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Aims and Objectives of the Structure
1. To ensure that the Zimbabwe Action Group complies with charity law, and with the requirements of the Charities Commission as regulator; in particular ensure that the organisation prepares reports on what it has achieved and annual returns and accounts as required by law.
2. To produce and distribute literature so as to further public understanding and appreciation of the Zimbabwe Action Group’s activities within the Regions, and encourage others to produce such literature;
3. Fair access to public funding for organisations based within the Regions; fair representation for Local Support Groups based within the Regions on governmental and quasi-governmental advisory bodies, panels, committees, consortia etc. in relation to the arts, sport, and other social or cultural issues. |
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The Management Committee & Board of Trustees
The role of the Management Committee is to support and champion the Zimbabwe Action Group network among those with whom we deal, while also acting as the regional Local Support Groups critical parent and friend, for example by challenging the Local Support Groups to maintain high standards of performance and ensuring that they do. The management committee role is to do what they can to ensure that the ten (10) of them in the management committee get the best out of our Regional Coordination Unit colleagues in the wider network. The management team will also have the task of setting up sub-committees for the fulfillment of specific objectives within their remit.
Chairman + Vice Chairman
Secretary General + Vice Secretary General + Registrar
Organising Secretary
Treasurer + Vice Treasurer
Sub committees
The Board of Trustees also known as Charity Trustees are the people who serve on the governing body of our charity. They may be known as Trustees, Directors, Board Members, Governors or Committee Members. Trustees have and must accept ultimate responsibility for directing the affairs of a charity, and ensuring that it is solvent, well-run, and delivering the charitable outcomes for which it has been set up
To this end it is proposed that there be Seven (7) trustees with overall custodianship of the organisation comprised as follows: No less than four Non Executives and a maximum of three Executive (Representatives of the management committee)
The Zimbabwe Action Group works with a wide range of partners - local authorities, Regional Development Agencies, Companies, the voluntary and community sector and others - to resolve integration problems, fight against injustice, tackle housing needs, improve access to healthcare, raise standards in education and skills, tackle asylum and immigration issues, reduce unemployment and target charitable funds in order to achieve the overall aims and objectives of the network.
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The Regional Coordination Unit/National Executive Council & Local Support Groups
The Regional Co-ordination Unit is the corporate centre of the Zimbabwe Action Group network. It provides the interface for the twelve Zimbabwe Action Group Local Support Groups with our board of trustees, management team, sub-committees, and also the policy centre for human resources, information technology, finance, and business planning and risk issues. The Regional Co-ordination Unit will also provide corporate communications support to the regions.
To improve the way in which management team prepares policies and programmes and then to deliver them effectively to help improve regional support groups, local services and meet the needs of local communities.
Area-based programmes can make a real difference to the quality of people’s lives, but many of them overlap and make competing demands on local partners. The RCU should work to link existing programmes and simplify their management structures so that they operate with maximum efficiency and minimum bureaucracy. This will help them work together more effectively to produce real changes in the standards of living and range of opportunities available to the general membership and their communities.
The RCU assists the Zimbabwe Action Group in their role managing regional and local relationships on behalf of the management committee, enabling them to ensure better integration of regional and local strategies and better funding decisions. This includes relationships with Regional Development Agencies, Regional Assemblies and Local Learning and Skills Councils.
Within each region are Local Support Groups that have their own administrations and organisations with the experience to assist with any matters within the objectives of the Zimbabwe Action Group. It is within one of these Local Support Groups that our front office business will be conducted.
The general membership and all other interested parties should be able to access the Zimbabwe Action Group’s officials via the regions above for in-depth, specific information on the service(s) that they are interested in. If they then require even more information or wish to make contact with the management team or trustees, they should request contact details from their regional coordinator for a rapid response. It is intended that information from several areas will be shared to enable them to compare the facilities and services they offer.
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