The Celtic Board finally admitted that Persistence really does beat Resistance and this most honourable campaign by Celtic supporters over nine long years finally reached a satisfactory outcome as the campaign you will know as Resolution 12, comes to a close.
On the official website this communique appeared on the official website and was tweeted by the Celtic FC Foundation.
Big thank you to the group of Celtic shareholders who have donated over £11,000 to #ChristmasAppeal2022 following positive liaison with #CelticFC 🎄🍀
— Celtic FC Foundation (@FoundationCFC) December 23, 2022
Celtic FC Foundation are delighted to announce that we received a wonderful donation of £11,266 earlier this week thanks to the Club and a group of Celtic plc shareholders.
The group, who had come together a number of years ago to seek to address certain governance issues in Scottish football, engaged with the Club and worked independently over a number of years, with the objective of highlighting the value of continuing to evolve the governance rules underpinning Scottish Football and European Club Competition.
The group of shareholders also privately funded legal costs in the process and the Club agreed in principle to make a contribution to these costs in recognition of the effort and funds that were committed.
Thankfully for Celtic FC Foundation, with the agreement of the Club, the shareholders have directed this contribution to Celtic FC Foundation’s 2022 Christmas Appeal. We would therefore like to express our sincere thanks to all of those involved. We are exceptionally grateful for your wonderful support in helping us to ‘Share the Magic’ this festive season.
News on the outcome of the Christmas Appeal was shared with supporters earlier this week, with an incredible £385K raised and distributed to vulnerable families, children, pensioners, women and children in refuge, the homeless and refugees. Full details can be found HERE.
The legal costs involved in the Resolution 12 – Persistence Beats Resistance campaign were considerable and The Celtic Star Editor spearheaded this fundraising campaign after organising the now iconic Persistence Beats Resistance slogan and image. A t-shirt awareness campaign was one of many initiatives that helped to fully funded the Resolution 12 legal fees.
Advertising was strategically placed in La Tribune de Genève – the newspaper of choice at UEFA HQ and the Guardian, which initially accepted the booking and accepted full payment before subsequently refusing the run the advertisement. It seemed like a funny hand-shake sort of business but the money was (eventually) recovered and donated in full to Mary’s Meals.
The advertisement in La Tribune de Genève hit the spot as it came out on the day of the Scottish FA’s AGM and the then CEO Stewart Regan was forced to address an issue he had gone to incredible lengths to avoid. Meanwhile a word on The Herald. Having previously placed A Statement from Celtic Supporters in the now defunct Sunday Herald ahead of the first Glasgow Derby in February 2015, the newspaper was persistent themselves in chasing a further advertising booking.
No decision was taken on this as the Celtic shareholders wanted to attract UEFA’s attention (thus La Tribune de Genève) and also wanted to increase awareness south of the border amongst opinion formers (thus The Guardian). So it was a surprise to receive a call with the message being that The Herald under no circumstances would The Herald run an advertisement that mentioned Resolution 12. Funny hand shakes are alive and well in the UK but luckily their influence didn’t extend to Geneva.
The principal Res 12 chap, Auldheld had this to say to The Celtic Star this evening:
“Funding of the original Res12 legal costs would have fallen short of what was required but for the fund raising efforts of Winning Captains , founder and editor on The Celtic Star and a true believer that pers12stance would beat resistance.”
Referring to the CQN blogger, he told The Celtic Star Editor this evening: “He never replied to my efforts to get approval to divert legal cost reimbursement to Celtic Foundation but as you did all the hard work I took your approval as total. Just in case any of the folk who made small individual contributions ask who spoke for them. I also got approval from all the other big funders.”
The key part of the statement on the Celtic website is this:
The group, who had come together a number of years ago to seek to address certain governance issues in Scottish football, engaged with the Club and worked independently over a number of years, with the objective of highlighting the value of continuing to evolve the governance rules underpinning Scottish Football and European Club Competition.
The group of shareholders also privately funded legal costs in the process and the Club agreed in principle to make a contribution to these costs in recognition of the effort and funds that were committed.
Today Michael Nicholson, cleared up a mess left Peter Lawwell, accepted the flaws in Celtic’s handling of this matter and the Celtic CEO issued a payment which in accordance with the wishes of the Res 12 organisers,. This was donated to the Celtic FC Foundation and this was promoted by the club as you can see above, as part of the settlement.
This represents closure on the matter for the group of Celtic shareholder and those who offered their support and crucially also for Celtic PLC.
Nine years – that’s his long it has taken to get to this position and it should be noted that the main issue of Resolution 12 has now been fully addressed at UEFA level by the new Financial Sustainability Regulations (FSR). These are a more comprehensive set of ordinance that Celtic FC has helped to develop behind the scenes.
The Res 12 guys deserve more thanks and appreciation that they’ll ever get. They fought and they got a result that they are satisfied with and that is surely good enough for us all, especially the ones who come out of this with heads held high.
Am I missing something here ?satisfied !
It’s our duty as Celtic_fc_1888 and champions to question sfa and spl for unscrupulous things done we have proved many times there biased against Celtic_fc_1888 and there support of old and now new co we won’t stand for there criminal acts of dishonesty even fraud
I would just like to thank all the bhoys involved in the resolution 12 project .
As a supporter for many years (man and bhoy), all the hard work and financial backing you have all put into this outcome ,will be of , forever benefit to the future supporters of our club .
I salute every single one of you
Hail Hail
I can see we have changed the landscape going forward, that being a great achievement in itself, although someone cheated back there and has now got away with it. Celtic lost revenue and the chance to participate in a Champions league run.