Modernisation Review

 

Modernisation news

July 2007 - latest updates

As you are aware ELGA has been in consultation with its members through a series of workshops and consultation days to decide the best way forward for women’s golf in England.

This consultation, which started in September 2005, focused on how best to improve services to club members, enhance communications and improve the way ELGA is structured and managed to maximise the opportunities available to our sport. Following this consultation the ELGA Executive believe that the time is right to implement a range of significant and exciting changes. 

Therefore, an Extraordinary General Meeting is being held on Saturday 29th September at the Motor Cycle Museum, Solihull, Birmingham and your Club’s vote is important and should reflect the views of all the ladies in your club.

The proposed changes fundamentally change ELGA for the better and the following are the key changes that we are urging you to support:

•    Changing ELGA from an Unincorporated Association to a Company Limited by Guarantee thereby reducing the liability for each and every member;
•    Establishing an organisational structure that has a Management Board focused on the business side of the operation and an Operational Board, made up of representatives from the Counties, who will focus on the golfing activities;
•    To enable us to communicate better by removing layers of organisation so that Clubs feel connected to Counties and Counties to ELGA through a regional system that is consistent across the country;
•    Simplify the voting procedure and through the Counties give clubs and individual members a bigger voice;

The Memorandum and Articles of Association are available to download.  These have been prepared with our Solicitor and the Memorandum details the objectives and powers of the new company and the Articles lay down very clearly how the new company would operate.

These are the most important changes ELGA will have made in its 50-year history.  Your Club vote is extremely important so if you do not intend to come to the EGM please be sure to send in your Proxy Vote. An explanatory note on the green paper headed Voting Procedure explains how you do this.

The ELGA Executive urges you to support your National Governing Body and vote in favour of the changes.

April 2007 - update on progress

Following the feedback seminars in November 2006 the ELGA strategy is now in the final stage of review and a revised document, taking into account points raised at the November seminars, will be published in the summer of 2007.

The next phase of consultation is with Divisional and County Committees and Golf Club delegates during the period March to the end of May 2007 when a total of 46 consultation days will be held.

This phase is the presentation of a new governance structure, which takes into account the views of the members consulted through the workshops in 2006, together with the need for ELGA to modernise and have more skilled business people leading the organisation which the current system of electing Executive Committee members does not easily allow.

To see and download the full PowerPoint presentation and supporting documents please click below:

To see a précis of the PowerPoint presentation and supporting paperwork please click below:

The next steps in the process are as follows:

• The 6 Regional consultation days and 40 County consultation days for club delegates will be completed by 29 May;

• ELGA members have been asked to provide written feedback on what changes they support, and, those they do not support, to ELGA by 11 June 2007. There is no questionnaire for members to complete as we want members to form their own opinions about the proposed changes.
Feedback can be emailed to pauline@englishladiesgolf.org
 
• All feedback will be considered by the Executive Committee at their meeting of 27 June 2007;

• Based on the feedback received decisions will be taken by the Executive Committee as to whether or not there is support for change and if there is support for change in which areas.

• Also at this meeting a decision will be taken about an EGM in September 2007 to make the changes, or, whether or not this should be called at a later date. The Executive Committee has been working towards this timeline since September 2005.

• We are committed to providing feedback to the Divisions, Counties and Golf Club about the Executive Committee decisions in early July.

• If the timeline is maintained and the EGM is called for September, Divisional and County Committees and Golf Clubs would receive notice of the EGM, voting papers for the proposed Resolutions and the Memorandum and Articles of Association in late August 2007.

• It is proposed that the new company would become effective from January 2008 with a period of transitional through 2008 to enable the other changes to be made and the new organisation to take shape.

What happened in 2006?

During 2006 the ELGA is undertaking a modernisation review. A series of regional workshops were run to seek the views of members of divisional and county committees, post officials, players and a cross section of members from proprietary, private and municipal golf clubs.

These workshops have made an important contribution to determining both the strategic prioritites for the game to the end of the decade, as well as ELGA's most appropriate role and structure in delivery.

Below you are able to see the collated results from the Regional workshops, additional information will be added to this page as we go through the process over the next 12 months.

ELGA will publish the conclusions as they become available.

Modernisation Review, November Feedback Seminars, ELGA Strategy

7  November, Swindon

9  November, Edgbaston

17 November, Leeds

21 November, Exeter

24 November, London