It’s been a hectic couple of weeks for Barrow AFC’s interim chairman Paul Hornby, as he continues to put together a different ownership model at the club.

After gauging supporter opinion at a recent question and answer session at Holker Street, it appears the Bluebirds are set to make a clean break from the previous regime, which had Paul Casson as the sole owner.

Hornby has been extremely busy meeting potential investors since last Monday and he’s looking to get several local businesses involved with the running of the club.

He also wants to keep a close working relationship with the Bluebirds Trust, whose AGM he attended before Barrow’s home game against Barnet on October 27.

Hornby said: “It’s pretty much how I laid out in the Q&A – I met with the supporters trust after that and pretty much the favoured model is a Barrow-based consortia of business people owning the lion’s share.

“Then there will maybe be a percentage left for the supporters trust, if they want to do that, and that’s the model that we’re working on at the moment.”

As talks are still at an early stage, Hornby is understandably tight-lipped over who he has been meeting around the town, with the amount of responses from interested parties very encouraging so far.

With there being enough money in the bank at the club to pay employee wages, including those of the players, until January, Hornby does have some time on his side in getting the best deals for AFC.

He said: “They’ve been pretty full-on, these last two weeks, with my main role in the piece, at the moment, being having meetings with investors.

“We also had an away game last Saturday [at Ebbsfleet United], which we went to and I had a chat with Ian [Evatt].

“We’re just keeping everyone on board and fully invested in what’s happening and it has been pretty crazy because obviously people are reaching out to help as well.

“Everything is going well and I’ve got some investors who are pretty much on board and, as I said at the Q&A, you’ve got the pieces of the jigsaw and it’s just about sorting out the percentages, holdings and taking it forward.

“We’re looking at next season now and what the plan will be, so we’re pretty happy with where we are. It’s only been two weeks, but we’re in a good position.”

With things starting to settle down since Casson’s departure, director Jamie Reid has based himself at the club in galvanising sponsorship and volunteers.

This has already bore fruit with a group of such volunteers making improvements at the ground last week, which in itself could attract potential investors who are interested in becoming part of the new regime at Holker Street over the coming months.

“The volunteers reached out and asked ‘is there anything we can do?’ and there’s some mini-projects that they’re doing a bit of work on at the moment,” Hornby said.

“That’s been great, the response on that side of things, and the help that they’ve provided has been really nice.

“It’s just people trying to do what they can and people have been painting and doing a bit of cleaning and doing all sorts of things that can help us and if it saves us a bit of money, that’s great.”