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The Queens Trust have received a fantastic and rare opportunity to purchase 480 shares in Queen of the South Football Club. The Trust are looking to make this purchase by fundraising close to half the amount required towards the total. There are a couple of fundraisers planned starting with this Just giving page to get it kick started. Please donate if you can every little bit helps. Thank you. Link below… update: Almost 2/3rds of our just giving target already reached in just two days. Absolutely fantastic! Thank you all. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/queenstrustsharefundraiser?utm_term=WxbqBvqnQ

Help the Queens Trust to grow! A fantastic opportunity has arisen to purchase some shares in Queen of the South. Attached is a link below to the Queens Trust just giving page and watch out for a future auction/raffle and other fundraising activities coming very soon. All donations or any items for our auction/raffle very greatly appreciated. Many thanks. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/queenstrustsharefundraiser?utm_term=d7ZD7jNwx

The Queens Trust are proud to be one of the sponsors of the 2024 annual QOS charity calendar. We will be selling them at our stall at the Queens Arena Christmas Fair on behalf of the makers. They are priced at a great value at just £8 each. All profits are going to this years charity Alzheimer Scotland. Come along to the fair and pick one up or contact us to reserve one.

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Queens Trust increase shareholding

Target reached! The Queens Trust are delighted to announce that after a recent donation of shares in Queen of the South FC we now have reached and surpassed 1000 shares in the club! The Trust also has money set aside which was raised specifically for increasing our shareholding in Queens. The club have been contacted but there are no shares available. If any QOS shareholders would be interested in selling all or part of their shareholding to the Queens Trust please do get in touch.

Hi Palmy Pie Any questions that we get asked through our own social media channels (Facebook twitter Instagram) or by direct messages to our WhatsApp or email we do our best to answer very promptly. Share purchase: It is currently still a work in progress. The money is set aside in the Trust account specifically for buying shares in the club. The preferred option was for the club to get the money and that is what we have been trying hard to achieve. The board has previously told us a number of times that they had an agreement with a major shareholder that they would get the money from the sale of any shares that the shareholder sold. The Trust wrote to the club who replied that they had no shares available. We then wrote to that shareholder but had no reply so we wrote to them again at a different address but got no reply so we then wrote to them a third time via the club but again have had no reply. We will discuss what to do next re shares at the next Queens Trust meeting which is on Monday 21st February 2022 at the Queens Arena 7.30pm. The meeting is open to all Queens Trust members. Would be really great to see as many members as possible there. We did receive a few great donations of shares from Trust members that have us now very close to the long term 1000 shares target. We are currently at 972 shares. It is 5 years since we tried for fan representation at the club AGM and it has not been mentioned since. The reason we have asked the club to consider it now is that they themselves are asking for suggestions to help on the board. It would be failing our membership and the aims of the Queens Trust if we did not put our name forward. Whilst the Trust committee is fairly small it represents over 250 fans from a wide variety of backgrounds and with different skill sets.

QOS AGM. Queens shareholders can submit questions….

The Queens Trust are delighted to have been able to help Queen of the South Ladies team with sponsorship for their new away kit. Here they are pictured before their game yesterday. After a few years with no women’s team it is really great to see them back in action with a new team. Well done to all involved. They have had a super start to the new season with 7 points from the first 3 games. All the best Ladies for the season ahead! The Queens Trust supporting both Club and Community. This sponsorship and the other work we do is only possible thanks to our Trust members and supporters. If you can please support our work by joining us for 21/22. Trust memberships are now being taken. Only £10 for the year (£5 concession) and chance to win Queen of the South season tickets.

‪Before we get ready to start our Queens Trust 2021/22 membership drive we would like to say a very big THANK YOU to all of our Queens Trust members for your super support in 2020/21. Last year we smashed our membership record with a fantastic 317 members joining the Trust. It is only with your support that we can do the work that we do. So thank you all. Some of our members from last year are pictured here...‬

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The extra £1,500 recently raised on top of the £2,000 plus we have given the club already this season via shirt draws season tickets, sponsorships will certainly help the club. However you are missing the point which is that it is not the money coming directly from the Trust that will make the difference but it is the money coming from our supporters which will have the biggest impact of all on the club.

It has been mentioned more than once and we will soon find out. I am very hopeful that it will especially with money raised being specifically for this purpose.

