WGGB Annual General Meeting 2016
Friday 17 June 2016
10.30pm to 5pm (doors open at 10am)
The Clarence Centre, 6 St George’s Circus, London SE1 6FE.
Final Agenda
1.
Quorum: 28 Full Members and/or Life Members
2.
Standing Orders Committee Report
3.
Appointment of tellers. Two required
4.
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Friday19 June 2015. Copies will be available at
the meeting. If you require a copy in advance, please download it from the WGGB website
www.writersguild.org.uk or contact the Guild office.
5.
Chair’s Report
6.
Treasurer’s Report
7.
Presentation and adoption of audited accounts. Copies will be available at the meeting. If you
require a copy in advance please download it from the WGGB website or contact the Guild office.
8.
Appointment of Auditors
9.
Guest Speakers: Mark Linsey, Head of BBC Studios and Roger Leatham Controller of Rights,
Legal & Business Affairs, to discuss the implications of BBC in-house production becoming a
BBC subsidiary and the loss of the in-house guarantee.
10.
General Secretary’s report
11.
Results of elections and announcement of vacancies
LUNCH – approx. 1.00pm - 2.00pm
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12.
Guest Speakers: Aileen Spankie and Jill Hallowell from Project Diamond. Project Diamond
is an equality monitoring project involving all the main UK broadcasters.
13.
Motions
a) Comedy Representative
This AGM resolves to change the rules so that a new seat on the Executive Council
(EC) is created for a Comedy representative, all terms of appointment to be the same as
those for EC Craft Sector representatives.
Motion
To insert the word ‘Comedy’ between the words ‘TV and ‘radio’ in section 13.1(ii)
Proposer: Piers Beckley Seconder: Andy Walsh
Supported by the EC
Note: Motion (a) is a rule-changing motion and therefore requires a two-thirds majority
b) Children’s Representative
This AGM resolves to change the rules so that the Children’s seat on the EC is retired.
The Children’s craft area will continue to be represented as part of the business of the
other craft areas.
Motion
To delete the word ‘Children’s’ in section 13.1 (ii).
Proposer: Piers Beckley
Seconder: Andy Walsh
Supported by the EC
Note: Motion (b) is a rule-changing motion and therefore requires a two-thirds majority
c) Editorial & Communications Representative
This AGM resolves to change the rules so that a new seat on the Executive Council
(EC) is created for an Editorial & Communications representative, all terms of
appointment to be the same as those for EC Craft Sector representatives.
This motion has the side effect of removing a no longer used paragraph which, ten years
ago, abolished the posts of “Councillors at large”.
Motion
To replace the current paragraph 13.1(iii) with the following:
(iii) A representative for Editorial and Communications matters, to be elected in a ballot
of all members entitled to vote. This representative will also serve as the Chair of the
Editorial and Communications Committee.
Proposer: Piers Beckley
Seconder: Andy Walsh
Supported by the EC
Note: Motion (c) is a rule-changing motion and therefore requires a two-thirds majority
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Motions continued from page 2
d) Tackle book costs hidden behind postage
There is an epidemic of online booksellers retailing books impossibly cheaper then
adding overly high postage fees. The profit is then offset as an expense, however part of
the money claimed as postage is actually profit on the book that should go partly to
writers.
Motion
The AGM calls upon the WGGB Executive Council to investigate this practice and
report back to WGGB members.
Proposer: Adrian Beckingham
Seconder: Katharine Way
14.
Annual report: section by section. Copies will be available at the meeting. If you require a copy in
advance please download it from the WGGB website or contact the Guild office.
15.
Election of Standing Orders Committee for 2016-2017
16.
President’s closing remarks: Olivia Hetreed
17.
Any other business
AGM papers will be available at the meeting and can be downloaded from
https://writersguild.org.uk/join-us-writers-guild-agm-2016/ or contact the office on
[email protected] and copies can be emailed or posted to you.
We are providing tea, coffee and pastries from 10am – 10.30am and lunch from 1pm-2pm.
If you would like lunch, then please contact Anne Hogben [email protected] 020 3372 8402
to confirm your booking.