Ramsden Bellhouse Village Hall

Annual General Meeting

To be held on
Sunday 27th January 2019

at 3pm in the New Hall

The meeting will follow the usual format during which a new charity will be voted to be the sponsored village charity for the coming year. Refreshments will be served following the meeting.

The nominations this year are:

Charity                       Nominator

Hearing Help Essex              St. Mary’s Church
St. Luke’s Hospice               Bowls Club
Riding for the Disabled           Dancing Club
Gateway Food Bank              Horticultural Society

Speakers will be attending from each organisation to pitch for their charity.

A representative from the 2018 Charity 'Mind' will be in attendance to be presented with a cheque for the sum raised from various events held by each section.

How the charities are chosen

Each year section members of the Village Hall raise money for Charity.   The money raised is put together and at the AGM a representative of the chosen charity is presented with a cheque for the total by the Chairman.

The choice of the charity for the coming year is voted for at the AGM from a list of proposals put forward by the sections. Each person at the AGM has one vote which they can cast as they wish.  (Note: there are no proxy votes).   If so wished one speaker for each proposal can address the meeting for three minutes in support of any of the charities before the votes are cast.  The voting will be in two parts; in the first part all the proposals will be voted on; in the second the top two most popular proposals will be put to the vote.  The winner for the next year’s charity will be the one that has poled most votes in the second ballot.