Company Number: SC322717
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland, trading as Mountaineering Scotland
(the "Company")
Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held on Saturday 29 November 2025 at 10:00 in person at Dundee Contemporary Arts and online using Zoom for the following purposes:
Agenda
(a) Roll call and appointment of tellers
(b) The approval of the minutes of the previous AGM
(c) The receipt of such reports as the Board may consider appropriate to bring before the AGM for approval or information
(d) The receipt of the Company’s annual accounts and reports
(e) The fixing of members’ annual subscriptions
Under item (e) members are being asked to support an increase in membership fees based on the rate of inflation using the consumer price index of 3.8%
A supplementary note explaining the background to these changes and level of increase is available on the Mountaineering Scotland website.
Fixing of the membership fees - CLUBS ONLY: A further vote will be taken under item (e) on the proposal to increase club membership fees to include the cost of Personal Accident insurance cover. This vote will be open to clubs and not to individual members. Find more information here.
(f) The election of the Board members
It should be noted that all the current directors are eligible to continue in their current role however Fiona Bennett, Treasurer and Director of Finance will formally be stepping down at the AGM. Fiona has agreed to continue to support the board until the end of the year and a recruitment process will be taking place to find a suitable replacement.
(g) The consideration of and taking of decisions on any duly notified proposals for the adoption of any new Policies or the amendment or revocation of any existing policies
(h) Any other competent business
Company Number: SC322717
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland, trading as Mountaineering Scotland
(the "Company")
Notice is given that an extraordinary general meeting of the Company will be held on 29 November 2025 at 1130hrs (immediately following the Annual General Meeting) in person at Dundee Contemporary Arts and online via Zoom for the following purposes:
Special Resolutions:
To consider and, if thought fit, approve the following resolutions that will be proposed as special resolutions:
1) The articles of association in the form of the annexed draft marked as "Draft A" be adopted as the articles of association of the Company in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the existing articles of association of the Company.
By order of the Board
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Company Secretary / Director
The Granary, West Mill Street, Perth, Scotland, PH1 5QP
08/10/2025
Notes
1. In accordance with the articles Individual Members who do not intend to be present at a General Meeting may, subject to the provisions of the Act, appoint a proxy. Club Members who do not intend to be represented by a nominated representative at a General Meeting may, subject to the provisions of the Act, appoint one or more duly appointed proxies. A nominated representative attending a General Meeting of the Company on behalf of a Club Member shall produce to the Company at the relevant meeting an original or certified copy of the resolution of that Club Member, or a letter on the Club Member's letterhead, confirming the appointment of the representative for such meeting, such board resolution or letter having been signed by an senior member or an office bearer of such Club Member.
2. A form of proxy is enclosed with this notice. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not prevent a member from attending and voting in person at the meeting. To be effective, the appointment of a proxy and any authority under which it is executed (or a notarially certified copy of such authority) must be lodged with the Company:
in each case not later than 5pm on Tuesday 25 November 2025.
3. Addresses (including electronic addresses) in this document are included strictly for the purposes specified and not for any other purpose.
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