EXETER CITY SUPPORTERS TRUST
THE Exeter City Supporters Trust was set up in 2000. The club had faced previous financial battles but nothing close to what they faced in 2003. Upon relegation to the Conference, the Supporters Trust began to gain momentum in relation to membership. By the end of the season, there were 750 members and counting. Ivan Doble, still part of the club approached the Trust about the possibility of running an interim regime, after the arrest of Russell and Lewis. Exeter originally set up the Trust after seeing what had occured at Northampton Town in the early nineties; but you could say that Exeter had become the pioneers of professional football club supporter ownership.