Terryhall
Active member
Hi all,
Firstly to the mod team, I did a search before posting this & also not entirely sure whether WoWS is the right place - apologies if there is already a thread on this topic or if this is in the wrong forum.
I became aware today of a campaign called Football United (http://footballunited.org.uk/), promoted by Women's Aid, which is aiming to stamp out domestic violence in particular, and secondly to generally improve on the misogynistic and sexist attitude that can pervade some elements of our society.
The campaign has produced a video to highlight this which I find to be quite uncomfortable to watch but have posted here below.
[video=youtube;b2MFsmpbAlA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MFsmpbAlA[/video]
I have personally signed up as a supporter of this campaign today - I looked to see whether ECFC has similarly signed up and it doesn't yet appear that we have. I am therefore intending to submit a motion to the next Trust meeting (albeit that being in Zurich I won't be able to attend in person) in order to move that the Trust Board recommend to the Club Board that ECFC formally sign up as a supporter of this campaign.
If anyone has any pointers or suggestions on how to go about this (particularly Red Bill given his recently submitted motion, or any of the current or former Trustees) then any and all advice is welcome. Equally if any other Trust members would like to register their support for the motion when I submit it, please let me know by PM - and of course anyone generally who wants to support the campaign please sign up via the link above.
Thanks all!
Terry
Firstly to the mod team, I did a search before posting this & also not entirely sure whether WoWS is the right place - apologies if there is already a thread on this topic or if this is in the wrong forum.
I became aware today of a campaign called Football United (http://footballunited.org.uk/), promoted by Women's Aid, which is aiming to stamp out domestic violence in particular, and secondly to generally improve on the misogynistic and sexist attitude that can pervade some elements of our society.
The campaign has produced a video to highlight this which I find to be quite uncomfortable to watch but have posted here below.
[video=youtube;b2MFsmpbAlA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MFsmpbAlA[/video]
I have personally signed up as a supporter of this campaign today - I looked to see whether ECFC has similarly signed up and it doesn't yet appear that we have. I am therefore intending to submit a motion to the next Trust meeting (albeit that being in Zurich I won't be able to attend in person) in order to move that the Trust Board recommend to the Club Board that ECFC formally sign up as a supporter of this campaign.
If anyone has any pointers or suggestions on how to go about this (particularly Red Bill given his recently submitted motion, or any of the current or former Trustees) then any and all advice is welcome. Equally if any other Trust members would like to register their support for the motion when I submit it, please let me know by PM - and of course anyone generally who wants to support the campaign please sign up via the link above.
Thanks all!
Terry