Vision
Mission Statement
“To make Newcastle United Football Club a true focal
point not just for football fans but for the entire community through an unbreakable
bond between community and club on an unprecedented scale.
Vision Statement:
To become a beacon for football fans all over the world shining out in the sea of negativity surrounding the alleged actions of some players, clubs and owners. To make non-football fans proud of football as a professional sport. To demonstrate football as the force for good in the entire global community, irrespective of color, religion, race, and even footballing allegiance.
Why We Believe In Fan Ownership
The club is at the heart of the community and the community is at the heart of the club. Therefore we will ensure that both grow together and that both profit from each other. Our team believes in the inclusive nature of sport as enjoyment and participation for all.
Brief Plan Overview
We are hoping to get 300,000 fans to purchase one share for £1,000.00 each. The proposed foundation would be set up similar to Barcelona's with a European style President. Their would be a presidential election every 3 years. Each shareholder would have 1 vote in all elections. The fans would not directly run the club as qualified individuals would still be hired to run the club. Below are our 3 core beliefs about the structure of a supporter owned club.- The community and fans own the club not run it. (The day to day operations will be run by hired professionals)
- No one fan investor/investor or group of investors will hold more than one vote irrespective of level of investment.
- NUFC will be not for profit and all profits will be re-invested into the club and community.
Who We Are
We are a group of highly paid senior professionals catalysed and driven by Peter Lee a fan, strategic business consultant and visiting lecturer at one of the world’s top universities. The group consists of three teams. The professional Bid Team which includes very senior lawyers, stockbrokers and tax accountants who will buy the club for the fans. The second group is the professional Publicity team which includes Mel Goldberg, the world renowned Sports and Celebrity Lawyer, a “fixer” based in Barcelona and publicity and finance specialists. The final team is the Support Team which includes the web design team, and other professional consultants who support and advise the other two teams.We need to maintain the anonymity of the professionals involved at this time. However, once the legal structure is approved and we have made ourselves known to Mr. Ashley’s agents, we will be obliged to reveal our identities.
What Our Aims Are
• To purchase the club on behalf of the community and fans.• To run the club on a model similar to FC Barcelona where the fans elect representatives and the President.
• To bring NUFC and the whole community, not just fans, closer together.
• To bring the community involvement of the club to unprecedented levels thus making it a beacon for all other clubs and communities.
• To run and maintain the club with significant funding to fund transfers and operational costs.
• To restore the team’s performances by bringing stability to the club through certainty of ownership.
How We Will Achieve Our Aims
• By ensuring the correct tax and legal structures for the bid and the running of the club are put in place.• By raising finance through a combination of corporate investors, philanthropists, sporting and celebrity fans and through the fan investors.
• By implementing a series of initially, small scale community projects, maintaining and enhancing current ones, and later, adding major projects that benefit everyone in the community.
• By providing the structure, funding, management, footballing policy and community development that will keep the power in the hands of the true owners.
• By using proven best practice marketing methods to maintain and grow annual operational funding and exploiting our structure to its maximum potential.
Why Should You Invest
Should investment in our project be solely for the purposes of profit? We believe the answer is “no”. Does one give to charity in the developing world because one expects a return on investment? Does one give to our children because one expects a return on our investment? Sometimes one must do what one must do because it’s the right thing to do. Sometimes one must do what one must do because it brings great tide-swells of emotions, from joy to sadness, from happiness to anger, and from pride to shame. Newcastle United never fails to bring out the passion and emotion in all of its fans. Fans will experience great pride when sitting in the fabulous stadium knowing we own this great club, Newcastle United FC. This is an opportunity for every fan to have an equal voice, for the club to take an unprecedented role in the community and for all fans to feel they not only belong to the club, but the club truly belongs to them.How You Can contribute Now
You can pledge financial support by pledging at savenewcastle.com; talk to your friends, family and colleagues about the wonderful opportunity to own the club and community again; be positive and trust that your best interests and the interests of the club and community are in safe hands; and you can do more research and find out why fan ownership is the best way forward for Newcastle United. Remember to share the vision!Want to Find out More?
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