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Rosemarie Maslin notified the Board that she will cease to be Chairman and Director of the Club from 14th May 2022.
The Board would like to thank Rosemarie for the work that she has done for the Club in her capacity as Chairman over the last four years and also in various roles since her appointment to the Board in 2004.
Stephen Beresford was elected Chairman unanimously and unopposed for the remainder of 2022.
The Club have placed an advertisement in the June Gazette for a suitable candidate to take on the role of Finance Manager with a view to becoming a director. In the interim, Rosemarie will continue to authorise payments twice monthly. GD’C has taken the task of signing off invoices for the accountants to process.
The Club will attend the NEC show in November. Clive Henderson will obtain costs from stand suppliers for a new stand with 70th Anniversary branding. It is acknowledged these will be discarded after this year. Trevor Mitchell and Red Mackinnon will have organisational responsibility for the show.
It has come to light that there are on going copyright issues with the archive, it has therefore been decided that the commercial part of the Archive will cease and the information will revert to being a members’ read-only facility. Further information will be sought to clarify the situation.
Three options for online event booking have been reviewed – two off-the-shelf and one bespoke. The off-the-shelf solutions, including Eventbrite, are unworkable currently for our business model. Operationally Eventbrite, also, is too costly in terms of transaction costs. The other off-the-shelf solution initially appears better as it is a commission free solution and would provide the information and online payments officials have requested. Both are designed to work best in simple, centralised event organisations. We could operate in that manner, running a central events hub (today everything is distributed) but that will require additional full-time staff in the office. Officials would not be uploading their own event information. Online events booking to allow such uploading by officials would require bespoke software to be developed and written – this third solution is also being considered.
Legal Advice following the calling for a members vote and General Meeting. The Board confirms the expenditure on legal advice from Keystone Law in reference to the group use of the Companies Act 2006 to instigate a General Meeting. It was agreed that this facility should remain in place until the situation is resolved.
Following a lengthy discussion, it was agreed that subject to legal advice and should a resolution be passed at the General Meeting, all the Board will offer to step down simultaneously and an alternative set of Directors be put in place at the same time.
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