Constitution
1 Name of
Club
The Club will be called Marazion Angling Club (hereinafter will be
referred to as “the Club”).
2 Aims
and Objectives
The aims and objectives of the Club will be to provide facilities for and to promote participation in the amateur sport of coarse angling in the far south west of Cornwall, England.
3 Membership
(a) Membership of the Club is open to anyone interested in coarse
angling, by completing a club membership form for full membership or a day
ticket for temporary membership, as appropriate, including participating, promoting,
coaching, and volunteering, regardless of
sex, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion
or other beliefs, except as a necessary consequence of the requirements of
coarse angling. However, limitation of membership according to available
facilities is allowable on a non-discriminatory and fair basis.
(b) Both full and temporary membership
shall consist of the following categories:
· Senior member
· Junior
member (up to age 16)
· Family
member (2 adults and 2 children up to age 16)
· Concessionary
(e.g., senior citizen member/disabled member)
· Out of
County member
· Honorary
member
(c) All members will be subject to the regulations of the
constitution and by joining the Club will be deemed to accept these regulations
and the rules, policies and codes of practice that the Club has adopted.
(d) Full members in each category will pay subscription fees, and
temporary members will pay day ticket fees, as determined by the Club
Committee. The club will keep subscriptions at levels that will not pose a
significant obstacle to people participating.
Full Club membership runs from 1st January to 31st December, each year.
(e) Temporary members and other individuals shall be not eligible to
take part in the business of the Club, vote at general meetings or be eligible
for selection of any Club team unless the applicable full membership subscription
has been paid by the due date and/or membership has been agreed by the Club Committee.
(f) The Club’s Committee may refuse membership, or remove it, only for
good cause such as conduct or character likely to bring the club or sport into
disrepute. Appeal against refusal or
removal may be made to the members.
4 Committee
(a) The
affairs of the Club shall be conducted by a Committee which shall consist of
the following Club Officers: President, Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, Secretary,
Treasurer. Other Committee members may
be Fishery Manager, Safeguarding and Welfare Officer, Match Secretary, Assistant Match Secretary, Junior Co-ordinator, Membership Secretary, and
Webmaster. All of whom shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting.
(b) All Committee
members must be full members of the Club.
(c) The term
of office shall be for one year, and members shall be eligible for re-election.
(d) If the
post of any Officer or ordinary Committee member should remain or fall vacant
after such an election, the Committee shall have the power to fill the vacancy
until the succeeding Annual General Meeting.
(e) The
Committee will be responsible for policy, procedures and rules, including adopting
codes of practice and rules that affect the organisation of the Club.
(f) The
Committee will have powers to create sub-committees or appoint advisers to the
Committee as necessary to fulfil its business.
(g) The
Committee will be responsible for disciplinary hearings of members who infringe
the Club constitution/ rules/regulations/codes of practice/ policies and
procedures. The Committee will be responsible for taking any action of
suspension or discipline following such hearings.
(h) The Committee
meetings will be convened by the Secretary of the Club and be held no less than
6 times per year at least bi-monthly.
(i) Only the
Committee posts listed in a) above will have the right to vote at Committee
meetings. (Only one vote per person if they hold more than one post.)
(j) The quorum
required for business to be agreed at Committee meetings will be 4 (of which at
least 3 must be Club Officers, as listed in a) above).
(k) The Chairperson
(or Vice Chairperson in their absence) shall hold a deliberative as well as a
casting vote at Committee meetings.
(l) The
Committee will have due regard to the law, particularly including fishery
management, disability discrimination, child protection, data protection.
(m) The Club
will indemnify the Committee and members acting properly in the course of the
running of the Club against any liability incurred in the proper running of the
Club (but only to the extent of its assets).
5 Finances
(a) The Treasurer
will be responsible for the finances of the Club.
(b)
The
financial year of the Club will run from 1st January and end on the 31st
December.
(c)
All Club monies will be banked in an account held
in the name of the Club.
