 Okay, I'm going to open the meeting because we've got a lot to do today. So as president of ALT, I'd like to welcome you all to the AGM and we've got an interesting meeting today. It's going to be in two parts because we're going to begin as the association we've always been and end as a charitable, incorporated organisation. First of all, I'd like to ask Marin to tell us about Apologies for Absence. Because we have so much on the agenda, I just want to emphasise that we have to have everything finished by 1635 in order to have time for the next meeting. So if I appear to be rushing at times, that's the reason we're tight on time. As there will be potentially shows of hands during the meeting, I'd like to point two tellers. Could I have two volunteers to count the show of hands? James Clay, thank you, and one more. Anyone who can count, thank you. And could we have a proposer and seconder for the two tellers, Julie and Alastair, thank you. The minutes of the previous meeting which was held in Warwick on 2 September 2014, the minutes of that meeting have been circulated, I believe. What I'd like to do is have the meetings agreement to approve those minutes as an accurate record, so I'm going to ask if I could have someone who was present at that meeting to propose acceptance of the minutes. There must be somebody here, yeah, Liz, let's take Liz this time, thank you. And James Clay is seconding, thank you. So can I have the meetings agreement that the minutes of the September 2, 2014 meeting are an accurate record? Thank you. Matters arising, the main item in matters arising will be the transition to CIO status and we'll cover that under item eight, so we don't need to discuss that at this point but let me just ask if there are any other matters arising, okay. So now to the annual report and accounts for 2014-15, there are copies available and I'm going to ask Hayden Blackie, who is honorary treasurer of ALT, to report to the meeting and then take questions, Hayden, thank you. I know there's a copy of the accounts which have already been circulated for the event and including the annual report from the trustees as well as the accounts, my report is to note that this was not a particularly easy year for the association, you'll note that the bottom line is that the association made a loss of around £76,000 during the year which is not the best thing to be saying as honorary treasurer, particularly as after the elections later in this meeting I will no longer be honorary treasurer, it's not the greatest sign of that I could possibly have done, however the reality is that the way we account for some of our income has been done under our advice from our auditors and therefore the money we receive from the open learning partnership as a transfer of assets when that charity finished and they handed their assets to ALT was recorded as income in the year it was received, not in the year it was expended and we deliberately have decided to draw down as a body of trustees those assets over a period of four years and so when you take that into account alongside the fact that there was £15,000 of income that made our accounts look very bright this time last year which will actually do for projects which we expended in this year, the overall impact is closer to a still negative figure but a negative figure of £15,000, one of the things that ALT wasn't able to achieve last year as well as it had in the previous years and as well as it has started to do already in this year is to draw down income through projects that we've used our own staff and our own internal skills our members to complete and last year was a particularly weak year for that and in terms of our budget we recognise it was weak pretty early on and reduced some of our expenditure, address that. The trustees recognising we were in this situation well before we got to the accounting level agreed two things to take us forward one is an increasing focus on organisational membership and renewal while individual membership are important we have to recruit something like 30 individual members to come close to some of our smallest organisational members so a clearer focus in the membership area but also to be working on new projects which draw income for the society that aren't heavy in expenditure and I know from reading my Twitter stream that both today and yesterday you've been talking about one of those projects the project the course of future learn for example of which ALT is one of the partners and there are a number of other examples of that which means that by this time next year where my successor as treasurer is undertaking this role the situation will not be anywhere near the situation at the end of this year so I'm presenting the account recognising that they're not in any way a rosy picture but they're a real picture and the trustees are taking account of that and are acting to secure the future of the association on that basis and I think the team particularly modern as chief executive and Jane who supports her in her finance role have played a huge part of making that happen successfully this year so as well as going to be about to ask you to approve the current set of accounts I would like to recognise Marlon and James work in the traditional manner so before I do make that request could I ask you for any questions from the floor either about what I've just said or any aspect of the accounts that I could address for you. Oh yes forward the slide thank you there we go we've got people attending at the distance so we're on that point in the slides I thought Martin was going to ask me a question when you started waving Martin but that was just making sure we got the right slide for the agenda so no other questions then if I could ask the president to seek approval for the audited accounts so if we can ask for agreement on resolution one that the 2015 AGM approves the 2014 to 2015 annual report and accounts could I have a proposal and I said thank you and a seconder Matt thank you so thank you very much Hayden and we haven't done the vote yet we do actually have to put this to the vote so could you raise your hands please to vote for Theresa and who was James if you didn't get my Thank you colleagues. So the resolution is passed and we move on to item 7 to the appointment of an auditor for the 2015-2016 accounts and I'd like to propose from the chair that we appoint sure Gibbs LLP of Oxford as auditors for the 2015-2016 accounts. Could I have a second there please? Thank you. And we have to have votes for, please. Good. And those against and abstentions. Thank you colleagues. And we move on to item 8, the main business of the meeting the report on the transition to CIO status and I'm delighted to report that following on from the members approval of the move to charitable incorporated status with the association model at the 2014 AGM last year the trustees have taken steps to register alt as a CIO and to transfer the assets and liabilities of the current charity to the CIO with effect from the 9th of September 2015 today. The transfer resolution has been approved by members of the CIO trustees accordingly and trustees will now take steps to prepare a nil balance accounts for approval at the next general meeting of the charity for filing with the Charity Commission. So the transfer agreement between the association and the CIO will be signed at the end of this meeting. We can now move on to item 9, a brief verbal report from Marin Dupal, chief executive officer. So I'll invite Marin to give us a brief report. Thanks Diana and thank you all. It's a pleasure to see you all here today. I've got three items of business. The first that I'd like to report on is changes to the editorial team for the journal that we publish as an association research and learning technology. In particular I'd like to note our formal thanks on behalf of the