The unseen army of volunteers who keep
FOOTBALL League Club Exeter City threw a party recently to thank volunteers for their help keeping their club alive.
On the night supporters’ trust chairman Laurence Overend paid tribute to the volunteering ethos at Exeter City and manager Paul Tisdale also praised their work in his postmatch comments.
Tisdale likened the situation to an iceberg sitting on which were the League team and associated staff, with vastly more going on below the waterline which goes unseen.
Whilst I preferred the analogy of a duck on water, calm and serene above, legs going like the clappers below the surface, to the somewhat portentous iceberg, the words on volunteers rang a distinct bell. Exeter are not alone in drawing on an army of unpaid helpers to keep going, and Stockport County, from board level down throughout the organisation you will always be bumping into someone working hard for zero pay sustained by a love of the football club.
Our sister supporters group Help the Hatters typify the ethos that burns ever brighter at Edgeley Park through thick and thin.
This week ,after the Thursday Working Party’s had ceased for the season, Help the Hatters set about turning Monday into a day that they could turn their hand to again helping the Club. The Monday Club was formed and already, they have met three times at Edgeley Park and done excellent work weeding the playing surface or doing a litter pick on the stands.
Great stuff .... and added to all the other good work