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About Red or Dead?

"It is time for those who truly love and care about the good name of Exeter City Football Club to stand up and be counted. They are the only ones who can restore pride and dignity back to this wonderful club.
This is your time to show the watching community and football throughout the country just how badly you want Exeter City to survive. The message is a stark one. Help me NOW, or watch the club die”
Ian Huxham, 25th October 2003.

Exeter City have revealed details of the most important fundraising campaign in the club's 100-year history.
Named "Red or Dead?", the scheme is looking for 1,500 supporters to pledge to raise £500 each over the course of the next 16 months. This would enable the club to repay the £340,000 it owes to creditors under its Corporate Voluntary Agreement (CVA), as well as the £425,000 it needs to satisfy so-called 'football creditors'.

Accountant Jerry O'Sullivan - who is responsible for overseeing the CVA - warned that the club would almost definitely cease to exist if it couldn't find the money necessary to satisfy its non-football creditors by next October.

Mindful that many City fans have already dipped into their pockets on a number of occasions since the supporters' trust took the helm at St James's Park last summer, and because it was vitally important to the club that anyone who cares about Exeter City had the opportunity to get involved in thie scheme, great effort has been made to make it as accessible as possible.

The club is promoting a variety of methods via which supporters can make their contribution. These include:

• A one-off payment of £500;

• By earmarking £500 in supporters' trust subscriptions specifically for Red or Dead? between now and October 2005;

• By taking advantage of a special £500 loan scheme facilitated by the club;

• By taking part in one or more sponsored events over the course of the next 16 months. The club will be helping to stage a multitude of such events, as well as co-ordinating a list of fundraising ideas to help supporters reach their £500 target.

All the money raised by the campaign will go straight into a ring-fenced bank account, which only CVA administrator O'Sullivan will be able to access.

Everyone who participates in the Red or Dead? scheme will have their names engraved on a special roll of honour which will take pride of place at St James's Park.

The Club is now calling on everyone with a bit of Exeter City in their heart to sign up and pledge to raise £500, and help ensure that the football club we love survives.

As campaign manager, Trevor Gilbery, says, "the choice really is straight-forward - Red or Dead?"

If you require more information, please telephone the special hotline number or use the redordead email address (both listed at the top this page).