Youthful members our future

COUNTY SUPPORTERS COOPERATIVE COLUMN

RECENT weeks have seen the Supporters Cooperative focus a large part of their activity around attracting new members.

First off there was the ‘Get Your Photo Taken with the Trophy’ event, and this attracted a 10 per cent increase in members ,as well as giving a group of fans something of value to point proudly to in future years.

A further photo session is planned.

An essential part of our thinking going forward on membership centres around the need to attract younger County supporters into our ranks, and we announced some weeks ago, in this column, the launch of our 16-25 membership category with an attractive £3 per year subscription, along with our intention to consider creating a place on the Cooperative board for that 16-25 year old category.

We are serious on this matter and we think that younger County fans , apart from being a great asset on matchdays with their loud support, are serious about County too, and we know that they will have issues to sort which we can help them resolve, and if ultimately we create that dedicated position on the board, they will be in a position to raise their concerns not only to the Cooperative board but to the Club.

Notwithstanding the above, we have moved also to initiate an ‘ Away Ticket Priority Scheme’ , a members benefit negotiated with the Club to allow for members to have priority access to away tickets after season ticket holders.

Members must ‘opt in’ to enable the Co-operative to share their membership data with County by selecting preferences via their account at http://webcollect.org. uk/coop

New Members: Tick the Stockport County box on the sign-up screen. We are determined that the voice of County fans is heard, join us and help make it louder!