TRUSTSTFC historian Dick Mattick is heading up a group of Trust representatives looking at our club museum idea.

The group now includes new Trust STFC officer Richard Banyard, who you may know from his superb website swindon-town-fc.co.uk.

The first phase of the project will be a series of pop-up memorabilia exhibitions, launching on Monday, February 29, at a Lou Macari Sporting Dinner hosted by the Rotary Club.

Following the launch night, the pop-up museum will circulate around schools, workplaces and libraries.

Trust Board members Matt Davies and Simon Cowley recently attended a meeting with representatives from Swindon Town and the North Wilts Youth Football League.

We’ve been trying for some time to bring those parties together, and that’s now going really well, so we are hoping that this leads to better pricing deals for families, and greater overall engagement with the kids with Swindon Town.

There are around 5000 children in the area that play football on a Sunday, and we want to see lots of them coming to matches to make it a perfect football weekend.

They are the next generation of supporters.

Our schools' promotions in the second half of last season added between 500-700 to each home gate, and we are again looking at ways to increase attendances through these avenues.

As well as encouraging families to the County Ground, we’re also keen to let other clubs know how great our away following is.

You’ll have seen in the Adver these last couple of weeks that we have launched a ‘5K to Coventry’ campaign.

Obviously, we don’t know how many fans we can take, but a couple of years ago, we took more than 3000, so it will be interesting to see if six weeks of promotion will help us match those numbers or even improve them.

The worst that can happen is more people go along than had previously planned to.

Coach ticket sales started on Tuesday and the phone was ringing off the hook.

The opening coach seat price is £10 per person. For more information and to book, contact SAS Travel on 01793 536757 between 7-8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Finally, a thank you to the 14 new people that signed up for paid membership of the Trust in January.

February has also got off to a good start. If you haven’t received a welcome email, check your spam folders.

In total, we now have 117 people signed up as paid members and contributing to the Red Army Fund on a monthly basis.

This may sound a low number, but it will generate almost £11k in a calendar year, which we will spend carefully in alignment with the ‘Trust Vision’ shown on our website redarmyfund.co.uk.