Coop AGM 2023
Join us for food, drink and a rare insight into the challenges and triumphs of our award-winning biodynamic farms. Celebrate with us the Autumn Equinox with good food, good friends and the desire to see honest, sustainable, local biodynamic farming preserved for the future of all.
Coop Shareholders and guests are welcome.
We promise the AGM is short and the queues for food even shorter. However, we hope your connection with our precious farms is a truly long and fruitful one. See you there!
The Challenges & Successes of
a Small Biodynamic Farm
Get Inspired:
Find out how our farms navigate the growing year with style, sweat, some tears, humour, laughter and tractor loads of courage!
We welcome both Coop shareholders and guests. You can attend the AGM if you are not a Coop Shareholder, but only Shareholders can vote.
You can become a shareholder and vote on the AGM day.* Bring your completed application form with you along with the full Share monies and give to the Secretary before the AGM commences.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE
The Directors of Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farm Ltd. cordially invite you to
the 2023 Coop AGM, to be held in person on
Saturday, 23rd September, 2023, 10:00am
at Old Plaw Hatch Farm, Plaw Hatch Lane, Sharpthorne, East Grinstead RH19 4JL
We are delighted to welcome our shareholders and friends of The Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farm Ltd., to our 2023 AGM.
You do not need to be a shareholder to attend the AGM, but only shareholders can vote.
The Coop AGM will be brief to be able to leave more time for our farms to present the theme of the day:
“The Challenges and Successes of a Small Biodynamic Farm”
We'd like to share with the community the very real challenges both farms face, including the impact of small abattoir closure, bird flu, TB, and the challenges of producing raw milk - and welcome your support and expertise in finding sustainable solutions.
Programme of the Day:
10:00am Pre-meeting Registration and Refreshments
10:30 Formal AGM
11:15 Farm presentation & Questions – Tablehurst Farm
12:0 Farm Presentation & Questions – Plaw Hatch Farm
1:00 Lunch
The meeting will be held in the workshop barns, opposite the cow yard. Parking will be signposted, but it would be great if you could ask for car sharing where possible. If you are shopping first, you will need to move your car to the AGM parking afterwards.
Downloads:
Complete Coop AGM pack (includes the Coop financial summary, submitted nomination forms, list of Directors and how to join us as a shareholder). You can download individual documents using the links below. Please note that you will be asked to approve the 2022 AGM Draft Minutes and the Coop Accounts, therefore, you are advised to download at least these documents from the below list:
Draft Minutes & Accounts of Coop AGM 2022 (Draft Minutes are for approval at the 2023 AGM)
Directors Standing for Election/Re-Election (please see AGM 2023 Pack for completed nomination forms)
Key Audit Findings (Kreston Reeves Auditors)
Share Application Form (this is a fillable pdf document)
Nomination Form (this is a fillable pdf document)
Coop Leflet (design ©️2023 Elle Fox)
AGM 2023 poster (design ©️ 2023 Kitty Needham)
For questions and clarifications, get in touch with The Society Secretary.
(*) This only applies to fully paid shares. Shares to be paid by instalments do not qualify for a vote until the full share value has been received.
