Northern Counties Chess Union

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A constituent unit of the English Chess Federation

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20/05/2025

NCCU AGM 2025

The NCCU AGM 2025 is to be held at the West Riding, 38 Wellington Street, Leeds, on 21st June 2025 starting at 1.00 p.m.

Documents for the Meeting

Agenda for the meeting, subject to any late additions or changes	Word Format	PDF Format
Minutes of the “December” Council meeting held on 12th January 2025	Word Format	PDF Format
Minutes of the Special Council meeting held on 11th May 2025 (for info)	Word Format	PDF Format
Secretary’s Report (added 26/05/2025)	Word Format	PDF Format
Treasurer’s Report (added 25/05/2025)	Word Format	PDF Format
Rating Officer’s Report (added 29/05/2025)	Word Format	PDF Format
Papers to Note
What to Expect (added 31/05/2025) on the finance front after the AGM	Word Format	PDF Format
Rule Change Ideas Introduction (added 29/05/2025)	Word Format	PDF Format
Rule Change Ideas The actual ideas (added 29/05/2025)	Word Format

Any written officers’ reports or other papers which trickle in are to be added here as received.

A notice of the meeting was sent out to known county contacts on 24/05/2025, with the following observations:

A county is entitled to send any two people as delegates to a Council meeting.  If a usual delegate is unavailable, then another person can and should be sent instead, and that person is not seen as a proxy holder for an "official delegate".

The NCCU does not work on the principle of pre-designated delegates used by the ECF.

I think, therefore, we should be looking more at official contacts designated by CCA's.  (Historically this was county secretaries.  Supposed or guessed delegates were not contacted individually as seems now to be the fashion.)  These contacts would be notified of Council meetings, and they would be responsible for arranging their CCA's delegates to a given meeting.  Known past delegates can of course be cc'd into notices of meetings for info and could request being removed from the "cc" list.

Tracking counties' delegates is the responsibility of the counties themselves, not of NCCU officials using psychic powers!

Steve Mann

Secretary

The agenda with an added rule-change proposal was sent out to known county contacts on 29/05/2025.