{"id":2107,"date":"2016-02-27T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:27:21","slug":"trust-board-meeting-24th-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"Trust Board Meeting, 24th October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: The Boathouse, Aberdour<\/p>\n<p>Present: Graeme Condie (GC), James Proctor (JP), Niall Russell (NR), Steven Lawther (SL) &amp; Alan Russell (AR)<br \/>\nApologies: Tam Cunningham (TC) &amp; Steve Wallace (SW),<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Treasurers Report<\/h3>\n<p>Made \u00a310,000 investment in the club which has been recognised and appreciated by the club. The objective is to maintain a buffer above the 10% holding required to appoint a director.<\/p>\n<p>Trust fundraising income has been increasing over the last couple of years replacing declining income from other events.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014\/15 Accounts are ready to be independently examined \u2013 JP to check rules for holding AGM.<\/p>\n<h3>Membership Report<\/h3>\n<p>Trust currently has 197 members and NR is chasing outstanding members.<\/p>\n<h3>Communications Report<\/h3>\n<p>Social media in need of some attention although AR is keeping the website ticking over<\/p>\n<p>Agreed to distribute a Newsletter for Rangers match (SL) on 5 December.<\/p>\n<h3>Events Report<\/h3>\n<p>SW sent update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quiz night proceeds were up on last year despite higher costs.<\/li>\n<li>Burns Night planned for 23 January. SL to contact Tam Dean Burn in this regard.<\/li>\n<li>Bottled Beer festival \u2013 SW to decide whether this is worth pursuing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Projects<\/h3>\n<p>Legacy Giving \u2013 AR to look again and add something on the website.<\/p>\n<p>Concourse \u2013 good response to new pics and attempts to improve the area.<\/p>\n<h3>Raith Forum<\/h3>\n<p>Supporters Club \u2013 small loan to be paid back in two instalments later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation of Hearts \u2013 they have offered to discuss a comparison of their scheme which aims to raise the funds to buy the club if RRFC want to do something similar.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters Director \u2013 JP to organise nomination and election of Supporter-Director. NR to get clubs season ticket database \u2013 Andrew Jenkin of Supporters Direct Scotland has offered to act as independent adjudicator for the election.<\/p>\n<h3>AGM<\/h3>\n<p>Look to hold two back to back AGMs in January \u2013 JP to organise.<\/p>\n<p>Rule changes. Wholesale rule change to bring rules up to latest standards will be looked at for next AGM. Look to change registered address at the same time \u2013 GC to check with club.<\/p>\n<h3>Date of Next Meeting<\/h3>\n<p>14 November (St. M) or 5 December (Rangers) \u2013 dependent on availability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Actions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>JP to check rules for holding AGM.<\/li>\n<li>Agreed to distribute a Newsletter for Rangers match (SL) on 5 December.<\/li>\n<li>SL to contact Tam Dean Burn about the Burns Night.<\/li>\n<li>SW to decide whether an end-of-season bottled beer festival is worth pursuing<\/li>\n<li>AR to look at legacy giving and add information on the website.<\/li>\n<li>JP to organise nomination and election of Supporter-Director.<\/li>\n<li>NR to get clubs season ticket database.<\/li>\n<li>JP to organise AGMs for January.<\/li>\n<li>GC to check whether Trust can use Stark\u2019s Park as Registered Address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: The Boathouse, Aberdour Present: Graeme Condie (GC), James Proctor (JP), Niall Russell (NR), Steven Lawther (SL) &amp; Alan Russell (AR) Apologies: Tam Cunningham (TC) &amp; Steve Wallace (SW),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","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\/2107","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/3064"}],"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=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}