The Ramblers is a company limited by guarantee, and General Council is the body of people who are defined as company members for Companies Act and other legal purposes.  Members of General Council are entitled to attend the annual general meeting, but remain company members at other times. 

Our annual general meeting is commonly referred to as General Council.

 

General Council AGM 2025

The 2025 General Council AGM will take place on Saturday 5 April at the Birmingham NEC. The Board of Trustees has retained the previous year’s format and venue for 2025, and the AGM will remain open only to Council members. The meeting will start at 10.30am and will finish by 4.30pm.

Information, documents and deadlines for the AGM can be found below.

Area-appointed Council members who had not registered by 5 March but would like to attend are invited to contact Simon Kellas (simon.kellas@ramblers.org.uk).

 

AGM registration

The meeting notice and papers are available below and have been sent by post to individual Council members who did not opt out of receiving paper copies.

Information about accommodation will be emailed separately to those members who requested it when registering.

 

Venue

The AGM will take place in the Concourse Suite which is in the Atrium (east) side of the NEC, next to halls 8, 9 and 10. The Concourse Suite is a 10 minute walk from Birmingham International station through the NEC via the Skywalk.

Free car parking is available on Saturday in Car Park North 1. NB This is a different car park to last year (which was North 1B). Enter via gate 3 then turn right at the roundabout past the security gate.

Detailed venue maps can be downloaded from https://thenec.co.uk/downloads

 

Meeting papers

• AGM notice and papers (PDF, 543KB)
• Governance review discussion paper (PDF, 165KB)
• Annual report and accounts (PDF, 3.96MB)
• Standing Orders – showing proposed updates (PDF, 239KB)
• Proxy form (Word, 49.2KB)
• General Council 2024 mid-year motions report (PDF, 105KB)
• Motion submission guidance for Areas (PDF, 55.6KB)
• Motion amendment and appeals form (Word, 47 KB)
• Trustee candidate video statements
• General Council expense claim form (Word, 40KB)

 

The key dates and deadlines for the AGM are:

• 1 April - Deadline for receipt of motion amendments and appeals
• 2 April - Deadline for receipt of proxies
• 3 April - Amendments report shared with Council members
• 5 April - General Council AGM

 

Minutes of the previous General Council AGMs  

• 2023 - Manchester EGM (PDF, 85KB)

• 2023 - Birmingham (PDF, 160KB)

• 2022 - Birmingham (PDF, 161KB) 

• 2021 - Online (PDF, 185KB) 

• 2020 - Online (PDF, 172KB) 

• 2019 - Manchester (PDF, 194KB) 

 

Further information about General Council 

• General Council in more detail (PDF, 65.1KB) 

 

If you require any further information or have any questions about General Council please contact Simon Kellas.