The Chair and Board of Crystal Palace Community Land Trust have pleasure in inviting you to a General Meeting to be held on Zoom at 7.30pm on Monday 23rd November 2020.

We hope you will be able to attend. We will be giving you details of progress so far, electing Directors and considering one resolution required for our governance.

Only members may attend, and we will send out joining instructions one week in advance. If you’re not already a member and would like to take part, you can join for just £1.22 online.

Any other resolution to be considered by the meeting shall be addressed to the Secretary, Tom Chance, crystalpalaceclt@gmail.com, to be received before Monday 16th November 2020.

Agenda for the Annual General Meeting on 23rd November 2020

  1. Chair welcomes the members
  2. Apologies for absence
  3. Approval of the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on the 12th October 2019
  4. Update on The Lawns project
  5. Resolution to dis-apply the requirement for an audit for 2019-20 (below)
  6. Accounts for 2019-20
  7. Election of Directors
    Janet Cooke (co-opted 18th May 2020)
    Vishal Shah (co-opted 10th June 2020)
    Lola Barrett (co-opted 3rd October 2020)
  8. Any other business.

Resolution to dis-apply the requirement for an audit for 2020-21

“It is hereby resolved that subject to the provisions of section 84 of the Co-Operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, the members of the Society shall not require an audit for the accounts covering the current financial year ending on 31 May 2021 when they are presented to the next AGM held in 2020, by hereby electing to dis-apply section 83 of the Act.”

Explanation: we are not legally required to undergo an audit unless we have assets of more than £5.1m or turnover of more than £10.2m. In the current financial year our turnover won’t be higher than £500k at the most. An audit is expensive and unnecessary, and so we would like to agree not to pay for one.