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FAQ’s: March 2025 What is the Foundation of Hearts and why should I join? The Foundation of Hearts (FoH) is the most successful supporters’ movement in Scottish footballing history. We became the majority shareholders of Heart of Midlothian FC in 2021, making Hearts the largest fan-owned club in the UK. Your contributions are used to provide working capital for the club we support and love. How do I become a Foundation of Hearts member and club owner? You can sign up now by clicking here https://www.foundationofhearts.org. Please click ‘Pledge now’ to become an owner. How much is membership? You can join the Foundation of Hearts and become a club owner from as little as £10 per month. Can children become Foundation of Hearts members and club owners? Soon! We are currently working on a children’s membership. Do I get any rewards through my membership? Yes, you receive 1.5 maroon points for every £1 that you pledge to the Foundation of Hearts. As you accumulate points, you gain rewards, including a virtual plot of the pitch at Tynecastle. There’s more about the rewards here. Can I change my membership or contact details? Yes, you can do this by logging into your members account here https://www.foundationofhearts.org Why am I not receiving emails? If you are not receiving emails, please get in touch here https://www.foundationofhearts.org/pages/contact
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90 Minutes with: Graeme Jones
The Foundation of Hearts Presents 90 Minutes with: Graeme Jones In the return of our popular '90 Minutes' series, held in the Gorgie Suite on Thursday 17th April, we will focus on the Heart of Midlothian Sporting Director, Graeme Jones, conducting his first interview with fans in attendance on stage at Tynecaste Park. HeartsTV broadcast host and commentator, Robert Borthwick, will host the evening. Graeme will go through his career to date, his new role at the club and give an inside look to how Jamestown Analytics works, bringing pledgers fully up to speed with Hearts' gamechanging new recruitment process. Tickets will be available free of charge this Monday at 10am, and they're sure to go quickly so don't miss out! Please note this event will be for current Foundation of Hearts pledgers only, tickets and names will be checked on arrival. Event Timings 6:30pm: Doors to the Gorgie Suite open 7:00pm: Event begins, interview on stage 8:00pm: Q&A session
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Pub Night at the 1874
Where: 1874 Fans Bar, Tynecastle Park When: The last Friday of every month The Foundation of Hearts Pub Night is an informal get-together, and we're encouraging all Hearts fans to drop in for a chat and a catch-up. As well as Foundation of Hearts board members and volunteers, former heroes who graced Tynecastle Park in their playing days will be attending every single month. It's a night open to every Hearts fan, offering an opportunity for pledgers to keep up-to-date with what's going on, as well as non-pledgers to come have a beer and share some thoughts with the owners of Heart of Midlothian. The night kicks off from 6:30pm onwards in the 1874 Bar, and we hope to see you all there!
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Members Update from Gerry Mallon
We are always grateful to members for feedback we get from them, and some of the most frequent are on the subjects of communication and engagement. These are issues which are challenges for any organisation and ones which we have been focusing on both at board level and among the volunteers who do such great work under the banner of what is now called our operations group. Recently our two new board members, Claire Hammond and Gary Locke, were interviewed on the Scarves Around the Funnel podcast, and these and a whole range of other topics were discussed. If you haven’t heard the interview, I’d really recommend it to you. You can find it at this link. We’ll be stepping up this kind of engagement - producing videos and getting more involved with podcasters and broadcasters - so that you and fellow members are kept informed about our strategies and activities through this medium. And we’re putting other developments in place which we believe will also help on this important front. As a further platform, we’ve been reviewing how people get in touch with the Foundation, what the key areas of concern may be, and how we deal with the queries. We’ll do this analysis on a regular basis, and to make the whole process more straightforward for everyone, we’ll be reducing the number of our email addresses so that there’s no confusion about which one to use. Leading on this will be the info@foundationofhearts.org address. Backing this up, we’ll also be putting a list of frequently asked questions - and the answers - on the website. We’ll add to these regularly on the back of the queries that come in. We’ll also be hosting regular Pub Nights at the 1874 Bar at Tynecastle. Representatives of the Foundation will be there, and we hope that members and non-members will come along to meet them, chat, and ask questions. These are free, informal sessions and no sign-up is required. The first Pub Night will be on Friday 28 February from 6.30pm. Hopefully see you there. This year will see many more events run by the Foundation, all with the aim of engaging with members and keeping channels of communication open. We’ll keep you up to date with more details of these, but for the moment, I’d mention a few of them. First, the ‘Boys in Maroon’ event on Sunday 16 March, with some special guests to explore the Hearts story through match shirts. Exclusively for members, this sold out very quickly, and the idea of having events open only to members - as a reward for everyone’s commitment to FoH - is one which we are building into our planning. In that vein, we’ll be hosting more ‘90 Minutes With…’ evenings, featuring individuals whose expertise and experience is directly related to the club and its progress. These will be fascinating events, exclusively for Foundation members, as will events around the Trusted Voices programme which we are well down the road of creating. This programme centres on legends of the Hearts community - players and others - and again we believe that this will make for great experiences for Foundation members. More on this to come. Finally, our famous plot ceremonies return in March, with an event on Sunday 23 March. We’ll be sending out invitations for this very soon and look forward to welcoming more legends in the stands to take possession of their plots. This is a flavour of what will be a busy year for the Foundation. It’s also indicative of our commitment to improve our communications and engagement with you and all members. We’ve been listening and we’re acting!
