Annual General Meeting (AGM)


Each year the Society holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM). We encourage eligible members to attend in person, or to vote by proxy if they’re unable to attend.

Before each AGM we send out a Notice of AGM to all members, normally with their annual statements in the first quarter of the year. We also put the Notice on our website so all members have access to it. The Notice is also published in two national newspapers.

Results of voting on all AGM resolutions are published on our website after the AGM.

2011 AGM

Our 2011 AGM took place at the Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells at 2.30pm on Tuesday 24 May 2011.

31 voting members attended the AGM and a further 509 members took part in a proxy vote by post. Votes cast this way carried the same weight as those cast by members who attended the meeting, enabling members who were unable to attend the AGM to be involved in deciding how our business is conducted.

AGM speeches

To download the Chairman's and Chief Executive's speeches please click on the links below.

Chairman's speech
PDF, 41KB (opens in a new window)

Chief Executive's speech
PDF, 29KB (opens in a new window)

AGM results

Click on the link below for the results of voting on resolutions at the meeting:

  Results of the 2011 AGM
  Results of the 2010 AGM
  Results of the 2009 AGM

  Report and Accounts

Who can vote on AGM Resolutions?

Only members aged 18 or over on the day of the AGM are eligible to vote on resolutions. 

You are a member if you have, in your own name (or jointly in your name and that of another person), a With-Profits or Unit-Linked savings plan, endowment, critical illness, sickness or income protection insurance policy. 

If you pay into, or look after, a With-Profits or Unit-Linked savings plan in the name of a child under age 18, then the child is a member.  They are entitled to attend the AGM, but as a minor are not eligible to vote.  You can also attend the AGM as a visitor, but you cannot vote on the child's behalf, either at the AGM or by proxy online or postal vote.