Aims
Finances aside, the Trust's main aims had revolved around ensuring its own future, and enhancing and expanding the relationship between the club and the community, with the specifics of these objectives being laid out in detail in the Trust's registered rules.
- To encourage and promote the principle of supporters representation on the board of the club and ultimately to be the vehicle for democratic elections to the board of the club.
- To encourage the club to take proper account of the views and interests of its supporters and of the community which it serves, in its decisions.
- To help raise the profile of the club and encourage new support within the community.
- To obtain from the club a commitment to provide and maintain facilities for the enjoyment of professional football within the area.
- To strengthen the bonds between the club and the community which it serves and to represent the interests of the community in the running of the club.
- To support and encourage the further development of the club's school of excellence and its promotion of and involvement in football in the community.
- To benefit present and future members of the community served by the club by promoting, encouraging and furthering the game of football as a recreational facility, sporting activity and focus for community involvement.
- To be an inclusive democratic organisation that seeks to represent the views of all supporters of the club through open, affordable membership, and consultation and liaison with all supporters and supporters groups, regardless of whether they are members.
However, these aims have been somewhat scuppered by the trust's failure to properly control the club and failure to deal with spiralling debt; as the trust now has no ownership of the club, or any say in how it is run, the Co - operative now simply aims to rebuild its own reputation with the fans, who have become somewhat alienated by the Trust's actions in recent years.
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