https://word.office.live.com/wv/WordVie ... 012-13.doc Link to donate will be available on Bullbuilder website tomorrow nite. Club Pastor will coordinate

https://word.office.live.com/wv/WordVie ... 012-13.doc Link to donate will be available on Bullbuilder website tomorrow nite. Club Pastor will coordinate

Some technical difficulty in posting to the BullBuilder website. However, in the mean time, here is the gist of the proposal:



=#0040FFIn all the uncertainty currently surrounding Odsal, the overriding hope is simply that the Bulls will survive. BullBuilder remains wholly supportive of the current efforts to ensure that this happens.

However, in the mean time, BullBuilder is particularly concerned about two groups. Firstly, there are the Bulls’ staff, who have been made redundant and have subsequently shown their dedication to the cause by returning to work for free to ensure that the London match went ahead. Secondly, there are the young players at the Bulls, who appear to have been somewhat neglected in the midst of the financial turmoil.

BullBuilder’s main brief has always been to support young players at the Bulls. Therefore, we propose to dedicate our existing funds and any future funds from members’ subscriptions, along with our very best efforts, to ensuring that these youngsters are looked after. To this end, we are keeping in touch with the remaining coaching staff to identify any help to which we can put our funds.

However, we are also concerned about the hardship experienced by the dedicated coaching and back-office staff whose posts were recently made redundant. In some cases, this has left families who were entirely committed to the Bulls’ cause not only without earned income, but also without the ability to claim benefits.

We appreciate that there are many calls on members’ funds at the moment, including some rugby-related requests. However, under the circumstances, we would like to establish a hardship fund to give assistance to any ex-member of staff who needs it. If any BullBuilder member or supporter would like to make a separate contribution to this fund, we guarantee that it will be ring-fenced for the specific purpose of helping these individuals, and will be returned to the contributor if not used in this way.

If you wish to contribute to this fund, please make this clear when sending your contribution. Alternatively, if you wish to contribute in general to BullBuilder, we will continue to target our main efforts at supporting the Bulls’ young players.

In either case, please be assured that we continue to do our very best to reflect Bradford Bulls’ supporters’ appreciation of the value of the young players at Odsal and the commitment and dedication of the wonderful staff.

Excellent plan I have been hoping there would be a practical way to help the lads and the coaching team. I will go and dig out my cheque book!

This is an excellent idea and fully worthy of our support. I was only saying at the match yesterday that I was going to suggest to Bullbuilder something along these lines.



I was asked if I had paid in or used my season ticket. I used my season ticket as I did not know where my gate money would have gone. If I could be guaranteed that my money went purely to wages/hardship (not an adminstrators wages though) then I would gladly pay in to all home matches.



As you can give me this assurance I too am happy to pay my gate money into the fund along with a little extra.



Can someone let me know how I can do this and would you want the money for all home matches up front in one payment or prefer it as a steady income and sent match by match.



Can you also let me know the preferred payment method that minimises any bank/handling etc charges so the maximum amount reaches the fund, and do I have to state alongside the payment that it is a donation to avoid any tax liabilities for Bull Builder?



Well done for taking this on as I appreciate this will cause extra work for some of you.

A friend gave me £20 to put "towards the club" yesterday. I didn't know what to do with it, but this seems perfect.

You can now contribute to the hardship fund by using the link below.



[urlhttp://www.bullbuilder.co.uk/hardship.aspx[/url

Cheque's can be posted to



BullBuilder

Suite 2 Buttershaw Works

Buttershaw Lane

Bradford

BD6 2DD



[urlhttp://www.bullbuilder.co.uk/ContactUs.aspx[/url

Done! I shall donate the gate money + little extra on each home date until the season end

Sorry if any of the below has already been thought of, just thinking out loud.



Might be an idea to tweet that link (if not already done) to all the major players we can think of, like yer Russell Crowes etc and indeed the players all of whose Twitter followers are just the sort of people who would probably be happy to chip in, if they know about it. Also using the hashtags such as #savebradfordbulls would pop it up around those interested?



Would Ross publish it in the T&A?

Yes he probaly would if you clearly state this will give the coaching staff some sort of pay.

He could retweet it too, he has a lot of rugby and sports followers

He's got the press release. I'll check with him if he'll give it a push.

Good idea. Just sent it to Sadler and Crowe.

Thanks for spreading the word guys