Fund raising and publicity
 

There are some fantastic ideas appearing on this website and wonderful individual commitments.

But I'm wondering if anyone is co-ordinating publicity for all this. There is so much happening that it should have huge local, national, and international publicity.

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Good point RR, locally we should be OK, we all know the Telegraph and Observer pick up on a lot of stuff off here

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I do believe that the likes of Rob Heys, Dan Warburton and Martin Edmundson to name but three are being kept aware fully of what is going on and it my understanding that they in turn are informing the necessary press Etc. Heres hoping. :)

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Yep, any ideas then get them to the club & they will do the donkey work that needs doing ie organising publicity etc.......

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Getting a bit annoyed with the club, all this publicity, all this effort and money from so many people and they don't have the sense to put anyone in the club shop all weekend. Been down twice to try and buy something and the place was deserted both times, surely they must realise Saturday is their best day to make the cash. That along with having one person on the bar at the fans forum it's just suicidal business practise, get another barmaid on for a couple of hours would have cost the club 10 quid and instead of people queing for half an hour and then slowly supping to save having to go back up people would have got onto their second and third drinks, making more profit for the club.

At the meeting we were resassured that once this debt has cleared the club won't face the same troubles as it is being ran much better now, I fail to see any evidence of this even at the very basic level.

Another issue is how they dismissed keeping the donors list on the website up to date as unfeasable - it is easily possible to automate the process and when I went down these last two days I was going to offer to do it for them but again there is nobody there. If it is so hard for somebody who is determined to help the club to do so what the hell chance do they have of persuading the casual supporters.


As for a couple of new fund raising ideas how about getting the good local restaurants, the college one at globe centre, over coffee, dunk etc to give the option of adding a £1 donation to the SOS fund with every bill.

Also how about taking the SOS shirts on the road but instead of being in red have them in the home teams colours with their name on the back. For example for the shakers a blue shirt with SOS on the front and BURY on the back.

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Mention this to Lancsdave and Stanleymad :) May come down to costs though?

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Not so much costs, more the the risk of being left with stock if they don't sell, after all you can't sell them at the next away game. If people think they could sell a few then it's no problem.

Samf wish I'd known it was you yesterday, I was going to have a word with you about designs etc..

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Ah sorry pal, gonna struggle as well now I'm in Manchester until tues afternoon and early weds morning I'm off to Egypt - could pop down to the shop on Tues afternoon if ya wanted or could just PM :)

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No rush, was more long term issues anyway :)

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Posted via Mobile Device Thing with the sos shirts is it was a on spur decision between us and timmins to get the word out, subject of selling them only came at the meeting when a few suggested that idea, so which is being done as best as can stock permitting. I suppose we can do the print on any colour t shirt n writing and will therefore go to the fund the same and is a good idea if we have run out temp on stock or while awaiting it, that would be upto the customer

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I'm sorry to come back to this one. I see that the thermometer on the SOS site has been stuck on £6763.57 yet according to the Blackburn Citizen, an American has donated £5000 and we know that the bucket collection raised at least £3500.

I do hope that someone at the club is in overall control of the appeal and is keeping a close watch on and account of the money being raised. I would dread there to be awkward questions asked later about money seemingly not accounted for.

It's also important for public relations that the thermometer is kept up to date. Otherwise there is a danger that cynicism could creep in and affect the fundraising efforts.

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RR, if you look at the bottom of the "Roll of Honour" section, you can see the current breakdown of contributions...

Paypal Total 1,463.57
SMS and Phoneline Total £300.00
Private Donations £5,000.00
Total £6,763.57





*** Please note bucket collections from 05/09/09 (Accrington & Bury) not included in Sundays totals,
these will be added as soon as final amounts are made known to us *** Thanks

I'm assuming that the Private Donation Total of £5,000 is the Yank's contribution. As they say, the bucket contributions haven't been added yet. When they are, I assume the total will be somewhere around the ten grand mark.

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the other thing to remember is that, as important as the refreshed info is, whilst staff are tapping around on computers they aren't on the phones or visiting people to claim donations/sponsorship.

Same with the arndale stall, its important that the staff of ASFC are seen to be manning the trenches, but whilst they are doing that they aren't doing other more lucrative things.

