{"id":27818,"date":"2020-09-29T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27818"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:48:24","slug":"ihbc-2020-agm-update-2-ihbc-agm-online-on-3-december-with-new-governance-vote-planned-for-articles-while-council-postponed-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27818","title":{"rendered":"IHBC 2020 AGM (#IHBCAGM2020) update 2: IHBC AGM online on 3 December, with new governance vote planned for \u2018Articles\u2019, while \u2018Council+ postponed to 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"people\"The IHBC\u2019s Council \u2013 its Board \u2013 has agreed to hold the Institute\u2019s 2020 AGM on 3 December as an online, \u2018virtual\u2019 event, with voting planned on the new Corporate Plan (\u2018CP25<\/a>\u2019) and on modernising governance though the proposed new \u2018Articles<\/a>\u2019, all with more details to come, including arrangements for the postponed Council+ programme.<\/h3>\n
image :IHBC AGM 2019<\/em><\/h6>\n

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…the next step in the modernisation of the IHBC as a specialist and professional body and charity for the 21st century…<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

On the IHBC\u2019s new governance and draft \u2018Articles\u2019, the IHBC writes:<\/a><\/p>\n

The early development of the IHBC\u2019s current proposal to adopt new Articles<\/a> at the 2020 AGM on 3 December\u2026 culminated in the IHBC\u2019s 2019 AGM adoption of the \u2018Proposal for future governance of the Institute\u2019<\/em><\/a>. The recommendation to members of the new Articles here marks the next step in the modernisation of the IHBC as a specialist and professional body and charity for the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Members are encouraged to continue their historic support for the developments agreed in 2019…<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Since the adoption of the 2019 \u2018Proposal for future governance\u2026\u2019, the IHBC has been working hard with our legal advisers, Knights<\/a>, and national charity regulators in England and Wales<\/a> and in Scotland<\/a> to agree a text that represents the ambitions agreed then. We opened the consultation on the draft<\/a> new Articles in January 2020. Although in-person discussions had to stop in the Spring due to the pandemic, the consultation has remained open, operating alongside the discussions with legal advisers and charity regulators.<\/p>\n

Over the summer the IHBC received \u2018in principle\u2019 approval from the regulators on a text only slightly modified from the consultation draft, with the adjustments noted below.<\/p>\n

Members are encouraged to continue their historic support for the developments agreed in 2019 through even more energetic support for the adoption of the new Articles at our AGM December 2020.<\/p>\n

Regarding the Articles proposed for adoption at the 2020 AGM, Members should note that:<\/p>\n