Trust News

The Trust Annual General Meeting will take place at the Three Arches Public House, Heathwood Road, Cardiff, next Thursday (July 14th).

Doors open at 7.00 pm for registration for a 7.30 start. There is a car park at the rear of the pub and there is also on-street parking. Access to the function room, where the meeting will be held, is frpm the rear of the pub from the car park.

This is the first AGM since the onset of the pandemic so the meeting will consider the chair’s report on activities since the last AGM in 2019, accounts up to  December 31st, 2021 and the new Financial Conduct Authority (FAA) registration.

Immediately following the formal part of the meeting we will be joined by BBC Wales Sports journalist Chris Wathan and a colleague for a discussion of the club’s prospects for the upcoming season.

Thanks so much to BBC Wales’ football commentator Rob Phillips and Bluebirds legend Jason Perry for attending a Trust-organised fans’ forum in Cardiff tonight.

The talk centred around the upcoming season, how the team would go with most player discussion about Rubin Colwill – will he get more game time, can he push on and whether Wales manager Robert Page will take him to Qatar?

View with such a larger turnover of players and a change of playing style was that it is likely to be a season of transition as things go.

Trust chair Keith Morgan is pictured left with Rob and Jason

The Trust is delighted to confirm details of our fans’ forum with Bluebirds legend Jason Perry and BBC Wales soccer commentator, Rob Phillips.

After a gap of three years, the boys are back and looking forward to giving their views on all things Cardiff City.

The free event will be held on Thursday, June 16th, starting at 8pm with doors open at the Llandaff  Institute in High Street, Llandaff, Cardiff, from 7.30pm.

Trust Chair Keith Morgan said: “Members have really missed the annual fans’ roadshow so we’re delighted that Jason and Rob are once again fronting the event.

“This is a crucial time in the history of Cardiff City with finances really tight for the first time in many a year.  It will be fascinating to hear from Jason and Rob about how they think the Bluebirds will do in The Championship next season after a very tough 2021-22 campaign.

“Members will also want to know what they make of the signings so far and which players they think will stand out in 2022-23. Also, it will be interesting to hear from Jason and Rob about whether they feel the club’s directors need to engage more with fans and spell out to supporters their vision for Cardiff City going forward.”

Non-members are welcome at the roadshow where they can sign up for the Trust at the same time. It costs just £12 a year. Children’s membership is free.

Keith Morgan, Trust Chair

We are pleased to announce that our registration as a formal community society was confirmed this week by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Chairman Keith Morgan said: “We are pleased to announce that our registration as a formal Community Benefit Society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was completed on May 18, 2022, under the name The Bluebirds Supporters Society Limited (our trading name of Cardiff City Supporters Trust will remain the same).

“This is welcome news and represents the next stage in the development of the Trust going forward. For the sake of clarity, it should be stressed that the Football Supporters Association (FSA) has always recognised CCST as a bona fide supporters’ organisation and full members of FSA and its predecessor organisation meeting all of its membership criteria.

“Indeed, we have received thanks for our work contributing to national issues related to football, including the recent Fans Led Review of football which formed part of the recent Queen’s Speech in Parliament.”

At the Trust’s annual general meeting next month, members will be asked to vote to transfer over to the new legal structure.

Nicola Cave of the FSA said: “The Football Supporters Association are delighted that Cardiff City FC supporters have taken this step towards a registered democratic society, to further strengthen their voices and complement their existing community projects. We look forward to continuing to support them and their members.”

Keith Morgan, Trust Chair

Keith Morgan, chair of Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust, responding to the statement from Cardiff City said “We are very disappointed at the response from the club. We will not flinch from asking sometimes difficult but pertinent questions about the club we love and support.

“To suggest we are a group of self-serving individuals is not only insulting but patently wrong. Many of our board members have been fans of the club for more 50 years and we will continue to support our club long after the current directors have departed.

“Of course, we back supporter representation on the club’s board with a representative democratically elected. That is something recommended by the UK Government’s Fans’-led Review which will be implemented over the next few years. It was made perfectly clear in the review that clubs should no longer pay lip service to its supporters.

“The Trust is proud to have organised the fundraising for the iconic Fred Keenor Statue, surely an example of our love for the club, along with raising thousands of pounds for charity and in recent times organised two foodbank collections, with support from club staff, to help those in food poverty.

“We are always open for dialogue – something we have been crying out for – and we hope the powers that be will engage as we’ve been trying to do so for many months.

This has to be about the future of the club and its relationship with the people that matter most, the fans of this great club.

“The Trust was asked by the club – which we were happy to do –to handle the money donated from the Ukraine collections at the Cardiff City Stadium. The Trust has been liaising with local representatives of Ukrainian charities to target the funds collected at specific initiatives. It begs the question why the club then doesn’t consider us to be a ‘proper’ fans’ group?

“We can also confirm that we have continued to be recognised as a group by Football Supporters’ Association ever since we ceased to be a formal Mutual Society and that we are in the final stages of registration with the Financial Conduct Authority as a formal Community Society. The comment of not meeting the “minimum standards” of FSA membership is therefore just simply untrue.”