Members Council

The Members’ Council consists of 22 Institute Members. The make up of the Members’ Council is as follows:

Voting Members	Nos
Direct elections from the whole of Institute membership	2
Direct elections from Corporate & Organisation membership	2
Fellows Forum representative	1
Regional representatives	10
Special Interest Group representatives	14
Election by Members’ Council for the offices of – Chair Immediate Past Chair Deputy Chair Immediate Past Deputy Chair	1 1 2 1
TOTAL	34
Non-voting Attendees
Executive members	5
Chairs of Board Committees by invitation	3

Purpose of the Members’ Council

The role and purpose of the Members’ Council is to influence the future direction of the Institute and it’s mission by giving advice and guidance to the Board.

This Members’ Council represents the stakeholders of the Institute and includes two representatives directly elected by the membership and two elected by corporate members. Members can exercise their influence on the Institute through these elections or by involvement in the regions, special interest and sector forum groups whose chairs sit on Members’ Council.

Call For Nominations

There is an annual ballot for two places, one from the individual membership and one from the corporate & organisation membership and the call for nominations is made between 65-48 days prior to the .AGM

Results of the ballot are announced at the AGM.

In order to be nominated you will need to have 5 and 3 sponsors respectively for the individual and corporate & organisation membership as shown in the nomination form.

You can learn more about the reponsibilities of those who sit on Members’ Council, the Code of Conduct, Confidentiality Contract and Declaration of Interest, which a sucessful nominee will be expected to sign.

Click here to find links to these documents.

Documents