Avon Wildlife Trust Annual General Meeting 2025

Our Annual General Meeting is a great opportunity to meet the Avon Wildlife Trust team and hear how your support has made a difference for nature. 

This year we will have updates on the success of our Wilder Woodlands project, progress at our newest land acquisition, Ebdon Farm, and a roundup of our communities and engagement work.

In addition, we’re delighted to welcome Dr Mya-Rose Craig as our keynote speaker. She will also be holding a book signing at the end of the presentations.

Mya-Rose Craig is a 23-year-old British-Bangladeshi birder, environmentalist and race activist campaigning for equal access to nature, to stop biodiversity loss and climate change and to ensure global climate justice.

‘Birdgirl’ tells the story of Mya-Rose Craig, who found solace in nature while growing up with a mother with severe bipolar disorder. She started her Birdgirl blog at age 11, launched Black2Nature at 14, and at 17, became the youngest person to see half the world's bird species and receive an honorary Doctorate of Science.

Mya-Rose also connects people to nature so that they care about fighting the climate crisis. She campaigns against palm oil and plastic pollution and fights for the prioritisation of the human rights of indigenous peoples.

The formal AGM meeting is for the following purposes:

As Ordinary Business

1. To receive the Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Audited Annual Accounts, together with the Auditors’ report, for the year ended 31 March 2025.
2. To elect as Trustees any persons duly proposed for election.

The board is proposing the election as Elected Trustees of Kathyrn Jeffs and Judy Rose.

Under the Companies Act 2006 the serving Auditors, Messrs Burnside, are deemed re-appointed and continue in office.

Audited Accounts and Trustees’ Annual Report will be available on our website 28 days before the event and are also available on request from agm@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk 

Notes

Members are entitled to appoint a proxy to attend, speak and vote at the meeting on their behalf. A proxy need not be a member. To be a valid proxy, an appointment form must be received by the Trust not less than 48 hours before the time of the meeting. For a proxy form please contact agm@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk or download one from this link at return it to that email address:

Download a proxy form here

New Elected Trustees (ie Trustees elected at the AGM) can be nominated by the Board of Trustees or by four members of the Trust by way of formal written proposal delivered to the Trust office at 17 Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5QT no later than 30th October, together with the written consent of the candidate to act as a Trustee. Candidates are required to provide verification of identity and a declaration of suitability and personal interests.

Without in any way restricting the members’ rights to propose new Trustees in this way, members will note that the Board has not carried out a Trustee recruitment exercise this year as we are not anticipating any vacancies in elected Trustee positions after proposed Trustee re-elections.

Members, volunteers and friends of Avon Wildlife Trust are welcome to attend, only members will be invited to vote. 

Thank you for all that you've achieved for wildlife this year!

For more detailed directions to the venue, please visit Watershed’s website