MEMBERS REWARD CARD
2nd July 2008
Your Trust committee was busy stuffing envelopes last night for our latest members mailshot. As well as your usual colour newsletter and fixture card, you'll also receive your long over due members reward card!

 It will entitle you to money off merchandise and Trust events and you will soon be able to use it in various shops in Berwick and receieve a discount.

NEW TRUST LOTTERY
27th June 2008
This season sees the launch of our new lottery. The lottery is based around the existing ‘The Weather Lottery’, which has been established for more than 10 years and has helped organisations and charities raise over £7m to date.

As well as the chance to win some serious cash, you are helping to raise funds for the Supporters Trust, with every 36p in the pound going in to Trust coffers.

Click here to enter the lottery!
HALL OF FAME UPDATE
26th June 2008
As you may recall we have again been running our annual voting for this years induction into the Hall of Fame. As last year, many of you have submitted your choices and to date we have three clear leaders.

Voting will remain open until the end of the month, and will close next Monday at midnight. So basically the message is, if you haven’t sent in your votes yet you have a few days left.
Last year, in the first year of voting, our members voted in the first eleven Berwick players, some past, some present, and this year we will add the next three who poll the most votes.

Don’t miss the boat, this initiative is unique to our Trust and reflects the memberships views on our favourite players.
The results will be posted on this site next week.
TRUST CHAIRMAN SCOOPS LOCAL AWARD
19th June 2008
Last Thursday, at the inaugural Berwick Advertiser Achievement Awards dinner held in the Marshall Meadows Hotel on the outskirts of the town Trust Chairman John Bell was presented with the prestigious Community Award.

John received his award from Mayor Hazel Bettison, an award I’m sure he’ll be glad to show you if you ask nicely! Apart from our own  John fills many other roles in the local community, however he is probably best known for his work in setting up and running the Berwick Youth Project. He is also credited with raising over £4m, yes four million, in funding which has directly benefited the Berwick community.

Vice-chairman Colin Pike commented “I think we tend to forget the quality of the man sometimes” He continued “Its important that the role of chairman of any organisation is filled by someone held in high regard in the community, something that this award ably demonstrates”

In a way we can all enjoy a small piece of John’s reflected glory being members of this organisation, however its always gratifying to actually have it recognised in the town.

Well done John...
END OF SEASON RAFFLE WINNERS
17th June 2008
Berwick Rangers Supporters Trust chairman John Bell reported on another succesful year at the Trust’s 4th Annual Meeting, held in The Bonarsteads on Saturday.

Highlights of the Trust’s achievements during the previous 12 months included the publication of the “Mission Impossible” book celebrating last year’s successful promotion campaign, and a further increase in Trust membership to 204, which represents more than 50% of Berwick Rangers’ core home support.

Rangers’ manager Michael Renwick attended the meeting and spoke about his teambuilding plans for the new season, which will be largely dependent on the financial resources made available by the board, although the manager is committed to returning his side to the Second Division at the first time of asking. Michael Renwick impressed the meeting with his attitude and commitment, and it is to be hoped that he receives the necessary support for his future plans at the club.

Supporters Trust members endorsed proposals for their organisations’ 2008/09 budget, with sums ring-fenced for helping with physical improvements that will benefit supporters, continued support for youth and community development, and a general purpose fund to support schemes put forward by Trust members.

The Trust are also looking at a series of new fundraising schemes and these will be reported to the Trust membership in the near future. In the meantime, the Trust is supporting forthcoming testimonials for long-serving Rangers legends Grant McNicoll and Gary O’Connor.

