Venue: Novar Bar, Kirkcaldy<\/p>\n
Present: Blair White (BW), Tam Cunningham (TC), James Proctor (JP),\u00a0 Alan Russell (AR) & Tom Philips (TP) Minutes of the meeting on 6th July 2009 were agreed.<\/p>\n Matters Arising<\/strong><\/p>\n Action Point: JM<\/strong> \u2013 To contact the club re-sponsoring Darren Smith and renewing the trackside ad at the stadium – Completed.<\/p>\n Action Point: TC<\/strong> \u2013 John Garrie (JG) from New Zealand has contacted his friend the artist Alex Burnett and he will start two more paintings of players. JG will also plan another fund raising venture and update us with progress when appropriate. No further progress, updates will be provided when news is received \u2013 Closed.<\/p>\n Treasurers Report<\/strong><\/p>\n GC not present, an update will be provided by email.<\/p>\n Membership Update<\/strong><\/p>\n BW provided the following updates: Membership mailshot regarding membership renewals and how to pay was sent out to 200 members and 150 to ex-members. Membership stands at 168, which includes 19 returning members and 9 new members.\u00a0A further reminder letter will be sent out to 50 who have not rejoined.<\/p>\n Trust Fans Survey<\/strong><\/p>\n A proposal was produced by SL and we agreed it was very good and hugely worthwhile and we fully supported it. It will be good to make an analysis between the data from the first fans survey and the data from this forthcoming second survey.\u00a0TP proposed we carry this out and this was agreed by everyone.<\/p>\n Fans Group Fund Raising<\/strong><\/p>\n Rock the Rovers 5 \u2013 Unsure how successful this event was or the funds raised however, those who did attend mentioned it was busy.<\/p>\n Official Website events banner – Alan Traynor and Jim Foy have produced a banner for all the fans events on the official website.<\/p>\n Trust Calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n Discussed the possibilities of producing a calendar that will have all the key events, AGMs, trust meetings, etc. which will be attached to future Trust meetings agendas and appear on the Trust website.\u00a0 Action Point: AR<\/strong> to produce calendar.<\/p>\n Trust Fund Raising<\/strong><\/p>\n Walk to East End Park 29 August: AR reported there were seven fans started including AR and joined by another fan and later by JM.\u00a0 The final total raised is still to be calculated however, it will be less than the first walk to Methil.<\/p>\n Beer Festival: License legislation has recently changed and the festival is now planned for 31 October in the Southstand concourse. Action Point: TP<\/strong> to organise the licence and the payment.<\/p>\n Trust Away Day<\/strong><\/p>\n AR discussed the vacant Media & Communications post with SL and he will formally take up the post.<\/p>\n BW wanted clarification regarding the competition to win the Starks Park image (donated by SL) that all members of the Trust would be entered into it and this was agreed.<\/p>\n AOCB<\/strong><\/p>\n AR mentioned that a new member had shown interest in being involved with the Trust and becoming a board member. Action Point: AR<\/strong> to discuss the possibility with the member.<\/p>\n JP reported there will be a discussion and debate regarding the SFA\u2019s Review of Scottish Football led by Henry McLeish. This was discussed and we will consider contributing our own findings with this new \u201cthink tank\u201d.\u00a0A debate will be held at the University of Stirling on 28 September 2009.<\/p>\n With no further business the meeting closed at 9:15pm<\/p>\n Date of Next Meeting: Teleconference, Monday 28 September 2009, 7:30pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Venue: Novar Bar, Kirkcaldy Present: Blair White (BW), Tam Cunningham (TC), James Proctor (JP),\u00a0 Alan Russell (AR) & Tom Philips (TP) Apologies: Steven Lawther (SL), John Mainland (JM) & Graeme Condie (GC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes-board-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nApologies: Steven Lawther (SL), John Mainland (JM) & Graeme Condie (GC)
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\nMinutes of the Previous Board Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n