AGM
CIBD Annual General Meeting
The 1st AGM of the Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers will be held on Tuesday, 10th September at 12pm (BST), via Zoom.
To vote live on the day, please register your attendance here or click the button below.
If you prefer to vote in advance, Mi-Voice, the same electoral service we used previously, will be sending you information about how to do it by proxy. Please save customer.support@ibd.org.uk and elections@mi-voice.com in your contacts to ensure that you receive all our communications in your inbox.
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (the meeting) of the Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers (the Charity) will be held ONLINE in accordance with the information provided on page on 10th September (Tuesday) at 12pm.
This year, we are hosting two AGMs, for the IBD and the CIBD. This is a simple yet important process to formalise the handover the liabilities and assets of the IBD over to the CIBD.
At the meeting, you will be asked to consider and vote on the resolutions below, all of which are proposed as ordinary resolutions.
1. To elect Georgina Young as a Trustee
2. To elect Jaideep Chandrasekharan as a Trustee
3. To elect Vikram Damodaran as a Trustee
4. THAT conditional on obtaining any necessary Charity Commission consents, the proposal to transfer the assets and liabilities of The Institute of Brewing & Distilling (charity number 269830, company number 01217770) (IBD) to the Charity as a going concern and the granting of an indemnity from the Charity to IBD be approved (the Transfer).
5. THAT the Directors of the Charity be authorised to take such further steps and executed such documents on such terms as they consider to be in the best interest of the Charity and necessary to complete the Transfer.
6. THAT on completion of the Transfer any individuals are not already members of the Charity will have their membership transferred to the Charity.
7. THAT on completion of the Transfer the Charity will become the sole member of IBD.
8. To confirm the 2025 Annual Membership Subscription increase of £2 up to £50 for concessionary membership and an increase of £4 up to £150 for standard membership. Life Membership to remain as fully paid up (£0).
By order of the Board
Will Calvert, Trustee, CIBD
How to Register and Vote?
For the 1st CIBD Annual General Meeting, we will be using electronic registration and the same voting system used in previous AGMs provided by Mi-Voice.
Your voting instructions will be issued from elections@mi-voice.com so please check your inbox and spam/junk folder. Please note the voter code is unique to you, so please do not share it with anyone else. You can request an email re-issue of your voting instructions by visiting www.mi-vote.com/secure/ibd
The process is simple:
- Members will be able to register to attend the meeting on Tuesday, 10th September at 12pm (BST) and vote for, against or abstain on the resolutions.
- The deadline to register to attend the Zoom meeting is at
10.00 (BST) (09:00 UTC) on Monday, 9 September.
- The deadline to register to attend the Zoom meeting is at
- If you aren’t able to attend on that date, you will be able to submit your vote online in advance by proxy*.
- The advance proxy voting will close at 23:59 on Sunday 8th September 2024.
- Eligible members unable to vote online can request a proxy vote with the items to vote for. It should be completed and returned to Proxy Vote at 44A Curlew Street, London, SE1 2ND or sent by email to proxyvote@ibd.org.uk, by the 8th of September 2024 at 10.00 (BST).
- In the absence of a particular individual known to be attending the meeting, the member may appoint the President as his/her proxy. You can download the paper proxy request here.
*Advance by proxy allows you to cast your vote on all the resolutions and makes the President your proxy representative at the AGM.
If you need any help using the voting site, please contact Mi-Voice, who are an independent organisation supporting IBD with this process. You can contact them at support@mi-voice.com or by calling +44 (0)23 8076 3987.