Let's save the Club now and restart
Dear Members and Customers,
Apologies for the delay of this update, things have simply been busier than ever behind the scenes since Saturday 12th October's AGM.
Thanks to everyone who turned up at the AGM, it was a bumper crowd including our most loyal members, along with many more recent members.
We briefly explained in the meeting our reasons for closing the social club, it was simply that it would be losing less money when closed than it was when it was open!
I will keep this brief as many of you had to endure what I had to say on Saturday.
- The committee has already applied to register our building as an Asset of Community Value with West Oxford District Council.
- A dissolution clause (to prevent) against any future proposal to sell the club or assets for any other purpose, was voted with over 75% of members present “Yay” and no objections.
· Please see link and QR at the bottom of this message to view all documents available at the AGM.
- Following my speech reading, there was an introduction to Plunkett UK, their guest speaker Mr Christopher Buckham took Q+A’s from members, explained about becoming a CBS and the benefits it would provide our club. These include grants, tax and rates relief, to name but a few.
- A vote was then proposed by the Secretary to dissolve the current club structure but ONLY on the basis that the current rules would then be written into the founding rules and constitution of a new Community Benefit Society, this motion was accepted almost unanimously, by over 90% of the members present and no objections.
- Minutes of the meeting will be available shortly for members upon request.
- THANK YOU. You were all AWESOME on Saturday and the decision was overwhelming!
We are confident that this outcome was the only way to move the club forwards.
There is now one heck of a lot more work to do and we started on Monday.
Once we have applied to set up the new business we will be putting out additional updates for you and working on publishing our first community share offers.
We invite any existing members and community leaders please to make any offers of assistance they are able to provide to help us out during this time.
Dean Fowler
Secretary.
secretary.woodstocksc@gmail.com
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary and Acting Chair
WOODSTOCK SOCIAL CLUB,FOUNDED IN 1920.
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WOODSTOCK SOCIAL CLUB, 44 OXFORD STREET, WOODSTOCK, OXFORDSHIRE OX20 1TT
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