Football Without Borders: New Thinking from Scotland and Beyond

Saturday 7 June - 10.30am to 5pm
Management Centre, Stirling University

With a little under three weeks until the 6th annual Scottish
Conference we are happy to make the draft timetable available to download.


Over the next week we will go into a little more detail about each of the session topics but first we'll give you an overview of the conference and how it's different from previous years.

Four Topics

The biggest change is that instead of having eight separate sessions to choose from, delegates will pick one of four topics (Ownership,Community, League Structure and Regulation) which they will follow for the day. Each topic has two sessions with a guest speaker and a final session for discussion and debate amongst the delegates. The topics will be facilitated by someone from Supporters Direct and there will
also be someone on hand to take notes of each session throughout the day, thereby creating a record of the discussions.

This probably makes it sound a little more complicated than it actually is!

As a delegate you will simply attend three sessions all on the same topic and come to some joint conclusions with your fellow delegates in the final session. Your facilitator will then report back to the closing plenary session of the conference so that everyone can hear the lessons that have been learned throughout the day.

Interactive

By designing the conference in this way we hope that it will allow delegates to interact much more easily with the speakers and their fellow delegates and that this will make it a more interesting experience. The success of this type of event relies on delegates coming armed with a few questions and being willing to discuss the
topics in an open and positive manner - more than ever delegates will get out as much as they put in to the event. But we feel sure that those attending the conference will be more than willing to accept this challenge and help it to be a great success.

Conference Report

We hope to collect the day's discussions and publish them over Summer in a conference report, which will be made freely available to all delegates. This report will allow Supporters Direct in Scotland to build on the main lessons from the conference and use these as a way to confidently represent the views of supporters across the country. Therefore it is vital that all supporters' trusts take the oppotunity to contribute to the discussions at the 2008 conference.

Remember you can Register and Pay Online or Download a Booking Form to reserve your place at this once-a-year event.
As ever if you have any questions or want to know more please get in touch.

Cheers,
JP