East Midlands Owls Become Wednesdayite Affiliate Member
21 July 2012East Mids Owls
The Sheffield Wednesday Supporters’ Society, Wednesdayite are delighted to announce their first link up with one of the Sheffield Wednesday community’s regional supporters’ groups which are based around the globe.
The East Midlands Owls have agreed to become an affiliate member of Wednesdayite by agreeing to link up with the society. EMO founder John Wozniak said “East Midlands Owls are delighted to become an affiliate member of Wednesdayite. Our community supporters’ group has the same aim as Wednesdayite, to bring together the Sheffield Wednesday fan base and support our superb football club.
Support SMILE By Buying Trev's Prints!
03 July 2012Many of you will be aware that Wednesdayite distribute matchday tickets for Owls games at Hillsborough in recent seasons through our successful Smile Tickets scheme.
As the kick-off for our 2012 appeal, Wednesdayite member, Owlstalk legend and loyal SWFC fan Trev has created something very special for you as a thank you for your SMILE donation!
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B2BW - Interactive Route Map
27 April 2012We'll be Tweeting, Facebooking, Blogging, Taking Lots Of Photos and all the rest from our B2BW charity bike ride - but you can follow all the action in one place with our amazing Interative Route Map!
Tracking our progress from Brentford to Bluebell Wood Childrens Hospice, the map will allow Owls fans to keep tabs on the progress made by Hirsty and the boys in real time!
Wednesday Shirts for Rwanda
28 March 2012CHArITY APPEAL
You may remember last year we collected old Wednesday shirts of behalf of Owls fan Mark Lomas and we collected 71 shirts for him to take on his trip to Goa, for distribution to locals there.
Well we have recently being contacted by another Owls fan, and Wednesdayite member, Paul Freer to do the same again for his trip to Rwanda in April of this year. Paul intends to go out and take as many Owls shirts as possible with him. We will therefore we collecting shirts at the Owls v Carlisle United game at Hillsborough on the 21st April 2012.
The Wednesday Cricket Club - Tom Marsden Trophy
14 March 2012The Wednesday Cricket Club working in conjunction with the city Lord Mayors Office together with the financial help of the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Society, Wednesdayite are proud to announce that the trophy named in tribute to one of the most famous sporting fathers of Sheffield is to be resurrected as a living trophy.
Tom Marsden was for many years the best single wicket cricketer in the north of England, and, not short on confidence, he put up a £50 reward for anyone to beat him.
2001
27 January 2012The Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Society functioning under the name of 'The Owls Trust' is set up. At the time, Sheffield Wednesday club directors Dave Allen, Keith Addy and Geoff Hulley bought an amount of shares in the club equal to 36.7% of the total share capital of Sheffield Wednesday PLC, from investment company Charterhouse. The purchase of more than 29.9% of any company triggers a mandatory bid for the remaining shares in company law, however to avoid making such a bid, a portion of those shares equal to 9.46% of Sheffield Wednesday PLC were donated to the fledgling fans' trust.
2004
27 January 2012The organisation angered then chairman of Sheffield Wednesday, Dave Allen, as well as many Wednesday fans, by being perceived to support a takeover bid by Ken Bates. However, the organisation - in particular its chief executive John Hemmingham and chairman Jim Harrison - maintained that it was not supporting a takeover, but was supporting the principle of allowing potential investors, including Ken Bates, access to relevant documents in order to formulate an educated bid for the company. This feud resulted in the trust being evicted from their offices in Hillsborough.
2003
27 January 2012The Owls Trust increase their shareholding in the club to 10.07% through purchasing shares from the wider SWFC community. This takes them over the ten per cent threshold by which they would have to be consulted on any full takeover, and would have the ability to call an EGM if they wished.
2005
27 January 2012In September, the former Sheffield Wednesday Chairman, Dave Allen, offered to buy Wednesdayite's share of the club for around £330,000 (which would be put back into the playing squad budget). However Allen refused to address a Wednesdayite members' meeting to discuss this purchase and additionally it was not made clear how any ensuing Capital Gains Tax would be paid to the Inland Revenue, which would possibly leave the Supporters' Trust in tens of thousands of pounds' debt. Wednesdayite members democratically voted in favour of rejecting the offer.