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.

This year’s AGM will take place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at 11.00am at the Prince Albert Suite, London Zoo, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY.

Members who are eligible to vote should receive their notification by the end of March. If you haven’t received yours by then, please email us at mail@thechildrensmutual.co.uk or call 0845 600 2685.

2009 AGM at London Zoo

Our 2009 AGM took place at London Zoo in the Prince Albert Suite at 11.30am on Saturday 9 May 2009. At the same time over 3,500 members and their families joined us for our Family Day at the Zoo.

44 voting members attended the AGM and a further 570 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 results

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

  Results of the 2009 AGM
  Results of the 2008 AGM

AGM speeches

To view summaries of the speeches by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer and key points from the Report and Accounts 2008 by the Chief Operating Officer, please click on the links below:

Address by the Chairman
PDF, 108KB (opens a new window)

Address by the Chief Executive Officer
PDF, 122KB (opens a new window)

Key points from the Report and Accounts 2008
PDF, 119KB (opens a new window)

  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.