Notice of the AOP Annual General Meeting

To all members of the Association of Optometrists (AOP). This year the Annual General Meeting of the AOP will be at the Association’s offices on 3 June, commencing at 9:30am

Agenda for the AOP’s Annual General Meeting 2026

1. Introduction by the chairman
2. To receive and approve the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting, held on Wednesday 4 June 2025
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 2025
7. To consider and, if thought correct, approve the proposal of the Board that BDO LLP be reappointed as the Association’s auditors
8. Any other business.

By order of the directors

Adam Sampson, AOP chief executive, 2 Woodbridge Street, London EC1R ODG.

1. A full set of the 2025 accounts are available on the AOP website
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 their rights to attend, speak and vote in their 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 emailed to the AOP’s chief executive at the Association’s office ([email protected]) no later than 3:45pm on Friday 29 May 2026. Completion of the proxy does not preclude a member from subsequently attending and voting at the meeting in person if they so wish to.

The AOP’s Annual report will be available on its website prior to the Annual General Meeting.