Local Businesses To Help The Dee

Around 50 local Dundonian businessmen attended the first meeting of the Dark Blues Business Trust on Thursday evening at the Dundee Ice Arena.

It was explained at the meeting that the aim of the trust was to help the club reach the target of £300,000 to get out of administration and also help to secure its long-term future which includes buying back Dens Park.

Trust spokesman Peter Marr spoke to The Courier about the event. He said:

“I think it went quite well, about 40 of those present signed up and that’s the hard part. Now we’ve got to work hard and get more pledges — there were a lot of people not there who are already involved but couldn’t make it on the night due to the weather.

“And I’d like to say there’s someone here tonight whose father died recently and his mother has pledged £5000 to the trust. They are big Dundee fans and that’s the sort of thing we keep hearing about.

“We’re quite confident — we’re definitely well into five figures now and the response tonight was good.”

The BBC also have a video interview with Peter Marr which can be found here.