Specifically, the FSF is calling for an enhanced version of the current away fans' fund launched last season.
"The fans funded this," says Comedy Film Nerds co-host Graham Elwood from the SquareSpace Lab--a squared-off area with refreshments and even free batteries for the smaller podcasters in attendance to interview the podcast stars milling about the hotel.
No one wanted to take a risk on a star who had passed away, but Flores pressed on and finally went to Kickstarter, where her own fans and legions of Janis Martin fans funded the final mixing and mastering for Cow Island Music.
Scadding, a Newport fan, funded the signing of striker Christian Jolley, who scored the goal at Wembley to get them promoted, out of his own pocket.
Kristin Hersh from Throwing Muses has her fans pay for a "membership" that funds singles and giveaways, and Ellis Paul also fan-funded his recent release.
Among other things, the Football Supporters Federationn has called for a five-fold increase in the away fans' fund to £1m per club per year.
It has several other outstanding grant applications, believed to amount to around £1.2m over three years, which will now be considered in turn by the Fans' Fund panel.
That represents an increase on the £800,000 a year the fund currently receives, with the organisations also encouraged to find new streams of funding so they are not wholly reliant on the arm's length Fans' Fund.
"We are grateful to the FSIF and the Fans' Fund for making this grant, which will enable the critical service Supporters Direct undertakes for its members and fans seeking to create supporter's trusts to continue," Burgess said.
It is understood that the Football Stadia Improvement Fund (FSIF), funded to the tune of £6m a year by the Premier League, including £750,000 ringfenced for a new Fans' Fund, has rescinded the money it pledged to Supporters Direct over the next three years.
