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NEWSL E T TE R

Le e ds U nite d Su p p o r te rs’ Tru st

WELCOME TO OUR REGUL AR NEWSLET TER

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New Board Members

Meet the new people working on your behalf to provide Leeds United Supporters’ Trust Members a voice.

We lcom e t o th e first L e e d s Uni te d S u ppor t er s’ Tru st ne wslette r. As a valued member of the Trust we’d like to keep you up to date with what’s going on in the background as we work to ensure your voice is being channelled into the collective voice that the club needs to listen to. We’ll cover any changes in those representing you

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The Trustcast is back

Just when you thought it was safe to delete your podcasting app of choice The Trust podcast is back.

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Leeds Sports Awards

on the Trust Board as well as sharing initiatives

A night celebrating the great sporting

the Trust are currently working on and how you can

achievements of the city.

get involved in helping, should you wish.

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2018 : A NEW YEAR : A N EW BOARD A fte r a t ransi t i onal p e r io d for t he t rust , w e ’r e final l y pl eased t o in tr o duce t hree n e w b o ard members. Your existing board:

Steve White Chairman

As the entirely independent Trust returns once again to a phase with no board crosso ver with other fans groups such as LFU and LUSC, we are joined on the current elect ed board of Steve White (chairman), Rob

Rob Endeacott Vice-Chairman

Endeacott (Vice Chairman) Chris Hunter (Membership Secretary) and Adam Willerton (Digital and Social Media) by two new coopted members. Graham Hyde and Stuart Barnett. Graham takes up the important role

Chris Hunter

Membership Secretary

of treasurer, and Stuart will be picking up our successful podcast and building on the great work started by Gary Devonport. Also joining us is Clair Hufton. Clair is join ing us to assist with secretarial and admin

Adam Willerton

Digital & Social Media

duties. We’re in the process of updating the web site; full bios will be posted shortly. Please give them all a warm welcome! .

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We asked the new board members to tell us about thier favouite game as a Leeds fan

C H C lair Hufto n

G H Gr a h a m H y d e .

SB Stu a r t Ba r net t

I was privileged to attend

Favourite game was the 1-0

My

nearly

victory over AC Milan when

beating Derby 4-3 at home.

League away games in the

Bowyer scored late on.

3-0 down at half time but the

O’Leary days, so has to be

An awful night weather wise

second half was something

AC Milan away, and Dom

but such a memorable

else, and the sheer noise

Matteo’s famous goal. Many

result

sing about it but not many

names that will never be

and

can say they we’re there to

forgotten in football.

go in from Bowyer, the Kop

all

of

Champions

against

a

team

of

Favourite

game

was

helped the team go forward seeing

that

4th

goal

witness it. Gary Kelly lead -

went mad. I couldn’t speak

ing with “Let’s go F*****g

for days after that game.

mental” – awesome.

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T RUSTCAST IS DEAD LON G L IVE T HE TRUSTCAST Over t he c o u rse o f th e p rev i o u s 1 2 m o n th s o r s o Ga r y D e v o n p ort h elped t he Tru st to rea ch o u t to 1 0 0 0 ’s o f m e m b e r s a n d p o te n t ial fu t ur e m emb e rs with th e Tru s tc a s t. After having freely given hours and hours of his time in planning, recording, editing and pro moting the Trustcasts, he quite understandably decided to take a back seat and spend some well deserved time with his nearest and dearest. So the Trustcast was no more....but wait Stuart (Barney) has taken on the mantle to help ressurect the Trustcast and take it in new directions as well as offering the same blend of, trust news, opinion on Leeds United’s on going fortunes and interesting guests.

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“Why didn’t the club just get Liam Cooper to draw the badge? - Maybe he’d be better at that than defending?” T h e r e ’s lo t s m o r e t o c o m e in f u t u r e e p is o d e s a s we ’ll h a ve g u e s t s t a lk in g a b o u t t h e ir s to r i e s wit h L e e d s Un it e d .

Episode 1 - By He c k available now on via http://bit.ly/2 HbjoE S

Here’s the latest edition of our popular trust cast, we’ve got a fair bit to talk about since our last one, even though we can’t get the ex-managers name right!.

Up d a t e s f r o m t h e wo r k t h at th e Tr u s t is d o in g a s we ll a s m o r e t h o u g h t s a n d o p in io n s a b o u t th e c lu b t h a t m a t t e r s t o y o u f ro m a g r o u p o f f a n s wh o s e o p i n i o n s d o n ’t . Keep an eye out for the next e p is o d e a n d f e e l f r e e t o s u b scr i b e t o u s v ia y o u r f a v o u r it e p od ca st app.

