Karate For Health Club Constitution
Club Constitution 22 January 2006
Karate For Health
Submitted to the Jin Sei Kai Shotokan Karate Association
Club Constitution 22 January 2006
1. This document records the agreement of the signatories in establishing, promoting and fostering a members' not for profit club under the name Karate For Health ("Club").
2. The Club submits itself to the Jin Sei Kai Shotokan Karate Association ("Association") and to the rules and governance of the Association.
3. The Club's principal purpose is to organise and deliver in Harpenden, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead classes and training in traditional Shotokan Karate following Shihan Hirokazu Kanazawa's teachings as interpreted by the Association and its Chief Instructor Hanshi Paul Perry ("Jin Sei Kai Karate") and to organise events and sponsor initiatives related to either that purpose or the collective interests of the Club's members.
4. The Club is funded through voluntary donations from members and third parties. The Club is not for profit and does not engage in commercial enterprise. Nothing in this document creates or can be deemed to create a partnership or mutual organisation or association or commercial enterprise as between the Club's members or any of them. Equally, since members who are Club Instructors personally arrange and finance suitable Dojo space for classes at their own risk, nothing in this document precludes or can be deemed to preclude any such Club Instructor receiving class subscriptions from members and others and making a personal profit in so doing. However, the Club's aim is not to make profit and so any profit actually made by the Club (as opposed to profit made by Club Instructors as individuals) shall be available for those purposes which the Club Committee shall determine to be in the interests of the Club and/or the Club's members.
5. In their classes and training in Jin Sei Kai Karate, Club members aim to:
(1) concentrate on health and fitness
(2) build strength, balance, co-ordination and flexibility
(3) learn appropriate self-defence techniques
(4) experience aerobic exercise
(5) raise the metabolism
(6) release stress
(7) encourage emotional well-being and hormonal balance
(8) engender focus, calm, and peace for improved performance at work, at place of study and in the home
(9) promote fun, friendship and mutual respect
6. The Club's Chairman is elected by the members, holds office for a period of five years from the date of appointment to that post, and is eligible for re-appointment at any time and for any period or periods thereafter. Only a member of the Club is eligible to be Chairman. The Chairman at the date of this document (who is deemed to have been elected by the members to hold office for an initial period of five years from that date) is the person designated as such in the Appendix.
7. The Chairman shall approve (or reject) any application by an individual to become a member of the Club. The members of the Club at the date of this document (who are deemed to have been approved as members by the Chairman) are those individuals designated as such in the Appendix. Only individuals who are members of the Association are eligible to be members of the Club. Accordingly, any member who ceases to be a member of the Association is deemed to have automatically ceased to be a member of the Club. The Chairman shall approve (or reject) any proposal for an individual to be appointed as an honorary member of the Club, and may remove at any time any honorary membership accorded to an individual. Any honorary member of the Club shall (in that capacity) be neither a member nor an officer (nor shall he/she have any authority in relation to the affairs) of the Club, but shall be entitled to attend (but not to address or vote at) General Meetings.
8. The Club Secretary shall maintain a register of members of the Club and shall make that register available to members of the Club and to officials of the Association.
9. The Chairman has responsibility to convene and chair any Annual General Meeting of Club members and to determine an appropriate agenda of business for any such meeting. At least 21 days' written notice of any such meeting and of any resolution to be put to that meeting shall be given to all members.
10. The Chairman may at any time and upon receiving a written requisition to do so from at least one-half of the Club's members shall (within 14 days) proceed to convene a Special General Meeting of Club members. The Chairman shall determine an appropriate agenda of business for any such meeting but shall subsume within any such agenda any business matter specified by members in any requisition received from them. At least 21 days' written notice of any such meeting and of any resolution to be put to that meeting shall be given to all members.
11. The Chairman may by written determination (having procured the concurrence of not less than one-half by number of members) withdraw the Club membership of any individual member at any time without compensation or explanation.
12. Club members may by resolution of not less than three-quarters by number of members present at any Special General Meeting withdraw the Club membership of any individual at any time without compensation or explanation.
13. Club members may upon the recommendation of the Chairman and by resolution of a majority of them present at any General Meeting appoint or remove as Honorary President of the Club any person. Any Honorary President of the Club shall (in that capacity) be neither a member nor an officer (nor shall he/she have any authority in relation to the affairs) of the Club, but shall be entitled to attend and address (but not to vote at) General Meetings.
14. The Club may establish, maintain and/or close a bank account or bank accounts to enable donations to be received and appropriate payments to be made. The authorised signatories to any such account shall be any one or all of the Chairman, the Chief Executive, the Operations Director and any member of the Club Committee designated by formal resolution of the Club Committee to be a signatory. The Chief Executive (or, failing him/her, the Chairman) shall be responsible for managing the Club’s bank account(s); corresponding and communicating with, receiving statements from and delivering instructions to the relevant bank(s); providing the bank(s) with details of any changes in respect of authorised signatories; and otherwise operating the Club’s bank account(s) in order to give effect to this Constitution.
15. The Chairman may at any time appoint to hold or remove from office any Club member as:
(1) a Club Instructor or Club Assistant Instructor
(2) the Chief Executive (provided he/she is also a Club Instructor)
(3) the Operations Director (provided he/she is also a Club Instructor)
(4) the Club Secretary (who shall not become a member of the Club vy virtue of that office)
(5) the Club Public Relations Officer (who shall not become a member of the Club by virtue of that office)
(6) a member of the Club Committee (which Committee automatically includes the Chairman and any Club Instructor)
16. The Chairman determines the role and responsibilities of any Club officer (including himself/herself), the purpose and remit of the Club Committee and how this Constitution should properly be interpreted and given effect.
17. The address of the Club shall be the home address of the Chief Executive or, if the Club has no Chief Executive, the home address of the Chairman. To protect the privacy of the Chief Executive/Chairman, the address of the Club shall not be made public but shall be notified (upon written request, to the Chairman or the Chief Executive, by the person seeking notification) to the police, HM Revenue and Customs, the Club’s bank(s) and any relevant UK Government department, regulator or authority.
18. All members of the Club in accepting membership of the Club are deemed to have submitted themselves to and to have agreed to abide by the terms of this Constitution.
Signatories:
Stuart Vousden (Club Instructor)
Vince Wilcox (Club Instructor)
Darren Bennett (Club Instructor)
Appendix
At the date of this document:
the Chairman of the Club is Stuart Vousden (Club Instructor)
the members of the Club are:
- Stuart Vousden (Club Instructor)
- Vince Wilcox (Club Instructor)
- Michelle Garner (Club Instructor)
- Darren Bennett (Club Instructor)
- Jason Bennett (Club Instructor)
- Janet Sleigh (Club Instructor)
- Andrew Vousden (Club Instructor)