BAOT Annual General Meeting
The British Association of Occupational Therapist’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) takes place on Tuesday 17 June 2025 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Can't make the AGM? You can still cast your vote today
If you can't join us at the AGM, you can still cast your vote to have your say. You can do this by appointing a proxy to vote on your behalf and you can submit your proxy vote either online or by post.
Proxy forms must be returned by 4pm Sunday 15 June 2025.
Your voting options
All BAOT members can vote in response to the two resolutions put forward. There are two ways you can cast your vote:
Vote in person
Join us at the AGM in person 4-5.30pm Tuesday 17 June 2025 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 150 Morrison Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EE
Vote by proxy
Voting by proxy means appointing someone who is attending the AGM to vote on your behalf. You can either:
- Appoint the Chair as your proxy to cast your vote on your behalf.
- Appoint someone else to attend the AGM in person and cast your vote on your behalf.
You can appoint a proxy by completing your proxy form either online or by post:
- your proxy voting form was sent to you by email directly from Civica Election Services (unless you have opted out of emails from us). You will have had an initial email in May and a reminder in June.
- The email was titled 'Have your voice heard this June - BAOT Annual General Meeting' and was sent from the email address takepart@cesvotes.com You may need to check your junk folder for this.
- If you haven't received your email or can't find it, please contact Civica Election Services directly at support@cesvotes.com or call 020 8889 9203.
- For all other questions about the AGM please send them to us hello@rcot.co.uk
Proxy forms must be returned by 4pm Sunday 15 June for your vote to be counted.
Your AGM papers
- AGM notice
- Proposed changes to member fees: overview
- Proposed changes to member fees: paper
- BAOT Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24
- RCOT Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24
- Proposed BAOT Articles of Association: supporting paper
- Proposed BAOT Articles of Association: full articles
- Proposed RCOT Articles of Association: supporting paper and full articles
- Trade Union statement to members
The AGM Notice and member fee papers were updated on Thursday 8 May 2025 to make corrections to two member categories:
- The newly registered discount was correctly stated as 35% however the monetary value assigned to the 35% was incorrectly stated (2025-2026 fees £201.87/£16.82, yearly difference -£21.15, monthly difference -£1.77).
- The Associate Apprentice percentage increase was incorrectly stated as +3% (now +4.5%). The monetary values remain the same.
Submitting questions for the AGM
You can submit questions in advance of the AGM by emailing Odeth Richardson, Chair at hello@rcot.co.uk Please use 'AGM' in the subject line of your email.
- We're focusing on responding to questions submitted by email so we won't be responding to questions for the AGM via social media.
- We’ll share answers to questions received in advance on this page and will update these regularly, recognising some questions may take longer to respond to.
- Where questions cover similar topics, we may group them together.
- We won’t include the name of the person who asked the question unless we’re specifically asked to do that.
There is also significant time allocated to Q&A during the AGM itself and we'll respond to as many questions as possible during this time.
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About the 2024 BAOT AGM
The 2024 BAOT Annual General Meeting (AGM) and RCOT Open Meeting took place on 27 June and was chaired by Odeth Richardson, Chair of Council. Thank you to all members who joined us.