{"id":2522,"date":"2019-12-07T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:24:43","slug":"trust-board-meeting-17th-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"Trust Board Meeting, 17th September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Venue: The Boathouse, Aberdour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Present: Graeme Condie (GC), Colin Flinn, (CF), Steven Lawther (SL), James Proctor (JP), Alan Russell (AR) &amp; Andy Simpson (AS)<br>Apologies: \u00a0Steve Wallace (SW), Graeme Baxter (GB)<\/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>It was agreed that they were a record of the previous board meeting on 6 August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matters Arising<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Survey \u2013 SL to contact Andy Mill to offer to run a Fans\u2019 Survey for the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AR (or other) to inform other supporters\u2019 groups at the next Raith Forum meeting.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Treasurers Report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>GC provided an update on the Trust&#8217;s current financial position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2018\/19 Accounts \u2013 These are in draft form, ready to be examined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AGM \u2013 Likely to be held in January, subject to approval of the accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loan Notes \u2013 due to the changes in RRFC ownership the value of Raith Trust\u2019s shareholding is now zero and therefore Loan Notes were written down to zero to reflect this. Loan Note holders will be contacted to inform them of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AR to check with Supporters Direct Scotland in regard to an examiner for the accounts.<\/li><li>GC to check with Pars Trust to see if someone is available to examine the accounts<\/li><li>GC to check previous database for Loan Note holders contact details.<\/li><li>AR, JP &amp; GC to write to Loan Note holders.<\/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 currently stands at around 150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CF agreed to take on the membership role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agreed to consider strategy and membership at next board meetings with the aim of having a clear offer for 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>GB &amp; AR at arrange handover of membership information to CF.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communication Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SL agreed to collate some information about the trusts achievements and to consider a newsletter in the next couple of months<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>SL to collate information.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Burns\u2019 Supper \u2013 It was agreed not to hold a Burns\u2019 Supper this year and to review it for 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz Night \u2013 All to help with question rounds and getting teams to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beer Festival \u2013 need to get labels designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ALL \u2013 prizes and anyone who can do a question round to speak to SW.<\/li><li>CF to speak to a designer in regard to labels.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No forum meeting since the last board meeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AR to have a discussion at the next Forum meeting in regard to the timing of financial contributions to the club.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AOCB<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Powrie donation \u2013 The contribution to youth tickets was recognised in the press and media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>GC to get numbers to confirm take-up of youth season tickets.<\/li><li>ALL \u2013 discussion on strategy and membership to be carried forward to next meeting.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Date of next meeting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Next two meetings to be pre-match on Saturday then revert to Tuesday for the two following that to allow everyone to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 or 26 October dates to be circulated to see which is best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: The Boathouse, Aberdour Present: Graeme Condie (GC), Colin Flinn, (CF), Steven Lawther (SL), James Proctor (JP), Alan Russell (AR) &amp; Andy Simpson (AS)Apologies: \u00a0Steve Wallace (SW), Graeme Baxter (GB)<\/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-2522","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\/2522","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=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/3058"}],"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=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}