Nominations are invited for the positions detailed below, which will be the subject of elections to be held at the Annual General Meeting on 14th October 2023. Posts due for election are listed below together with the intentions of the current holders regarding re-standing.
Members of the Board
Director of Finance – Adam Ashton is not intending to stand
Director of Membership – Rob Willmoth is intending to stand
Director of Home Chess – Nigel Towers is intending to stand
Non-Executive Director – Natasha Regan is not intending to stand
Other elected posts
Chair of the Council – David Eustace is intending to stand
FIDE Delegate – Malcolm Pein is intending to stand
Members of the Governance Committee (this Committee has no fixed size) – Michael Farthing is intending to stand; David Eustace and Peter Hornsby are being proposed by the Chair of Governance.
Members of the Finance Committee (this Committee has no fixed size) – Ray Clark and David Eustace intend to stand
The rota setting out the positions on the Board that are subject to election in any given year is set out at the end of Regulation No. 2. To be eligible to stand for election, a candidate must be a member of the ECF on the day of the AGM.
Each candidate for a post must be one of –
A retiring Director, the FIDE Delegate, the Chairman of Council, or a Chairman of a Standing Committee seeking re-election to the same post;
A nominee of the Board for a post; or
A person proposed by ‘the Requisitionists’ as defined in the Articles (see the website post entitled Motions for the 2023 Annual General Meeting)
Nominations must be made by Thursday 7th September by sending an email to the Chairman of Council – council.chair@englishchess.org.uk – entitled ‘AGM 2023 Nominations’.
By way of departure from existing practice, the AGM agenda will only set out the nominations required to enable a candidate to stand for election. Excess nominations will not be included.
Election Addresses
A duly nominated candidate has the right to have an election address published on the ECF website. The body of the election address must be no more than 750 words in length. All election addresses received by the nomination deadline will be published simultaneously on the website: any election addresses received after the deadline will not be published.
Election addresses are published in PDF format. Addresses submitted in this format will be published as received, preserving any internal formatting. Addresses submitted in other formats, including plain text, will be converted into PDF format (or referred back if the format is not known to us). Exact formatting match cannot in these cases be guaranteed. Revisions to a submitted address will be permitted up to the nomination deadline but must be complete resubmissions – the Chairman or ECF staff will not make alterations on behalf of candidates. After the deadline no revised submissions will be accepted, even of a minor nature.
Conduct of Candidates
Candidates are required to comply with the Code of Conduct – Regulation No. 4 – for the election campaign period.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of individual directors are set out in the Directors and Officers Responsibilities Regulations – Regulation No. 2 – which is available on the ECF website. Candidates should note that the Board has the power to amend these Regulations at any time.