Finally, the Supporters Trust board welcomes a further two new members in David Spence and Ian Gregory, and looks foward to them helping build on last year’s achievements. This is in addition to Cameron Waterhouse, who joined in February.
END OF SEASON RAFFLE WINNERS
28th April 2008
The draw for the end of season raffle was made a week past Saturday, these are the winners:
  • Fuji Digital Camera – Elaine Turnbull, Musselburgh
  • I Pod Nano – Ronald Kirk, Duns
  • Phillips DVD player – D Lambert, c/o Jusrol
  • £50 cash – Betty Dickson, Edinburgh
  • £10 Foxtons voucher – S Cummings, Musselburgh
  • Copy of Mission Impossible – James L
  • Copy of Mission Impossible – A Smith, Swinton
  • Bottle of McAllan whisky - Jane Pannell c/o Council
  • Trust Polo shirt – Justine Craig c/o Labour Ward
  • Sunday lunch at Pilot – Ian Scobie, 109 Newfields
  • Beer glass and trinkets – Matthew McLean, Middlesex
  • Hip Flask – C Wells c/o Jusrol
  • Picture Frame – W Purvis, Swinton
  • Bottle of Jack Daniels – R Robertson Swinton
  • Bottle of Champagne – Keith S
  • Bottle – Tia Maria – Scott Laird, Edinburgh
  • Bottle Cabernet Sauvignon – Gordon Robertson
  • Bottle – Rose wine – M Thompson
  • Bottle – White wine – Marie Wallace, Edinburgh
  • Bottle – Red wine – Chris Hall, Cramlington
END OF SEASON RAFFLE
31st March 2008
Berwick Rangers Supporters Trust chairman John Bell reported on another succesful year at the Trust's 4th Annual Meeting, held in The Bonarsteads on Saturday. The Trust board also welcomes two new members in David Spence and Ian Gregory, and looks foward to them helping build on last year's achievements. Click here for more details of our AGM.
MORE ON OUR DOUBLE CENTURY
26th March 2008
Berwick Rangers Supporters Trust continues to go from strength to strength and recently signed up its 200th member.This is a significant milestone and means that the Trust membership now makes up more than half Rangers current average home support.

Rangers supporter Gemma Law became the Trust's "double centurion" and was presented with a signed shirt with "Member 200" emblazoned on the back by Trust board members Cameron Waterhouse and Derek Purvis before the recent home game against Ross County .The Trust will also be treating Gemma to a VIP day out at the forthcoming home match against Queens Park as part of her prize for winning the Trust's "Target 200" campaign.

Long-time fan Gemma said: "I'm absolutely delighted to have become the Trust's 200th member.I think the fact that so many supporters are joining up shows that they believe that the Trust is doing a very good job in representing their views."

Trust membership has increased to 205 since Gemma signed up,and the Trust board will be setting a new target of 250 members.

Trust members are invited to attend the Trust's AGM,which will be held at The Bonarsteads public house in Tweedmouth at 12 noon on Saturday,29th March,prior to the home match against Peterhead.Rangers manager Michael Renwick has been invited to attend and there will also be a speaker from the Supporters Direct organisation which supports the Trust movement on behalf of the government.
EASY SEARCH FUNDRAISING
8th March 2008
As you will have noticed, we have added a new search tool to our homepage. It works much like Google or Yahoo!, the only difference being that with every search made, 1p is donated to Trust funds! To put this in to real terms, if every visitor to the website made it their home page and used it ten times a day, we would raise nearly £8,000 a year! Please use it as much as you can and help us raise some extra funds.

NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTION
5th March 2008
We have received all the nominations for election. A total of 12 people have put themselves forward: David Cook, Paul Smith, John Bell, Karen Thorburn, Bill Purvis, Cameron Waterhouse, Ronald Kirk, George Thompson, Derek Purvis, Bill Purvis, Gordon Dickson and Steven Scott.

Unfortunately we have not had any new nominations for the society board, although we will be inviting people to put themselves up for election on the day of the A.G.M.

Details of the AGM are here.

We are losing our one of our committee members, Eddie McCall does not intend to stand for re-election. Eddie wrote an open letter to secretary Karen Thorburn to explain his reasons:

Dear Karen

I refer to our discussion earlier this week and write to confirm my decision not to stand for re-election to the Trust board at the forthcoming A.G.M.

