Council News etc.

2024 EGM and AGM

On 23rd of May 2024 at 20:00 the British Go Association will be holding both an EGM and its annual AGM. As in recent years the meeting will be by ZOOM video call, for which a link will be provided nearer the date.

The EGM will be held first in order to consider some small changes to the Company Articles concerning the election of Directors. The AGM will follow immediately after, and will include amongst other things the election of Officers and Directors, and members of the Disputes Panel.

Last updated Fri Mar 22 2024.
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2023 AGM - Agenda and voting rights

A draft agenda for the 2023 AGM has been published and can be found on https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts.

This year as part of the transfer to incorporated status, two AGMs will be held on the same evening, using the same ZOOM session. The structure is explained in the joint agenda for the evening.

Last updated Thu Feb 23 2023.
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Policies Presentation Re-vamp

Some little time ago it was realised that the way our current policies are presented is far from optimal. There was not a lot of consistency across them, and in many cases it was quite hard to separate the key policy statements from the descriptions of processes used.

An initiative was started to revamp the presentation of our policies, with the objectives of:

Last updated Thu Feb 23 2023.
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2021 Strategy Day Notes

The notes from the Council's Strategy Day in September 2021 have been published at https://www.britgo.org/files/council/2021StrategyDay/BGA_strategy_day_2021.pdf

Last updated Tue Aug 16 2022.
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2022 AGM Minutes

The minutes of the 2022 AGM have now been published at https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts.

Last updated Tue Jun 21 2022.
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AGM Meeting Details

A reminder to everyone that the 2022 AGM is taking place on Thursday 26th May at 19:30, as an online meeting using ZOOM.

The link to use to access the meeting has been added to the agenda and other papers on Accounts and AGM Page

Last updated Sun Jun 05 2022.
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2022 AGM - Agenda and Papers

As previously announced, the 2022 AGM will take place on May 26th by the use of ZOOM online meeting technology. A meeting invite will be created and published on the website a week or so before the meeting.

The Agenda, and accompanying papers, can be found in the members section of the website at https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts

Last updated Tue May 03 2022.
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Committee Appointments

In the November Council meeting it was agreed that

- Colin Williams would take over the Chair of the Tournaments Committee, following the resignation of Matt Marsh. Matt will still be managing the running of this year's British Championship
- Stephen Tweedie would take over the Chair of the Technical Committee from Colin

Handover sessions are being arranged, and committee members should hear from the new Chairs reasonably soon.

Last updated Tue Nov 23 2021.
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AGM Report

The short Annual General Meeting of the British Go Association was held at 20:00 on the Saturday evening of the British Go Congress in Cambridge.

The President, Roger Huyshe, chaired the meeting and, in his report, thanked Paul Barnard and John Collins who had stepped down from the roles of Membership Secretary and Online Committee Chairman, both after several years. He also stated that player development had taken a backseat due to DeepMind’s AlphaGo matches, but this year training sessions were being planned for the autumn.

The membership accepted his and the other officers' reports (including that of new Membership Secretary Chris Kirkham) and on the recommendation of the auditor, Pat Ridley, approved the accounts for 2016. These showed a surplus thanks to DeepMind sponsorship and the omission of a strong player training day.

The Council were re-elected with Richard Wheeldon replacing John Collins.

Last updated Wed Apr 19 2017.
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2015 AGM and Annual Awards update

A summary of the AGM will be sent to all Association members in the next Newsletter and full minutes posted in the Members' Area in due course.

Last updated Wed Oct 11 2017.
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