2021 AGM Proxy Voting Form

Due to the continuing uncertainty about the pandemic we will not be holding our AGM with a Members’ Day at Yeovilton this year as hoped. Instead we are holding a virtual meeting again, with all members invited to attend by electronic means only.  

As a member, you are entitled to vote; this year all voting will take place by proxy in accordance with our Articles of Association, nominating the Chair of the meeting to vote on your behalf.

Please complete and submit this form by midday on 4 November 2021.

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* 1. Your details:
Name

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* 2. Address

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* 3. Email

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* 4. Telephone

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* 5. Reference number (you will find this on the magazine covering letter)

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* 6. Appoint the Chair as your proxy:
I/we being a member/s of the Charity hereby appoint the Chair of the meeting as my/our proxy to vote on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting of the Charity on 6 November 2021 and at any adjournment of the meeting. I/we direct my/our proxy to vote on the resolutions below as I/we have indicated by marking the appropriate box. If no indication is given, my/our proxy will vote or abstain from voting at his/her discretion and I/we authorise my/our proxy to vote (or abstain from voting) as he/she thinks fit in relation to any other matter which is put before the meeting.

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* 7. Vote:
Please vote for each resolution, by clicking on the appropriate boxes below.

  For Against Abstain
1. To approve the minutes of the 2020 AGM
2. To adopt the 2020-21 Accounts
3. To appoint the Auditors recommended by the Trust Council, following a tender process
4. That the existing articles of association in their entirety be removed and substituted for the new Articles of Association
5. To elect Ed Green for a first term, as determined by the Articles of Association
6. To elect Lorna Harrison for a first term, as determined by the Articles of Association
7. To elect Stuart McBride for a first term, as determined by the Articles of Association
8. To elect Holly Purdey for a first term, as determined by the Articles of Association

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* 8. Questions for the AGM:
Members will be able to submit questions online during the AGM, using the space below or via email to membership@somersetwildlife.org stating that your question is for the 2021 AGM. We will need to receive your questions no later than 12 noon on Thursday 4 November for them to be answered at the AGM. We will endeavour to answer members’ questions at the AGM but if time does not allow all questions to be answered, we will respond to these as soon as practicable after the AGM.

If your question relates to the 2021 AGM resolutions above and you would like a response before voting, please do not include them here but instead send an enquiry by email to membership@somersetwildlife.org to be received no later than 5pm on Friday 29 October 2021.

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