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23rd September 2004

Venue: Boars Head PH, Dover.

Present: Mick Padfield, Tim Padfield, Haydn Powlter, Bill Browning, Gary Cattermole, Paul Padfield,
Also attended - David Browning & Mark Padfield


AGENDA ITEM 1- The minutes from the meeting of 11th August 2004 where approved and adopted. There were no matters arising.

ITEM 2 – Gary Cattermole showed the meeting the ‘draft’ website that had been built by his son James. The site was approved with the following minor amendments:
1) The official club badge is to be removed and replaced with the official Arsenal Dover SC badge, when that arrives.
2) The home page will have a picture of the original Dover Gooners banner and a short history of the club.
Mick Padfield advised the meeting that that Stuart Honey had agreed to ‘host’ the site for free. He also advised the meeting that Stuart had said that we would have full access so that the site could be amended and he will also arrange it so that our site would appear on Google etc. Stuart had also advised that we purchase .com rather than .co.uk.
Mick also raised the subject of potentially selling advertising on the site, half could then go towards any costs that the club may incur and the other half could go James for building and maintaining the site. Gary Cattermole thanked Mick, but told the meeting that he was opposed to James getting a fee as he was using the site as part of his IT ‘A’ level course. It was agreed that the idea of advertising could be looked into. (Following the conclusion of the meeting Stuart arrived and viewed the site. He said that he was now going to host the site on another server and that we would have to pay a one off fee of £25. He said that he did not know if we would be able to access the serve to carry out our own updates, we may have to put them through him.)

ACTION POINTS: Tim Padfield to draft a short history of the Dover Gooners to appear on the website and the official AFC extranet site.

Gary Cattermole to purchase dovergooners.com

ITEM 3 – Gary Cattermole reported that there were no problems with the system that had been set up, although Mick or himself were having to chase people up to see if they wanted tickets. It was felt that this would probably improve once people realised how easy the system was. He reported that at present we had 2 spare tickets for the Birmingham game and 4 for Chelsea.

ITEM 4 – Mick reported that Bluebirds was booked for 5th December and that he had paid a £250 deposit. He estimated that on current interest there may be about 70 people attending our Christmas dinner. The cost of the 3 course meal will be £11. It was agreed that 10th November would be the cut off point for people to pay for their meals. Jill Smith has accepted an invitation as has Stuart McFarlane, the official club photographer. Peter Hill-Wood had been invited, but he will not be able to attend, however, he has accepted the position of Honorary Life President of the Dover Gooners. Ian Chivers has agreed to attend as an after dinner speaker. Mick will write to Mr Hill-Wood to see if he will write a short note to be read out. Mick was also happy to report that Andy Kovach and 9 other members of the Austrian Gooners would also be attending the meal.
There will be a raffle at the meal with all profits going to ChildLine, the official AFC charity. Mick has sent 39 letters to various local businesses and box holders at AFC asking for prizes for the raffle.

ACTION POINT: Gary will e-mail a letter and menu, which Mick has drafted, to all of the members.

ITEM 5 – Jill Smith has now sent through details of how we can obtain a 20% discount on all items in the club catalogue. Unlike some Supporters Clubs, it was agreed that the full benefit would be passed on to the members. Mick has drafted a letter and order form. He will deal with this and has asked that all forms be returned by 31st October.

ACTION POINT: Gary will e-mail the letter and order form to all of the members.

ITEM 6 – Gary reported that we now have 72 members. 15 of these are silver members and we are waiting to hear if another 2 want to join. We have approximately 10 Family enclosure, Junior Gunners and Cannon Club members and about 10 season ticket holders. Other known silver members have been approached, but have declined to join. Gary is aware of a couple of Customs Officers from Folkestone, who are silver members and he will approach them to se if they want to join.

AOB – Mick has orders for 10 more red Dover Gooners t-shirts.
Gary and Mick will open an account with the Nationwide in the near future in the name of the Dover Gooners.

Meeting closed at 2015.

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