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Trust members Richard Lewis and David Craig with Sam Bowen and Eli King at the Trust office

The Trust received the following email from Mark Tugwell of Cardiff Foodbank.

“Firstly, thank you again for all your support this past little while and arranging the collection for us at Monday’s game. We’re extremely grateful for the support from the Trust, Cardiff City Football Club and the supporters.

“We’ve weighed in the total food and the total weight came to 501.2kg which is the equivalent weight to provide 44 three-day emergency food parcels. Which is fantastic!

“We’ve also counted up the bucket collection and that came to £197.67, which again is amazing.  Thank you so much for all you have done.”

In addition to the bucket collection, the Trust Board has also agreed to make a contribution of £100 to the foodbank and we have also received a cheque for £10 from a member to add to the total.

• Why not join the Trust and help its work? It costs £12 a year and you can join at the Trust Office (near Gate 5) or through Paypal at www.ccfctrust.org.

The last Trust magazine of the season is out.

The 16-page Moving To A Different Beat features a piece by Rob Jeffery on the controversial Cardiff City striker, Trevor Ford, Owen Deacon takes a look at City’s young homegrown talent while Richard Lewis tells the story of our first foodbank collection before last Christmas.

David Collins shares his memories of two former City managers, Len Ashurst and Frank O’Farrell, while there is the usual brainteaser quiz.

You can join the Trust for just £12 a year. See our website for more details and you can also join on matchdays at the Trust office, near Gate 5.

We wanted to remind Bluebirds fans that the Trust – with backing from Cardiff City – is holding a second foodbank collection before the Luton Town game on Easter Monday.

A food donation point will be set up from 12.30pm, close to the Trust office (near Gate 5). Food collected will be delivered to the Cardiff Foodbank Centre which supports foodbanks across the city.

As supporters will know, we held our first foodbank collection in December but the circumstances have worsened for many families and individuals since with massive increases in food, fuel and energy prices, resulting in more people having to turn to foodbanks for help.

Here is a list of food items most urgently needed by the foodbank: Sponge Puddings, Longlife Fruit Juice, Tinned Fruit, Instant Coffee, Custard UHT/Longlife Milk, Microwavable Rice & Pasta, Rice Pudding, Deoderant, and Chocolate Bars. April donations request list

If you can help but are unable to bring food donations, we’d be happy to accept cash or cheques at the Trust Office.

Thanks so much for your support for this worthy cause.

David Craig, Vice Chair

The Sports Ground Safety Authority is looking for fan feedback on safe standing at the five grounds currently taking part in the ‘early adopter’ programme.

So, if you’ve been in any of the safe standing areas – either as a home or away fan – at Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Cardiff City this year, they would like to hear from you.

As a long-time campaigner for safe standing, I’m naturally delighted that we’re finally taking these tentative steps forward. In my own humble opinion, however, what we have at present is a bit of a compromise. It’s not what I’d call ‘proper’ safe standing, like you might have experienced in Europe, at Celtic or even at Shrewsbury.

Because the seats at the early adopter grounds are not secured upright, there is a temptation for fans to stand on them. And that, of course, negates the whole point of the rails and can lead to them falling off and getting hurt.

A standing area with seats secured upright so that there is nothing that you can climb up on is clearly safer (and will in many cases mean that you have more room and that there are no protruding parts for you to bash your shins or calves against!).

Anyway, whatever your views, here’s the survey link. It doesn’t take long to complete.

John Darch

Safe Standing Campaigner.