Ecology AGM
Ecology Building Society Annual General Meeting 2008
The 2008 AGM will be held on Saturday 26 April at Friends House in London. The address is Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ. The web site is www.quaker.org.uk. You can download directions to the venue as a PDF document (see note) below. You can also download a copy of our Annual Review 2007, or the full version of our Annual Report and Accounts 2007 if you prefer.
Please come and join us in London, but if you cannot make it be sure to complete and return your proxy voting form, which will be sent out to you in March. We look forward to seeing you in April.
Directions to Friends House (PDF, 89K)
Annual Review 2007 (PDF, 459K)
Annual Report and Accounts 2007 (PDF, 1.9MB)
AGM Agenda
The agenda for the day is as follows:
| Annual General Meeting | Time |
|---|---|
| Registration & Refreshments | 10.30 am |
| AGM Business & Voting | 11.00 am |
| Open Forums | 11.30 am |
| Results of Voting | 12.00 pm |
| Any Other Business | 12.05 pm |
| Lunch | 12.10 pm |
| Presentations | |
| Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) Special Projects Officer Phil Horton talks about the centre's new WISE project. | 1.00 pm |
| Ecology borrowers and architects Sarah Wigglesworth & Jeremy Till talk about their award winning home - The Straw House. | 1.35 pm |
| Refreshments | 2.10 pm |
| Ecos Trust Director Charles Couzens talks about Ecos Homes' sustainable housing developments. | 2.30 pm |
| Ecology Borrower David Street talk about his urban self build project. | 3.05 pm |
| Closing remarks | 3.40 pm |
Ecology Building Society Annual General Meeting 2007
The 2007 AGM was held on Saturday 28 April at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford. The theme of the 26th AGM was low carbon building and the afternoon session was made up of a series of workshops, which proved popular with members.
Thank you to all those members who returned their proxy voting forms and those who attended the meeting in person. We had a record number of votes this year - almost 1,000 - including proxy votes and those cast at the meeting. We are very pleased with this as it is an increase of over 40% on last years' voting! The results of the voting are as follows:
| Resolutions | For | Against | Abstentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| To receive the Annual Report and Accounts | 958 | 9 | 1 |
| To re-appoint KPMG AUDIT PLC as auditors | 886 | 58 | 25 |
| To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 898 | 41 | 31 |
| Directors | |||
| To re-elect DAVID BLACK | 912 | 36 | 20 |
| To re-elect PAUL CHARLES ELLIS | 924 | 35 | 10 |
| To elect PETER ANTHONY TAYLOR | 922 | 31 | 17 |
| To re-elect PAMELA WARING | 927 | 35 | 10 |
The presentations
If you where not able to attend the AGM, the speakers' presentations are available to download below in PDF form (see note):
Peter Warm of Environment Conscious Building Services - Workshop Introduction (PDF, 1.2MB)
Jo Hamilton of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute - Climate X Change (PDF, 1.2MB)
Peter Warm of Environment Conscious Building Services - Low Carbon Refurbishment (PDF, 2.5MB)
John Willoughby, Energy and Environmental Design Consultant - Low Carbon New Build (PDF, 2.8MB)
Chris Herring of Green Building Company and the AECB - Windows in Buildings (PDF, 2.1MB)
Nick Grant of Elemental Solutions - Sustainable Water Use (PDF, 4.9MB)
Matthew Rhodes of Encraft - Renewable Energy Solutions (PDF, 1.2MB)
Peter Warm of Environment Conscious Building Services - Workshop Summary (PDF, 148K)
Please see the Photo Gallery page for photos of the day.
