Following on from the "What we can do" thread and the ideas raised there for the fans to get the sleeves rolled up and play a hands on roll in assisting the club in the coming season (and hopefully beyond), it's good to see someone is listening and the Supporters Trust and ICT Events getting together to do what they can to make things happen.

The following is Statement from the Trust, Events & Club.....

Inverness Caledonian Thistle Supporters' Trust, in conjunction with ICT Events, are proposing to paint the toilets in the servery areas at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium in the run up to the start of the new season. Both organisations have come together and will provide the paint and equipment required, together with the expertise to manage the project. They need one more thing, though: volunteers

ICT's relegation from the SPL means that the football club has much less money available to carry out projects like this. Commenting on the situation, Supporters' Trust chairman, David Sutherland said, "It's no secret how tight cash can be for clubs in the SFL. This is the first opportunity for fans to come forward and volunteer their services to help ICT. I'm sure there will be further opportunities in the future, and the Trust board will sit down with the club at the start of July to see in what areas the fan base might be able to volunteer to help the club during the coming season."

Club Chairman George Fraser added "This is a tremendous initiative from the Supporters Trust and our Events Team and we look forward to working with them both on many new projects in the coming season and beyond. We are a community club and it is really heart warming for us to see the fans rising to the challenge as we are all fully aware of the financial constraints the club face and any assistance with planned projects, that we may have had to shelve this year, is greatly appreciated by all at the club."

It is planned to carry out the painting over the first two weeks in July. If you would like to help then please email [email protected] or phone 07814 851332.

I think it would have been a bit of a laugh, while doing something worthwhile. Hopefully it will be rescheduled soon and more people can make it.

Just out of interest, how many volunteers came forward?

Gutted

I hope this does go ahead in the near future. It's small things like this where fans CAN do their bit which help push the odd extra couple of thousand into Butchers budget. Two or three of these kinds of thing a season would easily fund what could be a vital extra player.

Yes, there's plenty counter arguments to the above....trust me, I've run through them all in my head...but we can spend all our time arguing them and get nothing done, or we can set it aside in order to get stuff completed for everyone's benefit....and then go back to debating the other issues.

Let's not be cutting off our noses to spite our faces. This is OUR club afterall.

They could do with a volunteer plumber to fit a pressure reducing valve to the wash hand basins and an anti scald device.

Money going down the drain, or I should say plug hole,

The pressure is way too high on the taps, too high a volume of water is wasted and the hot taps are too hot,reducing the temperature to 40*c would cut down on the lecky too.Its far cheaper running 40*c water down the drain as opposed to 65*c.

Any idea how much ICT get charged per m3

Also can the grey water from the stadium roofs be stored for watering the pitch.

I'm not too sure if this may have been mentioned before, but what about arranging it for when we have a weekend free for internationals. the club could maybe put on a decent spread in the kingsmills suite for those who volenteered, during the match which will no doubt be televised?

just a thought

but what about arranging it for when we have a weekend free for internationals.

Is it not just the SPL teams who are exempt from playing when it's an internationals weekend?

I would have been there for the craic but I'm offshore just now. How many bodies are needed to make it a goer.

Just out of interest, how many volunteers came forward?

It looked like there would be 4-5 people working on each day. We really needed roughly double that.

Just out of interest, how many volunteers came forward?

It looked like there would be 4-5 people working on each day. We really needed roughly double that.

Could we have no made 2 weekends out of it then?

Out of interest, how many staff came forward, players, management team, directors, etc? After all, it is their club too. :)

The players could probably benefit from a hard days work so they can see what we do to support them. :)

I'm not too sure if this may have been mentioned before, but what about arranging it for when we have a weekend free for internationals. the club could maybe put on a decent spread in the kingsmills suite for those who volenteered, during the match which will no doubt be televised?

just a thought

We hope to complete this prior to the start of the season. Light refreshments will be available throughout the day/s.

Estimated to take two full days, with enough volunteers so not really enough time for watching football.