Directors 2016 Election

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Introduction

The second AGM of Freegle Ltd will be held Monday xxx to xxx inclusive on Freegle UK Central. As detailed in our Rules under Retirement Cycle, three of the current Directors are obliged to stand down and any co-opted Director's term of office ends. There will be vacancies for 6 Directors this year.

Role

Details for the Director Role can be found on the following pages

Any additional questions that arise about the Director Role can be addressed to the Returning Officers. Contact them at Returning Officer email address.

Term of Office

The term of office for elected Directors is 3 years, but Directors are welcome to stand again immediately when that term finishes.

Election Timetable

The Freegle 2016 Election timetable will be as follows:

29th September Director voting process starts - request for nominations.

8th October Last day for nominations. Statements requested.

13th October Last day for receiving Statements from Candidates.

14th October Q&A Starts

31st October Q&A Ends.

2nd November Director Voting Starts if number of candidates exceeds vacancies.

8th November Voting Ends if election has been held.

9th November Current Directors stand down from office.

9th November New Directors announced

9th November AGM Ends


Note the following regarding this election timetable.

Voting validation should take no longer than 1 day. Results will be posted as soon as possible.

If there are less or equal number of candidates than vacancies,


Candidate Nominations[edit]

Nominations for Freegle Director will begin immediately. However, the counting of the weeks required will begin on Monday, 18 May 2015 so that we have a full two weeks for nominations.

Nominations should be made as follows:

Nominated candidates must be members of Freegle Ltd (see Rules 53 and 54). Nominations may be made via Freegle Central or directly to the Returning Officer email address. Nominations may either be made by the candidate (self nominated) or another Freegle Volunteer. Nominations should include the individual's full name and email address. In the event of the nominee being a volunteer with a Freegle group, their primary group should be provided. In the event of another individual being nominated, any relevant group membership should be noted (i.e. a member of the National Cooperative's Council). Nominations should be seconded. This can occur on either Freegle Central or directly to the Returning Officer email address. All nominations will be confirmed by the Returning Officer to the candidate, seconder and to Freegle Central (regardless of where the nomination was sent). Polling Paper[edit]

Sent to all Members 8th August 2015:

Freegle Directors 2015 Election

Introduction

February 2014 we elected nine individuals to serve as Directors of this newly forming IPS. We thank those individuals, the Freegle Reps and all other Freegle Volunteers who worked so hard to set up Freegle Ltd. Now that the IPS is fully formed, Freegle Ltd recently held its first Annual General Meeting (AGM).

As detailed in our Rules under Retirement Cycle, all the current Directors are obliged to stand down at the first AGM. As such, we are electing our new Directors. As we only have seven candidates for Director to fill the nine spots, this election is to confirm those that have been nominated as Director.

Voter Eligibility

Those that have registered as members of Freegle Ltd are eligible to vote in this election.

Candidate Details

As a part of this, candidates have prepared Candidate Statements. These will tell you a bit more about the candidates and what they feel they have to offer as a Freegle IPS Director. Additionally, several weeks were provided for a candidate Question & Answer period to take place on Freegle Central. During that time, voters were invited to ask questions to candidates. All candidates were invited to respond to each question. A total of 6 questions were asked with 35 candidate answers being returned.

Please review these as follows: Candidate Statements and Questions & Answers Spreadsheet

Director Selection

Ollie Clark Christian Brenninkmeijer John Carroll Edward Hibbert Andrew Trusty Cat Fletcher Andy Ludlow

A reminder/2nd notification was sent to all registered Members 10th August 2015 as several indicated on Central that they had not received the first notification:

Freegle Director 2015 Election - Please Vote (2nd Notification)


As a member of Freegle Ltd, you are eligible to vote in our official elections and polls. We are currently on day three of voting for our new Directors. Please visit the following poll to place your vote.

http: //fluidsurveys.com/surveys/freeglero-c/freegle-directors-2015-election/unique code

This link is uniquely tied to this survey and your email address. Please do not forward this message. The link will only work for your vote.


Also, please note that while there are nine Director vacancies, there are only seven candidates. As such, this poll is effectively to confirm the seven candidates into the role of Director. You are allowed to vote for as many or as few as you wish.


The spreadsheet with the candidates statements as well as the questions and answers is provided in the information about the poll once you click the link.


Lastly, the password is of your choosing and allows you to revisit the poll to review or change your vote later. If you've already set a password in a previous poll or in this one, it'll be what you set it to.



Link: Board Elections