DTB Meeting 8th January 2025 Summary

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Dons Trust Board Meeting Summary

Date: 8 January 2025

The Dons Trust held its first board meeting of 2025 on Wednesday, 8th January.

Board Induction

Before the meeting, the board induction took place, which included talks from:

Mick Buckley (PLC Chair) Michele Little (PLC Vice Chair) James Woodroof (MD) Andrew Stead (Head of Commercial) Elouise Gillete (Head of HR) Laurie Hill (Head of Finance) James Willcox (Head of Operations) Marc Jones (Head of Brand, Marketing, and Comms) Luke Stevens (Head..

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Dons Trust Board Roles 2025

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Dons Trust chair

At our first board meeting the board elected Sean McLaughlin as chair for 2025, previous chair Angus Fox has become vice chair.

The board were unanimous in their thanks for Angus for his work since becoming chair in summer 2024.

Dons Trust PLC Representatives

Sean McLaughlin, Angus Fox and Graeme Price were unanimously voted to be the Dons Trust’s representatives on the PLC Board.

Working groups

The board agreed to start the year..

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Dons Trust AGM Results

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The following are the voting outcomes from yesterday’s Dons Trust AGM.

 

 

For

Against Abstain Turnout

% in favour

Passed

Resolution 1: To approve the minutes of the SGM on 22 April. (Paper 1)

370

19

38 427 95.12 Yes Resolution 2: To approve the minutes of the SGM on 16 September (Paper 2)

374

12

45 431 96.89 Yes Resolution 3: To approve the..

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Dons Trust Board Meeting 11th December 2024 Summary

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Dons Trust Board Meeting Wednesday 11th December 2024 Summary The entire current board excluding Hannah were in attendance, Also in attendance were George Jones (Acting Secretary), Reece Wheeler-Kelly (Acting Assistant Secretary) and  Michele Little (Treasurer). Also attending as observers were new board members Ivor Heller, Ian Robinson and Simon Hood. Angus opened the meeting by thanking the current board for all of their efforts over the last 12 months. The board received an update on the progress on their appointment of..

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Dons Trust Election 2024 Results Announcement

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The following are the final results from the Dons Trust Board Elections 2024. 

 

The turnout for this election was 2110, which is a record turnout for a Dons Trust Election by number.  The percentage turnout was 33.65%, which is fairly representative of previous elections.  Given the large increase in the numbers of members due to the new approach to membership, this is an encouraging sign that engagement is not being diluted.

 

The total number of votes for each..

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Dons Trust AGM 2024

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We are pleased to invite you to the Annual General Meeting, to be held on Monday 16 December 2023 at 7.00pm at Plough Lane and online.

The agenda and papers include the annual report and accounts and submitted board and member resolutions.

To make it as easy as we can for you to have your say, we are again using the system used for previous meetings and are asking members to submit proxies via a link which we are emailing..

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November SGM Voting Outcomes

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Below is the provisional voting outcome from the November SGM.

 

Resolution 1:

Turnout: 1,509 (23.86%)

For: 1,174 (77.80%)

Against: 335 (22.20%)

 

Therefore Resolution 1 does not pass due to falling below the required turnout threshold of 3,164.

George Jones

Acting Secretary

Dons Trust Board Meeting Summary November 2024

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Dons Trust Board Meeting November 2024 Summary. The Dons Trust Board meeting took place across Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th November. The meeting began with David Growns and Sophia Axelsson providing the board with an update on the Women’s section and answering questions from the board. The board then took part in the online Meet The DTB event. The board meeting then resumed with George Jones and Reece Wheeler-Kelly providing an update on the work they have done to find a new..

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