AGM and Board Election 2025
The 47th ALCS Annual General Meeting was held at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms on 27 November, where we also announced the winners of the recent Board elections.
It was fantastic to meet our members and update them on our work over the past year. Thank you to everyone who attended in person, as well as those participating remotely via livestream. If you were unable to attend, a recording of the AGM is available to watch on our YouTube channel.
ALCS Chair, Lord Tim Clement-Jones, began proceedings by paying tribute to ALCS’s Board, staff and members who have led ALCS to another successful year and helped make his first year productive and enjoyable. He also paid tribute to outgoing Board members Maggie Gee and James McConnachie as their terms on the ALCS Board come to an end.
CEO Barbara Hayes announced another record-breaking year, as ALCS collected £45,234,921 and distributed £47,448,750, our highest-ever amount, to more than 112,000 members. She also updated members on the latest developments around AI licensing and our next steps as we seek to develop a licence for training AI systems.
Board election
This year there were two positions available on the ALCS Board of Directors, one post for a member with experience of digital technologies, and one post for a member with experience of writing and creating content for the audiovisual sector. Thank you to all the candidates who stood for election, as well as those who took the time to vote for their preferred candidate.
We were pleased to announce yesterday that the winners of the election were Mellie Buse (audiovisual) and Timandra Harkness (digital). You can see the results in full below.
| Candidate (audiovisual) | Votes |
| MELLIE BUSE | 2,767 |
| Bill Anderson | 995 |
| Hugh Whitworth | 984 |
| Tom Wentworth | 780 |
| Paul Arrowsmith | 468 |
| Candidate (digital) | Votes |
| TIMANDRA HARKNESS | 3,682 |
| Richard Fisher | 2,290 |
AGM resolutions
The following resolutions were passed following votes from those members in attendance, as well as advance votes for those unable to attend in person.
Agenda item 1: To receive and adopt the Board of Directors’ Report and Accounts for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
Agenda item 2: To receive and approve the Annual Transparency Report for 2024/25.
Agenda item 3: To appoint Barnes Roffe, Leytonstone House, Leytonstone, London, E11 1GA, as Auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration.
Agenda item 4: To consider and if thought appropriate approve the recommendations of the Remuneration Committee regarding Directors’ fees for 2025/26.*
* The Remuneration Committee has recommended an increase of 2.6% for Non-Executive Director Fees in 2025/6 to £11,346 per annum.
You can learn more about our work over the past year by watching the video below or reading our 2025 Review of the Year.
