The 250 membership plus Supporter's Association's latest venture will be held on Friday, October 29th in King Street, the main street of South Shields,10.00am - 4.00pm with a large double stall to promote association membership recruitment, and also to raise public interest and support on behalf of South Shields Football Club. The stall will be manned by members wearing SSFC colours, and will be attractively decorated with 75 balloons in club colours of claret, sky blue and white, and several large club flags. The interesting display will include and feature a selection of club merchandise with a large poster price list, a large coloured poster advertising the next Saturday home game, various leaflets and current publicity photographs, miscellaneous items of club memorabilia of historic interest, including photographs and programmes from the club's Football League Division Two career of the 1920's and down the years since, association membership forms, a poster with details of the club's weekly cash draw, flyers with details of forthcoming home games, a FREE raffle with several mystery prizes and 1,000 give away South Shields FC stickers for kids, members with noisey rattles, a hooter and megaphone, and with also local newspaper coverage before the event, and a photograph thereafter. In bringing the town football club into the main street to promote, publicise and advertise its activities, to seek more local support at its matches and attract more financial sponsorship from the local business community, it is also an opportunity for local people to see and ask what South Shields Football Club is all about, and local non-league 'grass roots' football in the STL Northern League. This is a continuation of recent club and association events as the 'Festival of Football' held with numerous junior sides, including a team from Holland, a golf tournament held at South Shields Golf Club, a coast to coast sponsored team bike ride, a bag packing day in the town's new ASDA superstore, a 'booze cruise' on a River Tyne ferry, all of which have been most successful and hugely enjoyable.

This article has also been forwarded to the STL Northern League Press Officer for requested publication on the News Line and also for South Shields supporters the event will be publicised in this Wednesday's Shields 'Gazette' issue as a local news feature with a photograph to follow thereafter.

All the preparations are in place, everything is primed, fine tuned and ready, plenty volunteers are on hand to man the stall throughout the six hours 10.00 am until 4.00pm and all are set to do their bit, fine weather is forecast, it's a Friday flea market day, the schools are on holiday for half term, so the town centre will be busy, and the event will be featured in the Shields 'Gazette' this evening, so the publicity and public relations exercise will hopefully be a great success. Lots of work and planning have been put in on this latest venture by the Supporter's Association with the object of the exercise being to bring the town's football club to the people of Shields and let them see a different side of its activities which will hopefully have the positive result desired with recruiting for the now 250 plus Supporters Association membership advantaged and crowd attendances at games enhanced and also more always very much welcomed new sponsors coming forward from the local business community to please give their assistance and to support the club. Spread the word please around all your families and friends, so all who are able to come along can and will do so, to also help the promotion stall for South Shields Football Club and its Supporter's Association be a great success, thank you.

This is great stuff Bob - hope it proves a real success.

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The organisers of the promotion stall are pleased to announce that the event in South Shields main street was an unqualified success, and as a publicity and PR exercise on behalf of South Shields FC and the Supporters Association it achieved its objectives, which will translate hopefully into increased match attendances, association membership recruitment and goodwill from the local community in support of the town club. A most pleasing and significant amount of club merchandise orders were taken, and much local interest was shown in the display of historic memorabilia, and the numerous posters and items of literature, leaflets and flyers of club and association information, with also balloons in club colours and South Shields FC stickers for children, all helped to make the six hour event most enjoyable. Sincere thanks to all our willing helpers of all ages, for a job very well done indeed.