The Cotswold Line Promotion Group’s 46th Annual General Meeting will take place at the Women’s Institute Hall, in New Road, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 0AS, on Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 10.30am.
Please note that you must be a paid-up member of the CLPG to attend and vote at this meeting. If you are not currently a member, but would like to join, click here for details.
New Road is just around the corner from Moreton-in-Marsh station, at the end of the station approach road and Moreton-in-Marsh can be reached using the following bus services:
- Pulhams Coaches route 801 from Cheltenham via Bourton-on-the-Water, and from Chipping Norton
- Pulhams Coaches route 51 from Stratford-upon-Avon via Shipston-on-Stour
- Stageeoach Midlands routes 1 and 2 from Stratford-upon-Avon via Chipping Campden and Blockley.
As well as hearing about the group’s activities over the past 12 months, the meeting will be addressed by Lord Peter Hendy, the chair of Network Rail and former commissioner of Transport for London, and train operators have been invited to attend.
There will be an opportunity to put questions to the guests and the CLPG’s officers.
AGENDA
- President’s opening comments, from Lord Faulkner of Worcester
- Apologies for absences
- Minutes of the 45th Annual General Meeting, held on May 13, 2023
- Matters arising from the minutes
- Chairman’s report
- Treasurer’s report
- Special Resolution – see below
- Election of Officers (Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer)
- Election of committee members
- Appointment of independent examiner of accounts
- Updates from Train Operating Companies
- Any other business
- Guest Speaker – Lord Hendy
A special resolution to amend the group’s constitution will be put to a vote at this meeting – the proposed changes to the wording of clauses are indicated in bold italic type.
8. Annual General Meeting:
An Annual General Meeting shall be held in June of each year or as soon as possible thereafter, but never more than 15 months after the last AGM. At least eight weeks‘ notice of the date shall be given in writing and/or electronically to members.
The Agenda for the AGM shall be given in writing and/or electronically to members at least twenty-one days before the date of the AGM.
9. The Secretary shall refer to the Annual General Meeting any resolution:
- i. proposed by the Committee; or
- ii. proposed from the membership, provided that the Secretary shall receive a notice in writing singed by no less than five percent of the membership or 100 members (whichever is the less) thirty-five days prior to the Annual General Meeting and that such notice clearly states the resolution which is to be proposed and the reasons for it.