6.1.4 Members (including Trustees) who are beneficiaries of the Charity may receive charitable benefits from the Charity in that capacity.
What are the limits to such benefits?
6.1.4 Members (including Trustees) who are beneficiaries of the Charity may receive charitable benefits from the Charity in that capacity.
(d) A director or connected person may receive interest on
money lent to the charity at a reasonable and proper rate
which must be not more than the Bank of England bank
rate (also known as the base rate).
(e) A director or connected person may receive rent for
premises let by the director or connected person to the
charity. The amount of the rent and the other terms of
the lease must be reasonable and proper. The director
concerned must withdraw from any meeting at which
such a proposal or the rent or other terms of the lease are
under discussion.
6.1.2 Members (including Trustees) may be paid interest at a reasonable rate on money lent to the Charity;
6.1.3 Members (including Trustees) may be paid a reasonable rent or hiring fee for property or equipment let or hired to the Charity; and
14 LIFE MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT
14.1 All money which may be received by way of composition fees from life Members of the Club shall, after
deduction of any Value Added Tax payable thereon, be credited to a special reserve named the “Life
Membership Fund”. Four per cent of the amount credited in each accounting year commencing after
30th September 1982 shall be transferred to the Revenue Account and like amounts shall be
transferred in each of the subsequent 24 years. No other transfers shall be made until all other reserves
of the Club have been exhausted in which case the Members may by ordinary resolution approve such
transfer as they may think fit.
Steady rider wrote:The requirements have been shortened.
.gaz » 1 Dec 2016, 1:44pm
Steady rider wrote:
The requirements have been shortened.
The model is not a list of requirements, it is a starting point from which an organisation can develop its own AoA
Steady rider wrote:The proposed AoA does not have a heading 'life members' and seems to have no provisions to protect their investment.
Steady rider wrote:Unless there are good reasons to shorten the provisions suggested, they should not be approved in my view, what are the good reasons to shorten the model?
10.6 The Trustees may establish different classes of Members and recognise one or more classes of supporters who are not Members (but who may nevertheless be termed as “members”) and set out their respective rights and obligations (including payment of Membership Fees save that such fees may not be imposed until approved by the members).
AndyK wrote:Instead our trustees are saying, "Hmmm - that was inconvenient. Some upstart members dared to question our judgement. I know - let's change it so that if anyone does propose a poll of all the members, we can victimise the instigator and threaten him/her with financial ruin. That'll make them think twice."
gaz wrote:AndyK wrote:Instead our trustees are saying, "Hmmm - that was inconvenient. Some upstart members dared to question our judgement. I know - let's change it so that if anyone does propose a poll of all the members, we can victimise the instigator and threaten him/her with financial ruin. That'll make them think twice."
Except that isn't what the Trustees have said, just how you have chosen to interpret it.
IMO the last two Polls of the Whole Club (the only ones of which I have any knowledge) were lodged in good faith.
I can imagine Polls of the Whole Club being lodged for less wholesome motives and I feel it is appropriate for the Trustees to seek to protect the Charity from such actions.
I'm only surprised that they feel the relevant clause should not simply be deleted from the AoA, then again I wouldn't expect to find myself in agreement with everything the Trustees do .
13.2 A poll of the Members shall be taken if either one third of the Trustees or 400 Members of the Charity shall within three months of the passing of a resolution in a meeting of the Trustees or a general meeting (a ‘Contested Resolution’) lodge with the Secretary a petition in writing signed by the petitioning Members:
13.2.1 protesting against such resolution, and
13.2.2 asking that a poll of the Members be conducted
(a ‘Petition’).
13.4 Any action taken upon a Contested Resolution before a petition is properly lodged under article 13.2 shall be valid.
13.6 If the Trustees reasonably conclude that a Petition is not lodged in good faith or is designed to achieve aims other than the best interests of the Charity, the Trustees may require the petitioning Members to bear the reasonable costs properly incurred by the Charity in conducting the poll and implementing the result.
AndyK wrote:
Instead our trustees are saying, "Hmmm - that was inconvenient. Some upstart members dared to question our judgement. I know - let's change it so that if anyone does propose a poll of all the members, we can victimise the instigator and threaten him/her with financial ruin. That'll make them think twice."