Posted on 11th January 2019
The next meeting of the EFL Network will take place on 19th September in London, and one of the items on the agenda will be the group’s representatation on the FSA National Council.
Posted on 11th January 2019
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Alongside Supporters Direct we’ll be holding the inaugural ‘National Game Network’ meeting on January 20th 2019 at the Mechanics Institute Conference Centre in Manchester.
The meeting will bring together supporters and supporter groups at clubs who do not play in the English professional game. This network includes members from Wales as we believe that they will have much to contribute to our discussions.
Supporters Direct and the FSF have recently merged to form a unified national supporters’ organisation. The structure of the new organisation allows for the creation of networks of members with a common bond and some shared interests and issues.
The National Council has been elected with fan representatives from the new non-league network sitting alongside reps from the networks at Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two. Plus, members elected to represent community-owned clubs, individual members, and those groups from the Fans for Diversity campaign.
Two vacancies remain for National Game representatives on the National Council. At the network meeting on Sunday 20th January we will discuss the organisation of a by-election to fill the two remaining National Game representative places.
The meeting will also give members of the National Game Network an opportunity to determine our future priorities and campaigning initiatives as well as contribute agenda items and discussion points for our upcoming ‘structured dialogue’ meeting with The National League, provisionally scheduled for February.
The full meeting agenda is as follows;
We will shortly circulate brief written supplementary reports from staff on our work to date covering casework, structured dialogue and campaigning.
We want as many people to attend as possible but for those who may not be able to attend in person, we will make provision to join the meeting by either conference call or video link.
If you have any questions then please contact national game development officer Andy Walsh, [email protected] or Supporters Direct network manager Nicola Hudson, [email protected]
Thanks to James Boyes for the image used in this article. Reproduced here under Creative Commons license.
The next meeting of the EFL Network will take place on 19th September in London, and one of the items on the agenda will be the group’s representatation on the FSA National Council.
Following the meeting of the National Game Network which took place in London on 7th March, the minutes from the discussion are available to download now.
A number of spaces are coming up on the Fans for Diversity campaign’s Guidance Group, and we are welcoming applications from fans who think they have something to offer to the campaign in 2020.
As it’s International Women’s Day we thought it a good time to speak to some of the women on our National Council – Ally Simcock, Kristine Green, and Sarah Stelling – in a special extended feature. We wanted hear about how they got into football, football activism, and whether they’d ever been treated differently at the match…