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Doncaster Chamber Election of Board Members 2011

Each year Doncaster Chamber holds elections to the Board of Directors. The Chamber has an excellent reputation for the work it does both inside the Borough and beyond. It is therefore important that your Chamber continues to be led by business people with the experience, enthusiasm and vision needed to continue driving Doncaster’s regeneration and business support agenda.

Who is eligible to be a Director?


Candidates must be of sufficient seniority in their organisation.  Board Members are required to be senior directors, partners or principals of Member businesses and, in addition, some experience of working in diverse company boards is useful.

Your commitment as a Director


The only commitment we expect from Non-Executive Directors is time, support, and that your company remains in membership for the term of office. 

- Elected Directors retire by rotation after a 3-year term of office. 

- We have a monthly Board meeting that usually lasts for 2 hours, an occasional Chamber Executive Management Group meeting that lasts a similar time and a number of events during the year. 

- In addition, each Director is also expected to sit on one of any Board sub-committees which support the Senior Management Team.  These meetings take place once a month and usually last about one hour.

- Candidates should not put themselves forward unless they will have the time to attend at least 75% of Board meetings, which generally take place on the last Thursday of each month at 4:00 pm.

- Further details of duties and responsibilities of a Director and a background to the Chamber can be obtained by contacting Sheila Fearn at sfearn@doncaster-chamber.co.uk

The current Board of Directors


Nigel Brewster (President/Chairman)       
Brewster McBride   

Andrew McKenna (Vice President)   
Yorkshire Bank   
                
Howard Gannaway (Chief Executive/Ex Officio)
Doncaster Chamber      
        
Kelvin Fitton       
Smith Craven Chartered Accountants

Stacey Austin - Retiring by Rotation and seeking re-election        
Boxes & Packaging (Doncaster) Ltd    

Andrew Isaacs       
Andrew Isaacs Solicitors

Mark Appleyard   
Mark Appleyard Ltd
   
John Keers       
Most Wanted Marketing
   
Kevin Kerley       
Solutions 4 Cleaning

Dave Morris       
Doncaster Rovers Football Club

Jonathan Wood
DMBC

The nomination process...


New candidates for election should be nominated (using the nomination forms that have been posted to all Members), by 5 members of the Chamber.

Completed nominations need to be deposited in the Chamber office (Doncaster Chamber, Doncaster Business Innovation Centre, Ten Pound Walk, Doncaster DN4 5HX) before 12 noon on Thursday, 20 October 2011.

Who can place a nomination?

 

Nominees must be of sufficient seniority in their organisation.  Board Members are required to be senior directors, partners or principals of Member businesses and, in addition, some experience of working in diverse company boards is useful.

Electronic Voting System

 

Doncaster Chamber will operate an electronic voting system if a contested election should occur, therefore please ensure that we have the correct e-mail address for this purpose.

Key milestones…



End of September – Chamber Members will receive nomination papers

20th October – Nomination papers must be with Doncaster Chamber before 12noon

If a contested election should occur…
If the number of nominations exceeds the number of places on the Board, all candidates to be sent a letter from CEO re Chamber Board Elections asking for brief personal statement in support of their candidacy. These statements will be added to this page and also circulated via Electoral Reform Services as part of the email voting process.

27th October – Personal statements need to be sent to Doncaster Chamber by this date.

3rd November – The Electronic Voting System will start and all Chamber Members will receive an email from Electoral Reform Services, which will detail how to place your vote.

24th November – the result of the vote will be announced at the Annual General Meeting.

The Annual General Meeting…



Doncaster Chamber Annual General Meeting
Thursday 24th November, 9.30am
Doncaster Racecourse

All Doncaster Chamber Members are welcome to attend the Annual General Meeting.

Be the first to find out who has been elected, hear from the Chamber President and Chief Executive, meet the Chamber’s Senior Management Team and find out what the Chamber is looking to achieve in the year ahead.

Read the ‘Chamber Update’ ebulletin (circulated every Thursday) which will contain booking details nearer to the time.

2011 Doncaster Chamber Election LinkedIn Group

Our LinkedIn Group is a forum where you are welcome to discuss the election process – please take a note of the ‘Group Rules’ which are detailed below for your information:

Respect
- No negative or offensive comments
- No blatant direct sales pitches
- No offensive language
- No blatant or overt self promotion
- No anonymous posts 

General Rules
 - Please post genuine discussions only
- If you've already done the rounds elsewhere with the discussion (i.e. posted it on several other groups) or you are planning to then please don't post it on here
- Be helpful and actively contribute to discussions

Click here to visit the LinkedIn Group