With things a bit quiet following the Christmas break and not wishing to bore you completely by re-hashing previous columns, today I’m bringing you a round-up of what the other Supporters Trusts in League Two have been doing recently.

• Bradford City’s Trust held a collection at their Boxing Day game against Lincoln City in memory of the Bradford fire disaster and raised over £3300 for the Bradford University Burns Unit.

• Bees United, who own Brentford, recently launched a new Openness Policy, in order to improve communication with supporters.

• Forever Bury have a relatively small Trust membership of 486, but own 310,000 shares in the club, which should be debt free within 18 months.

• Chester City’s Trust sold tickets for a Crossbar Challenge competition to win a new car during their game against us, but the winning ticket holder failed to hit the target (just like their players!)

• Chesterfield Trust have organised a Heritage Night for February, which will include the showing of match footage from the 1920s and 30s.

• The Lincoln City Supporters Trust has applied to purchase another 20,000 shares, which will bring their total shareholding in the club to well over a million shares.

• The Silkmen Supporters Trust continues its work to help Macclesfield pay off fines levied by the FA and make repayments to the Football Foundation, whilst seeking to gain representation on the board and encourage new support.  No easy task with gates of around 2000.

• In December, TEAM Mansfield and Stags Fans For Change called upon fans to boycott their game against Bury as a protest against unpopular owner Keith Haslam’s decision not to sell the club to a consortium. The supporters groups gave their support to manager Billy Dearden and the players, but urged fans to cut off all income streams, e.g. sponsorship and buying merchandise, in order to force Haslam out.

• Having raised £250,000 in the space of a few weeks in 2003 to save their club, Notts County Supporters Trust now owns its club and continues to represent the fans at boardroom level, funds player purchases and consistently invests in the future of the club.

• The Posh Trust has launched a new scheme, which gives away match tickets to deserving fans, who might otherwise be unable to afford to watch Peterborough.

• The Rochdale Trust is another with a relatively small membership of 270. They have just organised a fans’ forum for January.

• The Shrews Trust has set up a scheme in conjunction with the club and public houses in the Gay Meadow area, which provides buses to get fans from their local to the new stadium.

• The Stockport County Trust owns the club but does not get involved in the day-to-day running.  It is however involved in major decisions, e.g. changes to key staff.

• Today’s visitors have a Trust membership of 783, a £319k equity fund, which is reserved for purchasing shares in Wrexham FC and have recently provided a new minibus for the club’s school of excellence.

• The Wycombe Supporters Trust own 100,000 shares in the club, which has enabled them to have a representative on the board.

To sum up, supporters trusts come in many different shapes and sizes, depending on circumstances at their respective clubs, but all have the same basic common goals of representing the fans’ interests and safeguarding the future of their club.