We will be holding the Annual General Meeting of Customer Union members before the November gathering.

This will be on-line only.

All customer union members are welcome.

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This videocall starts at:

1.00pm Saturday 16 November 2024

It will be immediately followed (from 2pm) by the November gathering of members and supporters

We will use Zoom. This means you can join from a computer, smartphone or tablet - or you can dial in from an ordinary telephone.

Full details of how to join the meeting are here.

Agenda

  1. Members Present and Apologies
  2. Minutes of the 2023 CUEB AGM
  3. Matters Arising from the Minutes
  4. The receipt of the accounts and balance sheet and of the reports of the Board
  5. Dis-applying the audit requirement in accordance with section 84 of the Act
  6. The election of the Board

(a)  Re-election of existing directors

At every annual general meeting one-third of the Board of Directors shall retire from office. The Directors to retire shall be the Directors who have been longest in office since their last election. A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election”. 

Of the five existing Directors, Shaun Fensom and Ryan Brightwell are the longest serving.  Both wish to stand again.

Therefore the first proposal is to re-elect the two longest serving current directors.

(b) Addition of four new directors to the board on one slate.

When we recently asked for members to express interest in our Board, four new members applied.  

We have collated short biographies of them here.

At our most recent board meeting on October 15th we agreed that a Board with nine members was a workable size and that the new applicants would all bring useful skills and experience to the current board. We are therefore proposing to the membership at the

AGM that all four applicants be elected to join the current team of five.

The board also agreed that members should be invited to object by email to one or more of the new proposed board members, prior to the AGM, if they wished to do so.  If this occurred, a separate vote(s) would be held on that applicant(s).

The board agreed that nine should be the maximum and that contested elections should be held in future if more members applied than there were spaces available.

At the meeting we plan to ask the new applicants to introduce themselves and to say a few words We also plan to give the membership the opportunity to ask them questions if they wish.

Meeting ends/Closing remarks

Following the formal business at 1.30 or thereabouts we will keep the videoconference open for informal discussion before the Gathering starts at 2pm

Papers

Minutes of the 2023 CUEB AGM

Accounts and balance sheet for the year ended March 2024

Proposed new directors biographies