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Local publishing boss to helm Big Bath City Bid

31/3/2015

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PictureJon Bickley, Chair of Big Bath City Bid
The push for a community-owned football club in Bath received a boost this week with a series of high-profile new signings to the Big Bath City Bid. Jon Bickley, MD of local publishing firm Anthem Publishing, will be the bid’s new chair. Nick Thompson, CEO of Bath-based Gradwell Communications and former MD of Hull City FC, has joined the bid’s executive team as a commercial advisor. Jamie Malley, director at Frome-based Sandstone Media, a qualified coach who is heavily involved in youth and community football, and Simon Tapscott, MD of Do Good Things, a marketing and fundraising agency for good causes, have also joined the executive team.

Jon Bickley said:

“Bath City FC is the great unrecognised part of the city that can be something bigger and better for everyone. This is our opportunity to make Bath City FC a club everyone can have a stake in, enjoy being involved with and take pride in. I want other people to enjoy real football, right on their doorstep.”

Martin Powell, Chair of the Supporters Society, welcomed the new team members:

“This clearly demonstrates how the community ownership approach can attract new talent, skills and expertise, getting more people invested and involved in Bath City FC.”


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Our friends in the north...

31/3/2015

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PicturePhoto: (L-R) Oliver Holtaway, Bath City Supporters Society, Andy Walsh, FC United, John Payne, stadium project manager, FC United, Martin Powell, Bath City Supporters Society.
Representatives from the Bath City Supporters Society visited Manchester last week to meet with the board of FC United of Manchester, a community-owned club set up by disillusioned Manchester United supporters. Society Chair Martin Powell and Secretary Oliver Holtaway spent five hours with counterparts at the northern club discussing the highs and lows of running a democratic, community-owned football club.

FC United general manager Andy Walsh also gave the Bath pair a tour of the club’s new stadium in Moston, currently under construction, which was part-funded by a community share offer.

Oliver Holtaway said:

“FC United have been incredibly generous in sharing their experiences of volunteer engagement, business planning, fundraising campaigns and member democracy. We are coming from a very different starting point, but their advice is invaluable.”
 
Andy Walsh, general manager, FC United of Manchester, said:
 
“We were delighted to welcome the Bath City Supporters Society to FC United of Manchester and we wish them all the best in building a community-owned club in Bath. It’s hard work running a football club but it can be done and when you own it yourself the upside is so much higher.”



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