Advice on Clandestine Club please

[mickyrod]

Hi everyone,
I am a member of a small fishing club (180 members) and at the last AGM, several changes were made by the committee. I proposed that all members are sent the minutes of the monthly committee meetings, I was told that it is illegal for the club to do this. Surely this is wrong? It was also proposed by a member that Officers positions of the club (chairman, Vice chairman, secretary and treasurer) cannot be held by two or more family members. Again we were told that this is illegal due to discrimination law. Is this true? and finally a rule was introduced that if a committee member resigns without giving three months notice, they can never become part of the committee again. They say that this is introduced retrospectively. Is this legal? This one affects me as I resigned in September and when I was nominated to come back on the committee at the AGM (last week), the committee came out with this rule! The committee have also stated that general members are no longer able to observe the monthly committee meetings - something that the club has allowed for the 40 years that the club has been in existence. Any help/guidance on these issue will be very much appreciated.

[Sam101]

Private clubs have their individual rules and regulations. As a past committee member you had access to those rules and the fact that new rules are instigated must have been agreed by the committee. I doubt very much that you can do anything to change this.

[mickyrod]

You are correct. I do know the rules. There is nothing in the club constitution that says meeting minutes should not be sent to members. The response from the secretary was "This is illegal and therefore cannot be voted on". Im sure this must be wrong.

[echat11]

Is there a mechanism in the Article of Association to resolve Club disputes? There has to be things like Appealing decisions etc.

[des8]

If there are enough of you who feel the same way, call an extraordinary meeting, and perhaps vote the committee off 9only after making sure there are other members prepared to step in and take their places!

[echat11]

If there are enough of you who feel the same way, call an extraordinary meeting, and perhaps vote the committee off 9only after making sure there are other members prepared to step in and take their places!

Agree, build consensus. It must be said 'it all sounds very fishy', not original, I'll get might my coat if I can find it amongst the bait.