Final Notice of the 2025 Annual General Meeting

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

BARROW INDEPENDENT SUPPORTERS’ SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered under THE CO-OPERATIVE AND COMMUNITY BENEFIT SOCIETIES ACT 2014 number 32452 R

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of the Barrow Independent Supporters Society Limited (the “Society”) will be held at the Crossbar, SO Legal Stadium, Wilkie Road, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, LA14 5UW, on Saturday 8th November 2025 at 12.00pm to consider, discuss and if thought fit, pass, the following resolutions or transact the following business:

1. 
   To confirm the minutes of Society’s 2024 AGM dated 9th November 2024 (available prior to the meeting at https://bluebirdstrust.co.uk/documents/).
2. To receive the Chairman’s full year report on the activities of the Society since the last AGM . (Available prior to the meeting at https://bluebirdstrust.co.uk/documents/)
3. To receive and adopt the Society’s accounts for the year ending 31 May 2024. 

(Available prior to the meeting at https://bluebirdstrust.co.uk/documents/)                    

4. That, in accordance with section 84 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, the Society be authorised not to undertake a full professional audit of the accounts for the period ending 31 May 2026.
5. To confirm the re-appointment of Winders Chartered Accountants as the Society’s Independent Examiner.
6. To agree that surplus funds shall be used for a) maintenance of prudent reserves and b) in progressing the stated aims and purposes of the Society, until the next AGM. 
7. To re-elect Mr Steven Belcher as a Director of the Society. 
8. To re-elect Mr Sean Metcalfe as a Director of the Society.
9. To re-elect Mr Andrew Monks as a Director of the Society. 
10. To re-elect Mr Frazer Stewart as Trust Board Representative
11. To transact any other business.

By Order of the Society Board

A Wright 

Secretary 

Notes: Any member entitled to vote at the AGM may appoint a proxy to attend, speak and vote instead of him/her. The proxy must attend the meeting in order to represent a member but need not be a member himself. A proxy could be the Chairman or any Director of the Society . A member who wishes to appoint a proxy, should complete the Proxy form enclosed and return it by post or email to the Membership Secretary, c/o 5 Aycliffe Drive, Chorley PR7 7GD  ; email to admin@bluebirdstrust.co.uk on or before midday on 7th November 2025.

Candidate statements:

Steve Belcher

 I would like to re-stand as a member of the Bluebirds Trust board of directors.

The reasons being, I think I do a good job taking all the bookings for away travel on the buses and transferring them to spreadsheets to enable us to gauge the feasibility of the buses running or not. I also run a lot of the buses as the organiser, ensuring the buses run smoothly, on time and without trouble, taking entries for the half time raffle and organising a collection for the driver.

I also post all the information for the Bluebirds Trust on Social Media, without this I don’t think it would be possible for the buses or the half time raffle to run as smoothly as they do.

I do a lot of work remotely on my laptop, tablet and phone liaising with the other board members to help keep the Bluebirds Trust run as well as it does

Yours in Sport

Steven Belcher.

Sean Metcalfe – No supporting statement received

Andrew Monks – No supporting statement received

FORM OF PROXY 

FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (“AGM”) OF THE BARROW AFC INDEPENDENT SUPPORTERS’ SOCIETY LIMITED (the “Bluebirds Trust”)

1. I………………………………………………[insert full name], being a member of the Society, ………………[Membership number           insert membership number, if known] 

HEREBY APPOINT…………………………………………………….[insert name] or , failing such appointment, the Chair of the AGM as my proxy to attend and vote at the AGM.

2. My proxy shall vote as he or she thinks fit on the resolutions to be put to the AGM as set out in the Notice of AGM unless I have given instructions in the following paragraph 3 as to the way he or she is to vote.

3.

…………………………………..(Signature)

……………………………………(Address)

…………………………………..(e-mail)

…………………………………….(contact telephone)

NOTES

1. To be valid this form of Proxy must be :

(i)  completed, signed and deposited, whether by hand, post or courier, to The Membership Secretary c/o 5,  Aycliffe Drive, Buckshaw Village ,Chorley PR7 7GD ; or 

(ii) Completed signed and submitted by e-mail to admin@bluebirdstrust.co.uk ,

in either case no later than Noon on 7th November 2025.

2. No person, other than the Chair of the Meeting, can act as proxy for more than 3 members.
3. If no name is specified in the proxy, the Chair will be the duly appointed proxy for the member.
4. A member who has lodged a proxy may still attend and vote at the AGM but must inform the Secretary in advance of any vote, so that the proxy may be discounted.