THE RAMBLERS' ASSOCIATION

(ARUN-ADUR GROUP)

CONSTITUTION

 1.    NAME AND DEFINITION

The organisation is part of the Ramblers’ Association (a registered charity number 1093577 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales number 4458492), being a Local Group as defined in Clause 6.1 of the Association’s Articles of Association. The name of the organisation shall be “The Ramblers’ Association, Arun-Adur Group”, and it shall be within the Association’s Sussex Area. The above bodies are hereafter referred to as “the Association”, “the Group”, and “the Area”.

 2.  OBJECTS

The objects of the Group are to further within its territory (see succeeding clause) the objects of the Association in such ways as the Area governing body may from time to time decide and subject to the overriding control of the Board of Trustees.

 3.  TERRITORY

The Group shall function inthe area of West Sussex, approximately bounded by the rivers Adur and Arun and the South Downs or such other territory as may be agreed with the governing body of the Area from time to time.

 4.  MEMBERSHIP

Membership of the Group shall consist of all such individual members of the Area as are allocated to the group by the Board of Trustees in accordance with the RA’s Memorandum and Articles of Association and standing orders.

  5.  RELATIONS WITH THE AREA AND THE ASSOCIATION

The Group shall act in agreement with the Area Council and the Board of Trustees of the Association, as laid down in Clause 6 of the RA’s Articles of Association.

 6. MANAGEMENT

          (i) Subject to the directions of any Group Annual or Special General Meeting as to the exercise of its powers, the management and control of the Group shall be vested in a Committee which shall consist of the Honorary Officers and as many members of the Group as the Annual Meeting shall from time to time decide, subject to a minimum overall membership of three.  All members shall retire annually, but shall be eligible for re-election.

          (ii)     The Committee shall decide when and where it shall meet subject to there being a minimum of one meeting annually..

(iii)   Five (5) members shall form a quorum.

(iv)   The Committee shall have power to co-opt up to three (3) additional members.

(v)    The Committee shall have power to fill casual vacancies.

         (vi)    The Committee shall receive regular reports from any sub-committee established under Clause 8

(vii)   The Committee shall report regularly to the Area Council.

(viii)   A special meeting of the Committee shall be called by the Secretary as soon as may be and within a maximum of 21 days on the request of the Chairman or of not less than 4  members of the Committee.

(ix)  At any meeting of the Committee, each member present shall have a single vote and a simple majority shall decide any issue on which a vote is necessary. In the event of an equality of votes, the chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote.

 7.  OFFICERS

(i)   The Honorary Officers of the Group shall be a Chairman, a Treasurer, a Secretary and such other officers as the Group in General Meeting may determine, to be elected at the Annual Meeting.

(ii)   They shall retire at the Annual Meeting following their election, but shall be eligible for re-election.

(iii)   The Committee shall have power to fill vacancies.

 8.  SUB-COMMITTEES

The Committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees and to determine their powers and terms of reference.