The IHBC’s 2023 Annual General Meeting took place online on 3 May, with a more experimental format – including dropping our familiar ‘AGM papers’ – and with votes resoundingly supporting all business, notably the formal election of new trustees: Jo Saady and Peter Wood.
… It was a great pleasure to chair the first AGM with our new online format…
IHBC Chair David McDonald said: ‘It was a great pleasure to chair the first AGM with our new online format, while it very welcome to see so many attending. We are also really privileged to have the appointment of two newly elected Board members: Jo Saady, Chair of our South East Branch, and – now formally elected to represent the Wales Branch after an earlier co-option – Peter Wood. From their energetic and pro-active Branch support to date, I know that both will add substantially to the quality of our Board’s activities and oversight.’
‘We were also delighted to welcome Prof Oriel Prizeman of Cardiff university to kick-start the programme by offering some of her own expert research and thoughts around the same issues that our 2023 School will address – online and in Swansea from June 21-24 – on ‘Sustainability and the Historic Environment’.
[thanks to] all who attended, lodged apologies and…. those….who took the trouble to lodge proxies and questions in advance…
‘I’d like to also thank especially all who attended, lodged apologies and, of course, those there and absent who took the trouble to lodge proxies and questions in advance. Contributing to our AGM this way helps significantly in the smooth running of the meeting, and lets us all make the most of our time.’
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘Our new AGM format – one better suited to its online experience – seems to have worked well, but we’ll be asking members for feedback too.’
‘The new format offers a more streamlined and transparent process, including easier access to the full Annual Report as well as the chance to lodge points and concerns well in advance of the formal AGM, so officers can best address them at the AGM and its attendant discussions.’
… These arrangements….set a useful precedent for future AGM formats…
‘These arrangements should help members engage more fully with this critical moment in our governance. While not yet perfect this set a useful precedent for future AGM formats, not least as it is both more efficient and more economical’
See more AGM’s NewsBlog background HERE and HERE
Details on current and past AGMs are available on the IHBC’s web page on ‘Governance, General Meetings and AGMs’ linked HERE
