There's still quite a few kit sponsorships available if people want to make a financial contribution to the club.

Now reduced to just £70 according to yesterday's match programme. 

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/wellingutd/a/commercial-20675.html?page=9

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If you sponsor a player's away kit, will it be an away shirt you'd get at the end of the season?

ColinP wrote:

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There's still quite a few kit sponsorships available if people want to make a financial contribution to the club.

Now reduced to just £70 according to yesterday's match programme. 

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/wellingutd/a/commercial-20675.html?page=9

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If you sponsor a player's away kit, will it be an away shirt you'd get at the end of the season?

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I sponsored Lee Clarke's away shirt last season and that is what I got.

I'm a little dissapointed that we have n't strengthened following the recent injuries. We've had no more new players arrive since the arrivals of Guthrie and McLaren and since then we've won 3 FA Trophy games. I had hoped that some of that prize money be reinvested in to the squad. I can understand why it has n't and the reasons are pretty obvious. Saturdays appaling attendance of 516 underlines why. There are many reasons for this, not least, the clubs commerical ineptitude over many years (no blame at all to the current commerical manager!).   

I do not contribute to the boost the budget scheme. Quite simply I believe the club take such funds for granted. I have not, and will not, hand money over to the club when they have shown, and continue to show, such a poor example of running a business. 

But this is different. The management staff have worked miracles this season.  Every single player, (with the possible exception of one who seems more interested in nightclubbing than playing) has played with pride and passion to get us into this position. We are in with a great chance of achieving something historic- our first title in 28 years, in this our Semicentennial year.

It seems to me that with 19 games to play in just 12 short weeks Jamie desperatley needs our help for the final push. We can of course do that by getting behind the team- at home, away and in Truro. But if the manager wants some money for a loan or two then I'd be happy to put £100 into a pot on the basis that it goes on that alone.  As a supporter said to me on Saturday "Laffette works so hard he deserves to be a champion". 

Lets make it happen.

COYW

There must be some "contingency" money surely ... you can't run a business turning over 100s of 1000s a year and not have £500 accessible to you at short notice.

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 That makes me laugh - it seems to suggest that we have good financial management - I would suggest that history shows that this may not be the case.

Kevin wrote:

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Also, would massively help to promote in the press "promotion push" budget .... there are so many local people that don't even realise we are in with a chance of going up ...

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That's why I've been trying to encourage people to share the match reports on social networking sites like Facebook.

Now we are pushing for promotion and breaking records, we should be encouraging friends and family who have businesses to advertise with WUFC though shirt/ball/match sponsorship and/or advertising hoardings. The shirt sponsorship at £70 is a bargain! To have your company name advertised in every matchday programme and on the website for the rest of the season and get a signed shirt, which wouldn't look bad on the wall of the office/shop as it would show links with the local football club. If we shifted the remaining 18 shirt sponsorships, that alone would raise £1260. Surely there must be 18 supporters with £70 to spare.

Also why don't we do another raffle? The Christmas one seemed to do well.

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I agree Chelwing. I know full well what the answer is, but what the answer is and what it should be, are different things.

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 I know you know Kevin. It was just the notion that we would have proper financial management in place that made me chuckle. Of course we should but given they can not even produce a budget and tell us the extent of the debt, the idea of a contingency budget is funny. I doubt they know what it is.