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We’ve been approached by some newly joined members to ask what the Trust and its board has done since its formation.

So we’ve drafted a list, which is far from exhaustive, of the many initiatives the Trust has been involved in through its board and members. They cover the present and the past.

As volunteers we’re proud of our work for the community and representing Bluebirds fans.

For information: While we do have three long-standing board members, two new board members joined in 2024 and another in 2025.

FOOTBALL RELATED

• Worked with the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) and local MPs on the Football Governance Bill which became law and has led to the establishment of an Independent Football Regulator. Our role has been acknowledged by the Regulator’s Chief Operating Officer, Martyn Henderson OBE. The Regulator’s roles include protecting the interests of fans from unscrupulous club owners such as at Bury and more recently, Morecambe.
• Held regular meetings with club chair Mehmet Dalman and represented Trust members at club Supporter Liaison meetings and the Fans Parliament as well as pressing for the setting up of a Fans Advisory Board (FAB). The Trust now has two members on the FAB. The Trust board has also encouraged the club chair and other club directors to meet with fans generally.
• Attended the annual FSA meeting and represented the Trust at EFL Premier League, Championship and League One online meetings. One of our board members met with Trusts in south-west England during a recent cup tie in Exeter.
• Took a prominent role in the now successful campaign for Safe Standing at football grounds. Hosted an exhibition on safe standing in Cardiff.
• Produced a regular magazine for members. The next edition is out this month.
• Helped the club’s Disabled Supporters Association financially, including paying for a bus for disabled members to go to a match in Reading.
• Led a two year campaign to raise more than £85,000 to erect a statue in honour of Fred Keenor. This involved hundreds of hours of work by some board members and lobbying bodies, including government, and individuals, for support.
• The Trust board arranged a visit by players to Barry College for Black History Month.
• Back in 2013 a Trust-organised survey showed City fans were pretty much split 50-50 on the controversial red rebranding. But a later year a similar survey showed 85% wanted blue back. Then a March in 2014 supported by all the major fan groups for the first time – Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust, Cardiff City Supporters’ Club, Cardiff City Forum, Cardiff City Online and Bluebirds Unite was held, leading eventually to the return of blue in early 2015.

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• Held evenings in the past with former Bluebirds legends.

COMMUNITY

• Financially backed the establishment of the wonderful Memorial Garden at the stadium and we continue to support the work there.
• Held six foodbank collections, with another planned in December, collecting thousands of donations, both in cash and food.
• Sold Sol Bamba Shirts, raising vital funds for Lymphoma Action.
• Working with Cardiff City Foundation to arrange ​PSA testing and prostate cancer awareness at the stadium.
• Contributed £3,000 for a specially, designed mural at the Sensory Room at the stadium.
• Donated annually to Rookwood Sound, which broadcasts to patients in hospitals.
• Donated more than £12,500 to the Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice from the sale of specially-designed ‘blue shirts’ when Cardiff City was red. Also organised a bucket collection at the ground for the charity.
• Adopted local charities chosen by members and supported them financially, including homeless and brain injury charities.
• Board members parcelled up food donations to help those in living in war-torn Ukraine.

The following message was sent today to Trust members:

Dear Member

We have been asked by some recently joined members to convene a special general meeting of the Trust to consider the following:

“That an election of the Cardiff City Supporters Trust Board be held within 30 days of this Special General Meeting.

As part of this election, all current members of the Board shall stand down and may seek re-election should they wish to do so, following the Trust’s Election Policies and Procedures.

Any Trust member who meets the eligibility requirements may also seek election in accordance with the same rules and procedures.”

The meeting will take place at the Cardiff City Stadium on October 24th  (Ricoh Suite) at 7pm

We will be contacting you with the voting arrangements shortly,. including e-mail, for members who are unable to attend.

Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust Board

Get together of Supporter Trusts at Exeter City’s ground

We were delighted to meet up with fellow Trusts before the Vertu Trophy game at the home of Exeter City Football Club. The club is wholly owned by their Supporters’ Trust.

The Exeter Trust issued the following statement: “On September 16th 2025, the Exeter City Supporters Trust hosted representatives from the Supporters Trusts of Cardiff City, Plymouth Argyle and Torquay United for their EFL Trophy match against Cardiff City. All Trusts agreed that open dialogue, communication and collaboration is crucial for negotiating the ever changing landscape and issues surrounding football in this day and age.”

The Trust was represented by board member Tim Banks (pictured left) who said: “It was great to meet up with fellow Trusts who work hard to ensure the voice of fans is heard loud and clear. I’d like to thank our friends at Exeter for the welcome I received.”

Pontypridd Foodbank’s van filled up with donations earlier this year.

We wanted to let you know that we will be holding a pre-Christmas foodbank collection before the Doncaster game on Saturday, December 13th. A decision on the foodbank to benefit will be made in the coming
weeks.
This will be the Trust’s seventh collection in aid of some of the most vulnerable families and individuals in society who struggle to put> food on their table.
Thanks to the generosity of Trust members, Cardiff City FC staff and players and fans generally we’ve so far been able to donate more than 6,000 items of food and other products to foodbanks. In addition, a
considerable amount of cash donations has been given to foodbanks.
The Trust and foodbanks generally really do appreciate the fantastic  backing for the collections and hope you will again support this initiative, if you are able.

Trust chair Keith Morgan

As you may be aware, our Trust board has been heavily involved in representing our fans in ensuring improvements to the way our club engages with us as supporters. This is to ensure that our fans’ opinions on key strategic matters are taken into account.

It has been a long battle, often with resistance from the club. This will continue going  forward and it has now led to  very significant recent positive developments.

The initial major step forward was the publication of the Fans Led Review of Football report which was published in November 2021 and contained a number of recommendations to improve the safeguarding of clubs from unscrupulous owners and directors plus greatly improved communication by clubs with their fanbase.

In association with other fangroups we helped the national Football Supporters’ Association (which we have been full Associate members for many years)  progress this report with a number of politicians to carry it forward to the stage of a Football Governance Bill. We continued to lobby MPs and members of the House of Lords of all political parties until the Bill finally passed into law as an Act last month.

The biggest benefit to fans is that the Act compels clubs to clearly show that they have carried out proper consultation with their fans on major issues and that they have taken those fans views into account in their decision making.

This will not be allowed to be just a “tick box “exercise but must produce full evidence of proper consultation. If clubs don’t they run the very real risk of the Independent Regulator of English Football taking their licence to operate as a football club away – a power granted underthe Act, and a far stronger deterrent than points deductions and transfer embargos which are powers that will still remain with the EFL and the Premier League.

The  Trust will be involved in the above consultations as we are regarded as a key elected fan representative group. To reinforce this view we have been requested by Martyn Henderson, who is the interim Chief Operating Officer of the Football Regulator, to meet with him next month where we will discuss the practical impact of the new law on Cardiff City Football Club.

All of us on the Trust board are long standing fans of the club and would  love it to be run so well that we need never criticise it. We will continue to press the club to put in place a proper structure at its senior level with the appointment of both a director of football and a full time director. We are, it would seem, the only club in the top five divisions of professional football in this country who has neither of these, which is a major weakness and we believe to be unacceptable.

Going forward , we hope to be able to report on issues on the field which show the club in a good light but the importance of this new Act is of such importance to fans that we will continue to represent our fans as it develops.

• The Trust has two representatives on the Cardiff City Fan Advisory Board (FAB).

Keith Morgan

Chair