16 January 2005
RST announces second fundraising dinner

Following the resounding success of last years event, the RST is holding another fundraising dinner at the Moat House Hotel, Glasgow on Friday 4th March. The evening will include a five course meal and some excellent guest speakers (names to be confirmed). Tickets are £50 each or £500 for a table of ten. All monies raised will go towards further increasing the RST’s shareholding in Rangers FC. Tickets can be purchased by sending a cheque (made payable to the Rangers Supporters Trust) to:

Rangers Supporters Trust,
c/o Direct Sharedeal,
3rd Floor,
Sterling House,
20 Renfield Street,
Glasgow G2 5AP

or click here to order securely online.

In addition, the RST is currently negotiating preferential drinks prices and room rates with the hotel to enable guests to have a relaxing nights sleep before heading off to Ibrox next day for our game against Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Please order early to avoid disappointment. Further details will follow.

12 January 2005
Next Open Day - Saturday 29 January

The Trust will be holding it's next "Open Day" in Ibrox Primary School, before we play Livingston in the SPL on Saturday 29 January. Doors will be open from 11am, and the following Trust Board members will be on duty that day to deal with your concerns, or answer any queries you may have on the Rangers Supporters Trust. New Members can join on the day, and become a Rangers shareholder.

Joanne Percival (Clydebank)
Colin Glass (Bearsden)
Christine Sommerville (Monklands)
Steve Clark (Dublin)
Scot van den Akker (Glasgow)

Please see the Ibrox Primary School Access Guide for more information (.pdf 69K)

12 January 2005
Meeting with First Minister – Friday 7 January

A member of the Rangers Supporters Trust Board at the invitation of the Rangers Assembly was present at the meeting with the First Minister, Jack McConnell, last Friday. The First Minister had invited fans from both clubs to attend. In total 4 Rangers fans from the Assembly were present along with 4 Celtic fans from various supporters' organisations. Cathy Jamieson, Minister for Justice, was also present.

The objective of the meeting was to ask both clubs to consider the possibility of working together with the common aim of eradicating sectarianism from football.

No major issues were discussed at the meeting however an agreement was made that representatives from the Rangers Assembly would meet with Cathy Jamieson in the near future and at a later stage hold a possible joint meeting with representatives from the Celtic fans' organisations.

The representatives from the Rangers Assembly made it clear to the First Minister that any discussions between both Rangers and Celtic fans would take place on an even basis with no side being blamed as worse than the other.

The meeting concluded with a commitment from the Rangers Assembly that a meeting would be held in the near future with Cathy Jamieson.