BatSoc AGM, Bat Detector Night and Book Launch

Bats and Trees Society of Cairns (BatSoc) is a volunteer not for profit group that supports rescuers and rehabilitators and educates the community about bats of Far North Queensland.

Bats and Trees Society of Cairns

AGMs are boring? Not ours. We're launching the Big Book of Bat-tivities, detecting for bats as well as electing a new committee to save bats

Cominos House

Three events in one! Bats and Trees Society of Cairns (B﻿atSoc) Inc invites members and non-members to our AGM and Bat Night on Friday 2nd December at 6pm at Cominos House. The evening starts with an introduction to the bats of Cairns and our citizen-science projects, then launching a really special and beautiful book of bat activities by local author Matilda Bishop, followed by a brief AGM to elect our new committee for 2023, and finishing with a bat walk in Centenary Lakes looking for foraging endangered spectacled flying-foxes and detecting for microbats.﻿We are really excited to be launching the "The Big Book of Bat-tivities", by Matilda Bishop. This engaging book full of puzzles and fun facts about bats has been made possible through a Cairns Regional Council Community Sustainability grant and will be used in our community engagement and education activities. Copies will be available on the night.After the very successful bat detecting walk on the Esplanade, we're really looking forward to running our second Cairns bat detecting night, this time in Centenary Lakes. Our bat detection nights are part of our "Engaging Science- discover your local bats" project made possible through a Queensland Government Engaging Science grant. B﻿ut none of these events are possible without the BatSoc committee. BatSoc has two main roles, raising funds for bat carers who tirelessly give their time to care for orphaned and injured flying-foxes and microbats, and raising awareness to conserve our endangered Spectacled Flying-fox and other FNQ bats through a series of community engagement and education events. So please consider becoming a member, if you are not already, and coming to our AGM to vote for the committed and passionate people who make these things happen. And if you can't make it in person join us on Zoom: ttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/6191620163_﻿________________________________________________________________________________________Notice of AGM<h3>Bats and Trees Society of Cairns Inc (and region) AGM</h3>Friday 2 December, 6 pm, 2022, Cominos House, Edge Hill, CairnsEveryone is welcome but only members can vote. We are accepting <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YWuTIkC88cyTKQai3IuGVzGV-9BS0Uww/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=103199899391899654143&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">nominations</a> to the committee If you can’t make it, please send a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BsXTDmrO-_uMDc4jA1qEcgsBWYDqQm4Y/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=103199899391899654143&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">proxy</a> form.Please download the forms before filling them out and email to <a href="https://mailto:secretary.batsoc@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">secretary.batsoc@gmail.com </a> by 1 December 2022. If you can’t download these please email <a href="https://secretary.batsoc@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">secretary.batsoc@gmail.com </a>The agenda is <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KLlN0523yfdujUoU6b8fHitE-G_5-kqz/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103199899391899654143&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here.</a> Special motions: To complete BatSoc’s application for DGR status we need to add two ministerial clauses to section 48a of our association Rules. <ol><li>Ministerial Rule 1: An organisation listed on the Register must answer all questions required by the Department on the annual statistical form. It is to provide, with the statistical return, an audited financial statement for itself and its public fund. The statement is to provide information on the expenditure of public fund monies and the management of public fund assets.</li><li> Ministerial Rule 2: An organisation listed on the Register must inform the Department as soon as possible: (1) if it changes its name or the name of its public fund; or (2) if there is any change to the membership of the management committee of the public fund; or (3) if there has been any departure from the model rules of the public fund.</li></ol>

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