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Autumn 2022 Trust Update - Message from our Trust Chair

Where has this year gone!

It's flown by and the Lions are Promoted back to the Championship at the first attempt....with thanks to you, our fantastic supporters.

What a busy season 2022 has been and it only does seem a short while ago when we enjoyed the start of the season at the beginning of the year.

Yet again a great year of volunteering effort has paid off, quiz nights, race nights with Pride Builder and a Cheese and Wine Evening were set in and amongst this fantastic 2022 season. Buying and selling merchandise, sweets, toys, memorabilia, raffles on match-days, running and selling all things rugby (or not) on our facebook auction page and most importantly thanks to you our loyal Trust members whose subscriptions help us the Trust financially support the Club in so many ways.

As recognised by the Club throughout the year, the Trust volunteers and others have continued to ensure that the match-day experience had by all our fans is a special one and one that they then wish to come back and repeat. Vital roles are played by our Volunteers, online ticketing and gate admission management, corporate assistance, stewarding, ball crew leadership (Josh!), programme production and sales, golden gamble sales, our year long Big Season Draw running to name just a few.

We know 2023 is going to a tough year and the priority will be to ensure we remain in the Championship as it is where we belong. The future is changing again for rugby league and we have to be an integral partner with the Club and with their strategy for the future.

In order for us to do more for us and the Club there is still a need for more people to help us, no matter how small a contribution of time or effort you may think you can manage, it honestly will help.

Wanted - musicians for home games in 2023, whilst we cannot pay, we offer a wonderful learning and experience playing to a live audience, chance to experiment with music styles and practice new material, chance to 'sell' to a new audience for future gigs, enjoy along with your guests the wonderful game of rugby league with Swinton. The musicians and bands we had in 2022 did make a difference to the day If you are interested please contact me.

Match-day operations will need more volunteers as we want to enhance the experience for fans, things to be done pre-game and at half-time especially with our junior fans. How about a bouncy castle? but we need someone to supervise it! Make contact if you think this could be you.

The Trust need YOU!

We need to increase our membership numbers, so please get friends and family involved. From as little as £2/month or £24/year ! (see below)

We need a few new Board Members to help and lead the Trust and help us do what we do best, increase our visibility in our community, Club and wider RL family.

We need more fundraising events and implementation of the many great ideas our members come up with but to do them we need YOU to DO!

You can and will make a difference.

Please see our membership page on the above menu.

If you want to make direct contact with me please email me on and I'll be happy to help with any queries. Membership queries to membership

If you think your subs may have lapsed then please email membership and our membership Secretary will update you.

Events coming up

The Trust will represent the Club at the Salford Histories Festival, at Fletcher Hall, St. Peters, Swinton this coming Saturday 10-4pm. 29th Oct.

Trust meeting - AGM - Sometime soon!

End of Year Presentation Night with the Club (and yes of course we at the Trust have been helping organise) - 18th November 2022.

2023 Pre-Season Launch - Player, Kit and Sponsor presentation - date for diary - Friday 16th December - Swinton Legion

See you all soon and of course 'in Lions we Trust'

Stephen

Spring 2022 Trust Update - Message from our Trust Chair

Trust@20

The Trust is 20 years old this year!

As such a massive thanks to all our members for your support ever since that February Valentine's Day in 2002. Earlier in February we held a Trust meeting at Folly lane ARLFC where we celebrated the milestone with a look back at all that has been achieved by all our fantastic volunteers over the years. Past Trust folk shared their recollections of the last 20 years and we shared a massive selection of photos taken as well. Some people haven't changed honest! We have been instrumental in the continued survival of the club during several critical times and looking to the future we will be needed more than ever along with the other key club partners (Pride Builder, Community Foundation and the Club itself) to ensure the Club not only continues into the future but thrives and grows.

Despite the current uncertain times we are all going through and especially over the last two years we can proudly say that our members' spirit has never waned and our numbers have remained resilient. Again a testament to you all. However I have a favour to ask. Back when the trust was started our membership numbers were way above what they are now and we need to increase our numbers again and to make the Trust a greater force than we are at present.

We are in need not only of new members but key people to take an active part as Trust Board Members and to increase our visibility in our community, Club and wider RL family. We need more fundraising events, more implementation of the many great ideas our members come up with but to do so we need more people who can help us. Those who currently and actively do the organising and doing the doing are only a few and need help.

So a shout out to you, be you an existing trust member or just browsing this site for info and are not a member. Join us, help us and make a difference.

Please see our membership page for ways to join us.

If you want to make direct contact with me please email me on stephenp.swintonlions@yahoo.com and I'll be happy to help with any queries. Membership queries to membership@lionstrust.org

Events coming up

Trust meeting - Monday 9th May @Folly @7pm Joint fundraising event with Pride Builder - Friday 27th May @Boothstown Legion from 7pm, see flyer for details. Cheese and Wine Evening - July - Details to be confirmed

Come and always say hello to us at our home games this year, look out for Trust organised pre-match entertainment, trust merchandise, junior lions goodies plus much much more.

in Lions we Trust

Stephen

PS Follow us and the Club on all of the many social media channels........just search Swinton Lions and Lionstrust everywhere!.

Lions’ Tales

Documenting the Voices of Swinton RLFC

Swinton Rugby League Football Club has a rich sporting history dating back to its formation in 1866. The club has also played a central part in the social and cultural environment of the local community. Lions’ Tales is a project co-ordinated by the Swinton Lions Supporters’ Trust which aims to bring together the sporting and cultural heritage of Swinton, Pendlebury and Clifton as well as further afield by documenting the voices of the players, officials and supporters from Swinton RLFC.

So, if you are willing to be interviewed or write about your Swinton memories; or if you have Swinton RLFC memorabilia that can be made available, then contact the numbers presented below. In particular, any of the following items would be useful for the project and please note all items will be copied and recorded before being returned safely.

  • Programmes (especially pre-1960)
  • Photographs (action shots or team line-ups)
  • Medals and/or caps
  • Scrapbooks, yearbooks etc.
  • Swinton RLFC playing shirts etc.
  • Season ticket, match-day passes etc.

This project is supported by Supporters’ Direct and the Federation of Stadium Communities (FSC) with the view to establish how an area can connect with a local sporting club. So far, permission has been granted by the British Film Institute (BFI) to use images of Swinton RLFC from the Mitchell and Kenyon Archive from 1901. Also, research is underway to identify the numerous rugby-related drawings and paintings of LS Lowry who lived close-by to the former Station Road ground in Pendlebury. It is hoped to display all the material and memories in local schools and libraries for educational purposes and publish the results in a book.

For further details please email Ian Jackson.