Trust to be quizzed over new plea for Pompey investment
Thursday, 15th May 2014 23:03 by pompey-fans.com staff

The Pompey Supporters' Trust are launching a new drive to attract fresh investment in the club by fans.

Trust spokesman John Kimbell said there had been an amazing response to a plea for new money to help keep up the group's shareholding in the Blues.

‘We’ve had around 20 or 30 people email us already saying they want to put more money in. So there’s obviously interest out there,' he told The News.

‘We have to avoid the idea that it stops with the money raised last year. We do have the presidents but they haven’t got a bottomless pit of money. So we need to raise cash. Unless money comes in we may not be able to hold on to that majority shareholding.

‘If that’s so precious we need to raise cash to keep that percentage up. People can then say they’ve contributed to running the club.’

The Trust are holding an open day at Fratton Park to field questions - it will take place on Saturday, May 24 from 11am-3pm and is expected to outline new initiatives. Kimbell said: ‘It’s an open house and people are invited to drop in.

‘We’ll have various members of the board there to answer questions and hopefully show plans of the training ground. We need and want to have a capital plan to focus the share effort on.

‘We would have liked to do it sooner but we need things like the training ground to be sorted to show where the money is going. People want to see what their money is going towards. Some people are uncertain about that.'