CONSTITUTION
OF CORNARD DYNAMO’S YOUTH FOOTBALL COMMUNITY AMATEUR SPORTS CLUB
The
name of the Club is Cornard Dynamos Youth Football Club.
2. Club Purposes
(a) The purposes of the Club are to promote the amateur sport of Football in Great Cornard Sudbury Suffolk and community participation in the same.
(b)
The Club shall have the status of an Affiliated Member Club of the Football
Association by virtue of its affiliation to the FA. The rules and regulations of
the Football Association Limited and parent County Association and any League or
Competition
(c) No alteration to the Club Rules shall be effective without prior writtern approval by the parent Association.
(d) The Club will also abide by the Football Association's Child Protection Policies and Procedures, Codes of Conduct and the Equal Opportunities and Anti Discrimination Policy.
3. Permitted means of
advancing the Purposes
The
Committee has the power to:
(a)
acquire
and provide grounds, equipment, coaching, training and playing facilities,
clubhouse, transport, medical and related facilities;
(b)
provide
coaching, training, medical treatment, and related social and other facilities;
(c)
take
out any insurance for club, employees, contractors, players, guests and third
parties;
(d)
raise
funds by appeals, subscriptions, loans and charges;
(e)
borrow
money and give security for the same, and open bank accounts;
(f)
buy,
lease or licence property and sell, let or otherwise dispose of the same;
(g)
make
grants and loans and give guarantees and provide other benefits;
(h)
set
aside funds for special purposes or as reserves;
(i)
invest
funds in any lawful manner;
(j)
employ
and engage staff and others and provide services;
(k)
co-operate
with or affiliate to firstly any bodies regulating or organising the Sport and
secondly any club or body involved with it and thirdly with government and
related agencies;
(l)
do
all other things reasonably necessary to advance the purposes;
NONE
of the above powers may be used other than to advance the purposes consistently
with the rules below and the general law.
4.
Membership
(a)
Membership of the Club shall be open to anyone interested in the sport on
application regardless of sex, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, sexual
orientation, religion or other beliefs. However,
limitation of membership according to available facilities is allowable on a non
discriminatory basis.
(b)
The
Club may have different classes of membership and subscription on a non
discriminatory and fair basis. The
Club will keep subscriptions at levels that will not pose a significant obstacle
to people participating.
(c)
The
Club Committee may refuse membership, or remove it, only for good cause such as
conduct or character likely to bring the Club or sport into disrepute.
Appeal against refusal or removal may be made to the members.
5. All General
Meetings (AGM)
(a)
All members may attend all general meetings of the Club in person.
(b)
Such
meetings need 21 clear days’ written notice to members.
(c)
The
quorum for all general meetings is 3 members present or 50% of the total
membership whichever is greater.
(d)
The
Chairperson or (in his or her absence) another member chosen at the meeting
shall preside.
(e)
Except
as otherwise provided in these Rules every resolution shall be decided by a
simple majority of the votes cast on a show of hands.
(f)
Formalities
in connection with General Meetings (such as how to put down resolutions) shall
be decided by the Committee and publicised to Club members.
6. Annual General
Meetings
The Club will hold an AGM once in every calendar year and not more than
15 months after the last AGM. At
every AGM:
(a)
the Members will elect a Committee including a Chair, Treasurer and
Secretary to serve until the next AGM;
(b)
the Treasurer will produce accounts of the Club for the latest financial
year audited as the Committee shall decide;
(c)
the Committee will present a report on the Club's activities since the
previous AGM;
(d)
the Members will appoint a suitable person to audit the accounts; and
(e)
the Members will discuss and vote on any resolution (whether about policy
or to change the Rules) and deal with any other business put to the meeting.
7. Extraordinary
General Meetings (EGM)
An
EGM shall be called by the Secretary within 14 days of a request to that effect
from the Committee, or on the written request of not less than 51% of members
signed by them. Such EGM shall be
held on not less than 14 or more than 21 days notice at a place decided upon by
the Committee, or in default by the Chair.
8.
