City To Assist Farepak Families

[Scarby]

From OS

Leicester City are offering a goodwill gesture to help the families affected by the collapse of the Christmas savings club Farepak. More than 150,000 people are thought to have lost about £35m when the Swindon-based Farepak crashed last month.
Retailers have weighed in with contributions and Foxes club officials have followed suit and pledged their support to members.
The club are therefore offering a pair of free tickets to those affected by the collapse to City's Christmas Community Fixture against Barnsley on Saturday, December 16.
To claim tickets, clients should visit the Ticket Office at the Walkers Stadium with their Farepak documentation by Friday, December 1.
Chief Executive Tim Davies said: "As a community-based football club we are very concerned about the impact on those affected at such an expensive time of year.
"We wanted to offer our support and we hope that this goodwill gesture will reach out to Farepak customers as Christmas approaches."
Tickets for the Christmas Community Fixture are now on general sale and can be purchased on line using the club's e-ticketing facility, in person at the main Ticket Office, by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone on 0870 499 1884.
Supporters are advised to purchase early in order to avoid disappointment as demand for this fixture is expected to be very high.

nice of the old buggers

 

[Bobby Smith]

That's a potential gate of over 300,000 then.

My advice would be to get there early.

 

[fcukcov]

feckin hell havent the poor ba***rds suffered enough already.....

 

[Boy Genius]

they will be fake tickets and they wont get in...... we will all have another laugh on them then......

 

[Macky]

tell them to hand over £5 a week for the next year and we'll give them a ticket to next year's boxing day match, eejits.

 

[Melton Fox]

Swindon, Christmas savings, Leicester City , I don't see the connection

Are these people homeless, unemployed, sick, dying or destitute

If they want to do anything in the Christmas spirit to help out, there are plenty of underpriviliged kids in Leicestershire that would be eternally grateful for the opportunity to go to a "once in a childhood" football match as a Christmas present.

Sorry, I just don't get it

 

[SilverFox]

tell them to hand over £5 a week for the next year and we'll give them a ticket to next year's boxing day match, eejits.

:icon_lol: Agreed.

 

[OldGit]

Swindon, Christmas savings, Leicester City , I don't see the connection

Are these people homeless, unemployed, sick, dying or destitute

If they want to do anything in the Christmas spirit to help out, there are plenty of underpriviliged kids in Leicestershire that would be eternally grateful for the opportunity to go to a "once in a childhood" football match as a Christmas present.

Sorry, I just don't get it

The people who were ripped off don't all live in Swindon - there are thousands all over the country. Most are pensioners or very low paid families who put a couple of quid a week away so they can get some goodies for Christmas. My father in law has been an agent for years and personally lost £250 plus several hundred paid in by a number of old ladies who will struggle now to pay again for a christmas dinner.

If the club wants to make a gesture to those who live locally what's so wrong with that? The club's community schemes regularly give tickets to groups of kids who otherwise would never be able to afford them. The two are not mutually exclusive - it's not as if the masses are fighting outside the ticket office for the last few tickets every week is it?

 

[Leigh]

Swindon, Christmas savings, Leicester City , I don't see the connection

Are these people homeless, unemployed, sick, dying or destitute

If they want to do anything in the Christmas spirit to help out, there are plenty of underpriviliged kids in Leicestershire that would be eternally grateful for the opportunity to go to a "once in a childhood" football match as a Christmas present.

Sorry, I just don't get it

They wanted to hand out loads of free tickets anyway, so they decided to get a bit of publicity and PR by giving some to Farepak families rather than schools/free with other ticket/£5 off vouchers etc.

 

[Melton Fox]

If the club wants to make a gesture to those who live locally what's so wrong with that?

Which is precisely what I was saying. The article in the first post doesn't explain that.

I still stand by post though, I would much rather see under privileged kids get a chance to attend a football match. When you put money into a savings fund, you always take a risk, these kids never had the money in the first place, and probably won't for a long long time.

I would like to see the club hand out some tickets in a similair way to the tocH used to hand out Christmas packages to under priveliged children. I would be happy to hand out a fiver per year towards this

 

[Babylon]

Which is precisely what I was saying. The article in the first post doesn't explain that.

