{"id":1674,"date":"2013-09-02T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T09:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:28:31","slug":"trust-board-meeting-10th-august-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"Trust Board Meeting, 10th August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venue: The Boathouse, Aberdour
\nPresent: James Proctor (JP), Niall Russell (NR), Steven Lawther (SL), Graeme Condie (GC) and Alan Russell (AR)
\nApologies: Tam Cunningham (TC) and Steve Wallace (SW)
\n
\nMinutes of previous meeting<\/strong>
\nIt was agreed that they were a record of the previous board meeting on 29 April 2013.
\nAction: AR to publish to website<\/p>\n

Matters Arising<\/strong>
\nEvents volunteer (AR) – 5 volunteers willing to assist in the Football Memories\/Alzheimer\u2019s Scotland project in September
\nRRFC Open Day on Sunday 1 September from 11am to 2pm \u2013 Forum would like volunteers to help. Trust to have a stand with a newsletter to give out.
\nAction: SL & GC to assist at RRFC Open Day<\/p>\n

Away Day Notes (SW) \u2013 SW to send out
\nAction: SW to email Away Day notes<\/p>\n

Treasurers Report<\/strong>
\nGC gave an overview of the current bank balances. Lotto and pitchside advertising board bill still to come off
\n2012\/13 Accounts \u2013 to be ready for September board meeting and late November AGM.
\nAction: GC to provide accounts to September Board Meeting<\/p>\n

Membership Update<\/strong>
\nCurrently contacting all members to ask for renewals<\/p>\n

Raith Trust Communication Update<\/strong>
\nGood response to the online hustings event.
\nLotto sponsorship has been agreed and is live and pitchside advertising has been renewed with same board.
\nPropose to do six newsletters a year \u2013 mostly online but with one or two printed versions.
\nImportant to think ahead and agree player\/management appearance for a future event.
\nAction: JP to add newsletter production to forward calendar.
\nAction: SL to produce newsletter for Dundee match\/Open Day
\nAction: SW to decide whether player appearance is required for one of the three planned events.<\/p>\n

Governance<\/strong>
\nCalendar of Board meetings \u2013 The calendar was accepted. Also future board meetings would either be held prior to a home match in The Boathouse or on Tuesday or Thursday in the 200 Club. The Novar Bar would be a last resort venue. Subject meetings could be held by conference call.
\nRules and Documents \u2013 There should be a review of rules for the next AGM in order to ensure they are up-to-date with best practice \u2013 Accepted.
\nGC raised whether this would affect the pre-amble to the accounts.
\nBoard Membership \u2013 it was agreed that new board members should be sought to cover officer positions, provide succession planning and increase diversity \u2013 Accepted.
\nActions:
\nJP to speak to Allan Traynor in regard to his ideas on taking the club forward.
\nNR to create list of female Trust members to help identify board candidates.
\nJP to check pre-amble to accounts to see whether it needs amended after any rule amendments.
\nJP to discuss adopting New Model Rules with Supporters Direct by next AGM.<\/p>\n

Policy Papers Update<\/strong>
\nLegacy proposal should be taken forward and implemented.
\nFinance proposal to be put to one side. Re-consider financial strategy at future board meeting.
\nConsider what the Trust can do to encourage increased attendances.
\nAction: AR to speak to Kev Barretto & TC
\nAction: JP to speak to Allan Traynor in regard to ideas in his board nomination paper.<\/p>\n

Events<\/strong>
\nQuiz will take place from 7pm to 10pm on 26 September in the Raith Suite.
\nAction: SW to promote event with help from other board members.<\/p>\n

Raith Forum<\/strong>
\nJim McMillan Club is willing to contribute shares through the Trust from their fundraising.
\nSupporters Club had requested funds to stock the club shop \u2013 AGREED to contribute \u00a31,000 and review in six months.
\nRock the Rovers tickets \u2013 agreed to ask if any members wished to take the tickets provided to sponsors of the event.
\nAction: AR to ask Jim McMillan Club about previous contributions.
\nAction: AR to arrange payment to Supporters Club.
\nAction: NR to offer tickets to members on first come first served basis.<\/p>\n

Date of next meeting<\/strong>
\nAs per the Board Meeting Calendar the next meeting will be a teleconference on an evening to be agreed towards the end of August. The subject will be Events.
\nThe next board meeting will take place at 12.30pm on 28 September, prior to the home match against Falkirk, in The Boathouse, Aberdour unless otherwise advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venue: The Boathouse, Aberdour Present: James Proctor (JP), Niall Russell (NR), Steven Lawther (SL), Graeme Condie (GC) and Alan Russell (AR) Apologies: Tam Cunningham (TC) and Steve Wallace (SW)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minutes-board-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}