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Posted on 12th June 2020
Bury AFC have taken the next step along the road to ensuring there is a football club in the town next season by electing the Shakers Community Board this week.
Bury AFC have applied for entry into the North West Counties League, which is the tenth tier of the English football league system, after the original Bury FC were expelled from the EFL last year.
The club are to be 100 percent fan-owned, run by the Shakers Community Trust, a community benefit society set up with the assistance of the FSA. Electing the board to oversee the process of setting up the club is an important milestone for those involved.
The elections were conducted with the help of Neil le Milliere of the Exeter City Supporters Trust, and in total 12 people stood for the nine vacancies on the trust’s board.
The new phoenix club, Bury AFC, set up following the expulsion of Bury Football Club back in August 2019, will start their life as a member of the North West Counties League Division One North on Saturday 3rd October with a game against Steeton at their new home sharing with Radcliffe FC. Richard Irving spoke to Phil Young, chair of the supporters’ trust at the community owned club, about the challenges that the club has faced since its set-up in March of this year.
AFC Wimbledon confirmed this week that they have hit their target for financing their new stadium.
Barrow AFC supporters have provided vital funds for the Cumbrian club, raising more than £65,000 six weeks ahead of their May deadline.
Earlier this summer, the ‘My Club, My Shirt’ photography initiative reached its second club – as AFC Wimbledon fans were captured by photographer Chris Floyd.
