Sent: 05 August 2008 23:16
Subject: Valley Striders Constitution and Special General Meeting
Notice
is hereby given inviting all members to attend a Special General
Meeting of Valley Striders on Tuesday 2 September at 8:45pm at Leo's the
purpose of which is to discuss and approve a new Constitution for the Club.
When Valley Striders was formed in 1982, a constitution was written - this has
not been amended since 1984.
At the
time of the 25th Anniversary, we published this constitution on the Website.
After the
2007 AGM, one of our members, Dave Middlemas, suggested that the constitution
should be updated to allow all members to have a common understanding of club
rules and to clarify responsibilities. Dave, in his work, advises voluntary
organisations in
In
December 2007, Dave wrote a first draft for us based on a combination of the
Bradford CVS model constitution for unincorporated associations, the UK
Athletics model constitution, and various bits from the old VS constitution.
A working
group of Bob Jackson, Dave Middlemas,
If you
have any comments, queries or suggestions for improvement, ideally make them
known to Geoff, Paul or myself in advance of the meeting. Plenty of time
will also be allowed at the Special General Meeting for full discussion.
(it will also be a pie and peas night)
We hope
many of you will have input and/or attend the meeting and hope that our new
constitution will last a further 25 years!
Further
information is available at http://valleystriders.org.uk/vsconst.htm
Bob
Jackson, Chairman
Geoff
Webster, Secretary
Paul White,
Treasurer