{"id":2517,"date":"2020-10-06T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:17:39","slug":"trust-board-meeting-8th-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=2517","title":{"rendered":"Trust Board Meeting, 8th September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Venue: Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Present: Graeme Baxter (GB), Graeme Condie (GC), Steven Lawther (SL), James Proctor (JP), Alan Russell (AR), Andy Simpson (AS) &amp; Steve Wallace (SW)<br>Apologies:\u00a0Colin Flinn (CF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Minutes of previous meeting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes of last meeting on 4 August 2020 &#8211; AGREED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matters Arising<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>JP to send minutes of previous meetings back to 2016 to AR<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Club Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>AR spoke with Andy Mill in regard to Under-12s tickets. No change likely. RRFC Board had been issued with Trust paper on ticket prices prior to signing off on pricing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trust to continue to engage the club in dialogue on this issue to encourage a better outcome next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AR met with Scott Boyd to discuss improvements to Stark\u2019s Park. Trust upgrade of parts of the concourse would be looked on favourably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Treasurers Report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>GC reported on the current cash position of the Trust, and an overview of the accounts to 30th June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loan Notes \u2013 Letter drafted \u2013 send to initial group of Loan Note Holders who are members then follow up with address checking for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trust Accounts \u2013 Minor clarifications on narrative and addresses \u2013 otherwise Accounts AGREED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AGM to be organised for mid-October online with possibility of invited guest for a Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cash flow discussion carried over. Need to be aware of impact on Trust income over the next year due to lack of events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AR, JP &amp; GC to write to Loan Note holders.<\/li><li>JP to organise AGM for October \u2013 agree agenda and running order with AR, GC and CF.<\/li><li>Discuss Trust cash flow forecast at next meeting.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: In December 2013 the Trust Board agreed to maintain a balance of \u00a310,000.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Membership Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Membership transfer to Membermojo is complete. Now 154 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Discuss recruitment drive at next meeting.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communication Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted update on Under 12s tickets to website, Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Discuss getting assistance with Social Media \u2013 carried over.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider online quiz for later in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No other events planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Forum meeting notes were circulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matchday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>AR speaking with artist in regard to murals for the South Stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at putting storage into the South Stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussion of whether to look at using one of the larger bays for Trust given social distancing and Roary Club use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Agree budget for South Stand area at next meeting<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AOCB<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Q&amp;A with John Sim &#8211; Highlight opportunity to members\/fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Post questions on ticket pricing, stadium maintenance and general financial wellbeing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Date of next meeting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Propose 6th or 7th October 2020 &#8211; Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: Meeting suspended at 7.35pm to allow discussion with Paul Grieg of RRFC Community Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: Online Present: Graeme Baxter (GB), Graeme Condie (GC), Steven Lawther (SL), James Proctor (JP), Alan Russell (AR), Andy Simpson (AS) &amp; Steve Wallace (SW)Apologies:\u00a0Colin Flinn (CF)<\/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-2517","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\/2517","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=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/3051"}],"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=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}