Rochdale Supporters Trust Newsletter – 14.02.2014
Happy Valentines day!
Roses are red
Dale play in Blue
Here’s the Trust newsletter
For you to read.
Rochdale AFC Football In The Community 2013
The Dale Trust is proud to be supporting Rochdale Football in the Community as our chosen charity this year.
We have already organised a sponsored walk to raise funds for a new van which can support the FITC team in their work throughout the borough, we’ll have details of the van coming soon.
Over 32,000 participants have taken part in Rochdale Football in the Community projects including –
Education Projects
Health Projects
Social Inclusion Projects
Sports Participation Projects
Further details here
Dale Trust Calendars
The calendars are still on sale for £5, you can get them in the club shop but it is cash only. We are selling calendars online through the website. There aren’t many left so if you want one do it sooner rather than later.
Football Shirt Collection
The Trust are looking to members and supporters to donate football shirts for disabled children in Uganda.
Dale Trust member Helen Whittaker is going to Uganda in the Summer on a charity mission to work with disabled children in a remote rural school, we’ll have a collection box at the Trust desk before Saturdays match.
Furter details here
Football Governance E-Petition Help Request
We’ve been asked to pass the following onto our members –
Over a year ago the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee asked the FA and Football League to address concerns about the governance of our national game. A year on nothing substantial has happened and we have a series of issues of poor ownership occuring :
Hull, Blackburn, Cardiff, Leeds, Coventry etc. We therefore ask that the Select Committee revisits its work on football governance and illustrates the growing problems by undertaking a short Inquiry into one particular club. Coventry City’s owner has relocated the club from the
City of Coventry to Northampton, 35 miles away. Attendances have dropped from 12,000 to 2,000 – 10,000 football fans are being deprived of their right to follow their club in their city. This will highlight concerns shared by football fans across the country that football is being run poorly and not in the interests of football supporters in general, and the need for immediate action.
Below is a link to an e-petition asking the above question:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/59884
Club Info
Keep up to date with everything at the club through the official site, you can also visit the clubs excellent Youtube page to see highlights on and off the pitch of Dale FA win over Leeds, just be careful as you’ll find more and more memories to relive.
Friends of the Trust
We have a large number ‘friends of the trust’, have a look on the website to see the current offers, alternatively you can search using #fott on twitter.
Here are a few –
If you are looking to get fit in the new year we have the following offers –
Rochdale Leisure Centre – Offering full membership at £25.50 rather than £30.00 per month.
Oulder Hill Leisure Complex – Offering full membership at £20.00 rather than £29.00 per month
When you’ve worked up an appetite visit the following places –
The Cemetery Hotel – Offering 20% off food ordered at the bar.
The Baum – Offering 10% off food from Sunday to Thursday.
The Healey Hotel – Offering 10% off food from Sunday to Thursday.
Perito’s – 15% off foodbill to trust members
Exiles Day – 5th April 2014
We are delighted to announce the annual exiles day has been confirmed for 5th April 2014 vs York City. We have approx 40 places available; if this number is exceeded we have other options available. The price per head will be £30 for adults and £15 concession. Included in the package will be a buffet style lunch, with soup included, and other additional benefits associated with this package.
We will be send out further details to Exiles soon, if you want to book please get in touch through any of the methods at the bottom of this newsletter or email here.
Easy Fundraising
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 http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/daletrust/?u=4A28BU 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
Saturday Club will be open for league games, 12 – 5 at £9 per child, 5 a side, MacDonald’s dinner and the match, it’s a great offer. The Trust have been working with Football in the Community to promote the Junior Dale Saturday Club we are pleased to announce that numbers are continuing to rise, we are also pleased to announce that on production of a valid Dale Trust membership card you can get £1 off.
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