BNA AGM 2020

BNA Event - 9th Sep 2020

The 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the British Neuroscience Association is to be held online 11:00-12:00, Wednesday 9th September 2020.

All BNA members are welcome to attend the AGM.  Every Full, Full (Industry), Honorary, Undergraduate student, Postgraduate student, Early Career, and Retired member is entitled to one vote, subject to payment of any fees being up to date. Associate members are not eligible to vote, but are welcome to attend. Members are reminded of their right to appoint a proxy under section 324 of the Companies Act 2006 and Article 21. Please refer to Articles 21 and 22 in the Articles of Association for more information about Proxy notices. 

Please note that you can find your BNA membership number by logging into your account. 

Accompanying documents:

• Draft Trustees' Annual Report and accounts for the BNA Ltd for the period 01.10.18 - 30.09.19
• Certified accounts for BNA Events Ltd for the period 01.10.18 - 30.09.19

Agenda

Introduction and welcome by the Chief Executive, Dr Anne Cooke

1. Report from the President, Professor Annette Dolphin
   1. Governance: Confirmation of elected Council and Committee members since previous AGM
   2. Strategy: Update on the BNA’s strategic plans
2. Report from the Treasurer, Professor Catherine Harmer
   1. Annual accounts for the British Neuroscience Association Ltd and for BNA Events Ltd
3. Report from the Secretary, Professor Zoe Kourtzi
   1. Membership report for YE2019
   2. Meetings: Neurosciences and brain tumour research: 2018 Festive Symposium, BNA2019 Festival of Neuroscience
   3. 2018 Prize winners
4. Any other business

Please note that attendees participating in any webinars hosted by the BNA are expected to be polite and respectful to both the panellists and other attendees.  Comments in the chat function, and questions posted in the Q&A, should be relevant to the presentation and topic of discussion. If any of the panellists consider that comments posted in the chat or Q&A function are inappropriate, likely to distract other participants and/or could be deemed offensive, the attendee posting such comments will be removed from the webinar and unable to rejoin.