{"id":7447,"date":"2008-06-06T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"the-swans-trust-annual-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/06\/06\/the-swans-trust-annual-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swans Trust &#8211; Annual Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">The Trust &ndash; formed in 2001 &ndash; holds an election every 12 months where candidates can stand and be voted for by the members to work on the Trust board.&nbsp; The successful candidates are all elected for a period of two years and may stand for re-election at that time. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">The Trust board themselves then provide the link between the membership and the football club, the stadium and other areas that affect the support both directly and indirectly.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Election to the Trust board is a voluntary decision although successful candidates are asked to attend monthly Trust Board meetings &ndash; usually the first Monday of each month &ndash; and assist where possible at Trust events which range from fans forums to bowling nights and other similar functions&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">The Trust board also vote between themselves as to which people take on roles such as Supporter Director at the football club &ndash; a role that can only be taken by an elected member of the board.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">There is no payment for the role and for more details you can visit <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swanstrust.com\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">www.swanstrust.com<\/font><\/a><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\"> which tells you more about the Trust and its aims or you can contact us at <\/font><a href=\"mailto:psumbler@swanstrust.com\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">psumbler@swanstrust.com<\/font><\/a><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Anyone wishing to stand for election to the Trust board should download a nomination form which needs to be seconded by six existing Trust members with the forms being available here (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swanstrust.com\/PageContent.aspx?id=359\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">http:\/\/www.swanstrust.com\/PageContent.aspx?id=359<\/font><\/a><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"1\">)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trust &ndash; formed in 2001 &ndash; holds an election every 12 months where candidates can stand and be voted for by the members to work on the Trust board.&nbsp; The successful candidates are all elected for a period of two years and may stand for re-election at that time. The Trust board themselves then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}