The AGM for the financial year 2025 ending 31/12/25 will be held in the Methodist Church Hall at 7pm Wednesday 14th October 2026 where light refreshments will be served.
The annual report and accounts can be found here
AGM 2025 – Wednesday 14th October 2026 7pm at the MURC Hall, Bellingham
As last year, sending out AGM papers would cost the Heritage Centre over £600 in printing, envelopes, and postage. This expense significantly impacts our finances. To reduce costs, we are sending the AGM notice by email again this year and posting the associated information on our website. While we have email addresses for many of you now, some members have not yet provided an email address on their membership forms. For those members, we are sending the AGM notice by post but not the associated papers, as this further increases postage and printing costs. These papers are available on the website.
If you receive this letter and do not have access to the website to view the associated papers but wish to do so before the AGM, please contact me at 01434 344383 or via email at
If we do not have your email address and you have one, please provide us with a valid email address using the same contact details. This will save time and considerable expense in the future. Thank you.
Papers for the AGM are available on the website and include:
1. Notice of AGM;
2. Draft minutes of the 2025 AGM;
3. Accounts including the Trustees’ report; You can read the Trustees report separately from the annual accounts here if you wish.
4. List of candidates for election (see Proxy voting form);
5. Proxy voting form);
if you cannot attend the AGM in person and wish to appoint the Chairman or another proxy to vote on your behalf.
Please come along and support the AGM and put any questions you may have to the Chairman and Committee Members.
The current Chairman, Steve Gibbon, will answer any questions on the annual report for 2025. He will also talk about what is currently happening and what is planned at the Centre.
Voting: If you do not wish to attend in person, under our Constitution you may use the enclosed form to either give your proxy vote to the Chairman or other person present at the meeting or provide a postal vote. These must arrive by Tuesday 13th October 2026.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the AGM. There will be an opportunity to hear about our achievements over the past year, our plans for the future, and to ask questions to the Trustees and Committee.
FRIENDS MEMBERSHIP
As a Friend and/or volunteer of the Heritage Centre may I thank you for your continued support which, for a volunteer led centre, is invaluable to us.
If you have not already subscribed, please note that Friends renewals are due. If you pay by Standing Order you need do nothing as this will renew automatically. If you do not wish to continue as a Friend please let us know as this saves us postage and other costs. Many thanks to those that have already renewed. If you wish to pay by Bank Transfer our details are:
The Heritage Group Bellingham, Sort Code: 20 40 09, Account Number: 43406601
Please reference the payment as Friends if possible.
Any lapsed memberships will be discontinued in 2027 if you do not contact us.
Many thanks
Steve Gibbon
Chairman of Trustees
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