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A £500 donation has been made to the Fred Keenor Statue Appeal by the owners of the new Sand Martin pub and restaurant which lies just yards from where the tribute will be erected.

In a letter Derek Andrew, Managing Director of Wolverhampton-based Marston’s, said that “this gesture is from the hardy football supporters among us”.

Mr Andrew, a Wolves fan, said that Marston’s general stance on fundraising was normally to support disadvantaged individuals or groups but on “this occasion I am happy to enclose a cheque for £500 to help towards your target.”

He has also invited the appeal committee to take part in joint activities in the future with Marston’s.

David Craig, appeal project manager and a member of the board of Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust, said: “This is a great gesture from Marston’s and we’re delighted because the pub and restaurant is based just yards from where the statue of Fred Keenor will be sited.

“We’d like to see businesses and employers in South Wales, particularly those with links with Cardiff City, following the lead set by Marston’s, which is, after all, a business based in the West Midlands.

“The donation from Marston’s means we have now passed £47,500 on our way to the £85,000 needed.”

Earlier this year Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust wrote to Mr Andrew urging him to consider naming the pub, which is at the junction of  Leckwith Road and Ffordd Fred Keenor, after the Cardiff and Wales skipper, who led Cardiff City to FA Cup triumph in 1927 – the only time the trophy has been taken out of England.

The Trust  held an open meeting on Tuesday, March 29th,  to discuss ideas for the future. Most people agreed that we need to offer more benefit to members. We would all like to arrange regular Fans Forums at the club where we have a chance to ask Dave Jones and some players questions. We held a very successful question and answer session with Tg and Dave before Christmas and we will be asking the club to make players available for another event. We will also be arranging an end of season event for Trust members and are working on the details of this.

I think we need to continue to grow our membership to the Trust on a month by month basis. In a crisis I am sure everyone would want a strong Trust, however ,with the City doing well in the Championship and with some sensible financial management at the club we need to be realistic about how many new members we can regularly sign up. Having said that we will be looking to improve on our ‘offer’ to members. Some of the ideas included more member only events, a member only section to the website, an annual card and Trust badge and the like. All great ideas.

At the moment we have a core group of people running the quizzes, band nights and community projects that the Trust organises. A greater number of open meetings are planned this year in order to ensure good communication of these Trust activities and to encourage people to become more involved. There was some discussion too about holding events outside Cardiff.  The Trust has had a couple of great evenings in Maesteg and Pontypridd and we are looking to organise something with the 1927 club in London. The Trust’s emphasis when holding events will naturally be in Cardiff because that is where the majority of fans reside but we are open to all invitations from other areas to participate in and help organise events in their areas.
It was good to see new faces at the  meeting. Thanks for coming.
C’mon the City!

Tim Hartley

Chair

The appeal committee is delighted to announce that we raised £1,710.89 (subject to checking at the bank) from the bucket collection outside the Millennium Stadium before Wales v England.

This was great  considering many of the fans were not Cardiff City supporters or even regular Wales fans. We were allocated three of the stadium’s Gates – 5,6 and 7 – to collect from.

Thanks to the volunteers who made the event such a success, to those that generously chipped in cash and to the Football Association of Wales for allowing us to hold the bucket collection.

You can still help the appeal by buying one of the 8in figurines of Fred Keenor or the pin badges. You can get further details on purchasing these items by contacting fundraising@ccfctrust.org.

The efforts of everyone mean the kitty stands at over £46,000, well over half-way.

Calling all Trust members!

OPEN MEETING
Duke of Clarence

Clive Road, Canton, Cardiff

7:30pm, Tuesday 29 March

We are holding an another of our open meetings for you to meet the current TrustBoard members. We want to hear what more you think the Trust should be doing .

Your Trust needs you – so see you on the 29th!