Greenock Morton Supporters' Trust

The Supporters’ Trust was formed in 2000, as the club battled for its very survival. Recognising the helplessness felt by Morton supporters everywhere as the club was allowed by its (then) owner to slide towards oblivion, the trust aimed not only to unite and to rally the Morton support, but to empower them by raising funds to purchase a significant shareholding in the club and by winning a seat on the club’s board of directors. In short, as the football club emerged from the ashes of the Scott era, the Supporters’ Trust would maintain a watching brief from the inside, ensuring that the same ills could not be repeated under future custodians.

In the years that have followed, the relationship between the football club and the Supporters’ Trust have evolved, for the better. In so far as the football club are concerned: off the park, the Rae era has seen Cappielow restored to its former glory, whilst on it the club has re-established itself as a First Division outfit, with aspirations to climb higher still. We now have a Youth Academy to be proud of, and a Community Trust committed to taking Morton into the local community, with the aim of creating a healthier and safer Inverclyde. With regard to the Supporters’ Trust: we now hold (by some distance) the second highest shareholding in the club, and have donated a further £30,000 to Morton youth development. Whilst the Supporters’ Trust is no longer represented on the club’s board of directors, representatives of the Trust board are invited bi-annually to attend board meetings of the football club, at which matters of concern to Supporters’ Trust members, or matters of common interest between the club and the trust are discussed in a healthy, honest and frank manner.

The Supporters’ Trust is a key contributor to the Youth Academy, having donated money, physiotherapy equipment and training kit, with a commitment to continue that level of involvement in the future. At the same time, two members of the Supporters’ Trust’s board of trustees, Nick Robinson and Chris McCorkindale, sit alongside Crawford Rae and Stuart Rae on the board of the Greenock Morton Community Trust. Thus the evolution of the Trust since its formation is one that now sees us work with the football club actively to ensure the club’s future prosperity both on and off the park.