- The name of the Association is "The Swindon
& District Talking Newspaper Association", hereinafter referred to
as "the Association".The name of the Association is "The Swindon &
District Talking Newspaper Association", hereinafter referred to as "the
Association".
- The object of the Association is to relieve the
blind, or the partially sighted, or those labouring under some temporary
or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by
the provision of recorded tapes or tactile reading matter. In
furtherance of this object but not further or otherwise, the Association
through its committee shall have the following powers:-
- To take and accept any gifts of property,
whether subject to any special trusts or not.
- To raise funds and to invite and receive
contributions from any person or persons whatsoever by way of
subscription, donation or otherwise; provided that the committee shall
not undertake any permanent trading activities in raising funds for the
said object.
- To seek authorisation from the Post Office to
use the free postage facility available under Post Office Regulations,
and, if such authority is granted, to use this facility for the
distribution of tapes or tactile reading mater to those people to whom
the Regulations currently apply.
- To distribute the tapes or tactile reading
matter by means other than the use of the free postage facility
mentioned in clause 2(c) hereof to people other than those covered by
the Post Office Regulations relating to this facility.
- The Annual General Meeting of the Association
shall be held in the month of April or of May each year and every member
shall receive not less than fourteen days notice of such meeting.
Extraordinary meeting may be convened by the Secretary upon request by
the committee or three members of the Association upon a similar notice,
which shall state the business to be considered at the meeting. The
quorum at an Annual General Meeting shall be ten.
- At the Annual General Meeting or at an
Extraordinary meeting every member including the Chairman shall have one
vote and in the case of equality of votes the Chairman shall have a
second or casting vote.
- The committee of the Association shall meet once
every three months and additionally as required. Each member of the
committee including the Chairman shall have one vote and in the case of
equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
- All sums collected shall be handed over to the
Treasurer or Secretary who shall pay the sum into the bank account in
the name of the Trustees at the 28 Regent Street, Swindon Branch of
Barclays Bank Limited. Cheques shall be signed by the Chairman or the
Secretary and one other member of the committee.
- The Trustees shall invest in their names any
monies not required for the immediate purposes of the Association in
securities in which trust monies may by law be invested with power from
time to time to transpose such investments.
- Any property purchased by the Association shall
be vested in the Trustees.The Trustees shall with such consent as is by
law required deal with the property so vested in them by way of sale,
mortgage, lease or otherwise, howsoever, as directed by the Association.
Such direction shall be given by a resolution of the members of the
Association passed by a majority of the members present at a duly
convened meeting of the Association, and when so passed shall in favour
of a subsequent purchaser, mortgagee, chargee or grantee be binding upon
all members of the Association. A certificate purporting to be signed by
the Secretary for the time being of the Association shall in favour of a
purchaser, mortgagee, chargee, lessee or grantee be conclusive evidence
that such a direction was duly given.
- In the event of the dissolution of the
Association any assets remaining after the satisfaction of all debts and
liabilities shall not be paid or distributed among the members of the
Association but shall be given or transferred to a charitable
organisation or organisations having objects similar to the
Association.
- The Constitution may be amended by a three fourths majority of the
members present at the Annual or Extraordinary General Meeting provided
that fourteen days notice of the proposed amendment has been sent to all
members and provided that no alteration is made the effect of which
would cause the Association at any time to cease to be a charity in law
and no alteration to clauses 2, 12, or 13 of this Constitution is made
without previously consulting the Charity Commissioners.
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Swindon & District Talking Newspaper Association
Registered Charity No. 284665
stan@swindontalkingnews.org.uk
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