You've missed one important expenditure/issue there GF.... Flowers

I agree with you GF. I've set out an initial vision for a Trust, and just asking for pledges not for money to be paid in to an account. I will work hard over the coming weeks and months to make this happen and if we get momentum on this then a dialogue on what we can achieve can get started.
I have lots of plans in my head, as will many others, and a good many of them will be shared by most.
The £1,000 from a thousand people is a hook and very short term. I can assure you I would not be interested in a Trust that just passively threw money down a hole, which is why the pledge page also asks if you could commit actions as well as money.
Sign up and let's see where we can take this. A £1,000 pledge is not compulsory! I see the Trust membership of around £50 a year - the higher the pledge levels though the more clout we may have in the short term.

You will need to get some leaflets printed for the Hudds game as only a small % of fans go on here. Contact Ian Ramsdale to see if he will give you a mention so you can test the water. Good luck.

Thanks poplar. The leaflet idea is a great one.

How are things going with this? We had a few offers on here but have they been backed up by pledges on the blog? At the blog, it's not clear what the total of pledges is - it might help persuade others if there was a running total.

Early days but really encouraging start. We have received pledges already - some from Oop North, and more importantly offers of support and immediate help. Forums and Twitter will only reach so far and so the plan is to leaflet at the Huddersfield game, and people have already offered to help with leafleting and printing! Not sure how well this will go, but it is heartening to see others committed to the Broncos who think a Trust could be viable. Remember the pledge form is just a pledge, not a binding commitment. go along and fill it in, or e-mail me at rllist@me.com

Early days but really encouraging start. We have received pledges already - some from Oop North, and more importantly offers of support and immediate help. Forums and Twitter will only reach so far and so the plan is to leaflet at the Huddersfield game, and people have already offered to help with leafleting and printing! Not sure how well this will go, but it is heartening to see others committed to the Broncos who think a Trust could be viable. Remember the pledge form is just a pledge, not a binding commitment. go along and fill it in, or e-mail me at rllist@me.com

Fantastic. This has really cheered me up.

Might I be so bold as to say that this level of enthusiasm isn't obvious from the Wordpress blog? Is there some way that you can keep a tally of the number of pledges and the amount pledged? It helps on two levels, I think. First, so that visitors to the site can see that the Trust potentially has legs and is worth supporting - if visitors don't see numbers, they may consider the blog inactive. And second, it makes for a nice tweet when certain milestones are met.

Good point, I just didn't want to start doing that with the initial trickle. I'll see what I can do!

This is frustrating in that there is a lot of goodwill and people wanting to do something but the Warder has managed to alienate all of this and turn the tap of this resource in his 3 years

There seems to only be an option of £500 / £1000 or membership only. Nothing in between?

agree with all of this and gutterfax's posts on the subject - where do i
find this blog?

Think this is it: rllist.wordpress.com/

Think this is it: rllist.wordpress.com/

We will be distributing flyers at the Huddersfield game next week - see you there. We should have a better idea then whether this idea has legs.

I do believe York City Knights have a similar thing happening, its an annual pledge, I could be wrong I think they are looking at £250 PA as a share holder of the club

Nice start guys, can I mention one small word of warning about which you need to ensure doesn't happen with this idea. When we nearly lost the club last time when we got the Spanish archer from tricky, we had lots of pledges of support [not hard cash] across lots of areas, within a year however it had dwindled down to the usual hard core and the same happened with the ill fated RSG's, I would hazard a guess and say the same had happened time and again in the history of the club, the supporters club, and other times when the grim reaper was knocking at the door.

Lesson being if people pledge to support then it's needed to be delivered time and time again not just when the concepts all nice and shiny, even back then when we spoke with supporters trusts this was the one area it kept coming back to, having enough bodies to carry the load. Plenty of help and assistance from the other clubs supporters as well as supporters direct is available.

Good luck.