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60th Annual General Meeting - Your Proxy Vote

Information

Annual Report and Accounts
A copy of the full Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024 will be available here or on request from the Trust’s Taunton office from October 2024. 

Members standing for election to Council
Two trustees, each having reached the end of a maximum three-year term allowed under our Articles of Association, are standing for re-election at this year’s AGM: 

Holly Purdey

Holly Purdey

Growing up on a Somerset organic dairy farm, after university Holly worked for Somerset Wildlife Trust and then for the National Trust. She currently lives and works on Exmoor, running a farm based on an agro ecological model, learning from nature to create a farming system that has a positive impact for biodiversity and the local community.  Holly also creates seasonal food events and educational opportunities for nursery children to fellow farmers.

Stuart McBride

Stuart McBride

Stuart is a partner and board member at a Bristol headquartered national law firm. Originally from Northern Ireland, where he enjoyed a very wildlife-friendly upbringing, he has now lived in Bristol for more than 20 years. Stuart is passionate about habitat regeneration and species biodiversity, and enjoys making his garden and allotment as nature-friendly as possible.

Proxy vote

If you wish to appoint a proxy[1] instead of voting in person at the Annual General Meeting please complete this form before 11am on Thursday 7 November 2024.

You will find this on your Member magazine covering letter.

Appoint your Proxy

I/we being a member/members of the Charity hereby appoint the Chair of the meeting/the person named below as my/our Proxy to attend, speak and vote on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting of the Charity on 18 November 2023 and at any adjournment of the meeting. I/we direct my/our Proxy to vote on the resolutions below as I/we have indicated by marking the appropriate box. If no indication is given, my/our Proxy will vote (or abstain from voting) at their discretion, and I/we authorise my/our Proxy to vote (or abstain from voting) as they think fit in relation to any other matter which is put before the meeting.
 

Voting

Please vote for each resolution.
 
Vote

Resolution: To approve the minutes of 2023 AGM
Vote

Resolution: To adopt the 2023-24 Accounts
Vote

Resolution: To reappoint Albert Goodman as the Trust’s Auditors
Vote

Resolution: To elect Holly Purdey for a three-year term of office
Vote

Resolution: To elect Stuart McBride for a three-year term of office

[1] Under section 324 of the Companies Act 2006 and SWT Articles of Association 14.1, any Member entitled to attend and vote at a company meeting is entitled to appoint a Proxy to attend and vote instead of them.