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Become ProRed for the new season

with TrustSTFC

The Trust STFC column with
chairman Steve Mytton
The TrustSTFC board continued to
meet over the close season and
there are some great plans for the
year ahead. The scheme enables parents
We’ve been discussing ideas with of Wiltshire schoolchildren and
the North Wilts Youth Football youth footballers to get reduced
League and local schools for quite price tickets to Swindon Town
some time now, and we continued home matches, thus encouraging
this with Adam Wainwright more familes along to the County
from Swindon Town, and also Ground. Also the club or school
representatives of STFC Football In they associate with will get
The Community. cashback based on tickets sold
The main objective is to find a through this process.
way to engage the young families This is a great project that is all
of Swindon with their local about the long-term. There are
professional football team, and the around 5,000 football mad kids
vehicle for that will be the new who play in the North Wilts league
Pro Red scheme, which we will be every Sunday and tens of thousands
promoting throughout schools later of kids in Swindon and Wiltshire
in the year. at school, so these are an obvious
We’ve now officially launched the target as future Town supporters.
scheme, and have people signing We’re sure this will help to grow
up every day, so there’s no need to attendances in the years to come,
delay matters. If you’re the parent so help us to spread the word.
of a youngster, please take a look at For more details on the supporters
the registration site and sign your trust visit their website at
family up: www.pro-red.co.uk www.truststfc.com

Strange goings on as cycle group
opposes cycle lane in Covingham as

not best use of money

On two wheels by Rob Derry of Swindon Bicycle Users Group (BUG)

This may come as a surprise to some
but Swindon BUG have opposed
the building of a new shared cycle/
pedestrian path in Covingham.
That sounds like MPs voting
against a pay-rise for themselves
doesn’t it?
The council opened up a to provide infrastructure to support
consultation about building a new the new development east of the
path to run along the northern A419 so you may start to realise
side of Covingham Drive. In their why we oppose it.
defence, the up-side was that it was There will be work done on
forward planning for the eventual building an Eastern Flyer from The
Eastern Villages development and White Hart roundabout into town
BUG is very much a supporter of using Oxford Road, Drakes Way and
putting infrastructure in place other existing paths. Our preference
before building the houses. would be to make sure that this
However, we asked ourselves two route is as good as it can be so
important questions as we looked diverting funds away to Covingham
at the plans and spoke to officials Drive would be detrimental to
from the council. 1) Will this make this scheme. Also, we believe that
cycling better and safer for existing money could be spent on lots of
cyclists and 2) Will it encourage small projects at various junctions
more people to cycle? and other pinch points around
We had to say that the answer to Swindon to make cycling even safer
both of these questions was ‘no’. for more people.
The cost was £660,000 and is Hopefully now, BUG’s opposition
coming from the money recently to this scheme seems a little more
secured from central government rational. www.swindonbug.co.uk
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