As I posted on Facebook earlier: We will be first offering this fantastic sum raised to Queens in exchange for Club shares. The Club previously advised us that they had an arrangement with a shareholder where the shareholder would ‘transfer part of their personal share holding to the Trust on the basis that the funds would then be reinvested in the Club so that the club benefits’. We are hoping that a similar arrangement can be made this time. If our preferred option is not currently possible, we have other options for buying shares. Having greater shares will increase the voice of the Supporters Trust and our 315 members. Five percent of shares are needed to raise a resolution at an AGM. The more shares the Trust has the easier it will be to collaborate with others to raise resolutions. When there is a vote at an AGM the size of the shareholding can come into play. I believe that the success of the Trust’s fundraiser has demonstrated that fans are keen to both support the Club as well to buy shares jointly in the Club sharing in our vision of greater supporter involvement. The shares of the Queens Trust represent all 315 Trust members. Supporter involvement in the running of football clubs is a growing movement across the UK as fans look to have greater connections with their local teams. One example is Morton Club Together supporters group who have over 700 members that are paying in over £10,000 each month as they move towards community ownership. They now have two supporter representative directors at Morton FC. I feel that greater support and financial investment by fans is there if Queens FC were to embrace their supporters and create an environment of inclusivity. Ps: Great goal by Queens Trust member and also the player that the Trust sponsor Wullie Gibson!

Hi Steeplechat It is in our story which is on the Just Giving page. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/queenstrust?utm_term=Dkr4DQPpj

Also a huge thank you from the Trust is due to fans Kevin Donnelly & Russel Campbell who have very kindly offered to donate Queens shares to the Trust. Very generous and very welcome donations. If anyone else may like to donate some of their shares to the Trust please do get in touch.

Would welcome a meeting but to be clear the Queens Trust didn’t ask for a meeting.

Thank you for all the super donations to the Queens Trust fundraiser. We have just received an amazing donation in the post today which has helped us reach and smash our money target in less than one week! It takes us to a total of £1,380. We will shortly close our Just Giving account. Fantastic support from the community for the Queens Trust and for us buying shares in Queen of the South FC - thank you all very much!

Great support for our Queens Trust fundraiser to help us reach our target of 1000 shares or more in @OfficialQosFC. Thank you to all who have already donated. We are currently at £735 and our target is £1140. If you are able to donate anything at all it would be very much appreciated. Full details in link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/queenstrust?utm_term=GyGyad3YP

A fantastic win today and a fantastic first day of our fundraiser! Blown away by all the donations and a couple of great donations of shares. Many thanks to you all.

The Queens Trust have started a fundraiser to help us get to our long term target of 1000 shares in @OfficialQosFC We are currently at 924 shares. If you are able to donate anything at all it would be very much appreciated. Full details in link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/queenstrust?utm_term=G3VQ2MQpg

Queens Trust Statement The Queens Trust Committee are extremely disappointed in the Boxing Day actions of both Queen of the South FC and George Galloway. Firstly, these actions breached the Scottish Government Covid regulations that we have all been abiding by to keep our loved ones and communities safe. Secondly, these actions demonstrated a complete lack of respect for the loyal Queen of the South fans, many of whom had also been hoping to attend the game on Boxing Day. Poor communication, a lack of transparency around the running of the Club and ever dwindling crowds are sadly now standard for Queens. This latest shameful decision has badly damaged the reputation of the Club and left many fans furious. There is a huge amount of goodwill towards Queen of the South FC amongst the communities of Dumfries and Galloway and it is time that community faith in the Queens Board is restored. The divide between the loyal fans and the Club must be bridged by a new culture of inclusivity, transparency, and supporter representation. Our much-loved Club is struggling, both on and off the pitch, and the time for change is now.

Something different for the Queens Trust last night with our first ever LED perimeter advert for the Queen of the South v Inverness game live on BBC Scotland. Doing our bit to support the club with thanks to all those that support the Trust.

Lovely thank you letter received by the Queens Trust from Calside Primary School to thank us for their new football kit. Great to hear that they love it. We look forward to seeing them for a photo in their new kit soon. #footballinthecommunity #supporterstrust #lovefootball #startthemyoung

Queens need 100 people to subscribe to the club match day programme for it to go ahead this year. You will be supporting the club whilst getting the programme delivered to your door in time for the games and get a great read on the Queens. If they go ahead with limited numbers these programmes could be very collectible in the future. Sign up today as a decision will have to be made very soon. Link below... https://store.qosfc.com/programme-subscription-2021