National Council Reconstitution - June 2020 Update

Since work began in December 2019, there has been huge progress towards restructuring and redefining National Council into a new “Members’ Council”. If the proposed new Council is voted in by members at the BMC’s 2021 AGM, it will succeed in: 

• Making Council more representative of members’ interest, with the introduction of Nationally Elected Councillors (NECs) for national issues 
• Embracing constituencies which currently don’t have a voice, such as the 28% of members who are also members of Mountain Training 
• Strengthening the link between specialist committees and Council, with the introduction of votes for key committees and greater interaction across the Council’s annual calendar 
• Making Council a more effective body, with newly defined procedures and working practices 
• Holding the Board to account in a more dynamic and interactive way than at present, for example through the creation of a co-ordinated annual meeting cycle  

Please read the attached for the June 2020 update on the work of the R33 group.