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Not had much to report in recent weeks about the campaign until now. Over the past few weeks it has looked like very little has been happening but behind the scenes the campaign team have been busy working on some different little things.
The big one of these was revealed in the Stirling Observer yesterday (22/07/2009) that the campaign team had made a bid to buy Stirling Albion Football Club. The initial bid placed by the campaign team matched Mr McKenzie's initial asking price for the club, reportedly £300,000. This initial offer was accepted by Mr McKenzie and a date was arranged for the details of the takeover to be hammered out at this meeting Mr McKenzie retracted the acceptance of the £300,000 offer made by the campaign team and at this stage Mr McKenzie changed his asking price for Stirling Albion FC, it has now been reported that the new asking price is in the region of £450,000. It is currently unclear why Mr McKenzie has increased his asking price but at this time the Buy Stirling Albion Campaign Team feel this asking price does not accurately reflect the clubs true value and have retracted any offers made.
This however is not the end of the road for the Buy Stirling Albion Campaign as the campaign team are currently reviewing the situation and planning the way to go forward to try and secure the future of Stirling Albion for the local community. It is hoped that in the future that Mr McKenzie will return to the negotiating table to agree to a takeover package that will save Stirling Albion.
Other News
There is some more news regarding the campaign recently the campaign team have set up a way to make money from your old unused mobile phones. No matter the age or condition of the phone if you send them to:
FREEPOST
RRRA-CZXK-UKEK
Stirling Albion
Vulcan Road North
Norwich
NR6 6AQ
Please remove your sim card from the phones.
The Buy Stirling Albion Campaign has recently announced that there are well over 2,000 members just now who have bought a membership for £40. If you still haven't got your membership then go over to www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk and buy yours today.
Also on a final wee note if you are in and around Stirling in the coming weeks look out for members of the team who are trying to raise the profile of the campaign we will be at most events in and around Stirling over the summer and most weekends we can be found in the Thistle Centres in the town. So if you see us please come over and say hi, or even if you want to help out just contact Stef at stef@buystirlingalbion.org.uk and he will pass your details on to the team.
Well it looks like the campaign has managed to secure £60,000 in membershis to the trust which I must say is a excellent start to the campaign. This weekend is cup final weekend and well for all those supporters of Rangers, Falkirk, Chelsea and Everton why not help us out buy logging on to the Buy Stirling Albion Website and donating a quid, not that much really but if all 140,000 of you chuck a quid into the pot we make a giant step to saving Stirling Albion from going into administration. So please go to www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk and either buy a Stirling Albion Supporters Trust Membership or donate what ever you can and help us the Stirling Albion Supporters seccure the future of professional and community football in the City of Stirling.
Just looking to see if anyone can help us out on Saturday 30th May at Hampden. The Buy Stirling Albion team are looking for volunteers to go through to Hampden on Cap Final day to help raise funds and awareness of the campaign to save the Binos. The plan is to have collection buckets around the outside of the ground.If anyone can help us out please reply here or go to the Stirling Albion Forum and post over there saying you can help. If you need transport to the game all that has been organised and you won't be out of pocket fr your transport.
Not what the campaign has raised but that is what Stirling Albion need to pay to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and it needes to be payed ASAP or HMRC will sink the Binos, they have already launched their torpeado this week at Stirling Sherrif Court when they applied for an order to put the club into admisistration over unpaid National Insurance and Tax.
A spokesperson for Stirling Albion owner Peter MacKenzie said that it was an "oversight" and that it will be resolved soon. How can a £41,000 tax bill be an oversight?
Buy Stirling Albion campaigner Paul Goodwin said that"This news reinforces how serious the situation at Stirling Albion is.
"It's hand-to-mouth at the club. This is a strange situation for us because if the club went into administration we could bid to take it out of administration but we have to wait and see what happens."
I hope that over the next week this situation is resolved and doesn't end with Stirling Albion Football Club vanishing from Scottish Football.
I also hope that this doesn't put people off investing in the Buy Stirling Albion Campaign as if Stirling Albion were to go into administration I am sure the campaign organisers would do everything in their powers to pull the club out of administration. So now we really need you to get behind the Buy Stirling Albion Campaign and support us please go to
www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk and please take out a membership or donate what ever you can to save Stirling Albion Football Club and preserve professional football in the City of Stirling.
Not much to say just now about the campaign apart from if you drive around Stirling you will see that the advertising banners are going up all over town. The Buy Stirling Albion Campaign organisers have done well so far with the banner design and ofcourse the website.
Just would like remind people that we will be out and about at events throughout the area over the summer so if you want to help just go the Stirling Albion Forum and say you are wanting to help out.
Talking about banners you can get a few for your web page/blog/forum signature/bebo just go to the banners page
If you haven't done so already go over to the Buy Stirling Albion and join the Supporters Trust or donate whatever you can.
Snooker World Champion Stephen Hendry has thrown his weight behind the Buy Stirling Albion Campaign. The 7 time world champion has joined us to save the Binos. Stephen Hendry has strong connections with the CIty of Stirling and stays not to far from the City so to have him on board is excellent. I hope he will agree to some publicity events over the next few weeks/months to help us save the club.
Not only Stephen Hendry has joined us since the launch of the campaign but we also have the support of Scotland Internationalists and sons of the rock Steven and Gary Caldwell have also decided to back the campaign to help save their local team.
They all join Christiano Ronaldo and Nick Narin as supporters of the campaign.
So please join our celebrities buy supporting the campaign and joining the Supporters Trust over at:
www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk
With thanks to Baz Mac from the Stirling Albion forum we now have the Buy Stirlng Albion launch uploaded to You Tube.
So when you have got a wee bit free time why not go and watch the launch and you will get to know what the Buy Stirling Albion Campaign are planning.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
There is still a lot more to come and over the next few weeks you will see us out and about trying to get more people to support the campaign to save Stirling Albion, and we are still looking for volunteers to help out raise awareness of the campaign so if you have some free time at the weekends and want to help out please go to the Stirling Albion Forum and put a post up in one of the volunteer request topics and you will be given all the details you need.
Finally remember this won't be possible without YOUR help so if you haven't already bought a membership or donated to the Stirling Albion Supporters Trust please go over to the Buy Stirling Albion website and get your membership.
