The Robins Nest Forum

Regarding the tickets for the Peterborough game - I asked the ticket office manager about this yesterday. It's not that they have been sold to Peterborough, it's that no decision has yet been made about putting them on sale to either side. A decision will be made nearer the time as to what to do. No...

Hi all, The Trust are working alongside The Cheltenham Town Community Trust, HerGameToo and the club to look at provisions for, and the experience of, female fans at Whaddon Road. Together, we're looking to build up some evidence of what the general thoughts are regarding this... We launched a surve...

Not sure how the logistics (or the powers that be backing it), but the option to add £10 for the Trust membership when purchasing your season ticket would be much easier ? We've tried that in the past and in a pre-digital world, it was something that was incredibly difficult to monitor - and for us...

Thanks for the sales pitch RCS, the fiver is in the post :D. Just in terms of the feedback loop. The FED is able to feed back more to the Trust board, than he is able to say in public. But our own confidentiality rules prevent that from necessarily being made public. The Trust is a legal entity in i...

The collective responsibility thing actually makes sense and I hadn't considered it. Thanks RCS. It is. But I guess the follow up question is "How does the FED assure themselves that they are voting in line with Trust member views?". When asked, should we sack Wade, what does the FED do b...

Ultimately, it is the most sustainable and secure ownership model. If the community that supports the club owns it, or holds a majority stake, you are never beholden to one person, benevolent or otherwise. Every club that has ever been threatened with liquidation is almost always down to being promi...

Interesting chat re aims and ambitions. It is something we are working on as a Trust board at the moment. Creating a list of achievable goals and then ambitious targets. Without giving too much away, the long-term target will be to try and achieve community ownership of our club. Only going to take ...

Thanks for clarifying RCS. Andgarod, if not clear, let me try to be absolutely to the point. Was the FED part of the decision-making process in the last week. YES. Can he, or the Trust, comment on that process. NO. Is the FED a full member of the CTFC board, with the same voting rights as any other ...

Hi all, We are acutely aware of the strong feelings of supporters regarding the events of recent times, and both the Trust - and especially our FED Dave Beesley - wanted to try and explain what we, and he, have been doing. It's neither right - or necessarily legal - for either of us to give a runnin...

I hope everyone understands that there is a limit as to what the Trust and, especially, Dave the FED can say about certain topics. However, we are acutely aware there is a need to be open and responsive when we can... And we are actually now sending a monthly newsletter to members that includes a r...

Thanks for this. It would be good to know when you are unable to comment due to restrictions put on you by the board. For example, are you able to tell us what was / is the board's rationale re not having a CEO or similar? Why did they think a free meal or ticket was out of the question (personally...

I hope everyone understands that there is a limit as to what the Trust and, especially, Dave the FED can say about certain topics. However, we are acutely aware there is a need to be open and responsive when we can... And we are actually now sending a monthly newsletter to members that includes a re...

Evening all, Hopefully you've seen in/on the news today about the government's white paper on football governance. Noticed that there was a post relating to it in 'Other Footy' but this is very much CTFC related. We have a story about it here: https://www.robinstrust.org/posts/independent-regulator-...

Thanks for posting this HookyRobin, always good to see someone other than me, who is geeky enough to look into these things!! As you say, all available free of charge at Companies House - as are the lists from the previous years and notifications as to when significant numbers of shares are issued -...

Hello all, Yesterday, we opened the voting for the Supporters Player of the Year award. This award is always special to us as a Trust as it is named in honour of our late friend Bryan Jacob. Every year, around this time, I feel almost duty-bound to repeat Bryan's story. As our founding secretary and...

Back in June 2020 the Trust lost one of it's hardest-working volunteers in Richard Allsopp. On Saturday, at the game that is closest to Richard's birthday, our FED Dave will be hosting Richard's parents in the boardroom and his family are attending the game. The Trust will be holding a bucket collec...

Andgarod, I have to say this is a really disappointing response to two people who give up a huge amount of time and put in incredible amounts of effort to try and make things better. Both Dave the FED and Jenny the SLO work tirelessly without reward other than constant social media snipes. I am luck...