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Club Charter
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Rules / Constitution
of Alvechuch Lions Football Club
Amateur Sports Club
1. Name
The name of the Club is Alvechurch Lions Football Club.
2. Club Purposes
The purposes of the Club are to promote the amateur sport of
Association Football in Alvechurch and community participation
in the same.
3. Permitted means of advancing the Purposes
The Committee has the power to:
(a) acquire and provide grounds, equipment, coaching, training
and playing facilities, clubhouse, transport, medical and
related facilities;
(b) provide coaching, training, medical treatment, and related
social and other facilities;
(c) take out any insurance for club, employees, contractors,
players, guests and third parties;
(d) raise funds by appeals, subscriptions, loans and charges;
(e) borrow money and give security for the same, and open bank
accounts;
(f) buy, lease or licence property and sell, let or otherwise
disposal of the same;
(g) make grants and loans and give guarantees and provide other
benefits;
(h) set aside or apply funds for special purposes or as
reserves;
(i) deposit or invest funds in any lawful manner;
(j) employ and engage staff and others and provide services;
(k) co-operate with or affiliate to firstly any bodies
regulating or organising the Sport and secondly any club or body
involved with it and thirdly with government and related
agencies;
(l) do all other things reasonably necessary to advance the
purposes;
NONE of the above powers may be used other than to advance the
purposes consistently with the Rules below and the general law.
4. Membership
(a) Membership of the Club shall be open to anyone interested in
the sport on application regardless of sex, age, disability,
ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or other
beliefs. However, limitation of membership according to
available facilities is allowable on a non-discriminatory basis.
(b) The Club may have different classes of membership and
subscription on a non-discriminatory and fair basis. The Club
will keep subscriptions at levels that will not pose a
significant obstacle to people participating.
(c) The Club Committee may refuse membership, or remove it, only
for good cause such as conduct or character likely to bring the
Club or sport into disrepute. Appeal against refusal or removal
may be made to the members.
5. All General Meetings (AGM)
(a) All members may attend all general meetings of the Club in
person.
(b) Such meetings need 21 clear days’ written notice to members.
(c) The quorum for all general meetings is six members present
or 70% of the total membership whichever is greater.
(d) The Chair or (in his or her absence) another member chosen
at the meeting shall preside.
(e) Except as otherwise provided in these Rules every resolution
shall be decided by a simple majority of the votes cast on a
show of hands.
(f) Formalities in connection with General Meetings (such as how
to put down resolutions) shall be decided by the Committee and
publicised to Club members.
6. Annual General Meeting
The Club will hold an AGM once in every calendar year and not
more than 15 months after the last AGM. At every AGM:
(a) the Members will elect a Committee including a Chair,
Treasurer and Secretary to serve until the next AGM;
(b) the Treasurer will produce accounts of the Club for the
latest financial year audited as the Committee shall decide;
(c) the Committee will present a report on the Club’s activities
since the previous AGM;
(d) the Members will appoint a suitable person to audit the
accounts; and
(e) the Members will discuss and vote on any resolution (whether
about policy or to change the Rules) and deal with any other
business put to the meeting.
7. Extraordinary General Meetings (EGM)
An EGM shall be called by the Secretary within 14 days of a
request to that effect from the Committee or on the written
request of not less than 10 members signed by them. Such EGM
shall be held on not less than 14 nor more than 21 days’ notice
at a place decided upon by the Committee or in default by the
Chair.
8. Committee
(A) Role
Subject to these Rules the Committee shall have responsibility
for the management of the Club, its funds, property and affairs.
(B) Property, etc
(i) The property and funds of the Club cannot be used for the
direct or indirect private benefit of members other than as
reasonably allowed by the Rules.
(ii) The Club may provide sporting and related social
facilities, sporting equipment, coaching, courses, insurance
cover, medical treatment, away-match expenses, post-match
refreshments and other ordinary benefits of Community Amateur
Sports Clubs as provided for in the Finance Act 2002.
(iii) The Club may also in connection with the sports purposes
of the Club:
(a) sell and supply food, drink and related sports clothing and
equipment;
(b) employ members (though not for playing) and remunerate them
for providing goods and services, on fair terms set by the
Committee without the person concerned being present;
(c) pay for reasonable hospitality for visiting teams and
guests;
(d) indemnify the Committee and members acting properly in the
course of the running of the Club against any liability incurred
in the proper running of the Club (but only to the extent of its
assets).
(iv) The Committee will have due regard to the law on disability
discrimination and child protection.
(C) Composition, etc
(i) The Committee shall consist of at least three and not more
eight members (including Officers).
(ii) The Committee members may co-opt club members (up to the
maximum permitted number) to serve until the end of the next
AGM.
(iii) Any Committee member may be re-elected or re-coopted
without limit.
(iv) A Committee member ceases to be such if he or she ceases to
be a member of the Club, resigns by written notice, or is
removed by the Committee for good cause after the Member
concerned has been given the chance of putting his/her case to
the Committee with an appeal to the Club members, or is removed
by club members at a general meeting. The Committee shall fairly
decide time limits and formalities for these steps.
(D) Committee Meetings
(i) Whenever a Committee member has a personal interest in a
matter to be discussed he/she must declare it, withdraw from the
part of the meeting (unless asked to stay), not be counted in
the quorum for that agenda item and withdraw during the vote and
have no vote on the matter concerned.
(ii) The Committee may decide its own way of operating. Unless
it otherwise resolves the following rules apply:
(a) at least 2 members must be present for the meeting to be
valid;
(b) committee meetings shall be held face to face;
(c) the Chair or whoever else those present choose shall chair
meetings;
(d) decisions shall be by simple majority of those voting;
(e) a resolution in writing signed by every Committee member
shall be valid without a meeting;
(f) the Chair of the meeting shall not have a casting vote.
(E) Delegation, etc
The committee may delegate any of their functions to
sub-committees but must specify the scope of its activity and
powers; the extent to which it can commit the funds of the Club;
its membership; its duty to report back to the Committee. The
Committee may wind up any sub-committee at any time or to change
its mandate and operating terms.
(F) Disclosure
Annual club reports and statements of account must be made
available for inspection by any member and all club records may
be inspected by any Committee member.
9. Amendments
(a) These Rules may be amended at a general meeting by
two-thirds of the votes cast but not (if relevant) so as to
jeopardise the Club’s status as a Community Amateur Sports Club
as first provided for by the Finance Act 2002 and not in any
event to alter its purposes (unless the procedure set out in
9(b) has been followed) or winding up provisions.
(b) The Club Purposes may be changed to include another eligible
sport if the Committee unanimously agree and the members also
agreed the charge by a 75% majority of votes cast.
10. Winding up the Club
(a) The members may vote to wind up the Club if not less than
three quarters of those present and voting support that proposal
at a properly convened general meeting.
(b) The Committee will then be responsible for the orderly
winding up of the Club’s affairs.
(c) After settling all liabilities of the Club, the Committee
shall dispose of the net assets remaining to one or more of the
following:
(i) to another Club with similar sports purposes which is a
charity and/or
(ii) to another Club with similar sports purposes which is a
registered CASC and/or
(iii) to the Club’s national governing body for use by them for
related community sports. |
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