How much consultation has been performed?
In 2002, a major consultation was performed asking all supporters and leaders to comment on whether the name should change. 50% said that the name should change, 30% said the name should remain as Crusaders, and 20% did not mind either way. All indications suggest that the number who believe that the name should change has grown in the last four years. In September 2005, Groups were asked to inform us of the name that they currently adopted locally. We hoped that a common new name might emerge from this process. Surprisingly, what emerged was that only around 50% of Groups use the name Crusaders and of those who do not use the name Crusaders, all had adopted different names. A further consultation with Groups was performed in October 2005 asking for feedback on five potential names for the movement. These were unilaterally rejected and over 120 new independent names suggested. It became clear from this that consensus, across thousands of people, would be impossible and we would therefo
