NOTE: In the context of the pandemic, the regular club meetings have been temporarily suspended

Meetings

The Club holds regular meetings on the first Thursday of every month.

General meetings provide a platform  for:

• open debates on the current and planned activities of the Club and allocation of individual tasks

• debates and brainstorming on various business topics

• voting on various important issues

• socialising

Each meeting’s discussions are conducted following an agenda which is circulated at least two days prior to the meeting. The discussions are coordinated by a meeting sponsor (usually a different person for each meeting); the meeting sponsor is responsible for coordinating and compiling the agenda. A minute is produced for every meeting by the meeting secretary; the meeting secretary will be the sponsor at the following meeting.

Voting procedure: open vote and a simple majority.

New Members

RBCuk is happy to welcome as a member, any person that adheres to its principles and operating rules and can contribute effectively  to fulfilling its objectives

New members are admitted under the following procedures:

• any proposal should come from an ordinary member and be seconded by another ordinary member; the two ordinary members endorsing a candidate should be in a position to guarantee for his/ her credentials

• proposals can only be made at the Club’s meetings

• a brief career/ education summary background of the candidate has to be circulated to all existing ordinary members

• the decision to accept a new member can be taken on a “no objection” basis.

Management

To date, the Club has no formal management.

Interim coordination of the Club’s activities has been provided on an informal basis by the founding members.

It is envisaged that, in the medium term, the Club will hold elections for various positions within an Executive Committee in accordance with the Club’s deeds of incorporation.

Generally, for every event in which RBCuk is involved, a small task force will be selected on a voluntary basis to coordinate the Club’s event-related actions.

General Rules

The decision to involve RBCuk in any activity or associate its name with any event can only be taken after a formal vote of ordinary members.

Internal documents of the Club are not to be distributed without the prior consent of the members of the Executive Committee.

Business debates, analyses and comments

The members of the Club debate monthly, as part of the regular meeting one business topic of interest to as many members as possible.

On various occasions, the Club’s members provide informal opinions or qualitative analyses of various projects, events and situations

The opinions expressed in these analyses do not represent in any way an attempt to influence in any sense decision-making processes of any third party; the opinions reflect various points of view of Club members and are largely intellectual exercises without an explicit purpose.