This year’s AGM will be held at Steam, the museum of the Great Western Railway, in Swindon (just opposite our Central Office at Heelis) on Saturday 7 November 2009.
This Members’ meeting provides the opportunity for Members to ask questions about our activities, meet the Trust’s management and for us to seek views on our work. Members are also able to discuss and vote on any formal resolutions put to the meeting as well.
Previous AGMs
The 2008 Annual General Meeting and members’ weekend was held in Liverpool, the 2008 European Capital of Culture.
Elections for the seven available Council seats were conducted via a postal ballot of the Trust’s 3.5 million members. A total of 40,091 members cast votes for the 21 candidates - 28,205 of the votes were cast by post (70 per cent) and 11,886 (30 per cent) online.
Following the vote, the candidates below have been elected to the Council:
John Farley, 26,010 votes
Simon Timms, 24,448
Sophie Scruton, 23,742
Ian Rowat, 22,329
Richard Haslam, 20,556
Michael St John Parker, 19,048
Colin George OBE, 17,697
Two members’ resolutions, to bring an immediate halt plans to develop housing at the Erddig estate near Wrexham and ‘remove’ Trust staffed involved in the project, were rejected by 22,158 votes to 14,382 and 24,957 votes to 10,158 respectively.
A third resolution to ensure that sustainability is central to all of the Trust’s decisions was approved by 37,719 votes to 1,267.
Saturday 3rd November 2007 Meeting – Watch the Webcast –
http://national-trust.twofour.co.uk/2007agm/
Saturday 4th November 2006 – Cheltenham Race Course
Saturday 12th November 2005 – The Dome, Brighton
Saturday 6th November 2004 – City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne
Saturday 15th November 2003 – The Guildhall, Portsmouth