WOKING COMMUNITY STADIUM FANS FORUM WELCOME
RUPERT PHILLIPS – CHAIRMAN, CARDS TRUST NEILL MORRISON - DIRECTOR, WOKING FC ROSEMARY JOHNSON – CHAIRMAN, WOKING FC WAYNE GOLD – GOLDEV WOKING IAN NICHOLSON – CLUB CHAPLAIN & CARDS RHYS WILLIAMS – WOKING COMMUNITY STADIUM TRUST BOARD REP COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKERS
1. WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS - RUPERT PHILLIPS 6. REFRESHMENTS BREAK 2. NEW STADIUM VISION - ROSEMARY JOHNSON 7. DELIVERING THE NEW STADIUM - WAYNE GOLD 3. NEW STADIUM ETHOS & BENEFITS - IAN NICHOLSON 8. Q&A 4. THE NEW STADIUM EFFECT – RHYS WILLIAMS 9. CLOSE 5. FANS INVOLVEMENT – RUPERT PHILLIPS AGENDA
The Woking Community Stadium will be a modern, 10,000 capacity stadium for first class professional football with multi-purpose facilities to create a social hub for business, community and leisure activities. OUR NEW HOME The new community stadium will give Woking FC a more financially sustainable future, enable the club to grow on and off the pitch and provide the foundations to compete in the English Football League.
Kingfield is ageing and increasingly OUR CHALLENGE unfit for purpose. Without major investment in new facilities the club’s future is uncertain. Woking FC is not currently Kingfield limits potential to grow financially sustainable on and off the pitch Reliant on financial support Poor facilities, high running costs, from wealthy benefactors minimal non-matchday income Reliant on matchday income We are falling behind our based on performances competitors with better stadia
KINGFIELD TODAY
A new community stadium will give Woking FC the platform it OUR OPPORTUNITY needs to secure the club’s future and to compete in the English Football League. Create new revenue streams to Attractive stadium will transform improve profitability our profile & help grow our support Make the club more financially Improved facilities will drive non- resilient and sustainable matchday uses and income Improve matchdays for all fans Increased revenues invested in and increase individual spend improving the team on the pitch
The Woking Community Stadium will be a modern, 10,000 capacity OUR VISION stadium for professional football that will serve as a social hub for the whole community. ❖ A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE ❖ CREATE A SOCIAL HUB FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY ❖ COMPETE IN THE EFL ❖ CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL ❖ IMPROVE MATCHDAYS FOR SUPPORTERS ❖ BE AT THE HEART OF WOKING’S FUTURE
A SUSTAINABLE Help Woking FC become financially resilient and sustainable to secure FUTURE the long-term future of the club. Improved matchday facilities to Multi-purpose facilities for grow attendances and spend business, leisure & community uses Reduce reliance on c.30 Ambitious stadium will attract new matchdays a year for income customers, sponsors & investors Ability to generate income 365 Greater & more stable revenues to days a year put club on solid foundations
COMPETE Provide the foundation to fulfil our ambitions to compete in IN THE EFL the English Football League. Stadium designed to meet EFL Ambitious new stadium will League 1 standards transform the profile of Woking FC New facilities on a par or better A better stadium and facilities will than many EFL clubs attract new fans and players Improved facilities will drive non- Increased revenues invested in matchday uses and income improving the team on the pitch
IMPROVE Improve matchdays for our MATCHDAYS FOR loyal supporters & attract a new generation of Cards fans to grow our club. SUPPORTERS Stadium roof & covered concourses Better access into & out of the to provide shelter for all fans stadium will make circulation easier Covered standing areas behind both More food & drink outlets will goals will improve the atmosphere increase convenience and choice Better seating & legroom will New hospitality lounges & boxes will increase comfort for fans offer fans a premium experience
CREATE A SOCIAL HUB Create a social hub in the heart of Hoe Valley through new multi- FOR THE WHOLE purpose facilities for business, community and leisure activities. COMMUNITY Multi-purpose stadium facilities for New homes will create a new business, leisure & community uses neighbourhood New avenue facing stadium with Stadium business uses will include shops, cafes & leisure spaces conference, banqueting & events Create a vibrant retail destination Stadium will provide facilities for & social hub of activity Cardinals in the Community
