WORCESTER City Supporters’ Trust have pledged to make “one last push” to save the cash-strapped club from going bust.

Chairman Dave Wood is set to put forward the trust’s case for community ownership to City’s board “within the next four weeks”.

But the trust want club chairman Anthony Hampson to call an extraordinary general meeting in a bid to show “power and strength as a collective”.

“One of the things I have committed to doing is to put together a package so the club fully understands what community ownership is,” said Wood who spoke to fans at an open forum.

“I have pledged to do that within the next four weeks.

“I am convinced we are going to get community ownership and we are not going to be turned down.”

Last summer the trust were unsuccessful in a shareholders’ vote to make the troubled club a Community Benefit Society (CBS) after the board failed to back the proposed changes to the constitution.

The trust believe a CBS would help raise the capital for the proposed new ground and boost negotiations with Worcester City Council to use the land at Perdiswell Park.

“Anthony is not convinced on which community route to go down,” said Wood who also held a meeting with City’s board last week.

“The penny still hasn’t dropped.

“But I think the time has come to give it one last push and I am determined to put the case in front of the board.”

With money running out City’s chiefs agreed to resign from the National League in March which resulted in them plummeting three levels into the Midland League Premier Division.

An annual general meeting was scheduled to take place in June where the board were expected to give details on last year’s accounts.

But the meeting was cancelled after JFA Accountants tendered their resignation as auditors.

“I don’t know the final outcome of their accounts for last year but we know it is not fantastic,” Wood said.

“They can’t present it in anyway other than a disaster.

“But we are all here (at the forum) because of the football club and to be involved in it.

“I would rather be on the inside trying to drive it (community ownership) than be a faction.

“We have to come together and have that power and strength as a collective.”

Trust secretary Rob Crean admitted the trust’s previous efforts to force City bosses’ arm have proved “counter-productive”.

“It is a bit like Groundhog Day going back to the club and saying, ‘This is the best way to do it’, and they say, ‘You are right’, but nothing happens,” Crean said.

“This time it is up to the football club now to say we need an EGM to change the constitution.

“There is no point just arguing as this is our last chance. We know that as the money is running out.

“We are not forcing their arm as it has got be a two-way thing and do it together.

“But we need to do it quickly.”

Director Rich Widdowson added: “If the club stays as it is it will be doomed so we need to change.”