Sponsored Walk to Accrington
The Dale Trust are organising a sponsored walk to Accrington before our game there on Saturday 21st September.
The aim of the walk is to raise funds for this year’s chosen charity – Rochdale Football In the Community. The plan is to raise over £1,000 towards a van that they can use when they visit schools, organisations and community groups throughout the town.
We are hoping that as many Dale supporters as possible will join us for the walk, whether they are raising money or just fancy doing it socially. It is approximately fifteen miles as we head over Owd Betts.
Details can be found here and we confirm the Trust will be arranging travel back to club after the match.
AGM Date Set
Our AGM is Thursday 10th October and will take place at 7.00pm in the main lounge at Spotland.
Consultation Period For ‘Bowlee Funds’
As you will be well aware, we have now completed the consultation period for what to do with the surplus of funds after the purchase of the pitch covers. We held a meeting at Spotland in late July, but following comments that there was insufficient time on the night to fully discuss the issues, a further meeting took place Monday 2nd September with further comments raised. The plan is now as follows:
September 3rd to September 30th: Research period where all suggestions are investigated for feasibility
October 10th: Vote launched at AGM with all choices outlined to members
October 11th: All members receive postal ballot
October 31st: Close of vote and project announced
Easy Fundraising
We’ve smashed the £950 barrier and we’ve firmly got our eyes on the £1000 mark now. If you are buying anything online, booking holidays or nights away, taking out any insurance, buying a new mobile, or indeed anything involving money online, then please visit our Easyfundraising link first of all and search from there. As we keep saying, the prices you pay are the same as you would have paid by going to the sites directly, and the retailer will make a donation back to the Trust. It’s a fantastic and easy way to donate money to the Trust.
Junior Dale
The Trust have been working with Football in the Community to promote the Junior Dale Saturday Club we are pleased to announce that numbers were up last two home games, we are also pleased to announce that on production of a valid Dale Trust membership card you can get £1 off. More information here
Match Ball Sponsorship
The Trust can confirm the following games form our Match Ball Sponsorship
Bury 7th September
Wimbledon 2nd November
York 5th April
Three times a season, The Trust will be match ball sponsors and will do a draw of members to see which supporters represent the Trust. This involves match tickets and a pre match meal for 18 supporters drawn out over the course of the season. The winners for the Bury game enjoyed their free dinner.
Dale Trust Board Meeting
The board met on Monday 2nd September to discuss various items, a brief report can be found here, further details will be released in due course.
Friends of the Trust
We have a growing number of ‘friends of the trust’ with further announcements this week, have a look on the website to see the current offers, alternatively you can search using #fott on twitter.
Trust Team Sheets
If you were in the Dale Bar, Ratcliffe or Studds before Saturdays match with Bury you’d have received a team sheet just after 2.10pm, the Trust are pleased to announced that we will be handing out official team sheets before every home game as soon as the team line ups are officially released.
Contacting the Trust
We’d like to think that we’ve made contacting the Trust easier than ever, with our “Contact Us” box added to our ever growing website. You can do so in any of the following ways:
Via the website
Via email
Via Twitter
Via Facebook:
Face to Face: Trust Desk on match days in the Ratcliffe Suite