Board Elections 2022
We are now inviting nominations for members to join the board – the formal 14 day nomination period runs from 2 November until 16 November. In this election we are looking to elect up to four board members for terms of three years.
The current board is made up of 12 elected volunteer members and one co-opted member who each take responsibility for specific areas of Trust activity. Four elected board members – Simon Duke, Sarah Keig, Gavin Megaw and Farrell Monk – must stand down as they are at the and of their current terms but are entitled to stand again if they so choose.
We hold evening board meetings once per month on a hybrid face-to-face / video conference basis depending on the location of board members. We also meet the Club monthly on a Wednesday lunchtime. Recently, Club meetings have been conducted by video conference calls but we hope to return to face-to-face meetings at Motspur Park soon.
Although our meeting with Fulham is often the most visible part of our work, we undertake a wide variety of other activities on behalf of Fulham supporters and are also members of the Metropolitan Police Independent Advisory Group and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Safety Advisory Group as well as being affiliated to the Football Supporters’ Association (the national umbrella body for Trusts). You can read about the full range of activity undertaken by the Trust board on our web site.
We are looking for Trust members from across our fanbase with the time, skills, enthusiasm and ideas to join the board, take responsibility for some of our growing range of activities and help build the supporter voice at Fulham. We would like to see our board become more representative of the diverse nature of our fanbase, so we hope that you will consider either putting yourself forward or encouraging others you know as there is much to do. You can read full details of the process below.
Election process and rules
The election will be held in accordance with the election rules and the process will be overseen by an Independent Scrutineer, Jonathan Cope, who is a Trust member but is neither a candidate nor nominating or seconding a candidate.
To be eligible to stand for election, the only requirements are that
- you are a paid-up Trust member as at 1 October 2022
- you are nominated and seconded by paid-up Trust members as at 1 October 2022.
Information required
You will need to supply contact information for yourself and those nominating and seconding you and a 200 word election statement that will be sent out with the electronic voting forms if there are more nominations than places available for election. The election statements of all successful candidates will be made available at the conclusion of the process.
Please supply the following information by email to the Independent Scrutineer by Wednesday 16 November 2022 using the following email address
election@fulhamsupporterstrust.com
Candidate
- Name
- email address
- Telephone
- Social media
Proposed by
- Member name
- email address
- Telephone
Seconded by
- Member name
- email address
- Telephone
Statement
- A maximum of 200 words to support your candidacy. Any additional words will be truncated.
Election timetable
Nominations
- Wednesday 2 November 2022 – Nominations open
- Wednesday 16 November 2022 – Nominations close
If no ballot required
- Thursday 17 November 2022 – Announcement of new board at AGM
If ballot required
- Thursday 17 November 2022 – Announcement of ballot at AGM
- Saturday 19 November 2022 – Electronic ballot and candidate statements circulated to Trust members
- Saturday 3 December 2022 – Close of voting
- Monday 5 December 2022 – Announcement of election results
- Tuesday 6 December 2022 – December meeting of new board
