The Hull City AFC Customer Charter is available free of charge, from the main reception or Tiger Leisure at the Hull City Football Club.
Customer Service
The club's Customer Service contact is Ann Holland (Community Liaison Assistant). She can be contacted by telephone (01482 304835) or by e-mail ann.holland@hulltigers.com Monday-Friday.
The Club will respond to any contact from a customer within a period of 14 days either by telephone, e-mail or letter.
Staff Conduct
The Club is committed to confront and eliminate discrimination whether by reason of gender, marital status, social class, race, ethnic origin, creed, religion or disability.
The Club is an equal opportunities employer and undertakes to fulfil its social responsibility towards its employees and the communities in which it operates.
In this area, it recognises its obligations under the Race Relations Act, the Sex Discrimination Act, the Equal Payments Act and the Disability Decimation Act.
The Club will review periodically its selection criteria and procedures to maintain a system where individuals are selected, promoted and treated solely on the basis of their merits and abilities, which are appropriate to the job.
The Club will seek to give all employees equal opportunities and encouragement to progress within the organisation and will provide facilities for any employee who believes that inequitable treatment has been applied to him or her to raise the matter through the appropriate grievance procedure.
The Club will not tolerate sexual or racially based harassment or other discriminatory behaviour, whether physical or verbal. And will work to ensure that such behaviour is met with appropriate disciplinary action in whatever context it occurs.
Consultation & Information
The Club encourages dialogue with its various supporters' organisations on a regular basis.
There are monthly meetings with various supporters' groups, which are encouraged and attended by Directors.
Occasional Fans Forum meetings are arranged periodically.
The Club utilises its match day programme and its official website information service to publicise its position on major policy issues and to update supporters on a regular basis as to activities within the Club.
The Club also issues regular press releases to the local and national media to keep supporters fully informed.
The Club continues to develop ways of consulting with shareholders, sponsors, the local authority and other interested parties to ensure that the best interests of the Football Club and the local community are served.
The Club gives the earliest possible notice to its supporters of any changes to its ticketing policy, together with the reasons for any such change.
Ticketing:
Pricing
The Club constantly reviews its ticketing policies and encourages special ticketing promotions subject to availability to various supporters groups throughout the season.
The Club operates a scheme for supporters to pay for season tickets by monthly instalments at a reasonable rate of interest.
Allocation
The Club will always ensure that, whichever Division of the League it plays in, a minimum of 5% of tickets for each game are made available to non-season ticket holders.
Concessions/Disabled/Restricted View Seats
Concessionary ticket prices are available to schoolchildren 16 and under.
Senior citizens, both male and female over the age of 60 years old, students and other children aged over 16 who are still in full-time education.
The Club provides a section of the South, West and East stands for the exclusive use of family groups/junior supporters.
The ticket price is considerably reduced from the normal admission charges.
The Club provides facilities for disabled supporters and their carers in all areas of the stadium.
Special stewarding is provided and limited car parking is made available by prior arrangement.
Ann Holland can be contacted at the Football Club for details of our disabled facilities.
The Club does not sell restricted view seats except in cases where a capacity crowd is expected.
In such cases, restricted view seats will be sold only after all other seats have been allocated and at a concessionary price.
Such tickets will be marked as restricted view and customers informed at the point of sale.
Away Matches
For all ticket away games tickets will be allocated on the following basis, with restrictions on the number of tickets available to each supporter dependent on the total allocation of tickets to the Club: -
1st priority Season Ticket holders
2nd priority Tigers Lottery members and members of the supporters club
3rd priority (in certain circumstances) ticket stub holders from specified home or away games.
4th priority general sale.
The ticket prices, including concessions for away games are determined solely by the home club.
Cup Competitions
Tickets for home cup-ties will, in normal circumstances be the same as those charged for League games. On rare occasions, however, there may be instances when prices are increased or decreased according to the level of importance of the game. In such cases advance notice will be given together with the reasons for the decision.
In all cases, ticket allocation will be as set out in "away matches" above.
Returns/Refunds
Should a supporter purchase a ticket in advance and then find that he/she is unable to attend the game the Club will endeavour to ensure that an appropriate refund is made provided that notice is given, together with the relevant ticket details, to the Ticket Office either by telephone or in person prior to kick off on the day of the game in question.
If a match is postponed before kick off, ticket holders should retain their ticket counterfoils and will be entitled to free admission to the re-arranged game.
Details of how they will be able to obtain such tickets for the re-arranged game will be announced in the local media.
If the match is abandoned after kick off spectators will be entitled to half price admission to the re-arranged game.
Again, ticket holders should retain their ticket counterfoils and see the local media for ticket sale details for a re-arranged fixture.
Away Supporters
The Club abides by the Football League and Football Association regulations governing the allocation of tickets to visiting clubs.
The Club does not charge admission prices to supporters of a visiting club, which are higher than those charged to our own supporters for comparable accommodation.
In particular, our concessionary rates offered to senior citizens and junior supporters apply to supporters of the visiting club.
Merchandise
In recent years the Club has changed the design of its replica strip on an annual basis.
Whilst recognising that some supporters may question this policy, the Club must also take into account the demand from many other supporters who consider that replica kits are now a major item of leisure wear and wish to purchase up-to-date designs, especially with regard to children who rapidly outgrow and out use such kits.
Details of the next intended change of kits are available from the Club Shop.
The Club carries out its obligations under Football League Regulations to prevent price fixing in relation to the sale of replica strips.
The Club offers refunds on merchandise in accordance with its normal legal obligations.
Community Activities
The Club is very active in the local community and operates a Football and Community Project on a full-time basis.
This Project involves such activities as: -
Schools football coaching, Saturday Club, Learning Through Football Educational Scheme, Girls Football, Disability Development Programmes, visits to other League Grounds, Penalty Competitions, School Visits, Player participation, Anti-smoking and anti-drug Campaigns, Clean Air Campaigns.
The Club also regularly contributes to local charities by way of offering raffle/auction prizes etc. and provides complimentary tickets on a regular basis to charities, under-privileged and other deserving causes.
The Club is committed to working very closely with the local community and recognises the important role it has to play in this context.
