Area AGM Saturday 24 Jan 2026, Lutterworth Town Hall

The area AGM will take place on Saturday 24 Jan 2026 in the Hansom Suite, Lutterworth Town Hall. All Ramblers’ members based in the area are invited to attend.

Doors open at 0915; refreshments available (donations welcome). Meeting starts at 1000.

There will be a local short walk afterwards, which will start around 13.30; bring a packed lunch and walking gear if you want to join the walk.

1. Chair’s welcome
2. Apologies for absence.
3. Approval of minutes of previous AGM
4. Matters arising
5. Presentation of Annual Reports (see below for links)

a. Chair’s report
b. Treasurer’s report and presentation of accounts
c. Secretary’s report
d. Footpath Officer’s report
e. Walking Environment Officer’s report
f. Membership Secretary’s report
g. Communications Officer’s report
h. Group reports

6. Adoption of accounts and acceptance of the officers’ and groups’ reports
7. President’s Address
8. Election of Officers

a. Chair
b. Membership Secretary
c. Other officers - en bloc
d. Members of affiliated organisations – up to two members to the AEC

9. Confirmation of Presidents
10. Confirmation of appointment of Auditor/Independent Financial Examiner
11. Any proposed changes to the Area constitution
12. Nomination of two representatives to General Council
13. Address and Q&A session with Janet Gee, member of Ramblers Board of Trustees
14. Any other Business
15. Area events

a. Area walk – early summer – LRWG
b. Area Quiz – Oct / Nov – Loughborough
c. AGM - Sat 23rd Jan 2027 – LRWG

If you wish to stand for the committee or raise an item please inform the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 10 January.

In particular we are looking for a Membership Secretary to take over from Ray Phipps. Ray writes "The role of the membership secretary is mainly to produce detailed reports on the state of membership in our area, and nationally (for reference). The new secretary will ideally already be a group membership secretary and therefore be familiar with the "Insight" hub. So instead of just accessing the hub for their own group's figures they will access all of the groups data and then produce a comparative chart. Another role is to send to the Communications Officer a full list of e-mail addresses for the newsletter and AGM. Central Office does have a full version of "The role of the Membership secretary" but if you read that you wouldn't want the job! Being familiar with data protection guidelines would also be an a advantage."