AGM2025

Date & Time: Tuesday 22 July 2024, 18:45
Venue: Woolwich Works, SE18 6HD

We invite you to your Residents’ Association AGM

How you can support:

  • Join us on Tuesday 22nd we have lots of things to tell you including progress on recognition of WARA, security, maintenance & meeting with MPs
  • Become a committee member
  • Support our campaigns
  • Help fund us to pay for rooms, printing, IT etc going forward.   You can donate at https://gofund.me/114f020b 
  • Spread the word

We hope you can do one/some/all of the above.

See you on Tuesday July 22nd 18:45 at Woolwich Works

Looking to be a new Committee member?

At the Annual General Meeting on July 22nd we will be electing our new Committee. 

To nominate yourself or another, please use our Contact Us page (Option: I want to be involved with WARA activities), confirm that you wish to nominate yourself or any other person, and provide the information below:  (The closing date is 15 July 2025, one week before the AGM).

  1. Name
  2. Email Address
  3. Building Name (and Phase if you know it).
  4. Your status: either a Leaseholder (Private/Housing Association) or a Tenant (Private/Housing Association).

As a Committee member, you need to be able to commit to circa 8-10 hours a month on average including attending the Committee and your subcommittee meetings – held on alternate months. All skills are useful, including but not limited to IT, Accounting,, Organisation, Administration, Legal, Enthusiasm and Desire to Help

Working Groups

We have three sub-committees:

  • Service Charge,
  • Security,
  • Maintenance.  

AGENDA

WOOLWICH ARSENAL RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

Annual General Meeting, July 22nd, 6.45 pm, Woolwich Works

1. To approve the Minutes of the AGM held on July 18th 2024.

2. To approve the following change to the Constitution and to adopt it for the elections to be held at this meeting

Remove

“Leaseholders from each Phase will be invited to meet, in person or online, before the AGM.  Nominations may be received before or at this Phase meeting.  If the person nominated is not in attendance they must have indicated their willingness to stand.  If at the meeting there are four nominations, these will be considered elected”.  

Insert 

“Leaseholders will be invited to nominate themselves or, having previously gained their consent, other leaseholders from their Phase to be elected to the Committee.  If by a closing date one week before the AGM there are up to four nominations, these will be considered elected.  If there are more than four nominations, members of that Phase attending the AGM may elect four of them.  If there are less than four nominations, members of that Phase may agree at the AGM to receive further nominations for election at the meeting.”  

3. Election of 2025/26 Committee

Note:

1. The meeting may receive one additional nomination from the floor for WARMC and two for Cannon Square.   

2. It must decide whether to ask the Waterfront residents present to elect four of their six nominations or to co-opt two of them in a non-voting capacity.  

3. Membership of the three sub-committees (Service Charge, Security, Maintenance) is not restricted to elected Committee members

4. Election of 2025/26 Officers from those elected to the Committee

  • Chair:
  • Vice-Chair:          
  • Treasurer:
  • Secretary (who need not be an elected Committee member): 

5. Reports from the Working Groups

  • Service Charge
  • Security
  • Maintenance

6. Recognition BY BERKELEY HOMES

Progress Report

7. Resolutions

WELLINGTON PARK

That the proposed construction of Heat Pumps for the benefit of Ropeyards and Armourers Court should be incorporated within those developments or on adjacent land and not by reducing even further the “green space” enjoyed by existing residents

FUNDING

That if Berkeley Homes and/or Rendall & Rittner were to offer any funding to WARA, this should be accepted subject to the Committee being assured that it would not compromise WARA’s independence and freedom to act

PUBLIC SERVICES

To ask the Royal Brough of Greenwich, following their approval of the Ropeyards and Armourers Court planning applications, and the completion of the two student blocks, what impact assessment has been carried out concerning public services and in particular the provision of primary health care

Michael Doe
Secretary, WARA