I do this with some regrets, as I have enjoyed the experience and hold all of the Trust board members in high regard. However, I wish to stand down, hopefully to leave a vacancy for a younger person with fresh, bright ideas to help move the Trust forward. Overall I feel I have not contributed a great deal, other than in very minor ways.

I wish to emphasise however, that I am NOT resigning, but simply not standing for re-election. I do intend to remain a member of the Trust.

Please make members aware of this letter on 4th March and assure everyone that there are no reasons for my decision, other than mentioned.

Yours Sincerely
Edward McCall

We would like to thank Edward for his kind letter and the work he has carried out since 2004.

If you wish to stand for election on the day of the AGM, please get in touch with us in advance of 29th March.

END OF SEASON RAFFLE
3rd March 2008
All members should now have a book of raffle tickets to sell, which were sent out with the A.G.M. papers. If you require any more books, please email us and we'll post them out. These are just some of the prizes you can win:
• Fuji Digital Camera
• iPod Nano
• Philips DVD Player
• £50 Cash
• £10 Foxtons Voucher
• Bottle of White Wine
• Bottle of Red Wine
• 2 Copies of Mission Impossible
• Bottle of McAllan Malt
• Bottle of Single Malt
• Trust Polo Shirt
• Sunday Lunch for 2 at The Pilot Inn
• BRFC Beer Glass
Plus various other prizes.

Raffle counterfoils and cash are to be handed in to the Club Shop at Shielfield Park or Berwick Youth Project in the town centre.

TRUST FUNDRAISING
22nd February 2008
We are in to our second year of using fundraising website EasyFundraising after a successful first year. We raised over £100 from commissions paid to us by various companies, after many of you clicked-through to by goods and services, from our own homepage. Thank you to everyone who has supported this fundraising idea so far, hopefully many more of you will use it in the future.

The stats on the EasyFundraising website report that if every user of the Trust website used our homepage click-through to do their shopping online, they would raise £30 per year on average. We currently have around 300 unique visitors to the website each week, so if everyone went through us to do their online shopping we would raise in the region of £9000 per year!

Obviously this is a very ambitious target, but we would like to think that the next time you are buying something online you will remember how much can be raised if you use our click-through.

SUPPORTERS DIRECT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
21st February 2008
We have recently receieved some information from SD about their annual conference:

Hi all,
As many of you will know Supporters Direct in Scotland is currently trying to secure funding for the next three years. As part of the process I'd like to ensure that as many political and footballing people know about SD and supporters' trusts, and of course the work we do and the successes of the movement.

If anyone has specific contact with people who are politically
active, whether at national or local level, or involved in football
administration either at club or national level then I would really
appreciate hearing from them so we can pass on our information.

As usual I can be contacted by the following methods:
Email: james.proctor@supporters-direct.org
Tel: 0141 353 1719
Mob: 07983 627 945
GRANT McNICOLL
7th February 2008
Details of Grant McNicoll's testimonial have been released. The match against a Hearts Legends team will take play at Shielfield Park on Sunday 6th April at 2.30pm. Grant will assemble a decent Berwick team to face an all star Jambos side which will include big names from the past. Grant deserves all the support we can give him so try and get along if you can. Adults £7, concessions £3. More Details
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
24th January 2008
The sales of 'Mission Impossible' have been steady in the 6 weeks it has been on sale, with hundereds being sold to fans all over the world. There are still copies left so if you haven't got yours yet, why not pop along to one of the many stockists this weekend or order yours via post. For full details of how to order yours, click on the 'more' button below!
LOOKING FORWARD TO 2008
8th January 2008
With the New Year well under way, Vice-Chairman Colin Pike has a look back at our achievements in 2007 and also looks forward to 2008. Last year was one of our most successful years as a Trust, with membership on the up. Our major project in 2007 was the publication of 'Mission Impossible', which is selling well in shops in the town. Read on...
 
News Archive: 2007