Ecology Building Society Annual General Meeting 2018

Our 2018 AGM and Members’ Meet up was held on Saturday 28 April at The Priory Rooms, Quaker Meeting House,  in Birmingham.

The event provides an opportunity for members to meet the Ecology team and share their views on our work as well as having a direct input into our policies and practices.

As well as the formal AGM business, members’ heard about our plans to invest in our digital capability and how different materials and building approaches can help us address the housing crisis while tackling climate change. We also shared the key findings from our recent Members’ Survey, which we’ll be publishing here soon. These show that members strongly agree with what Ecology stands for – our policies, values and memorandum.

Voting results:

Overall voting turnout was 15.62% – a slight decrease from last year, and 51% used our online voting service which helps us reduce the amount of paper we use. We’re always trying to get more members involved in voting, if you’re a voting member, please use your democratic power in 2019!

During the ‘Ask the Directors’ element of the AGM, Directors responded to questions from the floor as well as  pre-submitted questions from members – here are some of the Q&As.

We have received lots of positive feedback from members about the day. Feedback from one member: ‘Thank you for a really interesting and informative day –  I feel much more part of the Society now.’

And, another member commented: ‘I liked the structure of the day and the significant opportunities for networking amongst people with a common perspective.’

Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on the AGM. We read every form and your suggestions will be used to help us deliver better events in future.

You can find the meeting minutes here.