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BELLSLEA BULLETIN 19
COMMERCIAL CORNER
GEORGE THOM FRASERBURGH FC
CLUB
1910 For business
I’ll start my update by congratulating Mark, James, our coaches and all the 1st team squad for a great, well deserved victory over Annan Athletic on Saturday. A good Scottish Cup campaign is our goal every season and to reach Round 4 this season is absolutely superb. Like all Broch fans I’m still coming to terms with the prospect of heading to Ibrox to face Rangers in January, and I’m sure the boys will do themselves, our Club and the Highland League, proud – a well-deserved reward to our Management team & players AND to our fans, who support us passionately season after season - it’s important the occasion is enjoyed by us all, as history tells us these moments don’t happen very often. After a great run in the Challenge Cup, Mark has again led our Club to the latter stages of a National Cup competition and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mark on behalf of all Directors for putting “The Broch” on the wider Scottish Football map this season. We set our financial budgets in late spring annually and it’s fair to say we certainly didn’t forecast for this potential financial boost next Month, so we’ll need to take stock after
George T hom the game to ensure we are sensible and prudent in our financial management. For me, the icing on the cake has been the fact that the game has been selected for live coverage on the BBC and moved to a Sunday - here’s hoping we’ll be playing in front of over 50,000 fans at Ibrox Stadium, including a large army of Broch fans, and now with a large TV audience too. Anyway, whatever happens on the pitch, the situation we find ourselves in will give us an important financial boost – operationally, nothing changes as we strive season on season to generate the income needed to allow us to exceed the ongoing operational costs of our Club, with our priority continuing to be youth development, the team on the pitch, and at the same time, ensuring we are making provision for the nonplaying side to include Bellslea Park maintenance and capital improvements. Some specific updates since last month………….. CLUB 1910: Engaging with, and working with the business community that support us, is really important, and through our varied Club 1910 activities there are opportunities for us
all to come together to share common challenges and hear from specialists in areas such as finance, legal, AI and Marketing. On 14th November our Club 1910 members had a really insightful tour of the facilities at the Ian M Cheyne Building, Wellbank, Peterhead of Score Group, one of our main sponsors. A special thanks to Ian Davidson for organising our visit , hosting us, and sharing how Score has evolved globally over the past 42 years. Thanks also to Greg Smedley and Ross Fenty for showing us all around and giving us a flavour of the various engineering operations that take place in the building. A real Centre of Excellence right on our doorstep in the North-east. Our next meeting will be in January or February and details will be posted on our Social Media Platforms. Please contact me at George.thom@fraserburghfc.co.uk with suggestions on future topics or visits that would be of interest. EVENTS: A big thank you to Jason Nicol our Club Operations Committee Member for organising our second “Dress to Kilt” Bonkers Bingo evening
