How we operate
The Football Club Foundation operates under a trustee company called The Football Club Pty Ltd ( ACN 126 968 796)
The Football Club has 3 directors:-
Finlay Davis, Founder and Managing Director.
Finlay has been a commercial lawyer and worked in the Cook Islands, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as Australia. He has also founded and managed a sports, travel and entertainment business.
David Mitchel, Director.
David worked as a stockbroker in Melbourne. He also umpired 2 AFL grand finals and remains actively involved with the AFL Premiership Players Club.
Ray De La Rue, Director.
Ray has worked in his own legal costs business in Melbourne for nearly 50 years. He co-founded the Sports Entertainment business with Finlay and remains a very interested follower of all sports, particularly cricket, AFL and horse racing.
The 3 directors will be joined by 3 donors from the Football Club Foundation (different persons each year) to determine who and in what amounts distributions are made to donees, selections of new donees and organising an annual social extravaganza for donors, families and friends and at which time allow donors and donees to meet face to face.
Finlay Davis shall personally pay all of the annual expenses of the charity including taxation returns, ASIC costs, website costs and travel. As a result every dollar donated fully benefits the donees.
As we broaden our donor base, we will establish multiple chapters of the Football Club Foundation. Each chapter will have a minimum of 7 donors and a maximum of 50 donors. Each donor will contribute $500 annually. Each donation is fully tax deductible. Each chapter will operate under their local executive adhering to the parent charitable organisation for tax and compliance purposes.