a) The Group is established to:
- maintain contact with other people with heart problems and their relatives and offer mutual Support;
- offer, where practical, a visiting service to people in hospital or recently discharged from hospital;
- keep abreast with current thinking and practice in after-care;
- help maintain contact with professional people;
- provide information on local exercise and leisure facilities and local rehabilitation programmes;
- provide an environment for supervised exercise sessions;
- interact with other cardiac groups in the area;
- make contact with other local voluntary groups.
b) To further the above the Group may:
- procure equipment for use within the confines of the Group.
- obtain, collect, and receive monies and funds by way of contributions, donations, affiliation fees, subscriptions and any other lawful method;
Membership of the Group shall be open to all, regardless of race creed or colour who have had a heart attack or any cardiac problem or anyone who is interested in giving support.
Meetings to start at 7.00 p.m. and last until 9.30 p.m. and held at an address to be published in the Hearts in Beds Cardiac Support Group Leaflet.
Each meeting will be held on the first Tuesday of every month.
7.00 p.m. - 7.45 p.m. General exercise period
7.45 p.m. - 7.55 p.m. Update and general information re: Cardiac etc.
8.00 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. Talks given by various organisations.
4. Officers
The Group shall be governed by:
The Executive Committee consisting of:
i) The elected Officers of the Group shall be:
The Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer.
ii) Members nominated by supporters within the Group consisting of 5 Committee Members.
iii) The Executive Committee shall not exceed 9 persons including the Elected Officers.
iv) The Committee will hold a monthly meeting, or as and when required.
5. Accounts and Finance
The Group shall maintain a Bank Account in the name of Hearts in Beds Cardiac Support Group. All payments from this account shall be sanctioned by any two of the following: Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary or Treasurer whose signatures shall appear on cheques or other means of withdrawal.
The Financial Year of the Group shall end on 28th February. Accounts shall be prepared annually, audited and laid before Members at an Annual General Meeting, which will be held on the first Tuesday in April.
Affiliation - At the AGM the Group should review its annual affiliation to the British Heart Foundation. If agreed, copies of Report and Accounts should be forwarded to British Heart Foundation by 31st May.
6. Meetings of the Group
a) The Annual General Meeting of the Group shall be held in each year at such time (not being more than 15 months after holding the preceding Annual General Meeting) and at a place as the Executive Committee shall determine. The Secretary or any authorised member of the Committee shall give at least twenty-one clear days’ notice in writing to the Members. Other meetings of the Group shall be held at such times as may be determined by the Group.
b) The Officers, Committee Members and Auditor shall be elected by the Annual General Meeting of the Group and shall hold Office until after the Annual General Meeting next following their election.
c) All Officers and the Committee shall retire from Office at each Annual General Meeting and shall be eligible for re-election.
d) Vacancies occurring between Annual General Meetings may be filled at the discretion of the Executive Committee.
e) A Special General Meeting of the Group shall be called at fourteen clear days’ notice in writing upon the written demand of ten Members addressed to the Secretary or by the Executive Committee.
f) All Members of the Group are entitled to full voting powers.
7. Quorum
The quorum at an Annual General Meeting of the Group and at a Meeting of the Executive Committee shall be one-third of the Group Committee or such other number as the Group may from time to time determine.
8. Alterations to Constitution
The Constitution shall only be amended at an Annual General Meeting of the Group or at a Special General Meeting called for that purpose. Any alterations of the Constitution of the Group must receive the assent of not less than two-thirds of the Members of the Group voting in person or by proxy.
9. Dissolution
The Group may at any time be dissolved by a resolution passed by any two-thirds majority of those present and voting at a Meeting of the Group of which at least twenty-one days’ notice shall have been sent to all Members of the Group. Such resolutions may give instructions for the disposal of any assets held by or in the name of the Group provided that any property shall be given or transferred to a registered Charity such as the British Heart Foundation.
Alternatively, instructions as to how the assets should be administered in the event of the Group being dissolved might be lodged with the Bank.
10. Constitution
This change to the Constitution was agreed at the Annual General Meeting held at the Brickhill Community Centre, Avon Drive, Brickhill, Bedford. MK41 7AF on Tuesday 1st April 2003.
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