Can someone please explain to me this WSU, Wings United, and all the other alas's that there are ... why are there what appears to be so many different "groups" raising money for the same cause ??

Does it not make sense to setup one body that will be a nice blend of everyones skill and experience to raise as much money as possible, rather than lots of groups all doing their own thing ??

Kevin, From the perspective of someone who has attended and run events for WSU this is how I see the current situation.

WSU was established in 2004 and is a small group of supporters who have an annual programme of events which raise funds which for the development of Welling United. As such they organise events substantially using the Wings Bar where the Club get the bar takings and any other profit goes into the WSU bank account and are used for projects for the benefit of supporters and the Club. Effectively the risk factor involved in running events lies with WSU whilst there is guaranteed money raised which goes directly to the Club.

In addition to events WSU run Club Shop, the 49 Club, the Sponsor a Goal scheme and scratchcards all of which are evident on match days and the Christmas Draw.

From the element of monies raised from events which WSU retained in the past 3 years they have:
provided the wages for a player for a season,
provided stock for the shop prior to taking its running at the back end of last season,
subsidised the end of season presentation evening,
made the necessary repairs to and redecorated the Club Shop in the closed season,
stocked the Club Shop
and
paid the licence fee for the walkie talkies being used by the stewards.

There have been frequent attempts to recruit more people to take part in WSU but regretably for whatever reason the number involved remains very small. All have always been welcome to attend WSU meetings and help with the organisation and running of events.  As of last month headlines from its meetings are posted on both the WSU website and the official website.

When the HMRC action became public a meeting of supporters was held with a view to finding ways to raise the necessary pound notes. The meeting was chaired by Russ and Matt and it was agreed that an appeal fund would be set up with monies initially being paid into the WSU bank account whilst their own bank account was set up. I think around £13k has been raised for the appeal fund through an extension of the Sponsor a Player Scheme which had previously been run by WSU and the Club Aid event run by Sy and Patsy. As can be seen from Pat's post the auction night which was originally in WSU's programme of events has now been declared an Appeal event and all monies raised will now presumably go to the appeal fund.



-- Edited by bruno on Tuesday 5th of October 2010 07:41:08 PM

I dont understand the apparent "factions".