[Wooden Spoon]

death, on Jan 10 2007, 03:11 AM, said:

if CFSS is to have any future at all, it needs to seriously think about what it is, what it wants, and where its going. it needs to forget about owning the club. that experiment didnt work, and financially was even damaging to the club.

a start would be to re-vamp the committee itself. giving portfolio`s and targets to committee members would be a start. monthly targets, mission statements, goals, aims and achievements etc. almost to scrap and start again.

it needs to starting fundraising again. it needs a dynamic, innovative outlook,to try a new and different approach.to remember the fans that created it. it needs to be organising new events OUTSIDE those in the club calender, it needs to be interacting within the schools and youth clubs of the community of north derbyshire, grooming a future generation of fans within the local community to gaurantee the clubs future. almost to create a future for itself "outside" of the club.

there are some hard working individuals there that could and should still be of benefit to our club. the "web" men for example, pete as fans liason/community project. mr bowler does some good admin work.

one thing is for certain, if the cfss carries on in 2007 as it did in 2006 it has but one "future".

"a re post", to link into the following suggestion based on the story on the main site that could follow on with the "holiday" club

remember the 84-85 strike? the coalboard camp at skeggy during the dispute let in striking miners and families for nowt for the day. day trips were organised by the unions. i know this coz i went on one.

as part of the community project, how about the cfss, take youth clubs,disadvantaged kids, dissabled kids, for day trips weekends etc to such venues?

it could be self funding,ie, sponsorship, deals with the camps(let us in for the day for free, you make on fizzy drinks crisps, rides and arcades etc), funding from community projects etc.

it also helps build the community links with the club, raises the profile of the club locally, builds a larger fan base amongts the areas kids, and gives CFSS a role to play with fans/groups/and the north derbyshire community.

that extra publicity and involving kids can only be good for the long term future of the football club.

This post has been edited by death: 10 January 2007 - 07:50 PM

[Chris_CFC]

This is the key to the failure of the CFSS AND the club in recent years, the failure to tap into any of the possibilities to strengthen links with the fans and community as a whole. If you look at the UKCC under 18s nights in clubs in town for example, they get really busy according to my mate`s lad who goes every time. There`s a nice easy start for the club to approach one of the nightclubs (who need every help they can at the moment) and link up with it. Get a couple of the players along, cost nothing, and a few freebies that would cost peanuts like keyrings etc and raise the profile instantly to 2 or 3 hundred kids.

[Wooden Spoon]

Chris_CFC, on Jan 11 2007, 12:05 AM, said:

This is the key to the failure of the CFSS AND the club in recent years, the failure to tap into any of the possibilities to strengthen links with the fans and community as a whole.

im sure its much better to go to telford, worksop etc telling them how great it is in the fans owned eutopia

Chris_CFC, on Jan 11 2007, 12:05 AM, said:

If you look at the UKCC under 18s nights in clubs in town for example, they get really busy according to my mate`s lad who goes every time. There`s a nice easy start for the club to approach one of the nightclubs (who need every help they can at the moment) and link up with it. Get a couple of the players along, cost nothing, and a few freebies that would cost peanuts like keyrings etc and raise the profile instantly to 2 or 3 hundred kids.

so much to gain for so little effort. clubs the hub? sounds good doesnt it.

[Wooden Spoon]

death, on Jan 11 2007, 03:52 AM, said:

so much to gain for so little effort. clubs the hub? sounds good doesnt it.

any chance of a response?

this is exactly the sort of thing chris has been talking about on the two threads yesterday.

so much for a new era