Notice of the AOP annual general meeting 2021

To all members of the Association of Optometrists, the AGM of the Association of Optometrists will be held virtually, via Zoom, on Wednesday 9 June 2021. The AGM will commence at 10am. All members wishing to attend are invited to register their interest with Liz Routh via email by 12pm, 8 June.

Agenda for the Association of Optometrists’ Annual General Meeting 2021

1. Introduction by the chairman
2. To receive and approve the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting held on 4 November 2020
3. Roll of deceased members
4. To receive the chairman’s report
5. To receive the chairman of Finance Committee’s report
6. To approve the Annual Financial Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020
7. To consider and, if thought correct, approve the proposal of the Board that BDO LLP be re-appointed as the Association’s auditors
8. Any other business.

By Order of the Directors. Henrietta Alderman, chief executive, 2 Woodbridge Street, London EC1R ODG.

1. Please note that a full set of the 2020 accounts are available on the AOP website in advance of the AGM
2. A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting convened by the notice set out above is entitled to appoint a proxy to exercise all or any of his or her rights to attend and speak and vote in his or her place. A proxy need not be a member of the Association
3. A form of proxy is available on the AOP website. To be effective, the instrument for appointing a proxy must be deposited with the Association’s chief executive at the Association’s office ([email protected]) no later than 3.45pm on Friday 4 June 2021. Completion of the proxy does not preclude a member from subsequently attending and voting at the meeting in person if he or she so wishes.