{"id":2622,"date":"2026-09-09T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:04:04","slug":"notice-of-2026-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2622","title":{"rendered":"Notice of 2026 AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Club secretary Marianne writes:<\/strong> We&#8217;re holding our Annual&nbsp;General&nbsp;Meeting on Monday 12 October 2026, 19:00 at Port Edgar Yacht Club. All club members welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Provisional agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Apologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approval of 2025 Minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matters Arising<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Captain\u2019s Report<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treasurer&#8217;s Report<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other report<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proposals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Election of Office Bearers and Committee Members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AOCB<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Committee nominations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In preparation for the&nbsp;AGM, we&#8217;re requesting nominations for&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>four office bearer positions of Captain, Vice-Captain, Secretary and Treasurer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>up to seven committee members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These positions will be elected at the&nbsp;AGM.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sign up form are on the shed notice board. The form has columns for the name of the nominated person, the names of the proposer and seconder. Alternatively, you can email nominations, with proposers and seconders, to me at <a href=\"mailto:secretary@queensferryrowing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>secretary@queensferryrowing.org<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Voting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each member has one vote. In the case of family memberships, voting is restricted to two votes per household.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proxy votes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re unable to attend the&nbsp;AGM&nbsp;in person, you can nominate another voting member to cast a proxy vote on your behalf.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proxy voting is for Committee positions only (not proposals etc.), and may not be necessary, depending on the number of sign-ups for positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proposals\/amendments to the constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please send these in writing to <a href=\"mailto:secretary@queensferryrowing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>secretary@queensferryrowing.org<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key dates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Office bearer and Committee nominations<\/td><td>Closes Monday 28\/09\/2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Proposals, amendments to the constitution, agenda items<\/td><td>Last date for submission to the Secretary Friday 25\/09\/2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Voting proxy forms&nbsp;Reports<\/td><td>Last date for submission to the Secretary Sunday 04\/10\/2026<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can download  the QRC constitution\u00a0and other documents <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?page_id=1302\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1302\">from the documents section<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to speak to me, or contact me via email at <a href=\"mailto:secretary@queensferryrowing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>secretary@queensferryrowing.org<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club secretary Marianne writes: We&#8217;re holding our Annual&nbsp;General&nbsp;Meeting on Monday 12 October 2026, 19:00 at Port Edgar Yacht Club. All club members welcome! Provisional agenda Committee nominations In preparation for the&nbsp;AGM, we&#8217;re requesting nominations for&nbsp; These positions will be elected at the&nbsp;AGM.&nbsp; Sign up form are on the shed notice board. The form has columns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notice of 2026 AGM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}