CBA Annual General Meeting 2026 Resources

The CBA's 2026 Annual General Meeting took place on Saturday 21st February 2026

 The 2026 AGM was hosted by The Milner York (formerly the York Station Hotel)

AGM

Updating our Governing Document

One of the items we asked our members to vote on at the AGM was an important change to our Articles of Association.

As an incorporated charitable company, we are governed by our Articles of Association. This document directs how we must operate to meet our charitable purpose and legal responsibilities. Our Articles of Association were last revised in 2019, and in order to meet best practice guidelines and recent legal rulings, it needs to be updated.

With the agreement of our membership, we are now updating our articles of Association by moving to a structure where the trustees are the only Company Law members and our wider membership become non-Company Law members. This change is in response to a recent Supreme Court case that changed the relationship between a charitable company and its voting membership by confirming that all members of a charitable company have a fiduciary duty.

In addition to this principal change, we have identified a number of areas where the current Articles are not fit for purpose. Some aspects do not meet with modern practices, such as virtual meetings and electronic decision making, and others are needlessly cumbersome requiring extra administrative time and resources that could be utilised elsewhere. The updated articles will address these issues.

Further information on the AGM, the updated articles, the minutes, and the Supreme Court Judgement can be found by clicking on the links below.

de Cardi lecture

The annual de Cardi lecture was dlivered by Dr Anwen Cooper. Anwen leads the UKRI-funded ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project at Oxford Archaeology. She has worked across the sector in British archaeology over the last 30 years and has an enduring research interest in how archaeological understandings of the past can offer new angles on the worlds we are creating today. 

‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in current nature recovery

Amidst burgeoning evidence for the beauty, strength, fragility and flux of our natural world, and global efforts to protect its future survival, the UKRI-funded ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project is building positive and ecologically rich accounts of human-landscape relationships in Britain from 2500 BCE to 43 CE. Drawing on the substantial body of environmental evidence gathered for the ‘Rewilding’ project, this talk asks what wildlife was in prehistoric Britain, if and how wildlife mattered to people in the past, and why archaeological characterisations of wildlife are relevant for current attempts to restore nature.