association for Meg O'Reilly and Meg Hallow in Australia if you're watching in midnight I think. Thank you for all the work you've done for us for the past few years as an exceptional editor of the journal. But in person I'd like you to please put your hands together for Stephen Varianz who's also retiring this year as an editor. Also this year we're celebrating a lot of milestones at this AGM so just because we're rushing through them slightly doesn't mean we don't want to really take note. Is that the old newsletter now the et alzi blog excitingly is relaunching at this conference for its 10th birthday and again I'm hoping in the audience I will see Anne Hall and possibly Anne you're here give us a wave. This is Anne ladies and gentlemen she edits our newsletter and also how it's got who's a wonderful editor for our newsletter and for the again for the entire editorial team who have made the blog a real center-spone of what we do as an association please put your hands together once more. There is some birthday balloons and birthday sweets down at the old stand so please join Anne and her colleagues and contribute. Now last but not least by any means I wanted to add to Hayden's reflection on our year this year because in a year with the election it's always risky for bodies like ours where our members are so dependent on what's happening in the political arena lots of pressures from all around and a lot of organizations have met even bigger challenges that we have and this conference is the largest we've run in over four years with more papers and more volunteers involved hundreds literally and I'm very humbled by the amount of time effort and energy a lot of members put into our association not just doing these three days when we're all together but every single day throughout the year whether they're acting as editors whether they're volunteering in committees whether they're supporting our community in another way. I calculated this morning over breakfast that I have one member of staff including myself for the 100 participants here over three days and the reason why that's possible is that we also have at least 50 people involved in a voluntary capacity for every 100 delegates who is here today to deliver that experience so I want to give my own thanks to you and your community and your colleagues whether they're here or not to say thank you for continuing supporting us and I can't wait to see what the next year will bring so thank you. We can move on to the elections of the trustee vacancies and I'm delighted to announce the election to vice chair of Martin Weller who will become vice chair this year and then chair in September 2016 and then president in 2017. Martin was elected unopposed needless to say and then two further trustees have been elected to serve for three years as trustees of ALT both also elected unopposed Neil Morris from University of Leeds and Daniel Clark and I would like to congratulate you both. I very much look forward to working with you both. Now we come to the point where I feel this is where I have to hand over as president and I think there should be a sort of ceremony rather like when the speaker is dragged to the chair in House of Commons except you're going to have to drag me away this time. I have to say it's been such an honor and privilege to to be in this position on the trustee's board for for the three years as vice chair and then chair and then president but I'm not going to be going away very far so I can't resist coming towards every year so I just look forward to being here in a different capacity but I just want to say my sincere thanks to all members of the the trustee's board who made it so easy to do this this role it's been a fantastic three years and what I would like to do now is to especially give thanks to the retiring trustees Hayden Blackie without whom we would have had the most difficult time and it's always been so reassuring to have Hayden there as treasurer and he's gone on and on this hungry treasurer desperately looking for somebody to help us with this so Hayden thank you so much for all your service you've been absolutely tremendous can I give you this and of course to Claire Donlan our former president who then carried on for a further year as trustee and Claire likewise has given long service to the association very much want to thank her for warmly congratulating her work here as well and we have a presentation to her in absentia and I will find some way of doing that so Claire if you're watching thank you again so please put your hands together to say thank you I would like to ask Fiona Harvey our vice chair to step up in her role as vice chair representing the chair Doug Gaman so that I can make the formal handover of the association as a membership body to the so I think if you can sign on behalf of the association together with Hayden and then Fiona will sign on behalf of the yes so last year you all voted that we would change our legal status and now we are ready to change our legal status we've been registered as a CIO since February and this will actually transfer all of us with everything and the kitchen sink to our new legal status so that when we start our AGM as the CIO in a few seconds time we will all be members of the new CIO so I hope you're waiting with a bit of a breath and I'll sign that and then you two sign there okay so I'm just going to take a photo of this sure I'm signing the same document we're going to take a picture of you all together yes and which one? yes I'll sign the other one to that you and I are having a very good time go and grab a little bit of it thank you gentlemen so well done really okay good to have you back for that I'll say if you'll flip the pen a bit okay no I'm going to go to Fiona if you want to start the next part again and Diana please go ahead do I have to move the phone? we will need to move the slide okay okay okay so haven't you oh haven't you? okay everybody well thank you for coming along to the first general annual meeting of the Association for Learning Technology the processes and the people remain the same just to note then that I'm here in place of Doug Gowan who couldn't be here today so and he is actually going to be the president and I believe all the arrangements are the same so we have the same two tellers so tellers are the same as before James Clay and Tim Newsborough okay and again we have to just hold the cards up to do our voting and the apologies are the same the apologies are Doug Gowan and Seb Schmoller and the tellers are the same so that's done do we have to have two more people to volunteer or just okay the transfer agreement between the charity and the CIO just to note that this is now in effect and with the transfer agreement between the charity and the charitable incorporated organisation all the assets and liabilities have been received by the CIO as set out in our transfer agreement which you've been circulated to all of you and just to note that this meeting is convened in accordance with the CIO's constitution and then we'll go on to item 5 it's a very quick meeting any matters arising from the 2015 ALT AGM we're just going to note that the first annual report and accounts of ALT will be reported at the AGM on the 7th of September 2016 which will cover the financial period which is the 9th of September 2015 to the 31st of January 2016 and the first trustees of the new ALT CIO are those in place at the date of the transfer of the assets and with that I'd like to close the meeting I was great just to say thank you to all the trustees that we've got today and all the members and we're looking forward to the next year and if all the trustees of the new ALT CIO could convene at the front here and we'll now get on with governance thank you thank you I can't believe that you've managed to fit it in with the moment to spare thank you so much