Leicester Secular Society
Limited Company 2007 - ...
On 26 June 2007 Leicester Secular Society became a Company Limited by Guarantee, Reg.No.06292639, with its registered office at Secular Hall.
Current Officers and Directors of the Society* E = elected C = Co-opted O = Officer | |||||
| Office | First Name | Surname | * | Last appointed |
First elected |
| Chair | Ned | Newitt | E | 19/11/23 | 2023 |
| Treasurer | John | Catt | C | 12/12/23 | |
| Company Secretary | Kate | Housden | O | 15/11/20 | 2020 |
| Director | Caroline | Moles | E | 15/11/20 | 2020 |
| Director | Gush | Bhumbra | E | 21/11/21 | 2021 |
| Director | Mike | Burden | E | 13/11/22 | 2022 |
| Director | Ricardo | Sa Nogueira | E | 19/11/23 | 2023 |
| Director | Peter | Stone | E | 19/11/23 | 2023 |
| Director | Amar | E | 19/11/23 | 2023 | |
President and Chair | ||
| Year of election | President | Chair |
| 2007 | Lyn Hurst | Eleanor S. Davidson |
| 2008 | Allan Hayes | Michael Gerard |
| 2009 | Allan Hayes | Mike Burden |
| 2010 | Emma Chung | Mike Burden |
| 2011 | Michael Gerard | Nick Matthews |
| 2012 | Harry Perry | Nick Matthews (retired Feb 2013) Eleanor Davidson (co-opted) |
| 2013 | Gush Bhumbra (acting) | Anthony Matthew (acting) |
| 2014 | Gush Bhumbra | Anthony Matthew (acting) |
| 2015 | Gush Bhumbra | Anthony Matthew |
| 2016 | Gush Bhumbra | Anthony Matthew | 2017 | Mohammed Abbas | Gillian Lighton (acting) |
| 2018 | Nick Matthews (acting) | Gillian Lighton |
| 2019 | Ned Newitt (acting) | Gillian Lighton |
| 2020 | Ned Newitt | Gillian Lighton |
| 2021 | Ned Newitt | None elected |
| 2022 | Ned Newitt | None elected |
| 2023 | None elected | Ned Newitt |
Memorandum and Articles of AssociationAs a Limited Company, the rules and constitution of the Society are embodied in legal documents - the Memorandum and Articles of Association. These are not fixed for all time so for historical interest we include past versions alongside the current one here. | |
| Year | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2013 (current) | M&As as amended at the AGM, 17 Nov 2013. |
| 2010 | M&As as amended at the AGM, 7 Nov 2010. |
| 2009 | M&As as revised following EGM 7 June 2009 |
| 2007 | Original M&As on formation of the company |
Leicester Secular Society
(before conversion to a limited company in 2007)
Presidents and Vice Presidents 1889-2007The following lists of presidents and vice-presidents was compiled by Fred Lee in 2000 and is Appendix A in his draft thesis "Secularism from the Victorian Age to the Twenty-first Century; The History of the Leicester Secular Society." | ||
| Year | President | Vice-president |
|---|---|---|
| 1889 | Sydney Gimson | none recorded |
| 1899 | .. | William Wilber |
| 1900 | William Wilber | Sydney Gimson |
| 1901 | Sydney Gimson | Wiliam Wilber |
| 1914 | .. | E. Pinder |
| 1916 | .. | W. H. Scott |
| 1921 | .. | T. Cater |
| 1922 | .. | F. J. Smith |
| 1923 | .. | E. Harry Hassell |
| 1938 | .. | .. |
| 1939 | E. Harry Hassell | A. J. Essex |
| 1940 | .. | J. Cooper |
| 1943 | .. | J. Abbott |
| 1945 | .. | J. Cartwright |
| 1949 | G. A. Kirk | .. |
| 1951 | .. | L. Croxtall |
| 1952 | .. | J. Cartwright |
| 1957 | .. | L. Hall |
| 1973* | A. Davis | .. |
| 1974 | .. | L. Croxtall |
| 1976 | .. | John O'Higgins |
| 1977 | .. | Peter Miller |
| 1980 | Peter Miller | L. Croxtall |
| 1982 | .. | D. G. Parsons |
| 1984 | .. | Anthony Barron |
| 1985 | .. | D. G. Parsons |
| 1986 | .. | Paul Harding |
| 1987 | Rupert Halfhide | .. |
| 1988 | Paul Harding | Rupert Halfhide |
| 1989 | .. | B. A. Wood |
| 1990 | .. | Lyn Hurst |
| 1992 | .. | B. A. Wood |
| 1993 | B. A. Wood* | none elected |
| 1994 | Frederic S. Lee | none elected |
| 1994 | .. | Bob Hall |
| 2000 | Lyn Hurst | Michael Gerard |
[Former] Rules of the Leicester Secular Society
These Rules have been superseded by the Memorandum and Articles of Association as indicated above. They are presented for historical interest.
Rules of Leicester Secular Society (as amended in 2001)
Top* Notes: (a) From 1973 the election of officers seems to have been moved to the mid-year so the dates of end of one presidency and start of another are given as the same year. (b) When I [George Jellis] asked Woody Wood to confirm these dates he denied that he was ever President, so there seems to have been some confusion in the 1990s. [Interviewed in 2013 for the For Truth's Sake lottery funded (All Our Stories) project, Woody explained that he regarded himself as a caretaker president as he only served one year].