How to vote
Eligible members can vote online, by post, in branch, at the AGM in Skipton or via the live stream. If you're eligible to vote, depending on how you've chosen to receive your AGM communications, you'll either get an email or receive your voting information in the post.
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Online
Voting closes at 5pm on Wednesday 24 April 2024.
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At the AGM in Skipton
The AGM takes place on Monday 29 April 2024 at 2pm at our Principal Office.
Skipton Building Society,
The Bailey,
Skipton,
North Yorkshire,
BD23 1AP (Please use this postcode for sat nav purposes)
If you’re planning on joining us, please call 0345 850 1733 to register your place and check our AGM page or call us for any updates before you travel.
You’ll need to bring your voting form or email and some identification. For example, your passbook, share certificate, driving licence or a utility bill dated within the last three months.
If you’ve any extra requirements, such as a sign language interpreter or hearing loop, just let us know by Monday 15 April 2024. Wheelchair access is available.
Free parking is available on site.
Nearest railway and bus stations: Skipton. There are taxi ranks at both stations or it takes about 20 minutes to walk.
For more detailed directions, please visit skipton.co.uk/thebailey or call 0345 850 1733.
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Livestream
If you can’t attend the meeting in Skipton, you can join us via live stream. You’ll have the chance to vote and ask questions to the Society’s board. Further details will be added to the AGM page nearer the time.
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Freepost
If you’re not able to vote online, you can vote by post. Your form needs to arrive by 5pm on Friday 24 April 2024.
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In branch
You can complete a voting form in your local branch up until 3pm on Friday 19 April 2024.
Voting rights
If you’ve a personal savings account, mortgage or hold Permanent Interest Bearing Shares with us, it means you’re a member of the Society, as long as you keep a minimum balance of £1.
However, to be able to vote you need to maintain a minimum balance of £100, be the first named account holder and meet the voting conditions below.
If you operate an account on someone else’s behalf, for example, as an attorney or personal representative, you’re not the member. Instead, membership stays with the customer named on the account.
Full details about membership and voting are available in the Rules of the Society. If you’ve any questions, please contact us.
Voting conditions for AGM 2024
1) The voting date referred to in condition 2 below is:
- 24 April 2024 if you’re appointing a representative to attend and vote on your behalf; or
- 29 April 2024 if you attend and vote at the AGM on the day (whether by coming along to Skipton or joining online).
2) You’re entitled to vote if you’ll be 18 or over on 29 April 2024. For a joint account, only one person is eligible to vote, and you’ll need to be named first on the account in our records.
You’ll also need to either:
- have had at least £100 in your saving account(s) (including Permanent Interest Bearing Shares (PIBS)) on 31 December 2023 and have a savings account with us from that date until the voting date; or
- have owed the Society at least £100 on your mortgage(s) on both 31 December 2023 and the voting date.
3) No matter how many savings or mortgage accounts you have, in any capacity, you’re only entitled to one vote on each separate item of business.
Corporate representatives
A body corporate may:
a) authorise a person to act as its Corporate Representative at the meeting by way of a resolution of its directors or governing body. The original or certified copy of the resolution must be received by the scrutineers by 5pm on Wednesday 24 April 2024 or the right to vote is not exercisable. The appointed Corporate Representative is not entitled to appoint a representative; and
b) subject to the requirement for a resolution in a) above, use the voting form (or vote online) to appoint the Corporate Representative to attend and vote at the AGM as it instructs (please read the Voting Notes on your voting form for further details). The voting form must be signed by a duly authorised officer of the body corporate.
Power of Attorney
The holder of a Power of Attorney can (if the Power of Attorney has been registered with the Society, and the power allows) either:
a) attend and vote at the AGM* on the member’s behalf, or
b) appoint a representative to attend and vote*, by completing the voting form (or voting online) on the member’s behalf.
Alternatively, a member who has given a Power of Attorney can attend and vote at the AGM*, or appoint a representative to attend and vote*, instead of their attorney.
* Attendance and voting at the AGM can either be by coming along to the meeting in Skipton or joining online.