Issue - meetings

The Council is sole trustee for a number of Trusts including the Alice Park Trust in Bath.  There has been a lack of clarity in how the Council has previously dealt with these Trusts.  The creation of the Trust Board will in future ensure the clear separation of the Council’s interest as sole trustee of these charities and the Council’s interests as a Local Authority.

The Council considered a report seeking approval to establish a Charitable Trust Board to ensure clearer separation in future of the Council’s interests as sole trustee of a number of charities and the Council’s interests as a Local Authority.

On a motion from Councillor Tim Warren, seconded by Councillor Charles Gerrish, it was

RESOLVED

1.  To establish the Trust Board as a committee of the Council;

2.  To approve the proposed Terms of Reference of the Trust Board;

3.  To agree that, subject to the Charter Trustees written agreement, and under s.280 of the Charities Act 2011, Bath & North East Somerset Council is the sole corporate trustee of the Alice Park Trust; and

4.  To authorise officers to investigate and subsequently report on the enlargement of the Trust Board’s Terms of Reference to include the Trusts detailed in paragraph 5.4 of the report (minus 5.4.8 Lansdown Playing Field which should have been removed from the list.)

[Notes

1.  The above resolution was carried with 58 Councillors voting in favour, and 1 abstention.]