{"id":652,"date":"2009-07-07T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=652"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:14:32","slug":"annual-general-meeting-21st-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Annual General Meeting, 21st May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: Raith Suite, Starks Park, Kirkcaldy<br \/>\nAttendance: 20<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Minutes of previous AGM were agreed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer&#8217;s Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accounts for the 07\/08 year were discussed<\/li>\n<li>Income (less grant income) was up<\/li>\n<li>Website income and affinity income had increased<\/li>\n<li>Costs were reduced through doing an Independent Examination instead of an audit<\/li>\n<li>Accounts were agreed<\/li>\n<li>Motion to allow Independent Examination in 08\/09 was agreed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Membership Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current membership was 199<\/li>\n<li>50% of members receive communications by email<\/li>\n<li>All membership renewals will now happen in July\/August<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chairman&#8217;s Report<\/strong><br \/>\nAlan Russell, Chair of the Trust, gave an overview of the year&#8217;s activity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fundraising over the season was in excess of \u00a36,000<\/li>\n<li>Simple ideas like the sponsored walk to Methil raised \u00a31,200<\/li>\n<li>Sales of books and merchandise had helped increase income<\/li>\n<li>Helped to support the Kirkcaldy Museum RRFC event and online Museum<\/li>\n<li>Trust members assisted in making Raith TV and The Treatment Table radio show a big success<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Loan Fund<\/strong><br \/>\nMotion to convert remaining cash in loan fund was passed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Election of Trust Board<\/strong><br \/>\nOne nomination had been received and Steven Lawther was duly elected to the Trust Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AOCB<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discussion on position of Stark&#8217;s Park Properties \u2013 no change was reported<\/li>\n<li>Discussion on the difference between the Trust and other supporters organisations<\/li>\n<li>Seek to give supporters influence in the running of the club and act as a guardian and watchdog of the governance of the club in order to ensure its continuation for future generations<\/li>\n<li>Discussion on improving membership \u2013 need to take advantage of improved administrative capacity, improve communication and use early season as a membership drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meeting Closed at 8.20pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: Raith Suite, Starks Park, Kirkcaldy Attendance: 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minutes-agms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}