BANTAMS SUPPORTERS TRUST

How many family households love Bradford City? You and your family household could be on Look North and tell them how much you love your match-going routine. Look North, the BBC’s regional news programme want do a big spill into a City fan household to find out how much Valley Parade mean to City fans and link it to the Trust’s application to list the ground as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). Find out more about our application to list the stadium as an ACV and how it can safeguard the stadium here . If you would like Look North to come to your home and interview you and your devoted City supporting family contact us at hello@bantamstrust.co.uk and we can put you through to the dedicated BBC reporter. The deadline for this is Wednesday 22 nd so you need to get in touch as soon as you can.

On the 15 th May the Club announced the total amount raised from the bucket collection before the last game of the season on the 27th April. The Supporters Trust played a leading role in organising the collection by getting the volunteers, this year with the support of Bradford City Disability Football Club and Shipley Bantams. There were approximately 30 volunteers raising £4,176.71 before the last match of the season against Newport County last month. A further £1, 1,130.36, collected by and donated on behalf of Co-op Funeralcare, at the annual memorial service in Centenary Square on Saturday 11 th May, marking the 39 th anniversary of the disaster. Read the Club’s article here . It is a fantastic amount raised by those dedicated to help out last month and the total must be up there as one of the largest amounts we’ve raised. It is something that has been traditionally been done every year since the fateful tragedy and should be continued as a way of paying our respects to those who we should always remember. The Trust would like to give a special thank you to all involved in the collection that day.

Remembering the 54 Bradford City supporters and two Lincoln City supporters who went to watch a game of football but never returned home.

There will be a Service at Centenary Park this Saturday 11th May, from 11am in Centenary Square marking the 39th anniversary of the Valley Parade Fire Disaster.

This season has been one of the most turbulent roller coaster rides a Bradford City team has given us for many years.

We would like to thank all of you who participated in the Bucket Collection on Saturday April 27th at Valley Parade, our last fixture of the season against Newport County. The traditional one minute silence we have to remember those that failed to come home after that fateful day on May 11th 1985 was impeccably observed. But ahead of that we had up to 30 volunteers with buckets all around the ground. It must be quite a record for some years, and whilst we don’t yet know the total, hope fully we will break a record with the amount. We would like to give a special thanks to Jaimie Dorward and Paul Jubb for getting numbers involved from the Bradford City DFC, and Steve Gorringe for getting volunteers from Shipley Bantams. We would also like to give a special thanks to Manny Dominguez who got volunteers from the Supporters Trust and co-ordinated the activity. So, well done everyone for doing their bit. Whatever we have raised, this has been a great traditional collective exercise and a great achievement.

We would like to thank all of you who voted for the Supporters Trusts’ Young Player of the Year 2023/24. No-one could’ve written the script as to how the Bantams roller coaster season has gone. Just as we thought it was over, there is a very slender outside chance of a Play Off place as we come to the last game of the season on Saturday against Newport. Congratulations is very much in order to Brad Halliday who picked up so many player of the year awards from the Club’s main sponsor, JCT600, and all the supporters travel clubs, and from the team itself. Young Player of the Year The winner of the Trust’s Young Player of the year is of course, Bobby Pointon! He won by a country mile! We would also like to give a special thanks to Manny Dominguez, representing the Trust, who gave Bobby the award. To see all the winning categories please click here . Once again, thank you for all of you for taking part. You know who you are and we very much appreciate your involvement in this event and making it a success.