constitution
- The Club shall be designated and known as “The Sauchie and Bannockburn Curling Club” and being affiliated with the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, shall adhere to the rules as appearing in the latest published Annual of the Royal Club, except insofar as the following Rules shall apply.
- The club is an open membership club based at the Peak Ice Rink in Stirling where most of its curling takes place. It has a mixed membership of local people of all ages around Stirling and is run by volunteers. It enables local people to try curling as a sport and offer coaching and competition as a way of participating in the sport of curling. It will undertake other activities incidental or conducive to the furtherance of these objectives.
- The Club is committed to encouraging the highest ethical standards. All individuals involved in the Club should conduct themselves with integrity, transparency, accountability and in a fair and equitable manner as specified in the Club’s Code of Conduct.
- The membership shall consist of Ordinary Members and such Honorary Members as may from time to time be elected by the Ordinary Members. Honorary Members so elected shall have no financial responsibility and shall not be entitled to vote or take part in the management of the Club’s affairs.
- The business and affairs of the Club shall be conducted and managed by a Committee of Management consisting of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Match Secretary and Development Officer and a maximum of three other members of the Club who shall be elected for not less than one year by the members at the Annual General Meeting. Two of the elected members of the Committee shall also retire annually in rotation and shall not be eligible for re-election until one year has passed.
- All Committee members must be members of the Club.
- If the post of any officer or ordinary committee member should fall vacant after such an election, the Committee of Management shall have the power to fill the vacancy until the succeeding Annual General Meeting.
- The Committee of Management shall hold meetings as and when the business of the Club may require, five members thereof shall form a quorum.
- The Committee of Management shall have full power to deal with all matters relating to the Club not reserved to a General Meeting in terms of this Constitution, including power to make public and enforce such byelaws as the Committee feel necessary to govern the activities of the Club [including bye-laws relating to discipline].
- The Secretary shall record in a minute Book minutes of all meetings and transact any business in connection with the duties of Secretary.
- The Treasurer shall keep correct accounts and books showing the financial affairs and intromissions of the Club, which shall be audited annually by a member of the Club, not being a member of the Committee and submitted to the members at the Annual General Meeting. The financial year shall run from May to April each year. The Auditor shall be an appropriate independent person elected annually at the Annual General Meeting.
- The Annual General Meeting of the Club shall be held each year and on such date and such place as the Committee of Management shall decide. The meeting shall be called by circular for the purposes of electing Office-Bearers and Members of Committee and transacting any other competent business. A Special General Meeting of the Club may be called by the Committee of Management for any special purpose, or upon a requisition to that effect addressed to the Secretary and signed by eight members, and shall be held no later than ten days thereafter. The requisition, as well as the notice of the meeting, shall specify the business to be considered, and it shall not be competent to discuss or deal with any business other than that specified in such requisition and notice. At all General Meetings of the club, eleven members shall form a quorum. Each member attending an Annual General Meeting or a Special General Meeting will be entitled to one vote.
- The Committee of Management shall designate skips for all competitions to be held the following season. These members will be notified at the Annual General Meeting.
- Any person seeking to join the Club shall submit an application to the Secretary of the Club to be presented to the Committee of Management for admission. Membership is open to all and no application for membership will be refused on other than reasonable grounds. There will be no discrimination on grounds of race, occupation, sex or religious, political or other opinion. If there is a refusal, the reasons for it shall be notified to the applicant from the Secretary. They will then have the right to appeal the decision by reply to the Secretary.
- All members joining the Club shall be deemed to accept the terms of this Constitution and any Bye-laws from time to time adopted by the Club, in particular without prejudice to the foregoing generality, the requirement to conduct themselves in accordance with the Club's ethical framework and the bye-laws as to discipline set out therein.
- The annual subscription and payments for ice fees shall be fixed at the Annual General Meeting of the Club. Members failing to pay their annual subscription and first ice fees before 1st December in each year may be disqualified from playing the Club Competitions or Matches; and if still in arrears at the date of the Annual General Meeting, their names may be deleted from the Roll of Members.
- The President, or in his absence, the Vice-President, shall preside at all meetings of the Club and Committee, and if both are absent the members present shall appoint one of themselves to act as Chairman pro tempore and the Preses at any such meeting shall have a deliberative as well as a casting vote in cases of equality.
- The foregoing rules shall not be altered or amended except at the Annual General Meeting of the Club, and notice of any proposed alteration or amendment must be lodged with the Secretary in writing at least fourteen days before the date of the meeting. All proposals for changes to the Constitution shall be signed by two members eligible to vote at a General Meeting.
- Any change to the Constitution shall require a two thirds’ majority of those present, eligible to vote and voting at a General Meeting.
- The Club is a non-profit making organisation. All profits and surpluses will be used to maintain or improve or develop the members or to carry out the objects of the Association to which it is affiliated. No profit or surplus will be distributed other than to another non-profit making body on a winding-up or dissolution of the Club.
- If, upon the winding up or dissolution of the Club there remains after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities any property whatsoever, the same shall be transferred to some other organisation or organisations having objects similar to the objects of the Club, such organisation or organisations to be determined by the members of the Club by Resolution passed at a General meeting or in the absence of such a resolution (or that the extent to which it cannot be given effect) to the Association to which the Club is affiliated.