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As fans will know the club is donating £1 from every adult ticket sold for the match on Saturday, July 30^th.

The club has invited us to hold a bucket collection on the day. The appeal committee has accepted their kind offer.

So we are looking once again for your support

Can you shake a bucket between 1.30pm until just before kick off? If so, contact statue project manager David Craig on fundraising@ccfctrust.org to register.

Thanks once again to fans for their wonderful support since we launched the appeal in April 2010. We would not have reached the £51,000 collected and pledged so far, without your fantastic help – just £34,000 needed!

Can you help us persuade the Welsh Government to make a contribution to the Fred Keenor Statue Appeal?

We’d like to appeal to Cardiff and Wales fans to write to their Assembly Members to ask them to lobby the Minister for Sport Huw Lewis, the Merthyr & Rhymney AM, to support not just a Cardiff icon but also a Welsh legend. Fans can also write direct to the Minister.

We know public funds are tight but we believe it is important that a true working class hero is recognised. Fred. as many of you know. fought and was badly injured in the appalling Battle of the Somme, the 90^th anniversary of which is being commemorated this year.

We have drafted specimen letters for fans to send to Assembly Members and the Minister which we can supply to supporters, or obviously, you can write your own letter. If you want a copy of the specimen letters or want to know who your constituency Assembly Member is please email fundraising@ccfctrust.org.

Last Friday saw new talent on the Welsh stand-up circuit give it their all for the Trust at the Duke of Clarence in Canton, Cardiff.It raised £236.10 and we signed up four new Trust members, all while having a good laugh.
Those that gave use access to their jokes books for free were Andy Wooding compare, Iestyn Jones, Paul Cornish, Jordan Brookes, Leroy Brito, Chris Chopping and Patrick Harries.
Many thanks also to Iestyn Jones and Peredur Emlyn for managing the event and to Tom Berwyn Price for manning the door.My favourite one goes like this – Two fish in a tank and one says to the other, ‘How do you drive this thing?’ The other fish goes, ‘My God, a fish that can talk!’ No? That’s why I kept it to myself…

Pictured are comedians Chris Chopping, Andy Wooding, Iestyn Jones and Patrick Harries. Trust member Beverley Dickson won the star prize in the raffle – a signed City shirt from the 2010-11 season.

Tim Hartley, Chair

Cardiff North AM Julie Morgan, a great supporter of the Fred Keenor Statue Fund raised the appeal in the Assembly chamber in Cardiff Bay on Wednesday.

Julie, who has attended fundraisers, asked Huw Lewis, the Welsh Minister for Sport, for a meeting a suitable tribute to the captain of Cardiff City’s FA Cup winning team of 1927. Huw Lewis agreed.

Please click the link below to read full details of Julie Morgan’s intervention. See Question 4 to Huw Lewis, the Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage, whose portfolio also includes sport, on https://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-chamber-fourth-assembly-rop.htm?act=dis&id=219005&ds=6/2011#Q2

Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust has written to South Wales MPs to urge them to support an Early Day Motion (https://www.parliament.uk/edm/print/2010-11/1909) aimed at securing the continuance of Supporters Direct.

Supporters Direct’s future is in doubt after the Football Stadia Improvement Fund, administrators of the Premier League Fans’ Fund, said it was  withdrawing £1.5m of funding over three years.This follow concerns over a number of tweets posted by SD chief executive Dave Boyle – who has now resigned – on his personal Twitter account.

In the letter to MPs, the Trust said: “I am writing to you on behalf of Cardiff City Supporters Society Limited, known as Cardiff City Supporters Trust. Cardiff City Supporters Trust was registered three years ago and represents just under 1,000 supporters of Cardiff City many of whom live within your constituency. Our aim is to ensure that Cardiff City Football Club has good governance and is run in a manner that takes full account of the needs of its supporters and the wider community it serves.

“Cardiff City Supporters Trust was established thanks to the support of the Wales Co-operative Centre and our national umbrella body “Supporters Direct”. Supporters Direct has also supported the development of Supporters Trusts in Swansea, Merthyr, Newport and Wrexham. The work of this organisation has received support from many MP’s and its work has been triumphed in Europe, as setting an example for the future of supporter’s involvement in sport. Over the last few weeks the future of Supporters Direct and the Supporters Trust movement has been put into doubt as a result of the withdrawal of funding from the organisation by the Premier League.”

It is Cardiff City Supporters Trust’s contention that:

1. It is totally unfair that an organisation is penalised as a result of the actions of an individual. In this case as a result of remarks made by the Chief Executive of Supporters Direct on Twitter, none of which were sanctioned by “Supporters Direct” or reflected any position of “Supporters Direct” or its members.

2. The Premier League is penalising all existing and future members of the Supporters Trust movement at a time when the movement is beginning to prove that community owned sports facilities can be of major benefit to individuals, communities and support the social, community and economic regeneration of areas of Wales.

To this end we would like to call on you to support the Early Day Motion.

Cardiff South & Penarth MP Alun Michael has already written to the Trust to confirm his support and sign the motion and Owen Smith (Pontypridd), Paul Flynn (Newport West) and Paul Murphy (Torfaen) have also put their names to it.