NEWS
EASTER ANNUAL 5 A SIDE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
POWER LEAGUE - LENTON
The annual 5 a side football tournament will commence at 1pm on Sunday 31st March 2002. Registration for teams is at 12:30pm.
If any branch members would be interested in playing then please contact the Branch Secretary no later than Monday 25th March 2002 so that I can start forming a branch team.
The competition will last for approximately three and a half hours.
Entry fee is £18.00 per team but this will be paid for from the Branch Funds and this includes:
· The Match Play with its officials
· Buffet after the tournament at the Britannia Rowing Club - Trentside
· Trophies
· Quiz with prizes
· Live Band
The Supporters Club are charging just £2.00 for supporters (Children free) who are not playing but wish to go to the Britannia after the tournament and this cost covers the buffet, a live band ‘No Tricks’ and the prize quiz. There will also be a raffle ** and tombola and are hoping to get a player to present the trophies.
Last orders at the Britannia on Easter Sunday will be 10:30pm.
** Prizes were requested from each branch and the South West & M5 Branch donated a ‘boxed bottle of late vintage port’, a bottle of red wine and a rather large tin of assorted chocolates J
ENGLAND V ITALY (TRAVEL ONLY) WEDNESDAY 27TH MARCH
The Supporters Club are taking a coach to the above game at Elland Road Leeds. Transport leaves the City Ground at 1.30pm, Grey Goose at Gedling at 1.45 and the White Hart at 2pm so if you are in Nottingham on the 27th and would like to travel up to the game then please contact Joan Bakewell on 0115 956 1227. Remember you will need to organise your own match ticket in advance.
FEBRUARY £50.00 PRIZE DRAW
The winner is Mrs P Clapton - Grantham Branch - (GRA022) - Draw #231 (Boo Hiss - Unlucky Kev!)
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SUPPORTERS CLUB RESTRUCTURE
We have in recent committee meetings discussed the possibility of restructuring the Management Committee to reduce the continually mounting workload and the need to bring in two or three fresh faces to help, learn, grow, develop and understand the workings of the Supporters Club as we are constantly trying to improve and move forward to have a successful Supporters Club. Our ideas will of course be presented for approval next season, and then voted on at the Annual General Meeting.
NOTTINGHAM GROUP - Prospective Supporters Trust
Members of the Nottingham Forest Supporters Club Committee have attended 2 meetings over the last month with regard to the above. Nottingham Evening Post have carried two articles on this and Century Radio have publicized this a great deal with interviews etc with the group concerned. They aim to buy our Football Club due to Forests financial position with help from Supporters Direct (set up by the Government) and wanted Nottingham Forest Supporters Club to be involved. After discussing this at our last Committee Meeting it was decided that at the present time this was not the right time for us to get involved with this project. The following is an extract of the letter sent from Rita Kirk (NFSC General Secretary) to Phil Chambers (PST):
Dear Phil
Thank you for your time, on the evening of Friday 25th January, when we met to discuss our potential involvement with the Prospective Supporters Trust.
I am writing to inform you that after subsequent consideration we do not feel able to offer you any support on behalf of the Nottingham Forest Supporters Club.
Essentially we have reached our decision:
Because we remained unsure of the eventual aims of the proposed trust.
Because we remained unsure of the precise position of the proposed trust with regard to how much money has been pledged or received, conflicting figures have been quoted.
Because we were uneasy about the link with the Independent Executives of the Telecom Plus PLC.
Because our research suggests that the efficacy of Trusts established at other clubs has been greatly overstated and that there is no evidence to suggest a trust can continue to raise funds at a realistic level to finance a football club in the long term.
Because our energies are already committed to providing a representative democratic organisation for supporters of Nottingham Forest, the Nottingham Forest Supporters Club.
Thank you once again for your time.
Yours sincerely
Rita Kirk
General Secretary
THE SUPPORTERS CLUB OFFICE
The Supporters Club Office (Next to the Main Ticket Office) will be open from 10am to 2:40pm on Saturday match days and midweek matches from 5:30-7:30pm. Any Sunday matches three hours before kick-off.
Please pop in and say ‘hello’ to the Staff. They are always happy to put faces to names.
BRITANNIA ROWING CLUB
The Britannia Rowing Club will be open to all Branch Members for pre-match drinks.
Please remember that all Membership Cards must be shown on entry!
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