Proposal to Adopt a New Club Constitution
Reason For Change
Each year swim clubs must submit documentation to swim England to maintain their swim mark accreditation. SwimMark sets the standards for governance sustainability and effectiveness and as part of this the Swim England requires clubs to adopt a constitution based on their template. This template has not been changed for some time but Swim England saw fit to change it for 2024 and in order to maintain our SwimMark compliance we are obliged to adopt this a new constitution. This is based on the Swim England Model Constitution template, version for Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO’s)
The New Constitution
As mentioned we are obliged to use the Swim England model constitution version for CIO's. Swim England has changed this extensively from the previous templates on which our current club constitution is based. The spirit of the constitution is similar but there have been extensive changes to wording, numbering and formatting so it is difficult to provide a side by side comparison. Rather than editing our existing constitution it was necessary to base the new document on the template, replacing their dummy text with information specific to our club, county and region and making some corrections.
Summary of Changes
- There appeared to be many errors in the SE Model Constitution, probably made as a result of SE amending their committee based club constitution to a version for CIO’s. This mainly involved amending the words “The Committee” to “The Board of Trustees”.
- The new Stingrays Constitution makes provision for the number of Trustees to be between three and nine.
- There were many errors in references to paragraphs so these have been corrected.
- We have made the required amendments to references to club name, county and region.
- For you reference copies of the Proposed, Model and Current Constitutions are linked at the end of this page.
Adoption
The proposed new Salisbury Stingrays Swimming Club Constitution has been approved by Swim England and also the South West Region. In order for us to Maintain our SwimMark Accreditation it must be formally ratified by the Club Members. It will come into effect when lodged and accepted by the Charity Commission.
Our SwimMark accreditation is currently provisionally approved pending ratification of this new constitution. Therefore, the Board of Trustees recommend that members vote in favour of adoption at the forthcoming AGM.
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