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Dear Council Delegate
Nominations are invited for the positions detailed
below, which will be the subject of elections to be held at the Annual
General Meeting on 26th October 2024. Posts due for election are listed
below together with the intentions of the current holders regarding
re-standing.
Members of the Board
President – Dominic Lawson is intending to stand
Chief Executive – Mike Truran is intending to stand*
Director of Finance – Alex Longson is still to confirm
if he wishes to continue**
Director of Women’s Chess – Aga Milewska is intending to
stand
Director of Junior Chess – Alex Holowczak is intending
to stand
Non-Executive Director 3 – Katarzyna Toma is not
intending to stand
Other elected posts
Chair of the Council – David Eustace is intending to
stand
FIDE Delegate – Malcolm Pein is intending to stand
Chair of the Governance Committee – Robert Stern is
intending to stand
Members of the Governance Committee (this Committee has
no fixed size) – Mark Murrell is to be nominated by the Chair of Governance
Members of the Finance Committee – Zoe Varney is to be
nominated by the Chair of the Finance Committee
Notes
* Mike Truran is standing for election but wishes to
stand down in October 2025 after many years of service in this role. The
Board will be seeking a suitably qualified successor.
** An update on whether Alex Longson wishes to continue
as Finance Director will be published on 9th September.
The rota setting out the positions on the Board that are
subject to election in any given year is set out at the end of Regulation
No. 2. To be eligible to stand for election, a candidate must be a member
of the ECF on the day of the AGM.
Each candidate for a post must be a nominee of the Board
or a person proposed by ‘the Requisitionists’ as defined in the Articles
(see the website post entitled Motions for the 2024 Annual General
Meeting).
Nominations must be made by Thursday 19th September by
sending an email to the Chair of Council –
council.chair@englishchess.org.uk – entitled ‘AGM 2024 Nominations’.
By way of departure from existing practice, the AGM
agenda will only set out the nominations required to enable a candidate to
stand for election. Excess nominations will not be included.
Election Addresses
A duly nominated candidate has the right to have an
election address published on the ECF website. The body of the election
address must be no more than 750 words in length. All election addresses
received by the nomination deadline will be published simultaneously on the
website: any election addresses received after the deadline will not be
published.
Election addresses are published in PDF format.
Addresses submitted in this format will be published as received,
preserving any internal formatting. Addresses submitted in other formats,
including plain text, will be converted into PDF format (or referred back
if the format is not known to us). Exact formatting match cannot in these
cases be guaranteed. Revisions to a submitted address will be permitted up
to the nomination deadline but must be complete resubmissions – the Chair
or ECF staff will not make alterations on behalf of candidates. After the
deadline no revised submissions will be accepted, even of a minor nature.
Conduct of Candidates
Candidates are required to comply with the Code of
Conduct – Regulation No. 4 – for the election campaign period.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of individual directors are set out
in the Directors and Officers Responsibilities Regulations – Regulation No. 2 – which is available on the ECF
website. Candidates should note that the Board has the power to amend these
Regulations at any time.
David Eustace, Chair of Council
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