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This seems like a good offer and hopefully there is a good take up on this: http://www.ptfc.co.uk/news/2011-2012/october_2011/peel_to_save

This is a "not quite free fund offer" but it does raise a good amount of money for the cause: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/which/#12379 We need more people registered (25 at the moment) and we need to make the use of easyfundraising & easysearch the norm so that our club benefits as much as possible. Lets work together to achieve that. Thanks for your support!

As they are in the press at the moment here is some info on credit cards that have offers through easyfundraising: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/finance/credit-cards/ Now is the time to support the good work that is being done at our club on the financial side of things by working together to generate additional income. Thanks for your support!

Here are some codes that can save you money when shopping online through easyfundraising: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/deals/voucher-codes/ It is very important that as much additional income makes its way to our club so please do what you can with this very simple process that does not cost you anything above your normal spend (and can actually save you money). Thanks for your support!

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A further £1.13 was raised through easysearch - thanks! If you are not using easysearch then here is some info about it and I would urge you to consider it: http://wearethistlefundraising.easysearch.org.uk/ Lets work together to help get additional funds for our club as they could prove crucial in what is a very tight division. Thanks for your support!

Thanks for the highlights - we are playing some very good stuff!

The good thing is at least the club know what the situation is and have time to work at getting something else in place. Whether that is another football team sharing Firhill with us or having non-football events at Firhill (boxing for example) will need to be looked at.

Hopefully with a bit of the feel good factor around Firhill at the moment these will sell out fairly quickly.

For the computer minded amongst you here is some info you might find interesting: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/dell-home-systems/#29646 The more money that we can raise through easyfundraising/easysearch then the better it will be for our club and given how tight the league table is any additional funds could make a big difference. Thanks for your support!

We are now starting the final quarter of the year and this is normally the one that generates most funds so lets make sure it is a big quarter for the wearethistle cause! By my reckoning we made approximately £39 during the last quarter. This month sees easyfundraising running a competetition which gives you the opportunity to win £400 to spend at Homebase: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/free-competition-uk/2011-10-homebase/ Don't forget about easysearch as that is another good way to raise funds as well. We can make a positive impact on our club if we work together to generate as much additional funds as possible. Thanks, as always, for your support!

I thought that there were tickets sold at matchday hospitality and a seperate draw for those in attendance (that has been the case when I have been in hospitality over recent seasons). Perhaps with the format last night they did not do so, I will ask when speaking to the club prior to the Falkirk match.

My pleasure!

Thanks for the great pics Tommy!

Congratulations to the winners last evening: http://www.ptfc.co.uk/news/2011-2012/september_2011/50_50_half-time_draw_winners I think I sold the winning ticket going by the number! There was a little hitch on the evening which meant we were a seller down and with the terrible weather it was perfectly understandable that people did not want to stop as they headed in so that it why the prize was a bit down on previous games (but £256 is still a good amount and the average for the season is still over £300). Thanks, again, for your support!

Just a reminder on the last day of this quarter about the various free funds that can be raised through easyfundraising: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/raise-funds-for-free/ By working together we will make a positive impact on our club. Thanks for your support!

50p can be raised without making a purchase, completing a survey will also put you in with a chance of winning a competition: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/offersclick/ We can make a difference to our club if we work together on ideas like this. Thanks for your support!

Some info for those of you looking to save some money when buying new shoes: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/hotter-shoes/#29167 Getting additional funds in to the club is very important and we can do that by working together using easyfundraising & easysearch. Thanks for your support!

Some info for those of you that are looking to do some clothes shopping and want to help raise funds for the wearethistle cause: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/m-and-co/#28913 Lets work together to help generate extra funds for our club. Thanks for your support!

The date may have changed but the 50/50 draw continues as usual and there will be sellers at Firhill on Friday evening who will be very happy to sell you as many tickets as you want. The support you guys have given us so far this season has been superb with every league game having a cash prize of at least £300 (a figure we did not reach once last season) and we really are very grateful for this. The profits from the draw are ring fenced for the very important area of youth development and if you can spare 50p on Friday night we would be very grateful if you would consider using it to buy a ticket. Thanks, as always, for your support!

The survey was not brought up. Summer football was not discussed, the conversation was mainly on Friday night games and the league structure. There is a for sale sign up and they are actively marketing it but with the market being as it is they do not anticipate anything happening in the short to medium term.

Another reminder about easysearch and how it is a very simple way of raising funds for the cause: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/how_it_works:_easysearch/ The more people that use this and/or easyfundraising for their purchases the more we can make a positive impact on our club. Thanks for your support!

There is a summary of the evening now on the official website but to confirm what Stolenscone has said here is a quote from it: "Club’s long term debt It is decreasing year on year and the forecast is to have everything other than the overdraft facility cleared by 2015."

Our average league attendance for the first 4 games last season was 2,442 and this season it is 2,563 so some positive news there. Hopefully the good football the manager wants to play (coupled with winning games) will see that average remain, or even increase, over the remainder of the season.

I have the accounts for the year ended 31/05/09 to hand and they show a loss for that year of £220,788 and a deficit of £1,382,116 The abbreviated accounts for year ended 31/05/10 show a loss of £117,117 and an investment of £900,000 (PropCo I assume). Therefore a debt of £600,00 looks reasonable to me but I am willing to be corrected.