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Society of Authors in Scotland AGM
3 April @ 17:30 - 19:00 BST
Join us this April for Society of Authors in Scotland AGM hosted via zoom. Find out what your committee has campaigned on and achieved over the last year and welcome your new committee members.
Your participation and engagement are important to us and the AGM is free to attend.
Questions are welcome. Please submit them to SoAiS Co-ordinator Elizabeth Frattaroli in advance.
Programme
- Introduction and co-Chair’s Report from Mary Paulson-Ellis and Helen Sedgwick
- Treasurer’s Report from Helen Sedgwick
- Secretary’s Report from SJ Groenewegen
- Policy and Campaigns report from Sam Gonçalves, Senior Policy Manager (Scotland)
- Announcement of and welcome to new committee members
- Open discussion
- General Q&A
About the Society of Authors’ in Scotland (SoAiS)
The SoAiS committee represents the Society of Authors in Scotland membership on all issues affecting them. This includes communicating with members, sharing plans and strategy with members, voicing the needs and concerns of members as their democratically elected representatives, taking part in internal Society of Authors reviews, and representing the membership to the Board at meetings of the UK Management Committee and subcommittees. This is how we contribute a Scottish perspective to the UK’s Society of Authors.
We work in collaboration with the Senior Policy Manager (Scotland) to represent our membership on policy issues affecting the Scottish membership. Current examples include: contributing to our work to regularly increase the Live Literature rates from Scottish Book Trust; feeding back on funding and freelancer rates to the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and Scottish Government; and planning our campaigning around funding for authors, illustrators and translators.
Members with a Scottish postcode are added to the group when they join the SoA. If you have not been added but would like to join this group, please contact us.
Need to know
Accessibility
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During the event
- This online event will take place on Zoom Meetings; you will have the option to turn your camera on or off; you will be muted on arrival
- This event will not be recorded.
- Attendees have the option to turn on the live transcript
- This event is 90 minutes
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