2.
The object of the Fund shall be to advance the
Christian religion by providing financial assistance
to Churches in the Diocese of Birmingham for the
purpose of maintaining and improvement of a bell
installation shall be deemed to include the following:
(a)
Taking out an existing ring of bells, supplying and
installing a new frame and fittings, recasting the
bell and erecting the same.
(b)
Taking out, overhauling and reclappering existing
bells supplying and installing a new frame and
fittings and re-erecting.
(c)
Taking out existing bells, overhauling existing frame
and fittings, recasting or overhauling and
reclappering same and re-erecting.
(d)
Augmentation and bringing existing bells, frame and
fittings into an adequate state of repair.
(e)
Other major repairs to bells, frames, fittings and
towers.
(f)
The provision of bells, frames and fittings and
erection of the same in Churches which previously had
none.
(g)
The acquisition of bells from Churches within the
Diocese of Birmingham declared redundant, for
subsequent redeployment and recasting.
3.
The membership of the Fund shall be that of the St.
Martin's Guild as defined in the rules thereof.
4.
(a) The Fund shall be administered by the Standing
Committee of the St. Martin's Guild, hereinafter
referred to as "the Committee".
(b)
The Committee shall have the power, after considering
an application submitted to it in writing, to approve
a grant from the Fund.
(c)
The Committee shall have the power to appoint
sub-committees which shall report back their actions
fully and promptly to the committee.
(d)
The Committee shall have the power to co-opt such
persons as it considers necessary to assist in its
deliberations. The number of co-opted persons at any
one meeting of the Committee shall not exceed three.
(e)
The management of the Bell Restoration Fund shall be
an item on the agenda of every meeting of the
Committee.
5.
(a) The Master and Treasurer of the Guild shall be
ex-officio Trustees of the Fund and in addition two
other members of the Guild shall be elected at the
Guild's Annual General Meeting to act as Trustees of
the Fund.
(b)
Such bank accounts as may be required shall be opened
in the name of the Fund. Any two of the four nominated
Trustees shall have the power to sign cheques.
(c)
Any outstanding Monies in the hands of the Committee
not required for the immediate purpose of the Fund
shall be invested in any manner authorised by law.
(d)
The Committee and its sub-committees shall have the
power to raise funds by any means they seem fit as
long as permanent trading is not engaged in.
(e)
The Fund shall be set up by the total transfer to it
of the balance of those Monies collected, made
available or earmarked for Bell Restoration by the
Guild.
(f)
Grants approved under 4(b) above shall become payable
after satisfactory completion of the restoration work.
6.
In the event of the dissolution of the Fund the assets
of the Fund shall be distributed equally among those
Churches which at the time of the dissolution were in
union with the Guild for the purpose of bell
maintenance and restoration.
7.The
Treasurer shall prepare a Balance Sheet as at 31
December in each year, and an income and expenditure
account for the year ended on that date, which shall
be examined by the Independent Examiners elected by
the members of the Guild at their Annual General
Meeting of the Guild first held after 31 December in
which the Funds accounts are prepared.
8.
No alteration or addition or deletion of these rules
shall be made so as to cause the Fund any time to
cease to be a charity in law. No alteration, addition
or deletion shall be made except at the Annual General
Meeting of the Guild or at an Extraordinary General
Meeting of the Guild especially called for the
purpose. Notice of any proposed alteration or addition
to or deletion from these rules shall be given to the
General Secretary before the September business
meeting.
February
1992 Amended 2003
