Annual General Meeting and related documents

All,

The WSDC Ltd. charity's AGM will be held in Qatar at 9am on 16 February 2009, prior to the annual Council meeting. In this regard, please find attached the following:

1. The notice of the Charity AGM doc and the notice of the Council meeting including the agendas.
2. The Directors' report for your consideration (including Annexes A, B and C
3. A call for nominees for the position of Director for 2010-2013

Please note that each nation sending a team to Worlds in Qatar is eligible for membership of WSDC Ltd. The Directors will shortly confirm acceptance of those countries which have applied for membership since Athens and are participating in Qatar.

In the event that your country has corporate membership or has applied for corporate membership of WSDC, the governing documents require that you confirm the name of your authorised representative to the AGM in writing prior to the meeting. Please do this by sending an email message to the Director's nominated chair for the charity's AGM in Qatar, Asher Weill at debasher@netvision.net.il

Best,

Andrea Coomber
Chair, Board of Directors
WSDC Ltd.

Proposed rule changes for WSDC

Greetings everyone.

Here are the proposals for rule changes for voting at the Council meeting at Doha, Qatar on 18 February 2010.

Kind regards,


Claire Ryan
Chairperson
Executive Committee
WSDC Ltd

South Africa bids for WSDC 2012

Greetings everyone.

South Africa is bidding to host WSDC 2012. The bid is the only one received for 2012and will be voted on by the World Schools Debating Council at the Annual General Meeting in Doha.

I have great pleasure in enclosing the bid documents.
1. Intention to bid letter
2. Sponsorship letter
3. The bid document

Members of the South African organising committee will be present at Doha, will be happy to answer any queries and will make a presentation of their bid on the evening of 16 February 2010 before the vote takes place on 18 February 2010.

Kind regards

Claire Ryan
Chairperson
Executive Committee
WSDC Ltd

Important information on the dress code for Qatar

Dear all

Attached is a document outlining the appropriate dress code for the forthcoming World Championships in Qatar. We kindly request that all participants read it carefully and choose their attire for WSDC accordingly.

With thanks

Beth James

On behalf of the WSDC Executive Committee and approved by the organisers of WSDC Qatar 2010.

Blogging and twittering

I'll be blogging again from WSDC this year and tweeting/twittering as well.

See you on this site or @tautoru

All other bloggers and tweeters feel free to join in.