As a result of a conversation today at lunchtime with a lifelong home and away supporter I was asked to clarify a couple of simple facts about HSL . Here we go :
1. All donations go to the Club ( apart from very small expenses for printing etc ).
2. In return we receive shares in the Club and supporters increase their ownership stake, now heading towards 17%.
3 . The shares we receive are newly issued. For the avoidance of doubt we are not buying shares from either Sir Tom Farmer or Rod Petrie.
4. The Board use these funds to buy more/pay for players and any other requirements that the Manager dictates.
5. An HSL Director will be appointed to the Hibs Board when we reach 20 %
6. All of the HSL Directors are ordinary Hibs supporters giving their time voluntarily.
7. HSL will continue to provide a vehicle to allow fans who can afford it, to provide extra funds to our Club.
What a great way to help improve our team. Join here :https://hiberniansupporters.co.uk/donate/
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16-10-2018 03:48 PM #1
Official HSL -The Facts About HSL Donations
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16-10-2018 04:22 PM #2
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Come on guys lets show the yams we can raise money too by supporting HSL
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16-10-2018 05:01 PM #3
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16-10-2018 05:04 PM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
How many shares do we buy monthly?
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16-10-2018 07:04 PM #5
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With us being at 17%, taking into account current levels of donations, when would you anticipate we will reach the 20% and have an HSL board member?
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17-10-2018 08:17 AM #6
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17-10-2018 08:40 AM #7
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Very true Hibbywilly as things stand we are miles behind the yams
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17-10-2018 08:53 AM #9
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17-10-2018 08:55 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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17-10-2018 08:55 AM #11
Finally got round to donating thanks to this thread.
Must be a thankless task organising HSL voluntarily, so thank you for your efforts. May I suggest getting PayPal set up on the website - having to punch in my sort code and account number when I don’t know it by memory has meant you’ve missed out on donations from me in the past. Cheers.
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17-10-2018 09:44 AM #13
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It is more of a membership scheme and, according to an Aberdeen supporter I know, has played havoc with the loyalty points scheme.
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17-10-2018 10:03 AM #14
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17-10-2018 10:12 AM #16
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I appreciate that they've probably got more fan contributions coming in (it was life or death for them to pitch in afterall), but they are starting from way back surely - even if we still have some of an interest free debt to pay back to STF.
I may be wrong but by my reckoning, if they'd not had some generous donations from un-named benefactors in addition to their fan contributions they'd be toiling to buy a road sweeper from Cowdenbeath. And that's without the broom.
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17-10-2018 10:25 AM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It's not how much cash you have, it's what you do with it......
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
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17-10-2018 11:32 AM #18
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That's what I thought and it's good to know that they remain in our shadow fiscally.
ZERO excuse for Hibees not to contribute to HSL though - as long as they are contributing more than we are they will inevitably be catching up (and we don't want that).
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17-10-2018 11:54 AM #19
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I Haven’t contributed to HSL, but I am happy to do direct debit to help the club I love. If it was individual share holdings, I like the idea of owning shares in hibs but although I’d be a shareholder in HSL I don’t think that appeals for some bizarre reason.
What would appeal to me is a fund to pay STF every month. We have 13600 season ticket holders. Write to everyone explaining that £3 a month direct debit would repay the loan and therefore release £40,000 a month-£10K a week, towards player budget.
Shareholdings don’t appeal to me but a direct debit of £3-£10 does
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17-10-2018 12:04 PM #20
Question for Official HSL.
- HSL is the organisation name but this isn't a name that will draw fans in. Don't we need the fund to have a 'brand' name that resonates with the wider support?
- What banners and posters can we see at home games - could this be one area that would be improved with a 'brand name'?
- Who runs the marketing strategy for HSL and would they be willing to run a focus group of fans with a view to a step change in fan response??
Apologies if these questions have already been discussed and addressed previously
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17-10-2018 12:49 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-10-2018 01:04 PM #22
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I do not understand your reticence.
Contributing via HSL will have EXACTLY the same end effect as you describe above - ie more money for the player budget - with the additional benefit of being part of a collective which will hold a stake in the club. What's to lose
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Are main target however is 25.1 % and everyone is focussed on that more than anything.
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Thank you for your suggestion. We previously had Paypal to receive donations from abroad but we changed this when we launched our new web site as we felt Paypal was too expensive. We now use Stripe which has all the same functionality as Paypal.
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17-10-2018 01:40 PM #28
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17-10-2018 02:05 PM #29
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I thought when HSL reached 20% then HSL members would elected a Director to the Hibs board not HSL Directors appoint one of their own fellow Directors.
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We are not sure we do know the reason for that, we can only guess.
We suspect that most, if not all, joined the FOH to provide the emergency working capital required to save them. And they did that a few years ago.
What we don't know is why 97% of their Members then voted to provide £3m to help build their new Stand. We can only guess that they just wanted to help their Club. What we can also make a reasonable guess about is that in less than 24 months time, when the purchase transaction is complete, most of those supporters will volunteer to continue providing over £1m extra to their Club.
What Aberdeen have done is to make a simple plea to their fans pointing out that FOH and HSL are providing extra money to their Club and would they like to do likewise.
Our proposition , in our view, is better than either of these, for a number of reasons so please can you encourage as many of your fellow supporters to join.
Thank you.
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