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.
Thursday 28 May 2009
Tuesday 19 May 2009
Cup Final, Hampden, Saturday 30th May. HELP!
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.
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.
Friday 15 May 2009
£41,000
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
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.
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.
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Banners
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.
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.
Sunday 10 May 2009
World Champion Supports Campaign
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
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
Videos of the meeting
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.
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.
Thursday 7 May 2009
All Systems Are Go!
Last night was the official launch of the Buy Stirling Albion campaign with the inargural meeting with the fans. For over 9 months the people behind the campaign were planning this launch and what to do to save the Binos and yesterday saw the start of the begining of a new era of football in Stirling.
The meeting was attended by around 200 people who had an interest in saving Stirling Albion from financial ruin and they were not disappointed with outcome of the meeting. The proposal made was over the course of this season get people from across the world to join the Stirling Albion Supporters Trust and help raise the money needed to buy out the majority share holder Peter MacKenzie. Mr MacKenzie has been wanting to sell the club for a few years now but no one has come forward with an offer that he liked and now the future of Stirling Albion Football Club is in doubt as there has been no one intrested until now where the Stirling Albion supporters have decided it is now time to do something to secure the future of professional football in the City of Stirling.
Mr MacKenzie wasn't at the meeting last night but we were assured that he the organisers of Buy Stirling Albion had been in contact him throughout the past few months and the relationship between Mr MacKenzie and the Supporters Trust has started to improve and last night Mr MacKenzie sent an email/letter to the organisers:
This statement was for me one of the best parts of the launch as it shows that Mr MacKenzie is now ready to get around the table and start to talk about a deal and over the past few years the Supporters Trust has not had a response like that. I would just now like to thank Mr MacKenzie on behalf of everyone connected with Stirling Albion for the amount of time and money he has put into the club with out Peter I wouldn't be writing about the Binos as we would have went under years ago. It may be Mr MacKenzie that has caused this debt of the club but if he didn't put his money in to the Albion's pot there would be no Albion. I hope that for Peter MacKenzie we do manage to raise enough money to buy the club from him and let him enjoy his final years without the burden of Stirling Albion.
The other big thing from last nights meeting was the pruposed business plan that would be put in place if we did get ownership of the club and basically it was make Stirling Albion a community club. Where the club and community of Stirling and surrounding areas can work togheter to improve the football tallents in the area and activly work with getting the tallented youngsters out there to join in with the Young Reds and if after time with the Young Reds they are enjoying playing football in a safe enviroment. If they feel that they want to continue and see if they can make it as a footballer they will be placed in to one of the Young Reds league teams where their tallent can grow and maybe one day if they show they can be a good player and that they would like to move on up to the youth set up and after that in to the main Stirling Albion team.
The tallent development isn't the only community part of the plan but it covers everything from letting kids under 16 get in to games for free with a paying adult and also a whole host of other community activities to show the people of Stirling that they have a football team on their own door step and that with their help it could well be a great community asset.
The other main part of the business strategy is to start making use of the advertising aspects the club can sell to not just local community companies but big international companies maybe even sell the club name as a franchise and have it called something like "MacDonalds Stirling Albion Football Club"
But I can officially say that this was one of the best if not the best buy out plan I have seen for any business and it aims to let the ordinary public have a say in how Stirling Albion Football CLub should progress.
So please become a member of the Supporters Trust and help us buy our wee club we need your help to keep professional football alive in the City of Stirling. If you don't want to be a member of the Supporters Trust but would like to donate you can do that as well. Just go to
www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk
Also please have a look at the campaign video over at You Tube
The voice over is done by top TV chef Nick Narin.
And finally just on the note of celebrities we have the full endorsement of Manchester United Player Christian Ronaldo we hope we can get him to appear in the City of Stirling some time soon to help us promote our campaign.
The meeting was attended by around 200 people who had an interest in saving Stirling Albion from financial ruin and they were not disappointed with outcome of the meeting. The proposal made was over the course of this season get people from across the world to join the Stirling Albion Supporters Trust and help raise the money needed to buy out the majority share holder Peter MacKenzie. Mr MacKenzie has been wanting to sell the club for a few years now but no one has come forward with an offer that he liked and now the future of Stirling Albion Football Club is in doubt as there has been no one intrested until now where the Stirling Albion supporters have decided it is now time to do something to secure the future of professional football in the City of Stirling.
Mr MacKenzie wasn't at the meeting last night but we were assured that he the organisers of Buy Stirling Albion had been in contact him throughout the past few months and the relationship between Mr MacKenzie and the Supporters Trust has started to improve and last night Mr MacKenzie sent an email/letter to the organisers:
"I am delighted that the fans have got this ambitious and exciting
initiative off the ground to assist the future development of the club. I
have been ploughing a pretty lone furrow over recent years to keep the club
in existence and any assistance is to be greatly welcomed.
I offer my support and best wishes to those involved. Once the campaign is underway I
will be happy to sit down and discuss the way ahead to ensure that
professional football continues at Stirling Albion. These are difficult
economic times but I am hopeful that the Stirling public and fans far and
wide will respond favourably."
