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AGM meeting 12 May 2008
MINUTES of the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
held on 12 May 2008 at Millbank Tower, Millbank, London SW1
Present:
B2L Public Affairs Darren Caplan
Cicero Iain Anderson
Cogitamus Paul Beckford
College Public Policy Warwick Smith
Connect Public Affairs Gill Morris (in the Chair)
Consolidated James Page
Edelman Michael Burrell
FD-LLM Sean McKee
Foresight Consulting Mark Adams
Helen Johnson Consulting Helen Johnson
Lexington Communications Gidon Freeman
Mandate Gavin Devine
Open Road Martin LeJeune
Policy Partnership Joel Feyerherm
PPS John Mills
Precise Public Affairs Robbie MacDuff
Tetra Strategy James O’Keefe
Weber Shandwick Samina Ansari
Whitehouse Consultancy David Hare
APPC Mary Shearer (Secretary)
Apologies:
APCO
Champollion
Citigate Dewe Rogerson
EUK Consulting
Fishburn Hedges
Grayling
1. Directors’ Report & Accounts for Year Ending 30 September 2007
The meeting accepted the Directors’ Report & Accounts.
2. Subscriptions
Members approved the management committee’s proposal that subscriptions for the year ending 31 May 2009 be increased by approximately 2%, as follows:
Band £
1 20 or more consultants 1,880
2 10 – 19 consultants 1,254
3 5 – 9 consultants 750
4 1 – 4 consultants 105 per consultant
3. Chairman
No other nominations having been received, Robbie MacDuff was elected as Chair for the ensuing year. In line with the changes to the Articles of Association, Gill Morris would become Deputy Chair until the next AGM.
4. Management Committee
As there were ten valid nominations for the eight places, a ballot was held of both votes cast in person and postal votes. The meeting appointed Michael Burrell and Warwick Smith as tellers.
Following the ballot, the Chair announced that the members of the management committee for the ensuing year would be:
Mark Adams, Foresight Consulting
Lucy Burns, Fishburn Hedges
Darren Caplan, B2L Public Affairs
Gavin Devine, Mandate Communications
Gidon Freeman, Lexington Communications
Helen Johnson, Helen Johnson Consulting Ltd
Martin LeJeune, The Open Road Consultancy
John Mills, PPS (Local & Regional) Ltd
The Chair of APPC and the Chair of APPC in Scotland would be supernumerary members, as would past Chairs of APPC.
Closing Remarks
Gill Morris congratulated Robbie MacDuff on his election as Chair. She thanked the members of the management committee for their magnificent work on behalf of APPC in the interesting times of her chairmanship and welcomed the new members.
Robbie MacDuff thanked the membership for supporting him as Chair and wished to put on record the excellent hard work undertaken by the members of the Management Committee, and particularly by Gill Morris over the last three years. The Management Committee would shortly hold a strategy day to identify the APPC’s priorities over the next 12 months and would report back to the membership on the discussions. He aimed to consolidate and to continue the growth in membership and consider what APPC could offer to members. There would be challenges ahead, not least because of the ongoing PASC Inquiry and the impact of the E