someone mentioned it in an earlier post and i was just commenting on thats what it seemed like to me. thats all...

Which was a pretty stupid thing to say, I reckon.

Exactly. If we can have a positive influence on the club in terms of raising money they are more likely to listen to our members when they have something to say, IMO of course.

Very true, I've had a few dealings with the Wakey ISA at work. They work alongside the club even though they are independant. Someone said that our club is getting a siege mentality, well if this is true all they will do is close ranks if the proposed new group go in all gung ho.

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Quite. It's easy to dismiss a 'fun day' as trivial, but if it raises a grand towards something useful, then its worthwhile and generates early positive publicity that the group will need if it is to succeed.

Charity work (for the Steve Prescott fund, for example) is a must too. The more useful the group seems, the more clout it has when it comes to having a say.

Do i sense that we are (maybe) starting to get somewhere?!

Ok i think i understand. We need to establish ourselves and the relationship with the club before moving on to more, shall we say, vital points. Is that correct?

Myself and Chewie would be interested in helping with ideas and fund raising and with the Life For a Kid Foundation you could also donate some of the funds raised to the Foundation. so as well as helping the club you can be helping a kids charity

we both have plenty of experience in fund raising and could raise a hell of a lot each year

Plus we have a strong realtionship with ex players association

No, no, no. Forget the "vital points". We are not going to change anything, all we (the group) could do is build a better relationship between the cluband the supporters.

Which is what FCVoices are already doing.

Could maybe have a launch day in west park befor a game and turn it into a fund raising day and maybe get the irregulars to play a game aswell.

Im sure weve all got some good ideas for fund raising

Really?

They have meetings with the club occassionally but they do very little else. Look at the RSG and as I say WISCA. They are there to help the club and give the fans a sense of feeling. Both Huddersfield and Warrington have benefitted from squadbuilder funds and I know Batley, Leigh and Widnes all do a similar thing. What do FCVoices give the club?