This statement was for me one of the best parts of the launch as it shows that Mr MacKenzie is now ready to get around the table and start to talk about a deal and over the past few years the Supporters Trust has not had a response like that. I would just now like to thank Mr MacKenzie on behalf of everyone connected with Stirling Albion for the amount of time and money he has put into the club with out Peter I wouldn't be writing about the Binos as we would have went under years ago. It may be Mr MacKenzie that has caused this debt of the club but if he didn't put his money in to the Albion's pot there would be no Albion. I hope that for Peter MacKenzie we do manage to raise enough money to buy the club from him and let him enjoy his final years without the burden of Stirling Albion.
The other big thing from last nights meeting was the pruposed business plan that would be put in place if we did get ownership of the club and basically it was make Stirling Albion a community club. Where the club and community of Stirling and surrounding areas can work togheter to improve the football tallents in the area and activly work with getting the tallented youngsters out there to join in with the Young Reds and if after time with the Young Reds they are enjoying playing football in a safe enviroment. If they feel that they want to continue and see if they can make it as a footballer they will be placed in to one of the Young Reds league teams where their tallent can grow and maybe one day if they show they can be a good player and that they would like to move on up to the youth set up and after that in to the main Stirling Albion team.
The tallent development isn't the only community part of the plan but it covers everything from letting kids under 16 get in to games for free with a paying adult and also a whole host of other community activities to show the people of Stirling that they have a football team on their own door step and that with their help it could well be a great community asset.
The other main part of the business strategy is to start making use of the advertising aspects the club can sell to not just local community companies but big international companies maybe even sell the club name as a franchise and have it called something like "MacDonalds Stirling Albion Football Club"
But I can officially say that this was one of the best if not the best buy out plan I have seen for any business and it aims to let the ordinary public have a say in how Stirling Albion Football CLub should progress.
So please become a member of the Supporters Trust and help us buy our wee club we need your help to keep professional football alive in the City of Stirling. If you don't want to be a member of the Supporters Trust but would like to donate you can do that as well. Just go to
www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk
Also please have a look at the campaign video over at You Tube
The voice over is done by top TV chef Nick Narin.
And finally just on the note of celebrities we have the full endorsement of Manchester United Player Christian Ronaldo we hope we can get him to appear in the City of Stirling some time soon to help us promote our campaign.
Wednesday 6 May 2009
Get Involved!
Just noticed on that the BBC now have a article on the possible buy out. From that it looks like this excellent idea may even be possible as from the BBC report it looks like anyone who has an interest in saving the Binos can help as the campaign is looking for supporters to pledge £40 to help save the club.
The £40 membership to the Supporters Trust is excellent value for money. Just go over to www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk and have a look at the offers if we sucseed in buying Stirling Albion. I really think everyone who has the smallest of soft spots for the Binos should get involved now as they would miss out on this opertunity to be part of the first fully supporters owned club in the UK and not just that they will get the chance to be in a draw for executive seating at a home game and the chance to get a seat on the team bus as well for some away games.
I can now honestly say that this is the best ever package I have seen put toghether that will save Stirling Albion and I do think that this will work if everyone who has the minutest of soft spots for the Binos and the people of the City of Stirling get behind this campaign and join the Stirling Albion Supporters Trust for only £40.
So to the people of Stirling please support the city's only professional football team in their hour of need.
The £40 membership to the Supporters Trust is excellent value for money. Just go over to www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk and have a look at the offers if we sucseed in buying Stirling Albion. I really think everyone who has the smallest of soft spots for the Binos should get involved now as they would miss out on this opertunity to be part of the first fully supporters owned club in the UK and not just that they will get the chance to be in a draw for executive seating at a home game and the chance to get a seat on the team bus as well for some away games.
I can now honestly say that this is the best ever package I have seen put toghether that will save Stirling Albion and I do think that this will work if everyone who has the minutest of soft spots for the Binos and the people of the City of Stirling get behind this campaign and join the Stirling Albion Supporters Trust for only £40.
So to the people of Stirling please support the city's only professional football team in their hour of need.
Tonight is the night
The most important meeting in the history of Stirling Albion FC takes place tonight at the King Robert Hotel in Stirling. This meeting will hopefully get the ball rolling to save the club from going bust. I will be updating this soon after the meeting. But it is now or never for the Binos so if you are not doing anything tonight please come along the the King Robert Hotel for the meeting be there for 7pm.
If you are going to sit in tonight to watch some useless international or the Champions League semi final why, do you really want to see the city of Stirling without a professional football team? no prospects for youngsters to get into the professional game. Forget about the other football tonight and get out and support your local team.
REMEMBER IT IS YOUR CITY, YOUR TEAM!
YOUR TEAM NEEDS YOU!
If you are going to sit in tonight to watch some useless international or the Champions League semi final why, do you really want to see the city of Stirling without a professional football team? no prospects for youngsters to get into the professional game. Forget about the other football tonight and get out and support your local team.
REMEMBER IT IS YOUR CITY, YOUR TEAM!
YOUR TEAM NEEDS YOU!
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