Your invitation to the 2025 Members' Day!

This year’s Members’ Day will be held on Saturday 22nd November at the Trinity Methodist Church on Royland Road, Loughborough. This is a wonderful venue with plenty of free parking close by.

Order of the day

Starting in mid-morning, we’ll hear from our guest speaker Dr Rob Stoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery at The Wildlife Trusts, while LRWT staff will tell us about recent developments in the Trust’s work.

The day will include the Trust’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), which as usual will cover the Annual Report of the Trustees, and the Honorary Treasurer’s report on the financial statements. This year there will also be a short Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will take place immediately before the AGM. At the EGM we will be asking the membership to approve a new set of Articles of Association for the Trust.

All details of the AGM and EGM and the supporting papers will be circulated from the end of October.

As well as brief refreshments in the morning, we will provide sandwiches and snacks at lunchtime. This will give members, staff and Trustees more time to mingle and talk, as well as a chance to catch up on the details of our current work, which will be set out on display tables around the venue. The event will finish around mid-a ernoon.

For those unable to a end in person, the meeting will be streamed online. It won’t be possible to vote online, but members who can’t be there will be able to vote by proxy.

Get ready

Please see the separate formal invitation le er which accompanies this issue of Wild. Proxy forms and all relevant documents will be available to download prior to the event. If you do not have access to the internet, the le er tells you how to obtain these. The le er also sets out your options for receiving this year’s Annual Review.

Trustees and staff thoroughly enjoyed meeting members at last year’s Members’ Day, and we very much hope that you will be able to join us, either in person or online, on 22nd November.

Don’t delay! This is expected to be a very popular event and as spaces are limited, please be sure to book early!