John Atherton Leaves the Club

Following a seven days notice of approach from Chasetown FC, John Atherton will be leaving the club. In his short time with us, Jonno has suffered injury and illness which has limited his on field opportunities but we would like to thank him for his contribution and wish him well for the future.

Contrary to recent rumours, Derek Ubah is still registered with SRFC and whilst he may choose to leave the club at some point, no announcement will be made until we have total clarity. It is not our policy to announce signings or departures until all the necessary paperwork is completed.

STAFFORD RANGERS FC

A fans favourite returns

We are delighted to confirm that we have reached agreement to re-sign Jimmy O’Neill following his departure from Stratford Town.

Jimmy is relocating back up to the area and expressed an immediate interest in returning to the BORO.

Jimmy is a great character on and off the pitch and is welcomed back with open arms as a firm fans favourite.

Welcome back Jimmy

Jimmy is now available for sponsorship. We have two available sponsorship packages for each player along with the Manager and Assistant Manager.

Both player and management packages are £150 inclusive of VAT.

• You will get your name or business mentioned on the Web-Site and in the Match-Day Programme.
• You will receive a selected replica shirt (Home or Away) signed by the entire squad OR a Casual Shirt.
• 1 Ticket to the ‘End of Season Awards Dinner’.

Our back room staff packages, are £75 inclusive of VAT. No extras included.

Please contact our commercial team now, by emailing commercial@staffordrangersfc.co.uk or by ringing Roy Sales on 07921 943112 if you wish to sponsor Jimmy, or any of our Management or back room staff. But hurry hurry, as we only have two slots available for each !

New Charity Launches

We are proud and delighted to be able to announce the launch of our new charity – Stafford Rangers in the Community.

The charity aims to improve the lives of as many people as possible by promoting participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing football and other sports and also by providing recreation and other leisure time activities for the benefit of people who need them because of their youth, age, disability or deprived social and economic circumstances.

Club chairman John Bromley said: “This is a great step forward for the club. It’s been a long-standing ambition to improve our involvement with the local community and the new charity will allow us to do just that.”

The charity, which is entirely independent of the parent club, is chaired by John Macmillan who has had many years experience as a charity trustee. The other trustees are Andy Fearn, Tim Glayshier, Gary Bloor and Mark Alcock.

Andy Turner, who is also the manager of Stafford Rangers Academy, joins the charity as Community Engagement Officer. John Macmillan said: “Andy is absolutely fizzing with enthusiasm for the new charity and has a bundle of great ideas waiting to put into practice. But our immediate priority is to raise funds. We receive no direct financial assistance from the football club and until we have got a track record of delivering community projects, getting outside funding is going to be challenging. So, to kick start the charity, all of the trustees and Andy Turner have put their hands into their own pockets and made generous donations.

We really need Rangers fans to step up to the plate once again to help get this venture well and truly rolling, so we are in the process of setting up a Just Giving page details of which will be announced in due course and there will be a bucket collection at the FC United of Manchester game on November 26th. With your help, we hope to be running our first community programmes very early in the new year. Many thanks for your support.”

For more information about Stafford Rangers in the Community including its governing instrument, grant making and safeguarding policies and its policy on managing conflicts of interest – click on the relevant link.

Stafford Rangers in the Community is a registered charity with charity number 1200424.

Delivering the official community programme of Stafford Rangers FC providing sport, physical activity and other recreation to communities across Staffordshire, but operating independently from it.