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rightio as brief a resume as possible as to last night:

membership update - informed that badges were now available and that we had no membership cards whatsoever. It was proposed that we drop the laminations due to unnecessary extra cost, further delay of getting cards issued and the fact that with the laminate the card does not fit into a standard sized credit card holder. Terry Slinger will be printing off some cards shortly and it is hoped they will be available within the week. Both ideas were passed.

Treasurer reported that funds were ........ and that the exhibition planned for lottery funding was still going ahead and that after a meeting with the money giving dudes everything was looking rosy and both parties were positive that funding would be given upon reapplication.

Christmas Party - It was agreed that OSC and Ultras will SHARE the christmas do this year. Ultras have donated the services of a DJ and discounted supper and into return both Supporters groups will share any funds raised on the night. This was unaminously agreed as a good idea. Christmas do will be held on sat 9th December after the Milton Keynes franchise game and admission was set at £3 including pie and peas supper.

Childrens Christmas party. Malcolm is to contact entertainer and caterer from last years party and will report back next month for final arrangement. Last year their was a bucket collection on the ground where the faithfull raised £92 towards christmas presents for the kids. Stanley Ladies have agreed to go around the ground this saturday (wearing full kit hopefully) to try and raise money again for the same cause.

Social club formation is yet to happen. We had one volunteer already (Stannerlee) but nobody else was forthcoming from the meeting. The new stewardess, Hazel, said that she was planning plenty of events in the coming weeks and this takes a little immediate pressure of us to do so. We had originally intended to plan events for a thursday night. This was because although saturday nights would undoubtedly be busier, we would be taking away potential income for the bar from booked events. Rob Heys, confirmed that the club has not been as busy recently on saturday nights, other than the christmas do rush, so we have agreed that sat nights will be used until outside bookings increase again. Zero confirmed that Celtic Cross will be performing, free of charge again, on the 28th December. Also mentioned was that Gridlock have offered their services at a greatly reduced rate and we will look to book them sometime soon.

Secret Event - We have a secret event in the pipeline but as yet I have had no response from the necessary parties required for the event to go ahead. Rob Heys resubmitted a counter signature on the necessary paperwork and the letters will be sent out again this week. Update on this will go online as soon as all the i's and t's are dotted and crossed.

Several ideas were offered regarding the Supporters Club website. This will involve the creation of a forum, accessible by all (deffo) and a sub section requiring OSC memberships to gain entry (maybe) that will contain slightly more sensitive information such as funds in the bank, numbers of members etc, that we would rather the world and his dog dont have access to. This is not about secret society but I would rather that fans of other clubs are not aware of our relative poverty or wealth. Ideas gleaned from this site over the past few weeks were also briefly mentioned such as race nights and curry nights. It was agreed that these kind of items will not need to be discussed as whether we need to give it a go ahead or not. We will just do them and get on with it. Notice will obviously be given on this site as well as others.

Questions to the Club was not the bloodbath anticipated as Bagpuss was absent on this occasion. Rob confirmed that the club was losing a lot of money over not being able to get fans in the bar on matchdays. After various ideas were bandied around he said that he would look into a feasible way of making it work and hopefully an announcement will follow this week with regards to this saturdays game. For those who cant understand why it is not so easy to just let everyone in the reason mainly comes down to facilities. The clubhouse is the main toilets for men,women and disabled. As these bogs are on either side of the club doorway, then people in and out of the bar will need to access them. Some people will have paid to get in the ground and can obviously get in the bar, but those who have just walked into the bar would be able to gain access to the ground through either of two doors without having paid. Rob then further explained that they are actively seeking solutions to building a new bar, within its own perimeter but outside of the ground perimeter. This will be available to all and half-time would require a pass out scheme. No timescale was put on this but it is understood by all that the club will drag it out longer than necessary because of the amount of revenue being lost.

There was probably a good load more but due to the new committee not having a pen between them there wasn't a lot of notes taken last night.


Cheerio


Oh yes, and it was agreed by all members that the OSC should offer to buy the Kipax collection when the Haworth Art Gallery exhibition is finished. Kipax has accepted our offer. ASFC had also offered to buy the collection but when they heard that we had offered to buy it, they agreed to stand aside. This collection will either be offered for sale to a collector which could create a very good profit for the OSC, or it will be stored somewhere so that it can be exhibited again at some point in the future. This could also tie in with the planned lottery grant exhibition.