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RICT Donate to Andy’s Man Club

RICT Community Engagement Team Leader Biff Bean, Chairman Rob Bradley and Committee Member Gavin Gordon were pleased to hand over a cheque for £650 to Sean Gill, area representative of suicide prevention charity Andy’s Man Club. A massive thank you to the RICT Community Team for making this possible. If you would like to support this charity, please use the pay-in details to donate below and see the work the club does via https://andysmanclub.co.uk/

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FPA & Trust Target for Charity

Representatives of the FPA and RICT join together on Friday 15 November at Lincoln Bowls Club to raise money for Mind and Buddies Cafe.

October Trust Board Minutes now available.

Please click here to view the Minutes of the Trust Board Meeting held in October.

Lincoln City Foundation Youth Club

Please click here for details of the latest new initiative from the Trust’s charity partner for 2024.

POTM for October voting now open

And you can vote via Twitter:

RICT PLAYER OF THE MONTH 🏆

Vote now for your winner of October's RICT POTM award…#RICTPOTM

— The Red Imps Community Trust (@trustinlcfc) October 30, 2024

Supporting our Fans

On 24th October, the Government announced the launch of the new Football Governance Bill, which has been strengthened in a number of area. Areas of interest of particular interest to fans are likely to be the role of an Independent Regulator, financial redistribution across the EFL and supporter representation. It is anticipated that the parliamentary process of formally adopting the Bill will take until Summer 2025.

Through the work of our Trust, we are in regular dialogue with the Football Supporters Association (FSA), and this work is now headed up by one of our new Trust Board Members, Julian Buttery. Going forward, he will look to provide further information on fan-related issues and campaigns that the FSA is engaged with through this website and through our social media channels.

For those interested in the detail of the Bill can find it HERE

Present the next Player of the Month Award

The opportunity to make the on-pitch presentation of the next “Player of the Month” award is one of the prizes on offer to the winners of our latest anagram competition. Please hand your entry form in to our Pod in the University of Lincoln Fan Village before kick-off on one of the upcoming home match days.

No 6 wins Trust POTM for September

Trust board member Julian Buttery and new junior member Charlie Grimshaw present Ethan Erhahon with the Trust Player of the Month for September trophy voted by our fans.

Photograph courtesy Chris Vaughan and Lincoln City Football Club

Press Statement: Announcing Trust’s new Fan Elected Director

The Red Imps Community Trust is delighted to announce that Phil Scrafton is our new Fan Elected Director (FED) and starts work straight away to represent you – the fans – on the club board.

Phil joined the Trust Board at the beginning of the 2024/25 season after being elected as the Supporter Elected Director, one of two Directors representing the Club’s fan base on the Club board.

Phil is local to Lincoln having spent his very earliest years in Hartsholme, followed by ‘school’ years living just off Doddington Road. Like many, Phil became an Imps fan after an early introduction as a young boy attending matches with his dad and older brother, before being allowed to attend games with his mates in his early teens.

His career has been in town planning and development, commencing at the City Council in 1981. Over 20 years later Phil decided to seek new challenges in the private sector planning consultancy world, joining Lichfield Planning, whose main office was in London.

As Equity Partner when the recession took hold after 2008, it was clear that changes were needed and Phil jointly led the formation of Globe Consultants – a joint town planning and economic development business – based in Lincoln in 2010. He led that business as Managing Director until deciding to step away into semi-retirement in 2022. 

Business interests are now mainly limited to providing part-time support to the delivery of a major mixed housing and leisure development on a riverside site east of Lincoln. This is a project he’s led with the landowner for around 15 years and is keen to see through to completion, delivering huge benefits for a very supportive local community.

Fortunately, Phil now has time to follow his longstanding desire to travel and to spend more time with family. Phil is married to Jane, has two grown up children, two young grandsons and is looking forward to the latest generation’s first match experience being at Sincil Bank.