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Trust Everton: Update 3

It is a month since the last update. In that time, a lot of ground has been covered; most steps forward, one or two backwards and sidewards. But there have been around ten meetings with a variety of people.

The current focus is to develop an organisational structure and strategy that best allows Evertonians to help their club overcome some of the complex challenges that it faces.

Many of the meetings over the last month have focused on the various financial models and systems that could be adopted and amended for this purpose. There are many legal constraints.

We have also had further meetings with officials from Supporters Direct (SD), the government-backed body that helps and co-ordinates fans' trusts. After a decade of setting up trusts, SD is reviewing its rulebooks and constitutions to take into account changes in legislation and funding innovations. It does not expect to have these changes finalised until the summer.

Trust Everton could launch in the meantime using the current framework, but would then have to go and change everything a few months later. This would be very time consuming and a distraction from the main priority. However, this delay does give us more time to work on coming up with the right structure for Trust Everton.

There may be some dismay that there has not been faster progress. But the goal is to put something together that will be around for a long time.

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