(d)
An independently reviewed statement of annual
accounts will be presented by the Treasurer at the Annual General Meeting.
(e)
Any cheques or other payments drawn against Club
funds should hold the signatures (or other appropriate authorisation) of at
least two Club Officers.
(f)
All hiring by the club shall be signed by at least
two Club Officers.
(g) The
property and funds of the Club cannot be used for the direct or indirect
private benefit of members other than as reasonably allowed by the rules and
all surplus income or profits are to be reinvested in the club. No surpluses or
assets will be distributed to members or third parties.
(h)
All Committee members of the Club
shall be jointly and severally responsible for the financial liabilities of the
Club.
6 Annual
General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings
(a) General meetings, which shall include virtual
or online meetings, are the means whereby the members of the Club exercise
their democratic rights in conducting the Club’s affairs.
(b) The Club
shall hold the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the month of March to:
· Approve
the minutes of the previous year’s AGM.
· Receive
reports from the Chairman and Secretary.
· Receive a
report from the Treasurer and approve the Annual Accounts.
· Receive a
report from those responsible for reviewing the Club’s accounts.
· Elect the Officers
and other members on the Committee.
· Consider
any proposed changes to the Constitution.
· Deal with
other relevant business.
(c) Notice of
the AGM will be given to all full members by the Secretary with at least 28
days’ notice to be given to all members.
(e) Proposed
changes to the constitution, duly proposed and seconded, and any other matters
to be raised under “any other business” shall be sent to the Secretary at least
15 days prior to the AGM. The Secretary shall circulate proposals to full
members at least 10 days before an AGM.
(f) All full members
have the right to vote at the AGM.
(g) The quorum
for AGMs will be 8 (or 25% of the membership, if less).
(h) The Chairperson
(or Vice Chairperson in their absence) of the Club shall hold a deliberative as
well as a casting vote at General meetings.
(i) An
Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) shall be called by an application in
writing to the Secretary supported by at least 15 members (or 50% of the full members,
if less) of the Club. The committee shall also have the
power to call an EGM by decision of a simple majority of the Committee members.
(j) All EGM procedures
shall follow those outlined above for AGMs.
7 Amendments
to the constitution
The constitution will only be changed through agreement by majority vote
at an AGM or EGM.
8 Discipline
and appeals
(a) All
complaints regarding the behaviour of members should be presented and submitted
in writing to the Club Secretary.
(b) The
Committee will meet to hear complaints within 31 days of a complaint being
lodged. The Committee has the power to take appropriate disciplinary action
including the termination of membership.
(c) The
outcome of a disciplinary hearing should be notified in writing to the person
who lodged the complaint and the member against whom the complaint was made
within 28 days of the hearing.
(d) There will
be the right of appeal to the Committee following disciplinary action being
announced. The Committee should consider the appeal within 31 days of the
Secretary receiving the appeal.
9 Dissolution
(a) The members may vote to wind up the Club if
not less than two thirds of those present and voting support that proposal at a
properly convened AGM or EGM.
(b) The
Committee will then be responsible for the orderly winding up of the Club’s
affairs.
(c)
Upon dissolution of the club any remaining assets
shall be given or transferred to another registered CASC, a registered
charity or the sport’s governing body for use by them in related community
sports.
10 Priority
Where there is any conflict between any of the above Rules (“key Rules”)
and any other rule or rules the key Rule(s) will take priority.
11 Declaration
Marazion Angling Club hereby adopts and accepts this constitution as a
current operating guide regulating the actions of members.
|
Name |
Dean Roberts |
Position |
Chairperson |
|
Sign |
Dean Roberts |
Date |
7th March 2023 |
|
Name |
Julian Little |
Position |
Secretary |
|
Sign |
Julian Little |
Date |
7th March 2023 |
Angling Rules
These will be published on the Marazion Angling Club website, www.marazionanglingclub.com
The Committee reserve the right to change these Angling Rules at any
time.