Trust News

The Fred Keenor Statue Fundraising Committee has organised with Cardiff City Football Club tours of the stadium including all the fascinating behind-the-scenes locations that the ordinary fan never sees such as the state-of-the-art changing rooms and the laundry packed with shirts from players old and new.

The tours will take place on Sunday afternoon, November 14th and we have just 19 tickets available for tours at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm.

Tickets for the tours cost £5 per person and all proceeds go to the Fred Keenor Statue Appeal.

If you want to take a look behind the scenes and help the Keenor appeal email fundraising@ccfctrust.org. Tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis.

Unfortunately, due to the very limited number of tickets we are unable to offer concessions for younger fans or senior citizens.

Landlord Peter Warry is hoping a race night at the Ninian Park pub in Cardiff will see the Fred Keenor Statue Fund ride away with a tidy sum.

Peter, a Bluebirds fan who took over the pub – popular with City fans –just six weeks ago, has organised the event on Friday, November 26^th (7.30pm).

Peter said: “As the pub is the closest to both the old ground and new stadium, I thought a race night would be a great way of raising money for the Keenor statue appeal which I support.

“I’ve been to race nights before and they are great fun and all profits from the event will go to the appeal fund.”

Races from the past are beamed onto a big screen and then punters can bet on one or more of the eight horses taking part. They can even buy one of the horses in the race.

The Ninian Park pub hosted members of The Stand before the Norwich game as part of the promotion of the I’ll Be There single launched in aid of the appeal.

Fund Press Officer Phillip Nifield said: “It should be a great night. Fans can have a gamble, perhaps win some cash but more importantly help raise funds for the statue appeal. We’re very grateful to Peter for putting on this event.”

Donations to the appeal fund can be made through the Co-operative Bank:

Account name: –   Fred Keenor Statue Fund or FKSF

Account no    65392368

Sort Code     08-92-99

Cheques can also be sent c/o CCST to PO Box 4254, Cardiff, CF14 8FD. Please add the words “Fred Keenor Appeal” on the top of the envelope.

The Trust is holding a recruitment drive on Saturday November 20th, the day City play Nottingham Forest at home.

With so many more people attending City games these days, we want to sign up as many City fans as possible to be members of the Trust. We’ve simplified the membership scheme and produced a new Trust publicity leaflet to help us do this.

We need as many people as possible to give out leaflets on November 20th. All you have to do is arrive at the ground by 1.15 for a quick briefing session and then spend an hour handing out leaflets to fans arriving for the game. Nothing more difficult than that but the more people we have doing it, the more successful we will be.

If you can spare the time that day, we’d really appreciate your help. Please let us know if you can help by emailing us at members@ccfctrust.org.

Please help us grow the Trust. The more members we have, the louder our voice and the greater our influence on behalf of City fans. Please help if you possibly can.

Thank you
Tracey

This is Matthew Bullock’s report after completing the Toronto Marathon
 
Having signed up to do the Toronto marathon I was looking for a charity to raise money for and being a Supporters’ Trust member. I thought why not help with the Fred Keenor Statue Fund seeing as I very much believed in and supported the project?
 
Having spent a few days in the wonderful city seeing the sights, I took my place at the start line on the October 17th and ran the full 26.2 miles in 3 hours 40 minutes.
 
Now I would of been disappointed with that time beforehand as it was longer than when I had previously run marathons but considering how difficult the course was it was a pleasing time, and considering the cramps I suffered in my legs, ouch!!!! 
 

Mind you considering Fred Keenor got shrapnel wounds in his legs during World War 1 and carried on playing I had nothing to moan about.
 
Now I have to do the hard part of it all and that’s get money off people and an early estimate is that I have raised around the £300 mark. May I thank the Supporters’ Trust for being so co-operative, family and friends for helping me raise money, Cardiff City Supporters Club for their kind donation and Daniel Sturt for accompanying me on the trip and being my official photographer haha!

Thanks for all your fantastic efforts Matthew – we hope the feet have recovered from pounding the streets of Toronto.