Achievements

Written by Administrator Thursday, 07 May 2009 20:42

• Reduced membership fee from £20 p.a. to £10 p.a. and introduced Junior membership
  
  
• Introduced a new style innovative membership pack and personalised membership cards
  
  
• Gave each member their personalised share certificate in the Society
  
  
• Offer car park facility to members and non-members
  
  
• Introduced a match day lounge facility which offers free food and has proved to be very popular
  
  
• Introduced a cheap away coach facility for those wishing to travel to away matches
  
  
• Increased membership from 387 almost 3 fold in just 2 years
  
  
• Offered 100% cashback on memberships to local football clubs to assist their kit purchase
  
  
• Introduced a bi-annual programme of member surveys to ensure members can have their say
  
  
• Acted upon the democratic wishes of the membership through the surveys and ballot (shares)
  
  
• Published our Board Minutes to give access to the Board room to all members
  
  
• Introduced bi-monthly newsletters for members and subsequently distributed to non-member fans
  
  
• Instigated a match day presence through our Wednesdayite portable office facility
  
  
• Introduced a fundraising structure with our 4 good cause funds which give freedom of choice to members
  
  
• Introduced a number of innovative fundraising initiatives such as tin cans, recycling, e-lottery and our shopping site
  
  
• Increased our direct shareholding in SWFC plc from 9.46% to the important milestone of 10.07%
  
  
• Proposed resolutions on behalf of the membership at the SWFC plc AGM
  
  
• Represented the Society’s shareholding at all SWFC plc AGM’s and EGM’s in terms of questions to try to gain information for members and to express our point of view
  
  
• Reduced fixed costs and made sure all staff are voluntary so that more more funds can be directed to community and club needs
  
  
• Turned a £14000 loss into a £1000 profit in Wednesdayite’s first year of operation.
  
  
• Turned a £1000 profit into a £38000 profit last year
  
  
• Offered £2500 to be SWFC Academy Patrons
  
  
• Offered £10,000 for a loan striker to help the club
  
  
• Offered £500 towards the KOP Toilet development with the prospect of more funding
  
  
• Proposed a number of commercial ideas to SWFC
  
  
• Promoted SWFC’s Foundation Scheme to members through a free membership incentive
  
  
• Donated £1000 to the SWFC Academy
  
  
• Offered £630.42 to the SWFC Academy
  
  
• Donated £300 to SWFC plc towards the additional costs for our AGM resolutions
  
  
• Donated £250 to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital
  
  
• Donated £250 to SWFC Ladies Football team
  
  
• Donated £50 to Owls Against Racism
  
  
• Offered £50 to SODA
  
  
• Donated £50 to Wise Old Owls
  
  
• Donated £50 to Chapeltown Junior Football team
  
  
• Donated £181.29 to Hospital Radio
  
  
• Donated £750 to the Owls Trust Allstars
  
  
• Donated £50 to Community Spirit (Meynell School)
  
  
• Donated £525 to the Owls Trust Allstars junior teams to cover cost of coaching courses
  
  
• Donated £774 to Macmillan Cancer Care
  
  
• Donated £298 to Smile Tickets
  
  
• Donated t-shirts for a children’s AIDS centre in Kenya
  
  
• Organised for 58 children to attend a Kids for a Quid match
  
  
• Launched the Smile Tickets initiative which has treated dozens of adults and youngsters to matches whilst purchasing tickets at full retail price to generate funds for SWFC
  
  
• Smile has now been adopted by other trusts and Supporters Direct have asked us to package it for all trusts to adopt nationwide
  
  
• Launched our Primary Schools Coaching Scheme to provide free curriculum time coaching to local primary and special needs schools
  
  
• To the end of the 2006/7 season, Malin Bridge, High Green, Bradfield Dungworth, Ecclesfield, Grenoside and Rivelin have benefited from our Coaching Scheme and Nook Lane and Loxley will conclude the current school year
  
  
• Altogether, by the end of the current school year, some 1600 children will have received Wednesdayite coaching and some 4800 individual coaching sessions will have been delivered to promote the Wednesday brand where it might not otherwise have been proliferated
  
  
• Successfully applied for grant funding from the United Co-operative Society to double our activity in our Primary Schools Coaching Scheme to enable over 5000 local children to receive our coaching (and over 15000 individual coaching sessions) in the next school year
  
  
• Offered the replace the £5 SWFC superstore merchandise voucher to all U18 season ticket holders as part of a Junior Membership initiative (June 07)
  
  
• Introduced a new website, with all Sheffield Wednesday news and Wednesdayite Headlines in one place, including new web features such as RSS feeds, events calendar and more.
  
  
• Introduced affordable non-matchday entertainment, including the popular Stand Up comedy night, 'You're Having a Laugh!'
  
  
• Successfully applied for grant funding from Co-Operative Group, United Region, to continue the Primary Schoools Coaching Scheme - which has now coached over 8,000 local schoolchildren at over 20 schools