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United Owners, Director and Manager join the Foundation

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Dundee United Owners, Sporting Director and Manager join the Dundee United Supporters’ Foundation

Dundee United Supporters’ Foundation are delighted to announce that Chairman Mark Ogren, Vice-Chairman Scott Ogren, Sporting Director Tony Ashgar and Manager Micky Mellon have signed up as Foundation Members.

This news further strengthens the partnership between DUSF and our Club.

Mark Ogren said “I was pleased to sign up as a member and would ask all United fans to join me, Scott, Micky and Tony as members if possible.

“During the difficulties presented by the current pandemic, we have enjoyed a strong working relationship with the foundation and as a Club we see that partnership continuing to grow. Joining DUSF is a clear way that our fans can help secure the future continued growth of our football club.”

You can read the full Club statement here

 

DUSF Members overwhelmingly vote for Club funding proposal

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We are delighted to announce that the funding proposal put to our members in a ballot has been approved. There was a turnout of 91% of the voting members with an overwhelming majority of 99% voting Yes. This convincing vote in favour will allow us to progress with the Partnership Agreement and the transfer of £100,000 to the Club as outlined in our proposal to DUSF members.

Joint statement released by Dundee United Supporters’ Foundation and Dundee United FC

 

DUSF Members AGM Thursday 12th September

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Attention DUSF Members. Please come along to our 2019 AGM next Thursday at 7pm if you can.
DUFC Managing Director Mal Brannigan and Sporting Director Tony Asghar will be in attendance following the formal business for a Q&A session.

Tea and coffee will be served and the bar will be open.

Agenda below:

1. Introductions
2. General update and review of the year
3. Financial update and approval of Accounts
4. Election of Directors
5. Looking to the future
6. Questions from members

Meet & greet Dundee United Supporters’ Foundation at Club 83

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Come along to Club ’83 for a drink before the game v Queen of the South on Saturday 3rd of November at 1.30 p.m and find out more about the Dundee United Supporters’ Foundation.
Information will be there to take away and members of the DUSF Steering Group will be there to answer any questions. You can also join the Foundation on the day. Hope to see you there. Members and non-members welcome.

 

Westfest Beautiful Sunday !

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We had a great day at the Westfest Big Sunday, a few Arabs signed up on the day, and loads took away the leaflets and booklets to have a look through.

Many pertinent questions were asked and hopefully answered. We have relied a lot on social media and word of mouth to get the message out about the Foundationbut nothing beats face to face engagement. We hope to attend similar events in the future but if you want to arrange for a group of your Arab friends to get togther we will be delighted to come along to speak about he aims and objectives of the Foundation. Meanwhile if you want to find out more or would like to join us just visit www.dusf.scot

Notice of AGM and Election of Directors

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The Dundee United Supporters’ Foundation (DUSF) 2018 Election Notice

The DUSF Board of Directors have started the annual process of holding elections to the Board in time for the Company’s Annual General Meeting to be held on Sunday 12th August 2018 at 11am. in Chamber East, The Chamber Building, Panmure Street, Dundee, DD1 1EP.

This notice marks the start of the formal election process and is an invitation to qualifying members to consider whether they wish to stand for election to any of the forthcoming vacancies on the DUSF Board.
One current Foundation Board member is standing down (by rotation) and is understood to be seeking re-election, and there are another three vacant positions.

There are currently four Directors and as required by our Articles, one Director has to stand for re-election. The Director standing for re-election this time is:  Michael Evans.

The other Directors who will remain in place are; John Gibson, Graham McLelland and Martin Manzi. Also there are an additional three vacant Director positions to be filled.

The Board wishes to give DUSF members full information so that the process is seen to be open,
fair and to help members get involved if they wish to do so.

In accordance with the standing election rules adopted by the Board, nominations are invited
for election to these positions by the return date of Saturday 30th June 2018.

Nominations are open from all current DUSF members who meet the following criteria;

  • Aged 18 or over on June 30th 2018.
  • The candidate must be a Founder Member, or a current fully paid up member (i.e has made membership contributions over at least the last six months and continues to contribute).
  • Each nomination must also be supported by five current DUSF members who must also provide their details

Completed forms should be returned to FourM Limited, The Returning Officer, DUSF, Stannergate House, Dundee Road West, Dundee, DD5 INB or by email to the Returning Officer at info@dusf.scot to arrive by the closing date of midnight on  Saturday 30th June 2018.

As there are currently three other vacant positions on the Board, only if there are more nominations received than current vacancies will a postal ballot of the membership be held.

The election rules can be found in our Articles of Association 

To be nominated for election to any of these positions, nominees must fully complete a Nomination Form. Please carefully read the Election Rules and the notes printed on the form before completing it.

A blank nomination form can be downloaded here

Failure to follow the nomination requirements may invalidate the nomination. Please bear in mind that leaving submission of nomination papers until the latest date will prevent us from getting in touch to try to correct any errors invalidating nomination papers.

FourM Limited,
Chartered Accountants
Returning Officer 

1st June 2018