English Chess Federation

Nominations for Election at the ECF AGM, 21 October 2006

The following candidates have been nominated. Elections will take place at the Annual General Meeting on 21 October in Bristol.

The attention of anyone who wishes to stand for election at the AGM on 21 October 2006 is drawn to the following provisions:

1. In accordance with Article 10, candidates for the posts of Director, FIDE Delegate and Chairman of a Standing Committee must be Direct Members of the Company (ECF) at the time of the election;

2. In accordance with the Procedural Bye Laws 12.8, each candidate whose nomination is properly completed and received at the ECF office on or before Wednesday 13 September at 13:30 may supply to the office an election address not exceeding one sheet of A4 paper in size, printed black and white on one side only, which the Company shall at its own expense without amendment (save in respect of material judged by the Secretary to be defamatory) copy and circulate with the Agenda (for the Annual General Meeting). The election address must reach the office by no later than Wednesday 20 September at 13:30.

Please note that the following directors are not seeking re-election to their post(s);
International Director
Director of Home Chess
Director of Junior Chess & Education
Director of Marketing

The voluntary posts to be elected at the AGM on 21 October 2006 are:

President
Chief Executive
Director of Finance
A minimum of 2 Non-Executive Directors
Up to 4 Executive Directors

The FIDE delegate
The Chairman of the Finance Committee
Members of the Finance Committee
The Chairman of the Governance Committee
Members of the Governance Committee

Each candidate for a Post must be either:

(a) A retiring Director, FIDE Delegate or Chairman of a Standing Committee seeking re-election to the same Post; or

(b) A nominee of the Board for a Post; or

(c) A person proposed by any of the following full members:

(i) any Director;
(ii) the FIDE Delegate;
(iii) the Chairman of a Standing Committee;
(iv) any two Trustees;
(v) any Representative Member of a Constituent unit;
(vi) any two Representative Members of Counties;
(vii) any two Direct Members' Representatives;
(viii) any two of a Trustee, a Representative Member of a County and a Direct Members' Representative; or
(ix) any five Individual (not Direct) Members or Representative Members.

Brief job descriptions for these posts will be shown on the website www.englishchess.org.uk in downloadable form and available in hard copy form from the office from 25 July 2006. Job descriptions will be subject to review by the Board on 5 August 2006. Any proposed changes, together with a note of which incumbents will be seeking re-election, will be shown on the website in downloadable form from 14 August 2006, available in hard copy form from the office from that same date and will be sent to each earlier enquirer automatically.

To be eligible for election, nominations with the required level of support, must be received at the ECF Office, The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, Battle, East Sussex TN33 0YD no later than 13:30 on Wednesday 13 September 2006.

Managers and other officers are appointed by the Board and by individual Directors and are not subject to election by Council. However, this is an appropriate time for anyone interested in this type of work to indicate their interest to the Board through the ECF office.

Proposals to the AGM

It is open to full members as specified in (c) (i - ix) above to submit proposals to the AGM of ECF.
It is recommended that proposers should consult the Chairman of the Governance Committee to ensure that their proposed papers are in an appropriate format and are sound from a constitutional point of view. John Dunleavy may be contacted by e-mail at or by telephone at reasonable hours on 01548 857623.
For inclusion in the agenda for the AGM final papers must be received at the ECF Office, as above by 13.30 on Wednesday 13 September 2006.

Election of Direct Members' Representatives

For the purpose of electing the Direct Members' Representatives, Direct Members of ECF are grouped into the following four categories:

(a) Honorary Life Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Corporate Vice Presidents, Honorary Life Members and Life Members;

(b) Full Direct Members, Family Members, Veteran Members, Student Members, Special Members and Members with Disabilities;

(c) Standard Members and Junior Members;

(d) Basic Members and Basic Junior Members.

Each of these four categories may elect two Direct Members' Representatives. There are currently two vacancies in each of categories (a) and (d). The Representative Members for category (b), Messrs. William Armstrong and Peter B. Wilson have both indicated that they seek re-election. The Representative Members for category (c), John L Paines and Robert Gurney have both indicated that they seek re-election.

Nominations for representatives for all four categories are invited. Nominees must be members of the category concerned and must be nominated by one member of that same category. To be eligible for election, nominations must be received at the ECF Office, as above, by 13:30 on Thursday, 31 August 2006.

Should there be more than two nominations in any category a postal election will be conducted in September. All appointments made will be effective from the end of Council 21 October 2006.