Dale Trust News

This weekend, members of the Dale Trust will be at the turnstiles handing out applications to join the Trust for the 2012-13 season.

Membership of the Trust for the 2012-13 season will cost £10, and nearly 350 Dale supporters having joined up already for this season with the first League game yet to kick off.

Existing members have been sent a pre-printed application and if they wish to take that along on Saturday, that will speed up the process.

The Trust started back in 2004 with a mission statement 'to protect and promote the interests of Rochdale Football Club and its supporters, for today and for the future'.

Amongst the benefits of joining the Trust is the access this gives supporters to the directors of the Football Club. The Trust meets regularly with the board of directors, and invites questions to be submitted from its members. The responses to those questions are emailed back directly to members.

The Trust helped organise the Fans Forum that took place at Spotland earlier this month, where supporters were given the opportunity to quiz the management team over various footballing matters. This is an annual event and one of the most popular events on the Dale calendar.

The Trust will be launching a new website very soon, and it is seen as a further way of increasing levels of communication between the Trust and its members.

The Trust already has a regular page in The Voice of Spotland, where it keeps supporters abreast of Trust activities, but the redesigned website looks to take things to the next level.

If you are unable to attend Spotland this weekend, yet would still like to join the Trust, you can do so at: www.daletrust.org.uk/pages/the_trust/join_online.asp?PageID=21