I write to you as I begin my third season as a proud chairman. We have moved great strides in two years, with major infrastructure changes on the football side allowing us to continue not only at the level we compete but as a viable community club, and yet, the next few months are probably the most exciting! With major clubhouse changes and an floodlit artificial pitch being installed. amongst many other things, the club will be unrecognisable in such a good way.

As we all look forward to the start of the 2017-18 season on Saturday, we have to continually question what the club's purpose is and what the purpose is of our Landowners, Trustees, Members and Supporters. Clearly the club is a community club and processes are in place to extend the offerings outside of football by rejuvenating the facilities as mentioned. Collectively, we all have an influential stake in a passion we share and one that we must now direct in different ways and aspire toward higher achievement. This is a very important time within both football and our local community and it is incumbent on us all to contribute to our club’s good and strong purpose and its positioning and influence within the footballing and social communities. With our philosophy in giving local talent the chance they deserve we must all get behind Scott and Alex and the coaches at all levels at the club to drive this forward and together we will succeed.

A clear understanding of what is important to the club is essential. All of the players and coaches will be made fully aware of their responsibilities and obligations to perform in an honest, happy and expressive way when they pull on a Warwick shirt. The management team promote and embrace this approach - it is their way and it aligns completely with the club’s policy and strategy.

Unwavering, solid and real support is the key to good results on the pitch, which in turn helps strengthen our purpose and our community. We operate in a stadium that can easily accommodate a growing support, so let’s challenge ourselves and others to create the circumstances and conditions to grow together and progress.

In general, the Board’s work is focused on three primary areas:-

Footballing success - creating the conditions needed to gain three points on a Saturday. First and foremost that starts with recruitment of good management, stronger characters and populating the club with good and improved players. We ultimately want to develop a new, better breed of local footballer. This is the primary objective of our footballing purpose and we have taken on football development officers, headed by Ian Ray, to help us achieve this.

Commercial income - active commercial growth through increased sponsorship and partnerships, attendance and spend through improved experiential engagement. We want you to be excited about coming to games and using the facilities. We know that supporting Warwick must give you something positive back and we are working on this on a number of fronts. With that in mind I must thank all of our sponsors and I hope the club's growing success contributes to all of your companies successes.

Community good - our business plan extends out into the community and we should support and embrace this part of the club, as its success directly affects the development of the wider club within the Community. So, your attendance, support and ownership of this great club is more important than ever. I thank Warwick District Council for their tremendous support in turning around this club and making it a valuable hub within the community and also the Town Council, who, through the bad times showed unnerving support and confidence in what the club could be - and they have been proved right.

To conclude, the club has a new management team, at first team and youth level, and a substantially new first team squad with an abundance of local players alongside the fantastic squad from last year. Our youth squad is completely 'local' and will continue to be so to enable as many local players as possible to be as good as they can be. For our junior teams we have in place development officers who will monitor progress of players and coaching. There are exciting plans ahead. Please do show your support to all of this and encourage all those around you to do the same and together we will achieve.

Come On You Racers,

Gary Vella
Chairman