RAF Auction: Bid for SSP's boots

[pauld]

well done paul, excellent effort all round. keep the fund raising ideas coming and...

where are the buckets?!

id give you some money on match day if i ever saw some. think ive only seen them twice?

That's probably because we've only been given permission for two collections this season. That said, we're usually out there with trestle tables for KTIS postcards etc and if you wanted to slip us a fiver then, no-one would mind!

[reeves4england]

If I had money I would be there

[Fred Elliot]

well done paul, excellent effort all round. keep the fund raising ideas coming and...

where are the buckets?!

id give you some money on match day if i ever saw some. think ive only seen them twice?

That's probably because we've only been given permission for two collections this season. That said, we're usually out there with trestle tables for KTIS postcards etc and if you wanted to slip us a fiver then, no-one would mind!

If you tell me Paul that it is the club that grants permission then I am seriously going to go off on one ! ...................... or is it a local authority licensing thingy ?

[Tails]

I almost got a man city signed poster for £2

[pauld]

If you tell me Paul that it is the club that grants permission then I am seriously going to go off on one ! ...................... or is it a local authority licensing thingy ?

Erm, it's the club (stands well back and waits for explosion). We asked for half a dozen "slots" in the period before Xmas at the start of the season, and got two due to wanting to avoid conflict with other groups collecting (which to me raised the interesting image of us going toe to toe with the St Johns Ambulance or Guide Dogs for the Blind or something, buckets a'flyin'). It's probably more someone getting a bit over-bureaucratic more than not wanting to help out, if that's what you're implying - the club donated a good chunk of the stuff that was auctioned tonight and let us use the Winners for free, promoted it in the programme etc. So I'd hold off a bit before you go off on one.

We're hoping to get some more slots before the end of the season. Although to be fair recently we've been flat out with the Keep Town in Swindon postcards etc so wouldn't really have been able to do both anyway - now if we had more people helping out on matchdays .....

[Fred Elliot]

Holding on desparately ! ...................... it still beggars belief though Paul.

Is there anything that we can do outside of the trust and as fans to sway opinion within the club ?

[Fred Elliot]

If you tell me Paul that it is the club that grants permission then I am seriously going to go off on one ! ...................... or is it a local authority licensing thingy ?

Erm, it's the club (stands well back and waits for explosion). We asked for half a dozen "slots" in the period before Xmas at the start of the season, and got two due to wanting to avoid conflict with other groups collecting (which to me raised the interesting image of us going toe to toe with the St Johns Ambulance or Guide Dogs for the Blind or something, buckets a'flyin'). It's probably more someone getting a bit over-bureaucratic more than not wanting to help out, if that's what you're implying - the club donated a good chunk of the stuff that was auctioned tonight and let us use the Winners for free, promoted it in the programme etc. So I'd hold off a bit before you go off on one.

We're hoping to get some more slots before the end of the season. Although to be fair recently we've been flat out with the Keep Town in Swindon postcards etc so wouldn't really have been able to do both anyway - now if we had more people helping out on matchdays .....

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What can I do to help

[pauld]

What can I do to help

We're usually doing something before most home games, whether it be collecting postcards to councillors, bucket collections for RAF etc. At the moment, the focus is on the Keep Town in Swindon stuff - we set up a trestle table outside the club shop (and at corner of TE/Arkells if we get enough people) with postcards, lists of councillors, pens etc so people can write a postcard to their local councillor (or Mike Bawden, council leader, if they're from out of Swindon) and drop it in a bucket and we then deliver them in batches to the Civic Offices. 1200 collected so far plus another 500 sent out that people have hopefully sent in themselves.

So for the moment the best thing would be to turn up at the Trust office (next to away travel office) about 1.45 on a matchday and pitch in! That said, I don't think we're doing the postcards thing tonight as everyone's too tight in terms of time getting there from work. See you before the Chesterfield game?

We usually try and post notice on here, Trust forum etc when we're going to be doing a bucket collection asking for volunteers so keep an eye out for that as well. But like I say, we're usually doing something most matchdays, so just turn up and pitch in

[Arriba]

1700 cards tops is a pathetic amount .infact its embarrasing
yes i have filled one in though.

[pauld]

1700 cards tops is a pathetic amount .infact its embarrasing

Thanks for your encouragement. We're doing what we can.

[Arriba]

i fully back the campaign,just think the amount of cards is piss poor,every town fan should fill one in.

[RobertT]

1700 cards tops is a pathetic amount .infact its embarrasing
yes i have filled one in though.

It's not that bad given the short window of time available to get people to sign them.

People don't turn up until 30 mins or so before kick off, so you do well to get big %'s of the crowd on any given match day.  Only so many at one time can be filling in the cards and with such a short space of time it takes a while to get through them.

So thats 1/3 of the crowd covered so far in probably 2 hours worth of real available time.

[pauld]

i fully back the campaign,just think the amount of cards is piss poor,every town fan should fill one in.

Fair enough - sorry if I took the comment wrong. As Rob T says tho, there's only a fairly limted amount of time to get people to fill them in (although people are welcome to take big handfuls away with them!)

[RobertT]

i fully back the campaign,just think the amount of cards is piss poor,every town fan should fill one in.

Yes they should.  I;ve made sure my whole family have completed one.

[Fred Elliot]

What can I do to help

We're usually doing something before most home games, whether it be collecting postcards to councillors, bucket collections for RAF etc. At the moment, the focus is on the Keep Town in Swindon stuff - we set up a trestle table outside the club shop (and at corner of TE/Arkells if we get enough people) with postcards, lists of councillors, pens etc so people can write a postcard to their local councillor (or Mike Bawden, council leader, if they're from out of Swindon) and drop it in a bucket and we then deliver them in batches to the Civic Offices. 1200 collected so far plus another 500 sent out that people have hopefully sent in themselves.

So for the moment the best thing would be to turn up at the Trust office (next to away travel office) about 1.45 on a matchday and pitch in! That said, I don't think we're doing the postcards thing tonight as everyone's too tight in terms of time getting there from work. See you before the Chesterfield game?

We usually try and post notice on here, Trust forum etc when we're going to be doing a bucket collection asking for volunteers so keep an eye out for that as well. But like I say, we're usually doing something most matchdays, so just turn up and pitch in

Ill be there .............. ill come and ask for you Paul ?