CREATE Deepen our roots in the community by expanding and enhancing the OPPORTUNITIES sport, education, health and wellbeing programmes offered by FOR ALL the award- winning ‘Cardinals in the Community’. New revenues & spaces will enable Create new networks & expansion of our community offer partnerships across Woking More & better programmes by New disabled facilities to make the Cardinals in the Community club accessible to everyone Opportunities to expand health, New facilities will help club sports & education initiatives become even more inclusive
WOKING FC AT THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY
BE AT THE HEART The Woking Community Stadium and the wider OF WOKING’S development are an important strategic piece of the bold FUTURE vision for Woking’s future. Woking is in the process of an Once in a lifetime opportunity to exciting transformation realise a new vision for Woking FC New stadium to meet the Opportunity for the club to grow ambitions of the town with the town New stadium will secure our place A new stadium at Kingfield in in the heart of the community everyone’s best interests
THE NEW STADIUM EFFECT RHYS WILLIAMS
new stadium attendances % Difference CLUB 10 seasons pre vs 10 seasons post Wigan 354% Brighton 305% THE NEW Swansea 245% Hull 224% Wycombe 171% STADIUM EFFECT Reading 160% Bolton 125% Middlesbrough 112% Sunderland 111% Burton Albion 102% 85+ pro clubs have built or Rotherham 94% Huddersfield 87% rebuilt new stadiums since 1988 Cardiff 74% Doncaster 71% Derby 71% Southampton 67% Strong demand for live football Shrewsbury 59% Arsenal 58% UK crowds highest since 1950s Manchester City 51% Northampton 51% Chesterfield* 48% Yeovil 46% New stadium have a positive Leicester 26% Scunthorpe 20% impact on attendances Stoke 14% Millwall 8% Morecombe 6% Chester 2% These effects can transform clubs Colchester 1% Darlington -2% over the long term Walsall -4% Oxford -7% Coventry -15% AVERAGE % INCREASE 83%
Average Attendance 7000 BURTON ALBION 6000 5000 4000 Burton Albion moved into 7,000 3000 capacity Pirelli stadium in 2005 In 7 seasons before moving the 2000 average attendance was 1,275 1000 Average attendance in 10 seasons after moving was 2,784 (+118%) 0 New stadium Promotion Average Attendance
READING FC – AVERAGE ATTENDANCES 25,000 READING FC 20,000 Reading FC moved into 25,000 15,000 capacity Madjeski Stadium in 1998/99 10,000 The average attendance over 10 seasons before moving was 6,590 5,000 The average attendance in 10 seasons after moving was 17,158 (+160%) 0 Average Attendance Promotion Relegation New stadium
WYCOMBE WANDERES – AVERAGE ATTENDANCES 10000 WYCOMBE 9000 WANDERERS 8000 7000 Wycombe Wanderers average 6000 attendance in 1987/88 was 1,461 5000 In 1990 Wycombe moved into 4000 Adams Park, now 10,000 capacity 3000 First season at Adams Park saw 2000 attendances increase by 68% 1000 Average attendances in 10 season 0 after moving was 5,050 (+171%) Average Attendance New stadium Promotion
TOWN LEAGUE POPULATION Crawley League 2 106,943 WHY NOT WOKING NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH 105,367 Lincoln League 2 104,221 WOKING? Gillingham League 1 104,157 Wigan Championship 103,608 Our town is already big enough Oldham League 2 103,544 for a professional football club Carlisle League 2 100,739 Hartlepool National League 92,028 Woking is growing & the club Barnsley Championship 91,297 has the potential to grow Stevenage League 1 89,663 Grimsby League 2 88,243 Burnley Premier League 81,548 A new stadium will enable us Scunthorpe League 1 79,977 to achieve that potential Bury League 2 77,211 Burton-upon-Trent League 1 72,299 Woking FC is already one of Crewe League 2 71,722 the best supported non-league Shrewsbury League 1 71,715 clubs in the UK Macclesfield League 2 56,581
AFC WIMBLEDON YORK CITY WHY NOT WOKING? BURTON ALBION FLEETWOOD TOWN
WHY NOT WOKING?
FANS INVOLVEMENT RUPERT PHILLIPS
FAN ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES DATES ACTIVITIES 16 April 2019 Fans Forum 27 April 2019 – 12pm-2pm ‘Drop In’ session before Woking FC vs Gloucester City April – May 2019 Online fans survey June – July 2019 Pre-application consultation process – public exhibitions & feedback August 2019 Submission of Planning Applications September – December 2019 Official consultation period - register your support December 2019 Planning Committee Meeting to decide applications January 2020 onwards Ongoing supporter involvement on new stadium plans
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