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An Update from Gerry Mallon
First of all, as we look ahead in this new year, I would like to wish you a very happy and successful 2025. As you will be aware, the recent elections saw the appointment of Claire Hammond and Gary Locke as new directors of the Foundation. I am very happy indeed to welcome them officially to the board. I know that they will both bring a new energy and, with their range of expertise, they will contribute very significantly as we enter a new phase in the Foundation’s story. With Andrew Brown’s term of office on the Foundation board coming to an end last month, our second place on the club board became vacant and I am delighted to let you know that the board elected Claire Hammond to that position. Claire brings many qualities to the board, particularly strategic, communications, and people skills, and has demonstrated her long-standing commitment to the Foundation and the club through her fine work as a member of our marketing group. I am very pleased to have her join me to represent FoH on the club board. With kind regards Gerry MallonChair, Foundation of Hearts
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2024 Annual General Meeting
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The annual general meeting of the Foundation will be held in the Gorgie Suite, Tynecastle Park at 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 4th December 2024.DOCUMENTS Please click the links to view the documents:• the formal notice of meeting and chairman’s letter• Resolution to Amend the Articles of Association• Explanatory Note to Resolution to Amend the Articles of Association If you are not able to attend the AGM but wish to vote on the resolution being put to the meeting (which is for the amendment of the Articles of Association), you can vote in advance by completing a form of proxy. An online form is available for completion, please click the link below to download the form. Once you have downloaded and completed the form, please return by email to info@foundationofhearts.org by 6pm on 2 December 2024 in order for it to be valid. Please note you will need your voter ID to complete the form, you can find your voter ID in an email sent by the Foundation of Hearts. If you are unable to complete a proxy form online, you may print off, complete and return a hard copy. For online proxy voting form: Click here to complete the proxy form With best wishes,Gerry MallonChair, Foundation of Hearts
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Foundation of Hearts Board Candidates
Three places on the Foundation of Hearts Board have been vacated. Louise Strutt and Andrew Brown are standing down from the Board and we thank them for their hard work and unstinting effort on behalf of the members of the Foundation of Hearts. Gerry Mallon is standing for re-election. We called for nominations for members to stand for the Board of the Foundation of Hearts and we have received eight nominations. Under our governance documents, we are therefore required to have an election to determine which three of the eight candidates will take up places on the Board of the Foundation of Hearts. In alphabetical order, the seven candidates are: Paul Butler Claire Hammond Gary Locke Gerry Mallon Diane Scougall Douglas Shirlaw James Sloggie To view each election address, which you should read carefully, click on the links above. If you have any questions that you would like to put to any or all of the candidates, we will do our best to seek answers from them. Please address any questions to elections@foundationofhearts.org It is our hope that the election will commence on 1 November and you should look out for an email enabling you to vote in the election. You may vote for up to three candidates but you may not vote for a single candidate more than once. If you have any questions about the election process, please send them to elections@foundationofhearts.org
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TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP RULES
The Board has created new Termination of Membership Rules with effect from 27 September 2024. To view the new rules, please click here.
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