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Annual General Meeting 2017

Annual General Meeting 2017. Regional Association of Neighbourhood & Community Houses. Agenda. 1 . Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country by Chairperson: Helen Douglas 2. Apologies 3. Confirmation of Minutes of Previous AGM 22 nd September 2016

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Annual General Meeting 2017

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  1. Annual General Meeting2017 Regional Association of Neighbourhood & Community Houses

  2. Agenda 1. Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country by Chairperson: Helen Douglas 2. Apologies 3. Confirmation of Minutes of Previous AGM 22ndSeptember 2016 4. Chairpersons Report: Helen Douglas 5. Networkers Report:Combined Networkers Report from David Perry and Sue Birch 6. Treasurers Report • Appointment of Auditor 7. General Business 8. All Position Declared Vacant • Election of New Committee: 9. Welcoming of new Committee members

  3. AGM Guest Speaker 2016 Senior of the Year & Chairperson of Echuca Neighbourhood House Inc. Gwen Smith “Active Citizenship”

  4. RANCH Forum NH Survey -2016 Results from RANCH members David Perry

  5. RANCH Forum The RANCH Charter / Defining member obligations Helen Douglas & Sue Birch

  6. Why have one? • By signing up to a series of minimum standards, principles etc, you demonstrate your organisation is serious about quality. • Any failure to meet reasonable standards by one Neighbourhood House reflects on the others. This is particularly true in the Local and State government arenas. It can also impact on the willingness of funding bodies to give grants to other Neighbourhood Houses. • The reverse is also true. When Neighbourhood Houses are seen to perform well, the reputation of other Neighbourhood Houses is positively affected. • A charter also demonstrates respect for the values and the hard work of our colleagues

  7. What would a charter contain? This is up to the members to decide. However, to be meaningful it should be more than just a few motherhood statements. A charter could include things like a commitment to: • Certain practices e.g. use of the good governance guide • Applying values or principles e.g. Neighbourhood House sector principles or codes of ethics • Minimum standards e.g. auditing, reporting and acquittal of grants • Participation e.g. participation in Professional Development, network activities etc.

  8. How would it work? • Signing up to and complying with a charter would be voluntary. How it would work is a decision for members but there are options including but not limited to: • Compliance with the charter would not be monitored. However, breaches of the charter could be referred to RANCH Committee and sanctions applied if the breach is not remedied. One obvious sanction would be removal as a signatory to the charter. • The charter could be linked to membership and the constitutional dispute processes could apply • There could be no action for breaches but this limits the value of the charter

  9. The issues • Do we want to invest time and resources into developing a RANCH Charter although we do not have the capacity to monitor compliance? • Could we achieve better outcomes by making certain practices requirements of membership?

  10. RANCH Forum The Age Friendly Communities Project Martyn Shaddick, Castlemaine Community House Amy Atkinson, Maldon Neighbourhood Centre

  11. RANCH Forum How can we improve our current meeting structure? Sue Birch

  12. RANCH Forum Open Forum

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