Membership News

AGM 2011 - venue confirmed

Our AGM, on Saturday 4th June (7.30pm) will be held at a new venue for us, The Victoria (pub) near Paddington. Click here for Pub website and map.

This is a Fullers pub and this year we will have an enclosed room to ourselves. There will also be the usual buffet of course. More details will be provided nearer the time.

Address: 10A Strathearn Place, London W2 2NH.

Nearest stations: Paddington and Lancaster Gate, only 5-10 mins walk.

Committee meeting dates (updated 15 March)

For your information, planned dates for remainder of 2010/11 season are:

• Tuesday 12 April
• Thursday 19 May (changed)

Change of venue: the above meetings will be held at The Victoria pub - see AGM venue information above. (Non committee) members are entitled to attend if they wish - please let the Secretary know beforehand so that we can let you know of any last minute changes of plan. Minutes can be issued to members upon request to the Secretary

New members

A warm welcome to the following who have joined our ranks recently:

• Simon Boughey, London
• Luke Bielby, London
• Maya Barnsley, London
• Sally Morris, Bexhill on Sea
• Bonnie Brewster, Selsey

Waddington Suite winners

Congratulations to Roy Bagguley and Steve Heath who have both won a pair of tickets to the Waddington Suite in our prize draw. They will be taking their places for the Blackpool match in December. They will receive our sponsored shirt from Ricardo Fuller on our behalf. As usual we will be offering this as a prize in our AGM raffle at the end of the season.

2010 Magazine

... was issued late November / early December. If you have not had yours, please contact us (note: only issued to 2009/10 members).

is running late, but is now complete will be going to the printers very shortly (updated 1 November). All being well it shoud be with you before the end of the month.

Player Sponsorship

As always, a select group of members including our prize draw winners enjoyed their day in the Waddington Suite at the Hull match(Easter 2010).  A win helped of course!  Pictured below are Richar Lewis Williams with Ricardo Fuller and Christine Bradley with Mama Sidibe.

We have decided to renew our sponsorship of Ricardo Fuller for 2010/11 despite a significant cost hike. 

Magazine spares for sale

We have a handful of spare 09/10 and 08/09 magazines that we are willing to sell to members.  There are also a few left from 07/08 (promotion special), 06/07 and just one from 05/06.  If you would like one of these, or perhaps you are a new member that did not get one first time around, please send a cheque for £5 (for each magazine) payable to “SCSSC”, to the editor (details at bottom of next page). 

Alternatively, please contact us (newsletter/magazine) about doing an online bank transfer if you prefer.  If it is one of the earlier season’s editions that you want then please say so at time of order. 

FSF membership FREE

Anyone can now join the Football Supporters Federation for free, and we encourage you to do so.  Please note that you will have to pay extra if you wish to receive their printed publications: the ‘Football Supporter’ and ‘Free Lions’.  Join online at www.fsf.org.uk.  SCSSC will continue to hold ‘club’ membership.

SCSSC members in the news

Some of our members found their way into Evening Sentinel newspaper (or at least the online version) over the summer, including Paul & Carolyn Ruane, Monica Hartland (now President of the FSF)  and Nick May (Dartmouth Arms). 

We have also now added the link for Keith MacKenzie-Ingle.

Here are the links to the articles:

Keith MacKenzie-Ingle - 42 year glory hunt paying off for southern Stokie

Paul & Carolyn Ruane - City fans enjoy perfect match

Monica Hartland - The first lady of football becomes president

Monica Hartland - Fans chief hails Coates

Nick May - Would you Adam and Eve it? You can get oatcakes dahn sarf!

Home match tickets via SCSSC!

With the large majority of tickets for games at the Brit taken up by season tickets, which are not a viable option for many Southern Stokies, there was some discussion at the AGM about what we, as a club, could do to help members get tickets for one-off matches. After some debate, it was decided that SCSSC should look into buying a ‘club’ season ticket. This would be offered to members on a ballot basis. If successful we would look into buying additional tickets in future years.

At the AGM, it was thought that it may have been too late for us to implement this for 2009/10 given that the second season ticket deadline was approaching. However, the committee (especially Julia and Garry Zuk) have been successful and we are now up and running.

In addition, with help from Stoke City we have been able to resolve the difficult issue of handing over a season ticket book. SCFC have agreed that the member attending each match can pick up a ‘normal’ ticket on the day from the ticket office.

Full details of the scheme are given here.

Your own @scssc.co.uk email address – FREE!

Fed up of having JohnSmith678@btinternet.com or some other incomprehensible email address. SCSSC is pleased to announce an alternative!

We can now offer to our members, completely free of charge, club email addresses using the @scssc.co.uk domain. For example, you could be john.smith@scssc.co.uk or delboy@scssc.co.uk or whatever takes your fancy (as long as no-one has beaten you to it!) Your scssc address will only be a ‘forwarding’ address and you will still need a ‘real’ email account and address (such as BT, Tiscali, Virgin, Tesco etc.). In other words, any emails sent to your scssc address will simply be 'bounced' on to your 'real' address.

If you wish to take advantage of this offer, this is what you need to do:

• contact us usign the contact form (select "This website" option)
• state your preferred email name, i.e. the bit before the @scssc.co.uk
• state which address(es) you wish your emails to be forwarded to (we will check these before setting up the forwarding)

This service is offered as a favour to members, and we reserve the right to withdraw it if circumstances dictate (e.g. we have to change web hosting provider to one that doesn't support this). In addition, we reserve the right to withdraw the service from any individual if we suspect that it has been abused.

For reasons of privacy and security, only the webmaster and assistant webmaster will have the necessary permissions to set up the service.

You can instruct us to stop the forwarding at any time.

SCSSC business cards

We have created some SCSSC ‘business cards’, incorporating our contact details. These are handy for giving to any potential new recruits that you may meet. If you would like some of these cards to hand out, please contact us (using the "General club matters" option, nd we will send them with your newsletter.

Any news to share?

If you have any ‘news’ to share with us on this page (and in the Newsletter column), such as births, weddings, qualifications, relocations etc., or anything else of interest to other members, then please contact us (using the "membership info" option).