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2024 AGM and Members' Day

Join us for our 60th anniversary celebration

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AGM: 11am-1pm ()
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Saturday 9 November 2024 at Wells Cathedral School ()
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Members' Day: 2pm-4pm ()

We look forward to seeing you there!

We look forward to welcoming you to our 60th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Members’ Day in Wells on Saturday 9th November 2024. We hope many of you will join us in person but understand some members may prefer to join us virtually and because of this we will be live streaming our event again this year.

The AGM will be held from 11am until 1pm, and is open only for current members of Somerset Wildlife Trust in-person or online. The Members’ Day consisting of the AGM, buffet lunch, panel talks and afternoon tea is £15 (includes booking fee). Members are very welcome to invite a guest to the afternoon talks that start at 2pm. The price for your guest to join us in person which includes just afternoon tea is £15 (excludes booking fee).

Morning

AGM

During the AGM from 11am until 1pm you will hear from our Trustees and our CEO, Georgia Dent, who will report on the work you have supported in 2023-24 and our plans for the coming year. 

Find out more information, including a link to the Proxy voting form below.

Afternoon

Members' Day

“Ecosystem Restoration: Do we need to choose between food, wildlife and people?”

Restoring ecosystems has been a staple part of conservation conversations for decades and together, with more recent conversations about wilding, has driven ambitious nature recovery projects all over the UK and in Somerset. With these new projects come new questions for consideration; the effect of removing land from food production; the impact of reintroduced species on communities; and the effect of wilding on our existing rare habitats and species.

Confirmed Speakers
Stan Smith - Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
Tom Appleby - Blue Marine Foundation
Holly Purdey - Somerset Wildlife Trust

Tickets

Tickets, including Members' Exclusive tickets, and afternoon tickets for your friends, are now on sale!

 

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Information

FORMAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 60th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST will be held at Cedars Hall, Wells Cathedral School, Wells, BA5 2ST on Saturday 9th November 2024 at 11.00am.

The meeting will include approval of the minutes, reports from the Chair and Chief Executive Officer, adoption of the audited accounts and election of trustees.

Members have the right to appoint a Proxy under section 324 of the Companies Act 2006 and Article 14 of Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Articles of Association.

A full agenda, list of trustee nominees and instructions for proxy voting will be included in the Autumn/Winter issue of Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Members’ magazine: Somerset Wildlife published in October 2024. 

Proxy voting form

BY ORDER OF SWT COUNCIL

Georgia Dent, Chief Executive Officer, April 2024.

A copy of the full Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2024 will be available from October 2024.

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