The Trust Board of Society and the Club Board have agreed to make two
Director's Box places available at each home game.
The two places will be for Trust members and are allocated by way of
a random draw from the membership database.
17 January 2007
ECFC Press Release - Pat Chambers
Exeter City regret to announce that Pat Chambers, who was appointed to the
new role of Senior Commercial Manager within the Club during 2007, will be
leaving us with effect from the end of January 2008.
Pat has made a valuable contribution to the further development of our business
activities and has brought her skills and relationships to bear to positive
effect. Unfortunately however Pat has very recently identified a potentially
serious personal illness which, in the first instance, will require her to
undergo exploratory treatment in the next few days.
Pat’s family and support networks are in the North East from where
she joined us and she quite naturally wishes to be close to them to aid her
through this time. We have been more than happy to release Pat from her responsibilities
at the Club with immediate effect and she has already returned to her family.
Pat comments on her time at Exeter City and the changes in her life as follows:
“I would like to thank Exeter City FC - all the staff and the team of
dedicated volunteers -for their help and support at this time. I have truly
loved my time with the club and helping to contribute to the way forward.
The club has an exciting future with a fantastic and professional team, players
and management alike. ECFC invests in the future of the region’s youth
through its dynamic centre of excellence, it is the envy of many clubs for
its hugely successful Football in the Community programme, and has an exciting
state of the art education centre around the corner. This is a time of growth
and opportunity for the club and the city. I am sad to leave but will watch
developments with interest, as a Supporters Trust and City Foundation member.
I will continue to feel what is the heartbeat of the city and the affection
of our supporter base for our community club.”
On behalf of the entire Exeter City family we convey every good wish to Pat
for her current and future needs, and thank her for all that she has contributed
whilst working for us. We respect her desire for privacy and the security
of being close to those who know her best at this time.
We have put contingency arrangements in place already so that our commercial
activities are unaffected. A proposal on the shape of the next phase of our
evolution has been debated and developed by the Club’s Commercial Board
and will be presented to next week’s full Club Board meeting for approval.
5 January 2007
ECFC Finance Report and Accounts Year Ended 31/5/2006
Financial Director, Steve Williams, presents the Report of the Directors
and the un-audited Financial Statement for the year ended 31 May 2006 with
the document itself as presented to the Club AGM on 21 December.
There will be a further report from Steve shortly which will take the form
of a Financial Analysis of the Club's figures over a number of years which
will attempt to explain for everyone how the club's finances work.
More details and a copy of the accounts are available from the official
ECFC web site.
