Meet the Board of Directors

The directors of The Phone Co-op are elected by members.

Meet the current directors:

• Mick Taylor (chair).
• Justin Andersen (vice chair).
• Paul Hopewell.
• Kate O'Donoghue.
• Peter Turnbull.
• Linda Ward.

The term of office for directors is three years. Each year two or three directors reach the end of their terms of office.

Members are invited to nominate candidates for the board (members may nominate themselves or another person). Nominations can be for existing directors reaching the end of their terms, or for other members, and if there are more candidates than vacancies, a postal ballot is held.

To be eligible to stand for election, a candidate must have been a member for six months. Full details are available in the Society's Rules.

Duties of a Director

The duties of a director include:

• Attending board meetings, which are usually held monthly by telephone conference.
• Additional work carried out between board meetings.
• Attending General Meetings.
• Attending face to face board meetings (in the last year there have been 5 meetings, one of which took place over the same weekend as the AGM).

Directors’ Remuneration

Board members receive a fee of £1150 per annum (£1725 for the Chair). Reasonable expenses will be reimbursed, as agreed by the board from time to time.

2012 Elections

The term of office of two of the seven serving directors of The Phone Co-op will come to an end at the AGM in February 2012, and an additional vacancy was created when one director stood down earlier in the year. Eight nominations were received for the three positions available.

Read our elections page for the results.