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\"gm\"<\/a>The General Meeting 2014 took place on Friday afternoon, with 7 Resolutions and 2 Amendments to discuss.<\/p>\n

The first section of the meeting passed quickly, with the highlight being President Margaret’s opening address, in which she spoke about the Building the Future of SIGBI plan, SIGBI’s\u00a0ECOSOC recognition\u00a0and participation in the Commission of the Status of Women in New York.\u00a0 The creation of the post of APD ECOSOC in 2014 will ensure that SIGBI concentrate their efforts on maintaining their status at the UN.\u00a0 Margaret also talked about the success of SIGBI’s participation in the Global Summit to end Sexual Violence in Conflict and thanked everyone who helped to make it such a success.\u00a0 She talked about the conference of African Clubs which took place in Pretoria earlier this year, and the Growth Accelerator plan, which will be explained in more detail to Clubs via Club mailings over the coming year.<\/p>\n

Resolutions<\/h2>\n

\"nisha\"<\/a>Resolution 1<\/strong>, concerning Associate Membership, produced a lively debate with arguments both for and against the Resolution being put forward\u00a0 by a large number of delegates.\u00a0 In the end the Resolution, which needed 75% of votes to be successful, narrowly failed with only 70% of votes being cast in favour.\u00a0 This meant that Resolutions 2 and 3<\/strong>, which were also part of the Associate Membership debate, were withdrawn.<\/p>\n

\"mic<\/a>Resolution 4<\/strong> was to remove some of the restrictions concerning linked membership, to widen the availability of this membership option.\u00a0 This Resolution was comfortably passed.<\/p>\n

Resolution 5<\/strong> was a tidying up exercise in terms of clarifying\u00a0the protection of the Soroptimist Emblem and the SIGBI logo in the SIGBI Constitution.\u00a0 Again this was passed by 98% of the vote.<\/p>\n

Resolution 6<\/strong> was to freeze the capitation fees for Bands 1 and 2 until 31 March 2017, and there was one amendment<\/strong> which charged the FMB with carrying out a re-evaluation of the impact of increased capitation fees on the membership of SIGBI on AACM countries.\u00a0 Both Resolution 6 and the Amendment were passed with 88% of the vote.<\/p>\n

Resolution 7<\/strong> was to continue to split the \u00a32.00 donation payable with fees in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, for the next three years,\u00a0as follows: \u00a31.00 to the Benevolent Fund, 50p to the Diamond Education Grant and 50p to the Emergency Relief Fund.\u00a0 There was one amendment to this Resolution<\/strong>, such that the Benevolent Fund donation would be increased to \u00a32.00, whilst retaining the split for the other two charities.\u00a0 Both the Amendment and the substantive Resolution 7 were passed with over 90% of the votes.\u00a0 Therefore, the donations part of the SIGBI capitation fees for UK, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man members will rise to \u00a33.00 from 2015.<\/p>\n

The meeting closed with the introduction of the FMB for 2014-2015, which are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
President<\/span><\/td>\nJenny Vince<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
President Elect<\/span><\/td>\nMargaret Emsley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vice President<\/span><\/td>\nAnn Hodgson<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Immediate Past President<\/span><\/td>\nMargaret Oldroyd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director of Communications<\/span><\/td>\nJane Slatter<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director of Finance<\/span><\/td>\nJudith Lewis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director of Membership<\/span><\/td>\nSue Williams<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director of Organisational Development<\/span><\/td>\nAnn Hodgson<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federation Programme Director<\/span><\/td>\nSusan Biggs<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director Without Portfolio<\/span><\/td>\nJoyce Boorman<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director Without Portfolio<\/span><\/td>\nTalat Pasha<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Director Without Portfolio<\/span><\/td>\nIsobel Smith<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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