Navigation
Home
Management Comments
Club Constitution
Players AGM Minutes
Message Board
Players A_Z
Squad Profiles
First Team Results & Fixtures
Second Team Results & Fixtures
Squad News
League Tables
Player Awards
Picture Archive
Landmarks
Public Messages Links






    

Club Constitution

1. Name
The club shall be called Llanelli Radicals Football club (hereinafter called the Club)

2. Affiliation
The club shall be affiliated to the West Wales Football Association. This club will play all matches in the Carmarthenshire League.

3. Aims and Objectives.
3.1 The objectives of the Club shall be to provide for the promoting and furthering the interest of Association Football for all people, offering coaching and competitive opportunities for all age groups. With the use and benefit of all Club equipment as and when available in accordance with the clubs Health and Saftey policy.
3.2 The aims and objectives of the Club should be consistent with the furthering of equal opportunities for all groups in that sport.

4.Welfare Statement. The club recognises its responsibilities to safeguard the welfare of all children, young people and vunerable adults who are in membership of the club. The club will aim to provide good quality football in a safe environment by adopting the procedures and working practices of the Football Association of Wales. 5. Membership.
5.1 Membership shall consist of the officers and the members.
5.2 Adult membership of the Club shall be open, and not unreasonably restrictive on the grounds of sex, race, religious or other opinions, to any person in the area who is prepared to accept and support the objectives of the Club. However junior membership is restricted to selection as a signed-on playing member of the Club by the management of each particular age group.
5.3 In accepting membership, a person agrees to abide by the constitution of the Club and the rulings of the Clubs General Committee.
5.4 Playing members of under 16 age groups shall be considered to be junior members.
5.5 Junior members shall not have the right to vote at General and Extra-ordinary General Meetings. 5.6 All members are also required to abide by the appropriate FAW football code of conduct.

6. Membership Fees.
6.1 The Clubs General Committee shall stipulate membership fees, which are reviewed annually.
6.2 Joining fees. This is an annual fee of £10 payable by all senior-playing members.
6.3 Players’ subscriptions at match day’s subscriptions are required for all players at all age groups.
6.4 All fines imposed on players by the governing bodies within the sport will have to be paid by the member concerned.
6.5 The Club’s Management Committee may decide upon other charges or subscriptions at its discretion.

7. Officers
7.1 The officers of the Club will all hold Honorary positions annually, and shall be:
The Chairman, General Secretary, and Treasurer, Vice Treasurer and other committee members.
7.2 The General Committee shall appoint its Officers at the first General Committee meeting following the Club’s Annual General Meeting.
7.3 Any casual vacancy or co-option found necessary may be filled at the discretion of the General Committee.

8. The General Committee.
8.1 The management of the Club shall be vested in the General Committee (hereinafter called the Committee).
8.2 The General Committee shall act for the membership. Liabilities incurred shall fall upon the membership (provided the act in accordance with the constitution, in honesty and good faith).
8.3 The Committee shall comprise of at least one member from each age group’s team. One person to be nominated at Team Manager/Coach.
8.4 The Club’s Chairman shall convene meeting of the General Committee and the Committee shall meet once a month.
8.5 The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at General Committee meetings shall be five present and eligible to vote.
8.6 Every proposal at a meeting of the General Committee shall be determined by a majority of the vote of the members present and voting, every member having one vote. In the event of an equality of votes, the Chair of the meeting shall have the casting vote.

9. Finance.
9.1 All the monies raised by, or on behalf of, the Club shall be applies to further the objects of the Club and for no the purpose.
9.2 The Club Treasurer is responsible for the finances of the Club.
9.3 The financial year of the Club ends on the 30th June, each year.
9.4 Proper accounts shall be kept of all sums of money received and paid out by the Club.
9.5 A statement of accounts, up to and including this date, shall be presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Club.
9.6 The funds of the Club shall be lodged at a bank or building society in an account in the name of the Club and all cheques, drafts etc drawn on these accounts shall be signed by the Treasurer and Vice Treasurer.

10. Annual General Meeting and other meetings.
10.1 The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Club shall be held every year during the month of July, when the annual report of the General Committee and the statement of accounts up to the end of the financial year shall be presented.
10.2 Not less than fourteen days notice of the date of the AGM shall be given to all members by the Secretary.
10.3 The AGM shall elect such Committee members as it may from time to time determine.
10.4 The dates of the Annual General Meeting and the General Committee meetings shall be determined at the previous meeting. In addition, the Chair may call a meeting when he considers it necessary or desirable, or upon the written request of at least four members of the General Committee.
10.5 All members shall be entitles to vote at the AGM of the Club and shall have equal voting rights.

11. Voting Procedures.
11.2 Each adult member shall be entitled to one vote.
11.2 A motion shall be carried by a simple majority of those present empowered to vote, except when the motions is a constitutional amendment which shall require a two-thirds majority (see rule 14).
11.3 The Chair shall have a casting vote in addition to a deliberative vote.

12. Discipline and Appeals.
12.1 The General Committee shall have the power to take appropriate disciplinary action against any member and shall have the authority to terminate the membership of any member guilty of conduct deemed to be to the detriment of the Club.
12.2 There shall be the right of appeal to the General Committee, or an Appeal Committee set up by it to action on its behalf, against any decision made by the General Committee.

13. Dissolution Procedures.
13.1 In the event of the Club ceasing to exist, and following the discharge of all debts and liabilities, and assets at the time of dissolution shall become the property of the West Wales Football Association Benevolent Fund. No member shall obtain and asset from the Club.
13.2 The Club may be wound up on a resolution of the Committee. At least fourteen days notice of the meeting shall have been sent to all members of the Club.
13.3 In the event of the passing of the resolution to wind up the Club, the members of the Club shall appoint a representative committee which shall empowered to distribute the asset, excluding cash and investments in hand, to Clubs having similar objectives as their own.

14. Review of the Constitution.
14.1 This constitution shall be reviewed on a tri-annual (basis frequency for review).
14.2 Any alterations to the constitution shall require a two-thirds majority of committee present and eligible to vote.
14.3 In the event of any question or matter arising which is not provided in the constitution, the General Committee, whose decision shall be final, shall deal with such question or matter.


 
Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1