Praise for the trust!

**sligoman** · 04/10/2005, 12:37 AM

Originally Posted by Dundalk Trust Website

The Dundalk Supporters' Trust would like to thank the 'Bit O 'Red' Supporters Trust in Sligo for their help and advice recently. Congratulations to the Bit O' Red Trust also on becoming the first officially registered Supporters' Trust in Ireland. Hopefully Jim Gannon's men can make the Dundalk Supporters' Trust the first in the Premier Division.

Nice to see the trust helping other teams set their one up

. How are we the first registered one though? I thought Galway have one too?

**Terry** · 04/10/2005, 8:11 AM

Originally Posted by Rogue Trader

I think it is a bit of a shambles they raise a few bob but not much so bit of a waste of time i say !

I think the above statement proves that you have a tendency to speak out your ass! here is what the GUFC trust has accomplished since its beginning in short:-

Since its foundation the Galway United Supporters Trust has developed into an independent body that contributes both financially and logistically to the running of Galway United Football Club. The Trust aims to to bring together everyone with an abiding love and passion for Galway United. It aims to help secure a better future for the fans, the club, the communities it serves, and act as a platform for all fans to have a say on the issues that affect supporters, the club and its community.

What we do
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We host the Galway United official website

We publish Galway United’s official Matchday Programme

We provide stewards for Galway United home games

We operate the Galway United club lotto

We sell official Galway United merchandise

We have contributed over €44,000 to Galway United

We organise the official Galway United “Player of the Month” awards

In return the supporters trust are represented on the Galway United Executive where we take part in all the key decision making in the club. If a trust member wants a subject to be brought up at the Executive meeting, it is done through our representitive. Due to our role on the Executive, all supporters are regularly kept up to date on everything that is going on in the club. All members have the chance to be updated through local media and newsletters. The trust representitve is democratically elected (as are all our officers) at the Annual General Meeting.

I think you will find also that when the bit o' red trust was started they received a lot of help from us. It should be in the interest of all Sligo supporters to become a member of the trust, if only to get the thoughts and questions of the supporters up to board level to make it a club ye can all have a voice in.

**Terry** · 04/10/2005, 8:39 AM

Originally Posted by Rogue Trader

Well i was looking at it from proceds given to the club, But Fare Play you do a lot of work Terry !

Cheers man, I new our head director would come around !!

One Nick Leeson

**Rory H** · 04/10/2005, 9:50 AM

Originally Posted by Terry

Cheers man, I new our head director would come around !!

One Nick Leeson

all ye need is a decent team now..

**Terry** · 04/10/2005, 9:54 AM

Originally Posted by wild rover

all ye need is a decent team now..

I second that !

**Conor H** · 04/10/2005, 3:57 PM

Originally Posted by Rogue Trader

They have no Supporters !!!!!!!

I think it is a bit of a shambles they raise a few bob but not much so bit of a waste of time i say !

How WRONG you are.The TRUST is the main thing that keeps the club going.Yee took ours as a model when setting up yere trust.

**Rory H** · 04/10/2005, 4:06 PM

thats great

go back to your own fourm thanks...im sure your american friends are up to something

**Patrick Dunne** · 04/10/2005, 4:34 PM

is our current fundraising comittment to GUFC. I know that Sligo are a massive club, but I would hardly call that a "shambles". We also run buses to at least one away game a month, plus all home international games.

Best of luck to both Sligo Rovers and Dundalk Supporters Trusts. However, the Trust movement will go nowhere in Ireland if it follows the boring, tiresome, predictable and totally pointless "we're bigger than you" model.

**sligoman** · 04/10/2005, 5:53 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

How are we the first registered one though? I thought Galway have one too?

Thanks to the Galway fans on here but my question above still hasnt been answered

**Conor H** · 04/10/2005, 6:17 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Thanks to the Galway fans on here but my question above still hasnt been answered

How do you mean.Was your question not,Do Galway have trust?

**sligoman** · 04/10/2005, 6:26 PM

Originally Posted by Conor H

How do you mean.Was your question not,Do Galway have trust?

Nope, it was how is our trust the first registered one cos ye have one too, so does that mean yer one isn't registered?

**deecay** · 04/10/2005, 7:51 PM

Originally Posted by Conor H

The TURST is the main thing that keeps the club going.

You must b TURSTY Conor

**Conor H** · 04/10/2005, 8:48 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Nope, it was how is our trust the first registered one cos ye have one too, so does that mean yer one isn't registered?

Oh i see.To answer your question the trust is recognised as a legal organisation.

**sligoman** · 04/10/2005, 8:50 PM

Originally Posted by Conor H

Oh i see.To answer your question the trust is recognised as a legal organisation.

That's still not answering it. Is it registered?

. Maybe PD could tell us

**Conor H** · 04/10/2005, 8:52 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

That's still not answering it. Is it registered?

. Maybe PD could tell us

Ok fine,PD will tell ya all ya need to know but i'm positive it's registered.

**sligoman** · 04/10/2005, 8:54 PM

Originally Posted by Conor H

Ok fine,PD will tell ya all ya need to know but i'm positive it's registered.

Not having a go at you Conor but the piece said that our trust is the first registered one in Ireland so I'm just wondering is Galway's one not and if not why not

**Conor H** · 04/10/2005, 8:57 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Not having a go at you Conor but the piece said that our trust is the first registered one in Ireland so I'm just wondering is Galway's one not and if not why not

Well as ya said PD will answer your qestion because tbh i can't really.If ya want read about our trust here...http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/support.html

**Patrick Dunne** · 04/10/2005, 10:09 PM

is not registered as a legal organisation, so Sligo Rovers Supporters Trust can quite correctly claim to be the first legally registered Supporters Trust in Ireland.

We are bringing a bus to the game. Its a thirty seater, we will fill it.
The bus may not be legally registered.

I thought your derby was with Shamrock Rovers !

**sligoman** · 04/10/2005, 10:21 PM

Why not though? I would have thought that every trust has to be registered? Is there any extra benefits to registering one?

**Patrick Dunne** · 04/10/2005, 11:12 PM

becomes legally registered it then becomes, (legally), an entirely separate body from its parent club.

To the best of my knowledge, only the 400 Club (Shams) and the SRFC Trust have followed this route. Perhaps Dundalk will. We should be legally registered, but our focus at the moment continues to be "firefighting" ie weekly Lotto, buses, programme, fundraising.