SUFC: The Future Fan Advisory Board Launched

[OldBlueLady]

I believe Tom is on holiday this week, so, if you're waiting on him, you may be waiting a little while longer yet.

 

[Medway Blue]

If it's anything like the Supporters Groups Liason meeting, who are still awaiting the club to sign off the minutes from a meeting weeks ago, we could all be waiting some time.

There aren't minutes from this one as such. It was the first meeting, so was more of an intro/kick off, and wasn't particularly in depth. The club will share a summary at some point. Believe they're doing several bits - getting an FAB area on the website, getting an FAB email address set up, and putting together profiles of the FAB members, and then I guess will post all at once when they're ready. Ask them.

Well that is news, just for clarity , what is the difference then between The Trust and the club having their Liason meetings and the Fan advisory board and The Trust having the same sort of meetings apart from the odd change of personnel?

It was news to me, too. It was the club's call. I don't know what it will mean in practice. Gary L led the first meeting and I participated in the same way that the other FAB members participated. We'll see what a more structured 2nd meeting with an agenda, etc. brings. All it would mean in reality is that I'd be helping to pull together an agenda with the help of other FAB members, running the meeting according to the agenda, and trying to keep it to time. Nothing particularly interesting.

The difference I guess is that the FAB is aiming to be high level and strategic (COSU's words). The Liaison meetings are about fixing operational issues at Roots Hall. Liaison is an operational meeting between Trust and TL/RD. FAB is a supporters board, and the Trust has a seat on it.