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Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:37 am
by poppyfield
Important fundraising news from the DFCSG
Attention Darlo Fans: Important fundraising news – we’re upping our community shares target by £2,000. Fill this amount with pledges and we will hit the £50,000 target to Raise the Roof and kick off the process to order materials and engage contractors.

Go to fundraising.darlingtonfcsupportersgroup.org to pledge today.

You might remember back in the April fans forum, we kicked off this fundraising with what seemed like an impossible set of targets:
•£40,000 to improve the playing surface
•£40,000 for foundations and ground works
•£38,000 for the new seating block
•£50,000 to Raise the Roof.
•£40,000 to Boost the Budget

Incredibly we’re are now just £2,000 away from hitting all those targets.

Raising the Roof and installing the new seating block will ensure that Blackwell Meadows is fully compliant with ground grading rules and it will give us an extra 294 fully covered seats to enhance the ground and improving the spectating experience.

Many thanks for the amazing financial backing over the last few months, let’s finish this last target off and complete another building block in our future development.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:31 am
by Darlopartisan
Great idea, this should get us across the line :thumbup:

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:33 am
by Darlopartisan
Another £100 just put in :clap:

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:22 pm
by Quakerz
Another 294 seats will give us 588 seats total in the stand. Should make a big difference to the matchday experience.

Hope we put some terracing on that side as well, in the not too distant future - will increase capacity and matchday experience a little bit more.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:09 pm
by super_les_mcjannet
£1,400 left now to hit the 33k target in the Community Share Phase 3 fund.

Just need this done and dusted so we can put it to bed well before Christmas and look forward. I did think the new seated stand was going to be smaller than the current one but by the sounds of that it's the exact same size, doubling our seated capacity which is excellent.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:12 pm
by super_les_mcjannet
Make that £1,200 needed.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 3:37 pm
by quakerste
£1,045 now needed.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 4:48 pm
by Darlopartisan
:thumbup: Think this might be done by tonight

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:28 pm
by quakerste
£745 now needed. Finish line now in sight.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:27 pm
by johninskopje
Showing £800 now after I put my £100 in

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:35 pm
by Darlopartisan
£645

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:05 pm
by spen666
poppyfield wrote:....

You might remember back in the April fans forum, we kicked off this fundraising with what seemed like an impossible set of targets:
•£40,000 to improve the playing surface
•£40,000 for foundations and ground works
•£38,000 for the new seating block
•£50,000 to Raise the Roof.
•£40,000 to Boost the Budget

...
That is an incredible fundraising effort and achieved by a relatively small number of people

The fans have raised an incredible amount of money since the start of 2012

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:44 pm
by Darlopartisan
We’ve done it

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:46 pm
by Darlopartisan
Total now £50155

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:58 pm
by super_les_mcjannet
Since late April we have raised just short of 214k.

Excellent responsibility from the owners to complete this.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:05 pm
by The Golden Hairclip
There aren’t many ‘sugar daddies’ who would invest this kind of money into a Conference North club. Well done everyone who invested / contributed.


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Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:06 pm
by QUAKERMAN2
Staggering is an understatement, really looking forward to the stand extension.

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Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:13 pm
by Emdubya
Question for someone “in the know”,has the boost the budget money been used or is it still available?

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:40 pm
by super_les_mcjannet
Emdubya wrote:Question for someone “in the know”,has the boost the budget money been used or is it still available?
It's rolled into the budget so in theory spent.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:04 pm
by dfc4me
Anyone know how much was in the buckets from last Friday, not seen anything mentioned on here this week.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:08 pm
by poppyfield
dfc4me wrote:Anyone know how much was in the buckets from last Friday, not seen anything mentioned on here this week.
It was £322 in the buckets for Friday night

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:26 pm
by QuakerPete
The phenomenal sums raised even just this year put into sharp perspective the derisory offer that Singh wanted to make. Well done everyone . . . and thanks to Martin Gray for the fundraising boost!


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Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:33 pm
by don'tbuythesun
It's many people from those who've put hundreds in to the 50/50 winners who gave it back and anyone who threw a quid in a bucket. Well done all!

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 7:08 am
by Darlo_Pete
Great effort from everybody, we should be proud of what we have achieved so far. Really looking forward to Monday night.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 8:02 am
by quakerste
A week on Monday Pete, 11th December.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:43 pm
by Darlo_Pete
Yes sorry got that wrong.

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:29 pm
by Vodka_Vic
we're now a few hundred over. Will this be kept over for the next round of fundraising?

Re: Important fundraising news from the DFCSG

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:08 pm
by jjljks
Vodka_Vic wrote:we're now a few hundred over. Will this be kept over for the next round of fundraising?
Hopefully put towards some terracing at the open end or the gap between seated stand and Tin Shed. Incredible effort by fundraisers and fans, definitely two fingers to those who wanted to 'steal' the club for their own purposes. Take a bow all those out there who have made this possible :clap: :clap: