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.

This is also my #1 concern.

The Shots Trust found most honoured their pledges. Many exceeded their pledge. Others who hadn't pledged also gave. One lesson I'd suggest from their experience is offer an other pledge amount option. Shots Trust put in bands of pledges starting from a minimum and I get the impression some pledged more than they could honour as they wanted to pledge but had no realistic, for them, amount available. That did cause some issues as I perceive it.

The initial pledge page offers £1,000 as the default amount but options both higher and lower than that, including "Just Membership". Good to see these insights - let's hope enough people sign up to give us something to worry about!

Spot on. I remeber the enthusiasm when we started at Chiswick and how it fairly soon became the same few people doing the work ( the ones that drifted away missed a lot of fun, though).

Will be on BBC Radio London just after 5 today.

Question has anyone asked the club/ David Hughs if they want or would agree to the suporters buy out of the club. The current situation is different to when we left Charlton as we had nobody who was going to sponerser the club for the next season.

Will there be anything planned for the Hudds match where we can talk about the LIST plan, what the pledges will be used for etc? Or some future forum type thing (esp if the club aren't going to do one)?

I'll be handing out flyers at the game on Saturday (if my printer can stand the strain!). I would expect the conversation to start when we get an indication of interest, with a target of setting up the Trust at the start of next season.
But don't forget pledges are only pledges and are not compulsory for Trust membership.