Annual General Meeting 2024

All members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting to be held on:

Date: Thursday 14 November 2024
Time: 09:00-10:30 GMT (Check what time this is where you live)

Please register to join the meeting via Zoom here (login required)1.

We will have a limited number of spaces for members to join in person at our registered office at The King's Fund, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0AN. The Chair, Treasurer, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief will be presenting from virtual locations. A small number of staff will be at the office in London. Please contact us at agm@cochrane.org if you would like to join the meeting in person.

Annual General Meetings provide an opportunity for members of Cochrane to hear from the Chair of the Governing Board, the Treasurer, the Chief Executive Officer and the Editor in Chief about their management of the organization. Members are usually asked to vote on a number of resolutions and receive the Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts at the AGM.

The agenda of the meeting is here. Papers related to the resolutions are on the Voting page. Members will be asked to vote on a number of resolutions as set out below.

  1. To approve the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 4 September 2023 as an accurate record of the meeting.
  2. To receive and note the Trustees' Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2023.
  3. To reappoint Price Bailey as auditor until the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting 2025.

All Cochrane members as defined by the Membership Terms & Conditions are entitled to vote. You may vote even if you are not attending the meeting, but we do encourage all members to attend. If you have opted out of receiving emails from us, you will not have been sent a mailing about the Annual General Meeting.

Voting is now open (login required) and will close at the end of the formal business on 14 November 2024.

Resolutions arising at the meeting and nominating a proxy:

Discussion during the AGM may lead to the call for an additional vote by members. This may be decided by a virtual 'show of hands' or, at the discretion of the Chair, by a formal poll, in which case another electronic vote will take place after the meeting, so that all members may participate.

If you cannot join the meeting, you can nominate another person, a proxy, who may vote on your behalf in case an additional vote is called. Your proxy will be the Chair of the meeting, or another person chosen by you who is attending the meeting.

You can nominate your proxy on the voting page up to 48 hours before the start of the meeting.

After the formal business, the Emeritus and Lifetime Membership awards, the Anne Anderson Award, the Chris Silagy Prize and the Kenneth Warren Prize will be announced.

For queries related to voting, membership, or the agenda, please contact support@cochrane.org.

1 Cochrane’s Articles of Association allow the Governing Board to decide whether the meeting is a Physical Meeting or a Hybrid Meeting.