Highbury Park Friends

As mentioned in our current newsletter, we are making substantive changes to our constitution, mainly in order to ease the process of gaining formal charitable status. The revisions are based on a Charity Commission model and are more specific about the rights and responsibilities of the committee and procedures for managing the organisation.

The revised aims reflect our recreational, environmental and educational activities, which are becoming more wide ranging. Membership clauses remain the same for individuals and it’s still one vote per family at general meetings, although local organisations that support our aims can now become voting members.

Henceforth, the committee will have the ability to co-opt people for their particular skills and experience and organise duties in a more flexible, effective manner. To comply with charity law, there will be a dissolution clause leaving any assets to a charity or similar organisation, should we need to disband.

All told, the changes will put the Friends in a better position to address park issues and pursue opportunities.

A big thanks to all those who have helped with and commented on the review so far.

A draft of the proposed Constitution is available here as a PDF file. We had anticipated adopting it at our January meeting, but given the delay in putting a copy online, we may push the date back to accommodate those who want to comment.