31. 17-12-20 Future Structure of the Water Conservation Trust

I chaired a second meeting of the committee to discuss the future structure of the Water Conservation Trust today. We need to move the Trust to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) to give the new body a legal status and protect the Trustees. It was a very productive session we agreed the basis of a future vision statement to be drafted shortly and presented to the Court.

Although the Company and Trust need to be separate legally and in terms of governance, it was agreed that the Trust and Company should be presented as parts of a single organisation to members. It was also recommended that the standing committees of the Company should all have an agenda item on the Trust. The need to engage with new Company members and Court members about the activities of the Trust was also discussed with the possibility of meeting to discuss the future vision in the spring. A webinar on the activities of the Trust for members is planned for early March.