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It's all going into a separate bank account so they should know the balance at any time. At least that is what we were told at the forum. I think they should publish the name of the bank account in order that anybody donating by cheque knows what name to put on their cheque If they just put 'Accrington Stanley' on the cheque then it may get paid into the normal day to day account.

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[quote=Wynonie Harris;743056]RR, if you look at the bottom of the "Roll of Honour" section, you can see the current breakdown of contributions./quote]

Thanks, WH. I had not noticed that.

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Agree entirely. This is a huge task that has been undertaken and I was merely offering what I thought was an important reminder. ASFC and money do not always sit easily together.

There is evidence in another thread of the cynicism amongst some people. Whilst so many people are so busy doing so many different things, it would be easy for control to be lost. However, ......

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Don't know whether it's a special account or not, but there's a sort code and account number at the bottom of the "Donate Now" page on the "Save our Stanley" site. I used that when paying my tithe by internet banking.

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This is a different account number to the one for the weekly draw, so hopefully it is the special account for SOS.

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Like me Red you'll agree that t'Telegraph ( the LOCAL one!)..have gone the extra mile in today's edition !..
Front Page/Back Page and two inside pages devoted to not only tonight's game
(Well done Owen Coyle!)..but also the S.O.S. appeal in general..
Their vow to support the Red's 'all the way'...is to be applauded by everyone!.

'ON STANLEY!!!...ON!!!'

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Ive got to admit I looked at your website yesterday and theres no mention of fridays game being a "Open Fans Day". With it being on Friday there might be fans from other clubs other than Bury who might want to come. I know you and Bury fans are but Shouldnt the club be pushing this game a bit more to non accrington fans?

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ALL WILL BE WELCOME CARL!!!...with open arms!!...So spread the word !!...
I'm certain that we will not be the only ones to be 'pushing this game' for all we're worth....a 5,000+ gate made up of Fans from far and wide would be a sight to behold!!.

'ON STANLEY !!....ON!!!@

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It would, but the ground only holds about 4800 at the moment

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I knew that Jeff!!.........honestly!. It was merely one of my idealistic flights of fancy viewed through my Red-tinted spectacles again!!..forgetting that one or two pedants are just waiting to latch on to my well-intentioned words!!..

(Alfred.E. has warned me to be more precise in the future !...and to take my medication as prescribed!!....)..

'ON STANLEY!...ON!!!....to t'Turf!! to say thanks to Messrs Kilby and Coyle ad all at Burnley.FC!!




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What sort of gate is the club expecting tonight?

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I doubt that anybody has a clue. Without looking it up the areas opened at the Turf amount to about 12,000, so they must be expecting less than that. :)

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If they push it too much they won't have enough room :D

I know there's a few off the Burnley board who have said they aren't going tonight because they don't attend friendlies, but will be attending Friday night s game instead.

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thats a fair enough reason, they will contribute more by going to the crown.:)

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As I projected (Well guessed actually!) elsewhere Carl. 7,000 +...
Whatever it is we will all be thankful to Burnley.FC. It's Management,Players and Supporters!!....

'ON STANLEY!!....ON!!!!'

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Not sure if this has been said before, Burnley have also stated there are no guests to tonights match, even sponsors, the board etc are also paying on the gate tonight :)

Wonder if you get there early enough you will catch the players going through the turnstiles??? :D

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well 7000 must be in the region of £60 to £70k to the fund. Great news lads.

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Posted via Mobile Device Even our shultzy went back out to pay himself in even tho he,s part of the team, he showed me his ticket before going back onto the pitch lol

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Posted via Mobile Device Me and macca was up at the club early this morning plugging the sos and review of last nite's match with radio lancs. I must love my club too much as i dont do early mornings at all usually pmsl.

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Just a quick post to say Sky (for Sky Sports News and Soccer Saturday) are doing a major feature on the build up and the game Friday night.

Already spoken to the reporter who was as last nights game and will speak at length tomorrow. I will be asking to put some of the focus on our FANtastic fans, not only for the atmosphere generated on the Clayton End, but the superb help you are all giving to the SOS cause:)

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It has been mentioned that season ticket holders may pay on Friday,I take it there will be a bucket on the turnstile,so this money stays seperate to gate receipts?

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I wasn't that far out Carl!!....but £40K + ...What a result !!and as you put it....
GREAT NEWS!!!.

'ON STANLEY!!!...ON!!!'