Annual General Meetings and Annual Reports

Friends of Grasslands holds an annual general meeting each year in accordance with its Constitution. Relevant papers from recent meetings are included here.

2024 AGM will be on Wednesday 20 March 2024, 5.30 for a 6pm start at the Conservation Council Offices, Unit 14/26 Barry Drive, Ground Floor, Lena Karmel Lodge, Canberra City.

• Notice of meeting (pdf, 0.2MB), draft @ 18 Feb
• Agenda (pdf, 0.1MB) (revised 18 March)
• 2023 AGM draft minutes (pdf 0.2MB)
• 2023 Annual Report (pdf, 4MB)
• Nomination for life membership (pdf, 0.2MB)
• Notice of Special Resolution re revised FOG Constitution (pdf 0.2MB)
• proposed Constitution - explanation (pdf, 0.9MB)
• proposed Constitution - clean copy (pdf, 1.2MB), proposed Constitution track changes (pdf, 1.3MB)
• Committee nomination form (pdf, 0.2MB); Word version of nomination form (0.1MB)
• Committee voting procedure (pdf, 0.2MB)

• Nominations (pdf, 11MB) have been received for the FOG Committee:

  • President:  (Jamie Pittock) (individual nomination files are ~1MB pdfs)

  • Vice-President (2 positions): (Sarah Sharp) (1 vacancy)

  • Treasurer: David Johnson

  • Secretary: Helen Sims

  • Ordinary Members (11 positions):

  • Emily Sutcliffe

  • Fay Wareham

  • Hugh Coppell

  • Julia Raine

  • Margaret Ning

  • Matt Whitting

  • Rainer Rehwinkel

  • Trevor Preston
  Further nominations for any of the positions may be made from the floor at the AGM provided the nominee is present and can be nominated and seconded.

2023 Agenda and papers (pdf, 0.2MB); 2022 Annual Report (pdf, 3.5MB); 2023 notice of meeting (pdf, 0.2MB); 2023 nomination form (.doc) (0.1MB); 2023 nomination form (pdf) (0.1MB); committee voting procedure (pdf, 0.2MB);  nominations received; 2022 AGM draft minutes (pdf, 0.1MB); Auditor's Report 31 December 1922 (pdf, 0.2MB); Treasurer's Report to Committee 2022 (pdf, 0.1MB); General Account - Balance Sheet 2022 (pdf, 0.1MB); Public Fund Accounts - Income & Expenditure and Balance Sheet (pdf, 0.1MB)

2022 notice of meeting (pdf, 0.3MB); 2022 AGM papers (pdf, 0.2MB); 2021 draft annual report (pdf, 1MB); 2021 auditors report (pdf, 0.2MB); balance sheet (pdf, 0.1MB); income and expenditure (pdf, 0.1MB), public fund accounts (pdf, 0.1MB); general account balance sheet 31 Dec 2021 (0.05MB)

2021 AGM papers (pdf 0.2MB);  2020 annual report (pdf, 5MB);  2021 auditors report (pdf 1.3MB)

2020 revised AGM papers for rescheduled AGM (pdf, 0.2MB, includes agenda, president's report; 2019 AGM draft minutes); original 2020 AGM papers (pdf, 0.3MB; includes agenda, president's report; 2019 AGM draft minutes); 2019 audited accounts (pdf, 1MB); 2019 annual report (pdf, 10MB)

2019 AGM notice of meeting (pdf, 0.1MB); 2018 annual report (pdf, 9MB), 2019 AGM papers (agenda, auditors report, financial statements, draft 2018 minutes: pdf, 3.6MB)

2018 AGM notice of meeting and agenda (pdf, 0.1MB), 2017 annual report (pdf 2MB)

2017 AGM agenda (pdf, 0.3MB), 2016 annual report, 2017 AGM draft minutes, statement on award of life memberships (pdf, 0.1MB)

2016 notice of meeting, 2015 annual report (pdf file, 0.6MB), 2016 AGM minutes

2015 notice of meeting (pdf, 0.2MB), 2014 annual report, 2015 AGM draft minutes

2014 notice of meeting (pdf, 0.1MB), 2013 annual report, 2014 AGM minutes

2013 AGM minutes

Reports for earlier years were published in the FoG newsletter (sometimes under the heading President's report).