Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Branch
Annual General Meeting 15th May 2013
Leeds Metropolitan University, Room 222, Northern
Terrace, Leeds LS2 8AJ
Minutes of the proceedings of the Annual General Meeting of the Yorkshire and North
Lincolnshire Branch of the Association for Project Management held at Leeds Metropolitan
University City Square, Leeds on 15th May 2013. The meeting was chaired by Philip Smelt
the Chairman of the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Branch. Minutes of the meeting were
recorded by David Pearce Committee Member. A head count was taken and there were 19
full members present rendering the meeting quorate.
1. Apologies
Ed Wallington, Jayne Thomas, David Burton
2. Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held at Leeds Metropolitan University City
Square, Leeds on 15th May 2012 were previosly distributed. It was proposed, seconded
and carried unanimously by votes of those members present that the Chairman sign
these minutes as a true record of the proceedings. The Chairman duly signed the
minutes.
3. Reports from the branch officers
3.1 Chairman's report:
The Chairman, Philip Smelt, submitted his report on the activities of the Yorkshire &
North Lincolnshire Branch during the previous year.
A copy of the Chairman's report is appended to these minutes.
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4. Election of Committee Members
Nominations for branch officers were received from the following members of the
Association
Philip Smelt
Sarah Charlesworth
Ken Platts
Sarah Wilson
Jan Stevenson
David Pearce
Innocent Ebulu
Nigel Ibbotson
All were elected unopposed for the year 2013/14
5. Any other business
No comments or suggestions were received from the floor
6. Next committee meeting
The next committee meeting (emergency) will be held at Leeds Metropolitan University
City Square, Leeds on 15th May 2013 at 8:10pm
David Pearce
Committee Member
Signed
Philip Smelt, Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire branch chairman
Date
23/06/2014
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YORKSHIRE AND NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE BRANCH APM
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT – PHILIP SMELT 15/05/13
2012/ 2013 has seen out my fifth year as Branch Chairman, and once again I must
thank the Branch Committee for their support.
They are:
Treasurer: Sarah Martin
Secretary: Jayne Thomas
Corporate Representative: Sarah Wilson
Events Coordinator: Jan Stevenson
Web Champion: Dr Ed Wallington
HEI Representative: Ken Platts
Committee Member & Branch Steering Group Representative: David Burton
Committee Members: Charlie McArdle, Innocent Ebulu and David Pearce
Unfortunately due to changing work commitments and postings around the UK we
have to save goodbye to David Burton, Charlie McArdle, Ed Wallington and Jayne
Thomas.
Despite the continuing hard economic time as a branch we continue to increase our
membership to approaching 1100 members.
The Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire Branch as with all other APM regions is made up
from volunteers and has based much of its activities around the delivery of quality
events.
Throughout the past year, we have delivered a varied calendar of 9 events ranging
from the business case for the Northern Hub to fundamental discussions on project
requirements.
Whilst we have had similar attendance figures to last year, I would urge you all to get
the most out of your membership and come along more often – also why not
persuade your colleagues to attend?
As always our events link back to the APM’s Body of Knowledge, now on its sixth
edition and have been geared around supporting the APM’s Competence
Framework and our members’ Continuing Professional Development; the main aim
of which has been the promotion of project management as a profession worthy of
Chartership. The Register of Project Professionals now has 13 members listed from
the Y&NL branch.
We have continued to develop our collaborative events and have held presentations
with G4C on BIM practical implementation and the Benefits SiG on Benefits
realisation.
Over the past year we have developed our profile via many avenues; including the
APM’s main website www.apm.org.uk, Project and Network, – with 2 members
recently profiled in the latter publication. Branch members have also contributed to
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numerous discussion threads on APM.ORG and LinkedIn. We have also encouraged
tweeting about events.
Former branch Chairman, David Burton, continues to serve as the region’s
representative on the APM’s Branch Steering Group, thereby allowing this branch to
be influential in how the APM moves forward as a professional body.
Meanwhile Sarah Wilson and Ken Platts have developed their Corporate and HEI
roles via the development of respective advisory groups
In closing I must thank Leeds Metropolitan University, in particular David Pearce and
John Heathcote for their continued support of the Branch, through the provision of
venues for our Leeds based presentation events and Harris Project Management
Ltd, in Wakefield for the use of their premises for our committee meetings
Finally I thank Anne Robinson our event hostess as well as APM HQ’s Tuli and
David for the enormous support we receive. We wish Tuli every success in her new
role at Ibis House
Thank you.
Philip Smelt
15/05/13
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