The Committee
(A)
Role
Subject
to these Rules the Committee shall have responsibility for the management of the
Club, its funds, property and affairs.
(B)
Property
etc
(i)
The property and funds of the Club cannot be used for the direct or
indirect private benefit of members other than as reasonably allowed by the
Rules and all surplus income or profits are reinvested in the club.
(ii)
The Club may provide sporting and related social facilities, sporting
equipment, coaching, courses, insurance cover, medical treatment, away-match
expenses, post match refreshments and other ordinary benefits of Community
Amateur Sports Clubs as provided for in the Finance Act 2002.
(iii)
The
Club may also in connection with the sports purposes of the Club:
(a)
sell and supply food, drink and related sports clothing and equipment;
(b)
employ members (though not for playing) and remunerate them for providing
goods and services, on fair terms set by the Committee without the person
concerned being present;
(c)
pay for reasonable hospitality for visiting teams and guests;
(d)
indemnify
the Committee and members acting properly in the course of the running of the
Club against any liability incurred in the proper running of the Club (but only
to the extent of its assets).
(iv)
The
Committee will have due regard to the law on disability discrimination and child
protection.
(C)
Composition etc
(i)
The Committee shall consist of at least 3 and not more 18 members
(including Officers).
(ii)
The
Committee members may co-opt club members (up to the maximum permitted number)
to serve until the end of the next AGM.
(iii)
Any
Committee member may be re-elected or re-co-opted without limit.
(iv)
A
Committee member ceases to be such if he or she ceases to be a member of the
Club, resigns by written notice, or is removed by the Committee for good cause
after the Member concerned has been given the chance of putting his/her case to
the Committee with an appeal to the Club members, or is removed by club members
at a general meeting. The Committee
shall fairly decide time limits and formalities for these steps.
(D)
Committee
Meetings
(i)
Whenever a Committee member has a personal interest in a matter to be
discussed he/she must declare it, withdraw from that part of the meeting (unless
asked to stay), not be counted in the quorum for that agenda item and withdraw
during the vote and have no vote on the matter concerned.
(ii)
The Committee may decide its own way of operating.
Unless it otherwise resolves the following rules apply:
(a)
at least 3 members must be present for the meeting to be valid;
(b)
committee meetings shall be held face to face;
(c)
the Chair or whoever else those present choose shall chair meetings;
(d)
decisions shall be by simple majority of those voting;
(e)
a resolution in writing signed by every Committee member shall be valid
without a meeting;
(f)
the chair of the meeting shall not have a casting vote.
(E)
Delegation
etc.
The Committee may delegate any of their functions to sub-committees but
must specify the scope of its activity and powers; the extent to which it can
commit the funds of the Club; its membership; its duty to report back to the
Committee. The Committee may wind up
any sub-committee at any time or to change its mandate and operating terms.
(F)
Disclosure
Annual
club reports and statements of account must be made available for inspection by
any member and all club records may be inspected by any Committee member.
9.
Amendments
(a)
These
Rules may be amended at a general meeting by two-thirds of the votes cast but
not (if relevant) so as to jeopardise the Club’s status as a Community Amateur
Sports Club as first provided for by the Finance Act 2002 and not in any event
to alter its purposes (unless the procedure set out in 9(b) has been followed)
or winding up provisions.
(b)
The
Club Purposes may be changed to include another eligible sport if the Committee
unanimously agree and the members also agreed the change by a 75% majority of
votes cast.
10.
Winding Up the Club
(a)
The members may vote to wind up the Club if not less than three quarters
of those present and voting support that proposal at a properly convened general
meeting.
(b)
The
Committee will then be responsible for the orderly winding up of the Club’s
affairs.
(c)
After
settling all liabilities of the Club, the Committee shall dispose of the net
assets remaining to one or more of the following:
(i)
to
another Club with similar sports purposes which is a registered charity and/or
(ii)
to
another Club with similar sports purposes which is a registered CASC and/or
(iii)
to
the Club’s governing body for use by them for related community sports.
Adopted at a meeting
held at:
Stephenson Centre, Great Cornard,