In the first new episode since our return, Barney, Funky, Steve and Rob discuss a range of issues that have happened in the Leeds United world over recent weeks. Ranging from Badgegate to a managerial change via nostaligic throw backs to ‘A Pen for Ken’, four of your Trust Board offer up their thoughts on these and other Leeds United happenings. Light-hearted,

occasionally

disres pectful

but thankfully no longer than a typical sec ond half at El land Road when the referee is determined to give the oppostion time to score.

Fol l ow us on Tw i t t er @LUTr ust Cast

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TH E L EE D S S P ORT AWA RD S

Th e 1 5 th a n n u a l L e e d s Sp o r t s Aw a r d s w i l l b e h e l d o n Th u r s d a y 1 s t M a r c h 2 0 1 8 , c o m m e m o r a ti n g L e e d s ’ p r o u d s p o r ti n g h e r i ta g e . This milestone will celebrate both the suc cess of our athletes and the growth of the awards over the years and promises to be the most spectacular event yet! Returning to Leeds’ iconic first direct arena for a second year, the event will have the privilege of welcoming sportspersons of all levels and abilities, from Olympians to lo cal athletes, as well as their coaches, vol unteers, sponsors, dignitaries and more, to this vibrant celebration of sport. Every year the Leeds Sports Awards proves to be a highlight of Leeds’ sporting calen dar and the 2018 awards will be no different. The event welcomes back a range of indi viduals from all levels of sport. As you might expect Leeds United always receives good coverage on the evening as well as the likes of Josh Warrington, Leeds Rhinos, Brownlee Brothers etc who are usu ally in attendance.

Those Nominated in the Senior categories include:

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Congratulations to Sean Wheatley, a trust member that won our competition to win 2 tickets. .. This year the Trust has managed to negotiate a discounted ticket price for our trust members: Table price for our Trust Members is £400 plus Vat for a table of 10 (£480). This represents a significant saving on the standard price of £660 for a table of 10. Table bookings can be made direct through to [email protected] – quoting your trust membership number.

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WH AT T HE TRUST IS G OI NG TO BE UP TO

2 017 w as a yea r tha t d e liver e d s o m e g r e a t p r oject s on b e h a lf o f fa n s. We a r e a i m i n g to m ake 20 1 8 n o d ifferen t. Having secured the registra -

A new year and as previous -

tion of Elland Road as an

ly mentioned a new board

Asset of Community Value

has meant that projects are

and engaged fans in a pro -

now starting to line up for

ject to fun the magnificent

the year ahead. At this stage

Lowfields Raod Underpass

many are just fledglings that

Mural, the Trust made some

are at early stages of being

great statements of the work

explored and some are al -

it can do during 2017.

ready being discussed with the club.

Each newsletter we’ll seek to shed some light on the pro jects that we have on the go. With

the

coming we’ll

Centenary

up,

rest

year

assured

be making sure that

the fans

of Leeds United

are at the heart of the story being told. Without the hun dreds of thousands of fans who’ve

been

part

of

this

great club over the last 99 years, it would be nothing and we’ll be fighting to make sure thats not forgotten.

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Trust Membership & Renewals I s n ’ t i t a m a z i ng h o w ti me fl i e s?

If anybody has any further queries or

Last year, we launched a brand new website on

chr is.hunter @leedsunitedtr us t.c om

the 2nd April 2017.

questions please email CHRIS HUNTER



One of the great advantages of the new site was that members signing up via the site were able to receive automatic renewal reminders for their membership. So if you are one of the lucky members who took advantage of this technical wizardry when you joined up after this date, then when your mem -

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Leeds United Supporters’ Tr ust is a fully democratic society. The Trust is entirely independent from other fans groups including LUSC/LFU. We are a not-for-profit organisation, reg istered with the FCA. Upon joining the Trust, all shareholders own one share in the organisation, and will then have the right to vote on all Trust

bership expires it will

matters.

automatically renew for you.



However, if you are one of the lovely people who joined prior to 2nd April 2017, then you will receive an email shortly detailing how to

This includes both internal and external decisions, and actions we as a Trust will take collectively.



renew your trust membership for this year .

We will always strive to canvass the opin ion of as many members as possible be fore taking any decisions, or making any

Going forward you’ll then have auto renewal

statements,

for the future.

because

representing

our

members fairly and accurately, is at the very heart of what we do.

Don’t panic though if your membership has ex pired because of this. As we’re good people at the Trust we will honour it until you receive the email and have the opportunity to get yourself on track.

Please encourage your friends, family and fellow supporters to join up, more details on packages can be found here: http://bit.ly/2ogCPD

W O R D S F R O M THE CHAIR S TE V E WHITE TRUS T CHAIRMAN Its been a challenging few months for the Trust and I’m de lighted that the new team is in place to carry on from all the great work that’s been done before. I and the rest of the Trust Board want to keep listening to our members and doing what we can to make sure that your voices are being heard.