Audiences Yorkshire Events

Dear Member

Pursuant to Audiences Yorkshire’s Articles of Association, the Trustees hereby give notice of an Annual General Meeting to be held on:

Thursday 11 December 2008, at 5.30pm at:

Thoresby Room, Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 8BH

In addition, I would also like to take this opportunity to invite you to join us in celebrating the festive season with drinks and a buffet following the formal proceedings.

Please download the following items below:

• 2008 AGM Notice
• 2007 AGM Minutes (6 December 2007)
• 2008 AGM Agenda
• 2008 AY Trustee Nomination Form
• Current Trustee Biographies

The Company can appoint up to 16 (sixteen) Trustees.
No more than 10 (ten) Member places can be appointed by the AGM.
The remaining 6 (six) places can be filled by Co-optees.
We currently have 7 (seven) Member places and 0 (Zero) Co-optee places available on the Board.

A number of Trustees are due to retire by rotation. In accordance with the Articles of Association, Helen Dobson (Member), Sheena Wrigley (Co-optee), Dan Bates (Member) will retire by rotation this year. Being eligible, Helen Dobson and Dan Bates offer themselves for re-election.

Sheena Wrigley (Co-optee) and Madani Younis (Co-optee) will formally resign this year but offers themselves for election as a Member Trustees.

As a member you are entitled to attend and vote at the AGM. In addition, any member is entitled to appoint another person as a proxy to exercise all or any of the member’s rights to attend and to speak and to vote at the AGM.

If you would like to nominate someone to stand for election, please read, complete and return the AY Trustee Nomination form here.

Member organisations can only forward nominations for Member places.

Regardless of whether you wish to make a nomination, I would be grateful if you could fill in our online booking form to confirm your attendance here.

I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you on 11 December.

With best wishes