Board Members ~ Page Two

I am a long standing member of FGR Supporters Club, GRASS and ‘Sponsor-a-Goal’ and helped out on several occasions with the painting of the new stadium. I strongly feel that the fantastic advancements made by the club over the past 14 years deserves greater support from locals, and feel that the sterling work being done by the Trust to market the club and boost attendances will hopefully pay dividends and make Gloucestershire people more aware of what the club has to offer both on and off the pitch.

Lisa Astle has joined the Trust Board as Treasurer, having previously been running the accounts at AE Smith in Nailsworth. Lisa was brought up in Nailsworth and has been supporting FGR since the 1970s and very much enjoys the family atmosphere at The New Lawn.

Born in the Railway Hotel Nailsworth, when Nailsworth could boast a railway, and an hotel. From the age of two lived in Forest Green where my first memories of FGR was walking through football shirts hanging on the washing line, my mum use to wash the first team shirts.

Saturday mornings during the football season, as a young lad me and my mate along with his dad would go to the ground to get it ready for the game that afternoon. First job was to light the fire in the boiler which in turn heated the water for the bath after the game. When I say light the fire I mean, paper, wood, coal etc. and a boiler Fred Dibnah would have been proud of. Played my football for Horsley Utd at Stroud league level, only returning to watch FGR during the season they were promoted to the Conference.

An Engineer by trade, most of which was spent at T H & J Daniels where from an apprentice, I worked my way up through the drawing office, mould design, and into sales, becoming a sales area manager. This job taking me all over the UK and Europe.

The Supporters Trust is a key group within the workings of the the football club and company as a whole. The more supporters who sign up to it, the stronger it will become and so will its voice within the club. With the new chairman installed, a new era is opening up for the club and its supporters, be apart of this new opportunity. Join the Trust and together we can have a say in, and help shape the future direction of the club.