In March 2008 Yeovil Town Football Club together with AgustaWestland inaugurated a Community Sports Trust to develop Sports and Educational initiatives in the local community.
The objectives of the Trust are ' to provide recreational, educational and sporting facilities; to support and benefit people living in Somerset and the surrounding areas in order to advance, promote, encourage and develop participation in competitive and recreational sport and other such charitable activities amongst the people in the community with a view to improving their conditions of life.'
The Trust will also act as a fundholding and distribution centre to Yeovil Town Football Club and other local organisations involved in delivering activities in support of its objectives. It will also be responsible for the control and management of projects initially including Football in the Community, the Astroturf pitch and ladies football.
In support of these objectives the Trust has gained the active backing of local company AgustaWestland who will act as both initial sponsors and partners in the Trust with General Counsel and Director David Lee accepting the role of one of the Trustees.
The Trustees are:
Martyn Starnes (Chairman and also representing Yeovil Town Football Club),
John Dover,
David Lee (also representing AgustaWestland),
Peter Male,
Peter Hockley and Sarah Lawler (both representing the Somerset FA),
Alan Chamberlain(also representing Yeovil Town Football Club)
The trust managers of the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust are Roy O'Brien and Sara Bradley
