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Cork City to attend Governance workshop

Cork City board members John Kennedy and Mike Derham will travel to Manchester next week to attend a two-day Football Governance workshop. The event is being organised as part of the ‘Clubs and Supporters for Better Governance in Football‘ project which is being co-ordinated by Supporters Direct Europe, and co-funded by the European Union‘s Erasmus + funding stream as well as Uefa. Hosted by FC United at their new Broadhurst Park ground, City will be one of seven football clubs and nine national organisations to discuss a range of topics around governance, including: What are the key indicators of good governance at...

FORAS trustees invited to General Meeting

FORAS trustees have been invited to attend a General Meeting of the supporters trust this coming Wednesday, September 30th at the Metropole Hotel. First team manager John Caulfield will kick off the action at 7pm sharp with a Q&A session. (Registration is open from 6.15pm) It will be followed by a Chairman’s Report, and updates on the 2015 budget, our involvement in the SD Europe network, a revamp of the Trust membership, an Infrastructure Update, our involvement in the Community over the past few months and plans for a dedicated Fundraising calendar in 2016. The meeting is intended to give trustees as much information...

SD Europe network meets in Hamburg

Cork City FC and FORAS were represented at the inaugural meeting of the Supporters Direct Europe network in Hamburg on September 5th and 6th. Board members Mike Derham and Niamh O’Mahony travelled to the event in Germany along with 19 clubs, national organisations and groups from 16 different countries. The event was hosted at the home of HFC Falke e.V., whose president, Tamara Dwenger, welcomed everybody to the city. The meeting first heard a round up of SD Europe’s activities since 2007, before an extensive discussion on SD Europe’s current structure and how it might best work for the groups involved. This will...

Cork City to attend SD Europe network meeting

Representatives of Cork City FC will attend the inaugural Supporters Direct Europe network meeting on September 5th and 6th in Hamburg, Germany. Board members Mike Derham and Niamh O’Mahony will be amongst fan-owned clubs, national organisations and supporters’ groups from 16 countries involved in the two-day conference, which will be hosted by HFC Falke e.V. FORAS and Cork City FC worked with Supporters Direct Europe and other partners around Europe for the ‘Improving Football Governance through Supporter Involvement and Community Ownership‘ project (2011 – 2013). The network that has grown across Europe since is akin to a business network and seeks to share...