FCUM is set up as an Industrial and Provident Society (Community Benefit Co-operative). Central to its constitution is the requirement that the club must be of benefit to the community.
Recently FCUM CEO Andy Walsh gave a seminar about the FCUM vision, fan owned football clubs, FCUM's community work, FCUM organisational structure, FCUM budget, FCUM's search for a home ground, AFC Wimbledon, Exeter City FC etc.
The seminar has been uploaded to YouTube in 15 parts:
Part 1 - Revolution into Reality
Part 2 - Equal Shares
Part 3 - Monetary Benefits
Part 4 - Rash Decision?
Part 5 - Balancing Football with Community Benefit
Part 6 - Wider Influence
Part 7 - Communicating with Members
Part 8 - Organisational Structure
Part 9 - Players' Wages
Part 10 - Personal Background
Part 11 - Other Clubs
Part 12 - Top End of Football
Part 13 - FIFA
Part 14 - Non Football Fans
Part 15 - Closing Statements
It's well worth a look.
“We felt that for far too long fans as the customers of the game have just been largely ignored and marginalised and exploited ...the fans themselves are just treated in quite a despicable way by most of the football clubs because they see that their ultimate loyalty is something to exploit not something to actually bring in and use effectively with developing the club.” - Andy Walsh, CEO FCUM
"Finance capital doesn’t like competition and finance capital has moved into football ...finance capital works on the basis of domination and eliminating the opposition, well you can’t eliminate the opposition in sport. Without the opposition sport doesn’t exist. So that model is fundamentally flawed and it needs to be challenged." - Andy Walsh, CEO FCUM
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