I still stand by post though, I would much rather see under privileged kids get a chance to attend a football match. When you put money into a savings fund, you always take a risk, these kids never had the money in the first place, and probably won't for a long long time.

I would like to see the club hand out some tickets in a similair way to the tocH used to hand out Christmas packages to under priveliged children. I would be happy to hand out a fiver per year towards this

I'm with Melts on this one, the way the press has acted you'd think there had been a massacre or something. It's not good that people have lost some cash, but come on... they are going to have to go without a Turkey on Christmas day this year. No one is going to die!!

My parents had no money one christmas because he lost his job. I didn't see anyone rushing to our aid.

I'm not knocking the club though, fair play to them for doing something. But where do you draw the line?

 

[Macky]

bad things happen to everybody, especially stupid people.
If you are daft enough to hand in cash every week with the hope of getting a box of overpriced groceries at the end of the year then you are likely to get a kick in the nuts at some point.
They probably wouldn't be used to the food that is given out anyways, Lidl & Aldi's don't do hampers.

 

[Scarby]

from what i can gather some people have lost thousands of pounds!

it wasnt just food, its was presents for there kiddies as well. For low income families it has ruined there xmas.

have some compassion

 

[SilverFox]

from what i can gather some people have lost thousands of pounds!

it wasnt just food, its was presents for there kiddies as well. For low income families it has ruined there xmas.

have some compassion

The moral of the story is that if you are concerned about christmas, open a high interest account and save for it yourself. Put a little away each week or month and buy all the stuff yourself.

These hamper schemes are a load of crap.

 

[SilverFox]

I am compassionate though!

 

[lazzer]

a lot of these people are below the bread line and dont all have bank accounts they have done nothing wrong they havent racked up a load of credit either they have paid up front .sometimes i wonder why i converse at all with some of the arseholes on this forum :icon_roll

 

[Jeff]

The moral of the story is that if you are concerned about christmas, open a high interest account and save for it yourself. Put a little away each week or month and buy all the stuff yourself.

Not everyone has a bank account - and even if they do, they might not have the means to make regular deposits. For some people the only way they can 'save' is if an agent collects a couple of pounds a week from them.

 

[Hazzman]

a lot of these people are below the bread line and dont all have bank accounts they have done nothing wrong they havent racked up a load of credit either they have paid up front .sometimes i wonder why i converse at all with some of the arseholes on this forum :icon_roll

Spot On, Lazzer. Some quite ugly snobby comments been said.

 

[Melton Fox]

Saving schemes are an excellent idea, and should be encouraged for those that don't have bank accounts. However, a selection of these savers are classed as vulnerable and open to abuse from unscrupulous "thieves".

Buyer beware, personal responsibility and all that. But, it doesn't dampen the hardship these people are suffering and of course they have my thoughts, but they must, and i'm sure they do accept some form of personal responsibilty.

Conclusion:

I didn't want to explain this but I will becasue of Lazzers aggressive, but not unjustified response.

As children, me and my sister didn't have a pot to piss in (free school meals and all that). My Mum went to work as a cleaner for every penny she could get and she saved EVERY PENNY, and I mean penny, not pound every week for christmas that didn't have to go on food or coal.

In my Mums spare time (in the 1 or 2 hours between her cleaning jobs) she would help out the tocH while were at school collecting for other children worse off than us so they could enjoy Christmas. One year I benefitted from some toy cars (brand new) as a donation from the tocH. Blimey, did I appreciate that, it made my christmas.

I would, and do gladly donate my money each christmas for little children to have one present that there familys can't afford through no fault of their own. These families are higher up the chain IMO that need help.

I'm not saying that those others don't need help as what they have suffered is awful. But £1000's of pounds, come on, really? if you've got £1000's saved up, then surely you have access to bank account

 

[Scarby]

totally agree Lazz and Hazz

i dont think they would say the same things if they knew someone that was in the situation many people are now.

Imagine not being able to afford a present for your children