• As you know, the Royal Charter was sealed earlier this year and the CIBD has now been registered with the Charity Commission in England. We are working towards fully establishing the new organisation. 
• Whilst the company took steps to adopt new articles of association in 2016 certain aspects of the required administration was not implemented and to ensure that the Charity is on a clear footing moving into the final stages of the transfer to the Chartered Institute of Brewers & Distillers, the Board are now proposing that the Charity adopts new articles of association. These articles of association are based on the 2016 articles of association with the objects, benefits and dissolution provisions from the 2014 articles of association. 

1 .THAT the draft articles of association produced to the meeting and, for the purposes of identification marked ‘A’, be adopted as the new articles of association of the Charity in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the Charity’s existing articles of association. 

2. To confirm the Minutes of the Nineteenth (19th) Annual Meeting of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling held on 12th September 2023  

3. To receive and approve the Financial Statements and Annual Reports of the Trustees and Auditors for the year ended 31st December 2023 

4. To re-appoint HaysMacintyre Auditors for IBD for 2024 accounts and to authorise the Trustees to fix their remuneration.  

5. To elect Georgina Young as a Trustee  

6. To elect Jaideep Chandrasekharan as a Trustee  

7. To elect Vikram Damodaran as a Trustee  

8. To approve an Annual Membership Subscription increase of £2 for 2025 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).

9 .THAT the byelaws produced to the meeting in the form last adopted on 14 June 2022 be confirmed as the current and continuing byelaws of the Charity. 

10 .THAT all decisions of the Directors that would have been valid had the 2016 articles of association been fully adopted by the Charity at the annual general meeting on 5 September 2016 are hereby confirmed and ratified, notwithstanding that such decisions may not have been made in accordance with articles of association actually governing the Charity since 2016. 

11. THAT conditional on obtaining any necessary Charity Commission consents, the proposal to transfer the assets and liabilities of the Charity to the Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers as a going concern be approved (the Transfer). 

12. 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. 

13. THAT on completion of the Transfer the Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers be appointed as the sole member of the Charity and that all individual memberships of the Charity will cease on the transfer date, having transferred to the Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers. 

14. THAT following completion of the Transfer, the Charity be dissolved in such manner as the Directors decide and any remaining assets be transferred to the Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers.