| The Dale Cooperative 12:09 - Jan 4 with 2648 views | SteTsGoldenBoot |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Society_of_Equitable_Pioneers
As happened in our town over 175 years ago, is this now what our beloved club needs? A group of like minded people to buy then donate a small amount of shares or their share holding into one pot to create ‘The Dale Cooperative?
We have a vast amount of expertise in our fanbase and a willingness to help improve our clubs finances and between us we need to figure out a way to make this happen. I’d see this as a fund raising arm of the football club, to assist the club where possible, but to also be able to step in should the worst happen.
I would hope that the Cooperative could work with the BoD and Dale Trust for the benefit of the club, but also to gain enough shares to help to protect our club, then to have a bigger say in the future of our club. The Trust do wonderful things, but I feel that we now need something more to help them save our club.
Also on a separate thread I saw how it was suggested that opening the club less may help, my personal opinion is that we need to do the exact opposite, we need the clubs various facilities to be utilised everyday. We do however need to reduce our staff costs, maybe the cooperative would take over the club shop/lotteries and refreshment kiosks.
My final thought which would perhaps help us recreate the successful Stockport model of getting people into the ground (fill the Wilbutts), is linked to some kind fans offering to pay more for a season ticket, would the club consider offering a community season for say £25/50 where fans could buy one of these and they would pay for free tickets for the community/school kids/local teams etc?
I’m sure the more articulate of you and those with more business acumen could expand on these thoughts/ideas, I just think we need to try something and would happily do what I can to help.
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| The Dale Cooperative on 13:01 - Jan 4 with 2512 views | D_Alien |
I'm not sure having three separate bodies, i.e. the club, the Trust and the Co-op, would work
if the Trust were to become the Co-op, with the wider remit you've outlined, now that might just be the start of something... |  |
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| The Dale Cooperative on 13:59 - Jan 4 with 2429 views | D_Alien |
Co-op Trust membership via either:
1. £50 every other month
2. Voluntary work/time input
3. Combo of both
3. Other options?
Let's start to use our imaginations, because there's absolutely nothing coming out of the club. Just as with the original Co-op, some kind of reward scheme too
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| The Dale Cooperative on 15:44 - Jan 4 with 2255 views | 49thseason |
| The Dale Cooperative on 13:59 - Jan 4 by D_Alien |
Co-op Trust membership via either:
1. £50 every other month
2. Voluntary work/time input
3. Combo of both
3. Other options?
Let's start to use our imaginations, because there's absolutely nothing coming out of the club. Just as with the original Co-op, some kind of reward scheme too
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3 entities doing similar things is not the way forwards, The Trust has to find a way to do the things that the Club cannot or will not. Whilst the current emphasis from the Trust seems to be around the fund to put money into the playing staff, there needs to be a similar effort to simply become the trading arm of the club, developing new fund raising activites, re-invigorating old ones, creating new partnerships with businesses around town and so on.
I sort of think the slash and burn is almost too late and should have been done over the summer so that there would have been more flexibility in the budget to change tack once the season started and our new circumstances became clearer. Yes we should be maximising the use of the facilities at the club, but given the overhead cost of electricity and the like, battening down the hatches would have been prudent and still could be appropriate for a few months at least. |  | | |
| The Dale Cooperative on 15:58 - Jan 4 with 2221 views | pioneer |
| The Dale Cooperative on 13:59 - Jan 4 by D_Alien |
Co-op Trust membership via either:
1. £50 every other month
2. Voluntary work/time input
3. Combo of both
3. Other options?
Let's start to use our imaginations, because there's absolutely nothing coming out of the club. Just as with the original Co-op, some kind of reward scheme too
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Hornets went the Co-operative route. It proved to be unsustainable. I am not saying that would necessarily be the case for a Dale co-operative but if we were serious about adopting a co-operative model it might be worth tapping into the experiences of those involved at the time at Hornets.
I seem to recall one problem was finding serious investment….hard to find in a ‘one member one vote’ model although Paul Taylor did stick some money in. For example would SG with his current shareholding be happy with having the same influence on club direction as me with my handful of shares.I dont think I would be if the situation was reversed. |  | | |
| The Dale Cooperative on 16:00 - Jan 4 with 2210 views | judd |
| The Dale Cooperative on 13:59 - Jan 4 by D_Alien |
Co-op Trust membership via either:
1. £50 every other month
2. Voluntary work/time input
3. Combo of both
3. Other options?
Let's start to use our imaginations, because there's absolutely nothing coming out of the club. Just as with the original Co-op, some kind of reward scheme too
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Divvies? |  |
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| The Dale Cooperative on 16:43 - Jan 4 with 2135 views | D_Alien |
| The Dale Cooperative on 16:00 - Jan 4 by judd |
Divvies? |
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| The Dale Cooperative on 18:55 - Jan 4 with 1960 views | blackdogblue |
Cough up for a membership card… stubborn as I am not paying a quid…. |  |
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