At 00:06 +0000 29/11/08, Andrew Turvey wrote:
[...] When we were drafting the constitution, we adopted the standard Articles for charities, which give the Board fairly broad powers to refuse (or remove) membership if they consider this in the best interests of the charity. This is subject to a due process that the Board must follow and a right of appeal to the AGM, which the Board decided to beef up from the standard rules.[...]
It is for such concerns that I have suggested a limit on guarantor members, say to 75 or 100 people, all reviewed by the board, and open membership for the "Friends of WMUK 2.0" with no review.
Gordon