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Some fans on supporter message boards have queried Cardiff City’s support for the Fred Keenor Statue Appeal. Fund project manager David Craig sets the record straight.

“The appeal for donations to help create and erect a statue to commemorate the life and career of Fred Keenor is making excellent headway and has topped £41,000 – almost half the £85,000 needed.

This is because of the wonderful support we have had from fans and also the support and direct involvement of Cardiff City Football Club – its management and staff.

Since the start of the fund-raising campaign 10 months ago, it is clear that the club fully understands and supports the appeal.

The club’s response to our request for help has been immediate. In addition, it has come up with its own ideas for publicity and fundraising and has followed these through to great success.

Two bucket collections have been held at the stadium and another bucket collection is planned before the season’s end.

The stadium superstore also sells the eight-inch statue maquettes pin badges on our behalf.

In July 2010 the club donated £1 from the sale of tickets for the Deportivo La Coruna friendly game and an evening with Dave Jones and Ricky Tomlinson proved a huge success.

The stadium was also made available at very short notice for a curry and quiz evening and staff were a great help.

We’ve been able to set up a Fred Keenor Statue Appeal display table on Levels 2 and 3 of the Grandstand on two match-days, and are more planned.

A tour of the stadium for fans has been organised and we hope to hold more during 2011 with another celebrity evening planned for later in the year.

If you have received your season ticket application form for 2010-11 you will see that there is an opportunity for fans to donate money in aid of the appeal when they renew their tickets.  This was agreed to by the club without hesitation.

So, on my own behalf and the Fred Keenor Statue Appeal Group, I’d like to thank everyone at Cardiff City for their backing and involvement.”

Fred Keenor Miniature. Picture Richard Swingler, Media Wales

Fans who can’t get to the Cardiff City Stadium shop can now buy the 8in miniature of Fred Keenor by paying via Paypal through the website of the artist Roger Andrews of Llantwit Major.

The miniature mounted on a base costs £39.99 from the club shop or £45.50 including postage and packing, through https://andrews-studios.com/fred_keenor.htm

All profits go to the Keenor statue appeal which stands at more than £41,000 – almost half-way to the £85,000 target

The fundraising committee will be announcing shortly details of a potentially major fundraising event in Cardiff next month.

Sarah Mizen hands over the donation from pupils and staff to David Craig

Ton-yr-Ywen school’s history group is undertaking a project on statues in Cardiff and as the Fred Keenor Statue Fund committee is fundraising, project manager David Craig, Fred’s nephew Graham Keenor and Phillip Nifield went along to give them a run down on our work.

This was followed by a tour of the Cardiff City Stadium, which included a look at the 3ft statue commissioned by the appeal committee and a tour behind the schemes, including the players’ dressing rooms. The children then went on to the nearby Glamorgan Records Office.

Teacher Sarah Mizen generously handed over £39 generously donated by pupils and staff at the Heath school.

And David Craig presented an 8 inch miniature of Fred Keenor to the school.

David said: “We’re so grateful for the generosity of pupils and staff at the school. It was a wonderful gesture which we really appreciate.”

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  Ton-yr-Ywen school pupils show their support for Keenor appeal

  

  Sarah Mizen is pictured with the Keenor miniature presented by David Craig

  We’re also delighted to announce a couple of other recent donations. A Trust member has donated £200 while £50 from Fred’s grand and great grandchildren, who are just nine and  aged 19. This brings to £650 the amounted donated by the Keenor family.

Howl Griff, Brother Steve and folk singer Catrin O’Neill provided some really great music at the Duke of Clarence pub in Canton last Friday night.

The event, organised by the Trust’s community group, raised around £200 for the Trust’s work in the community.

The Trust gave the artists a batch of tickets for the Scunthorpe game, generously donated by Cardiff City Football Club.

We’d like to thank everyone who generously gave their services free of charge, the Duke’s landlord Eric and his team and to Iestyn Jones for arranging the artists.

The photographs of Howl Griff, Brother Steve and folk singer Catrin O’Neill were taken by photographer Simon Boughton.

Simon, who is pictured holding a signed City shirt which he won in the raffle, with Iestyn Jones (left) and Tim Hartley, Trust chairman.

Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust would like to do something for its members at the end of the 2010/11 season.

At the moment one idea is to hold a free to members’ event in Cardiff that consists of a quiz, buffet and live band? However we would like to know your thoughts on this before going ahead with it.

Please could you respond to help@ccfctrust.org and let us know whether you would like to come along to this kind of event or whether you have any alternative suggestions.

We will wait to see what the feedback is before deciding what to do.