I have a selection of studio lighting equipment that I wish to put up for sale to the Club. My reason for selling is that I no longer do the type of photography that needs this sort of kit.

This equipment has not been used much and would be ideal for someone who wishes to do portrait photography. It is basically all you need to get you started.

The equipment consists of:

The market value is approximately £1,400. I am willing to let it all go as a job lot for –

£400

I only wish to sell as a job-lot and am not open to selling off individual items.

As some of this equipment is bulky it would not be convenient to bring it to the Club. I am willing to bring it to your house for examination, however, providing you don’t live too far away.

Richard Corkrey
07980 985253
richard.corkrey@sky.com

The following proposed change to the Constitution amendment has been received.

“In the matter of the current proposal by the Committee to reduce the quorum required at Annual General and Extraordinary General Meetings (currently 35% of the registered membership) to 20%.

While I fully support the need for a reduction to be made and agree with the reasons given for this, I believe that 20% is too low for good governance and democratic best practice.

20% would represent almost half the current level whereas a level of 25% would mean that twice as many members who were not on the Committee could block any attempt to enforce proposals which were judged to be unreasonable.

I therefore propose that this amendment to reduce the quorum requirement to 25% is considered at the EGM and seek the support of the members”.

This amendment is proposed by John Bradshaw and seconded by Ann McDonald. It will be presented and voted upon at the EGM on 21st November.

A short Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on Thursday 21st November immediately after the conclusion of the First Club/Intermediate Print Competition. The EGM will have no impact on the Competition which will proceed as scheduled.

The purpose of the meeting is to consider the following proposal of the Management Committee (proposed by Chair, seconded by Vice Chair):

‘It is proposed that the Constitution be amended in paragraphs 6.2.6 and 6.3.3 to delete the figure of 35% and replace it with a figure of 20%’

The effect of this proposed change will be that 6.2.6 will read: ‘The quorum for the AGM will be 20% of the Club’s registered membership’ and for paragraph 6.3.3 ‘the quorum at an EGM will be 20% of the registered membership’.

The justification for this proposal is that with current membership numbers the existing quorum figure of 35% is too high.  Two of the last three AGMs have been inquorate (49 attendees in May 2019 against a quorum requirement of 51) with the result that none of the Constitutional issues under consideration could be resolved until the special (quorate) EGM was held on 1^st August.  The lower quorum figure of 20% will also help to reinforce the principle of voting by attending members.

Members are asked to approve the lower quorum figure of 20%. and the revisions to the Constitution as described above.

Mike Hancock, Chair, 30th October 2019

As I announced last night, the Management Committee would like to call an EGM for Thursday 21st November to be held immediately after the conclusion of the first Club/Intermediate Print Competition. The purpose of the meeting will be to consider a single proposal – the reduction in the quorum for AGM/EGM meetings from 35% of the registered membership to 20%.

The formal agenda and justification for the proposal will be circulated to all members in the next few days. The purpose of this item is to ask members to make a note on their diaries as we will need at least 51 members to attend to be able to consider the proposal properly.

This will have no impact on the Club/Intermediate Print competition which will proceed as scheduled.