Cycling UK AGM 2024

[Jdsk]

Link to the amendments document as issued with the AGM papers.

I cannot find a clearer version of the updated AoA on the Cycling UK website.

Thankyou

Nor could I.

Jonathan

[AndyK]

One of the amendments to our AoA approved by members at the AGM, set out in the tracked changes version of the documents circulated with the voting papers.
CTC - Articles of Association, Article 13.jpg

But that isn't the section that required membership rate changes to be approved by the members. That is Article 11, which remains in place:

11. MEMBERSHIP FEES
The Charity may require Members to pay reasonable
Membership fees to the Charity. The Membership fee
for each class of Member may not be changed without
the approval of the Members in general meeting.

Also the removal of Article 13 also doesn't prevent members from requiring a general meeting and putting a resolution to it: as the explanatory notes say (and as Philip has noted) there is a mechanism under the Companies Act for doing this.

In short (and I can't believe I'm typing this) Philip is correct on both counts.

However he's wrong to say that "None of the current trustees were either CTC/CUK trustee members or CTC members when the above changes [charity conversion and rebrand] took place." Those events were in 2012 and 2016 and I'm pretty sure that some of the current trustees were members before that. I don't see its relevance to anything though.

Incidentally, although the AOA were amended a while back to remove the requirement to hold an AGM every year, the implication of Article 11 is that if you want to change the membership rate, you have to hold an AGM (or at least, a GM).

[gaz]

But that isn't the section that required membership rate changes to be approved by the members. That is Article 11, which remains in place: ...

Yes, Article 11 of the old AoA required membership rate changes to be approved by the members and Article 13 had no relevance to that point but no, Article 11 does not remain in place.

The tracked changes document only details the changes as amended by special resolution 7 at the AGM. Special resolution 5 removed the requirement for members to vote on price increases, allowing the board to change membership fees without such changes having to be approved by members.

Also the removal of Article 13 also doesn't prevent members from requiring a general meeting and putting a resolution to it: as the explanatory notes say (and as Philip has noted) there is a mechanism under the Companies Act for doing this.

Companies Act 2006 s.303 does provide a mechanism for members to require a general meeting and put a resolution to it, as it did before the AGM changes to our AoA.

The support of 400 members was required to call for a Poll of the Whole Club, 5% of our membership (approx 3,550) are required to call a general meeting. That level of support will be considerably harder to achieve.

[AndyK]

Oh, I see. Apologies, I didn't read the AGM papers this year - had other things to deal with at the time. Yes, in that case, you're quite right. To be honest I'm surprised it took them so long to make that change: we were discussing it back when I was a trustee in 2018-20.