Club News – Great News
As you all know we set an original target of £50,000 to secure the clubs survival. This was an ambitious target to offset the effects of the Coronavirus challenges and the financial position the club was already in.
We hoped to raise £25,000 from our fans initiatives and support and £25,000 from the Government Grant. The government Grant has already been received.
You amazing fans have now supported the club to the sum of £42,442.00 a fantastic achievement so what’s next?
We have now set ourselves another very ambitious aim of trying to make the club debt free and ensure our future. To do this we need to raise at least an additional £90,000 of incremental finance which is on top of all our usual revenue streams. We will be reviewing all aspects of the running the club and will be launching some very exciting fund raising initiatives to new and existing corporate customers and sponsors.
Your continued support and involvement will still be vital so if you want to support but haven’t done so yet please visit the website to see how you can get involved. We want this truly to be a supporter’s owned club and our aim is that fans own at least 90% of SRFC.
We are in the process of putting together a Business Development Plan which will form the structure of our medium and long term strategy driving the club forward in a disciplined and controlled manner. Our vision and determination is to ‘Make Stafford Rangers the best club in non- league football both on and off the pitch.’
The search for a new manager is well under way and we have had a large number of applications. We are now approaching the final phase and if necessary video conferencing interviews will be taking place soon as we identify a short list of new managers able to drive us forward on the pitch. This has been an extensive and proper process and reflects the changes in procedure and openness that we are changing in all other aspects of the club. We are determined to do it right!
The football club has demonstrated that we can and will Stand Together despite a great degree of different opinions both on and off the pitch. As we move forward we ask you to accept, recognise and welcome that change is happening, we are listening and we must, as things evolve, accept that we can’t please everyone all the time.
We seek to do our best and ask that we now ‘Come Together’ as we step in to phase two and try to achieve our vision.
Thank you!
