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Constitution of the Walton and Weybridge Film
Society
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(adopted at AGM on 23rd April 2014) |
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1. NAME
The Society shall be known as the Walton & Weybridge Film
Society (hereinafter referred to as “the Society”). |
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2. OBJECTS
The object of the Society is to advance the education of the
public in the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the
arts particularly in the art of film and allied visual
techniques. In furtherance of the foregoing object but not
further or otherwise the Society shall have the power to promote
the study and appreciation of film by means of lectures,
discussions and exhibitions. |
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3. MEMBERSHIP
1.Membership of the Society is open to any interested person
being sixteen years or over at the discretion of the Committee
and on payment of the annual subscription at the rate for the
time being specified by the Committee.
2. Membership of the Society shall entitle the holder to
attendance at all the Society’s film shows and other meetings.
3. Only members and their guests shall be admitted to the
Society’s film shows or other meetings. A member shall be
entitled to bring guests to any of the Society’s film shows or
other meetings subject to the prior discretion of the Committee
and payment of a guest fee for each guest at the rate for the
time being specified by the Committee. |
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4. MANAGEMENT
1. The business of the Society shall be managed by a Committee
consisting of a Chairman, a Treasurer and a Secretary and such
other officers and committee members as may from time to time be
appointed and the committee as a whole (including Officers)
shall consist of not less than five nor more than ten members of
the Society. The offices of Secretary and Booking Secretary must
be held by separate persons. Any member wishing to serve as an
Officer or committee member of the Society shall notify the
Secretary in writing not less than 14 days before an Annual
General Meeting. The Committee shall be elected at the Annual
General Meeting (or co-opted if considered desirable by the
committee) and shall hold office until their successors are
appointed at the Annual General Meeting next following their
appointments. No person may hold the same office for a period of
more than three consecutive years unless (after canvassing
members) there is no other eligible member of the Society
willing to serve in that office.
2. The Society shall hold a General Meeting at least once a
year. A special General Meeting may be called at any time by the
Committee or upon a request in writing being made to the
Secretary and signed by at least fifteen members. Members shall
be given not less than 21 days’ notice of a General Meeting and
an Agenda shall be made available in such manner as the
committee shall in its discretion consider appropriate, and, in
the case of an Annual General Meeting, the Committee shall make
the Society’s Accounts for the previous financial year available
to members not less than 14 days before the Meeting.
3. The quorum for a General Meeting shall be fifteen members.
4. The Society shall be non-political and non-profit making;
non-political means that the Society may not espouse the cause
of any political party.
5. The Society shall not run for the private profit of a member
or members. Any balance at the end of the year shall be carried
over and devoted to furthering the objects of the Society.
6. The Officers and members of the Society shall not receive
payment either direct or indirect for their services or for
other than legitimate expenses incurred in this work.
7. The Society shall not be wound up except by a resolution of
three-quarters of those present at an Extra-ordinary General
Meeting called for that purpose. In the event of a winding up of
the Society the remaining funds of the Society shall not be
distributed among the members of the Society but shall be passed
to a charitable organisation or organisations having objects
similar to those of the Society as the Committee in consultation
with the British Federation of Film Societies shall decide. |
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5. ALTERATION OF RULES
No alteration of rules by addition, amendment or revision shall
be made except at a General or Special General Meeting of the
Society, provided also that the motion be supported by at least
two-thirds of the members present at the meeting. No amendment
of Section II, this Section and Clause 7 of Section IV is
permissible. No amendment shall be made which would cause the
Society to cease to be a Charity in Law. |
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