QPR 1st is both saddened and pleased to announce that our Chairman, since inception, Mr David Price has stepped-down from his position due to the increasing work demands on his time. David has travelled to the four corners of the world for his work in the last month alone.
We are saddened because David has done an outstanding job as Chairman. He led us since September 2001 when the interim committee, that established QPR 1st as an Industrial and Provident Society, was replaced by our first fully elected committee. Incidently David played a critical part in that process, establishing the constitution and delivering that first election. This was a time when the club was in adminstration and also in turmoil and all of David’s diplomatic skills were required to deal with the many different people associated with the club at that time. In recent times, prior to the publication of QPR’s official accounts, David researched and wrote a widely-praised summary of the club’s financial position based on the various financial sources available to QPR 1st. This can be viewed at
We are however pleased that the reason David has had to stand down is due to his exceptional success at work which has recently taken him all over the world. David himself puts some part of his recent work success down to the skills he has acquired along the way working on the QPR 1st committee. David, while relinquishing his Chairman duties, will still see out his elected term on the committee to ensure we keep a good core of experience in the team.
The committee of QPR 1st thank David for all his unstinting work so far in helping deliver the goals of the Trust and look forward to more of his balanced, yet incisive contributions in the future.
David’s departure has necessitated a minor reshuffle amongst the committee that will take the Trust to annual elections in August 2003.
Justin Pieris takes over as Chairman.
Roger de Freitas has been co-opted onto the committee with full voting rights to take-up the political liaison portfolio. Roger brings a wealth of political and planning experience being a leading light in the Hammersmith Society.
The committee has also voted to give co-optees Anthony Hobbs and Graham Barnes full voting rights.
The full reshuffled committee is as follows:
Chairman : Justin Pieris
Secretary : Tracy Stent
Membership Secretary, Head of ShareSave Scheme : Leon Stent
Head of Media : Anthony Hobbs
Media Writer : David Price
Head of Finance : David Anderson
Accountant : Stuart Whitney
Head of Merchandising : Andrew Goss
Head of IT : Peter Gridneff
Head of Customer Services : Graham Barnes
Head of Political Liaison : Roger de Freitas
External Liaison : William Wall
Justin Pieris
On behalf of the committee of QPR 1st, Supporters’ Trust”