Motions

GROUP A - Welfare (Internal)

MOTION 1
This Conference requests the Board of Trustees to seek practical ways of helping those leaving the Services to re-settle into civilian life without falling foul of the law and to give Branches a leading role in this endeavour.
Backbarrow & District, Lancashire - MOTION CARRIED

MOTION 2
This Conference views with dismay the decision to cut the Immediate Needs Grant budget and urges the Board of Trustees to rescind this decision.
Gillingham, Dorset; Newhaven, Sussex - MOTION CARRIED 

MOTION 3
This Conference is concerned about the recent change in policy with regards to beneficiaries having to be in receipt of a means tested benefit to qualify for a break at a Legion Welfare Break Centre and requests the Board of Trustees to remove or rescind this policy.
Limavady, Northern Ireland - MOTION CARRIED

GROUP B - Remembrance, Fundraising and Publicity

MOTION 4
This Conference urges the Board of Trustees to publicly denounce those people and groups that use or intend to use for political ends Acts of Respect and Remembrance for those members of our Armed Forces who die in the Service of their Country.
Shropshire - MOTION CARRIED

MOTION 5
This Conference requests that trays of Poppies and collection boxes be collected and removed from shop and other premises on 12 November. If the 12th falls on a Sunday, the date for collection will be 13 November.
Porthcawl, Vale of Glamorgan County

Amendment: In the first sentence, immediately before "12 November", insert "or after", and delete the second sentence.
York - AMENDMENT CARRIED so motion now reads:

This Conference requests that trays of Poppies and collection boxes and removed from shops and other premises on 12 November or after.

MOTION CARRIED

MOTION 6
This Conference, with the aim of excluding requests to those who are already members of the Legion, requests that a review be carried out of the overwhelming amount of fund raising and corporate literature being sent out.
Haddenham & Wilburton, Cambridgeshire; North West County - MOTION LOST

MOTION 7
This Conference requests that more publicity be afforded to the links between the Legion and the "Help for Heroes" charity to clarify whether such links are yet adequate for mutual help.
Backbarrow & District, Lancashire - MOTION CARRIED

GROUP C - Central (Internal)

MOTION 8
This Conference requests the Board of Trustees to give urgent consideration to renegotiating the level of grant currently being paid annually to The Officers' Association.
Swindon and Smestow, South Staffordshire - MOTION CARRIED

MOTION 9
This Conference requests that Parade Marshals and Standard Bearers who are eligible, be allowed to wear their Veterans' Badge on all occasions whilst carrying out their duties.
Broadstone, Dorset; Long Eaton, Derbyshire - MOTION CARRIED

MOTION 10
This Conference requests the Board of Trustees to expedite the issue of the long awaited Management Handbook.
Byfield & District, Northamptonshire - MOTION WITHDRAWN (Management Handbook now available)

MOTION 11
This Conference urges the Board of Trustees re-instate to all Counties or Districts, 'The County Youth Standard'.
Shotley & Erwarton, Suffolk - MOTION CARRIED

MOTION 12
This Conference, being mindful of the changes to membership in Version 6 of the Royal Charter and Schedules dated 31 October 2009, asks that the changes to Governing Regulations 3(b), 3(c) and 4(b) be rescinded forthwith.
Blandford, Dorset; Petts Wood, South East County - MOTION LOST

MOTION OF URGENCY - 12a
This Conference requests that the affiliation fee be increased to £24 per annum, commencing 1 October 2010.
Shropshire - MOTION LOST
 
AMENDMENT TO INCREASE THE FEE TO £16 - MOTION LOST

MOTION OF URGENCY 12b
This Conference requests that the affiliation fee be increased by £2 per annum for a period of four years, commencing 1 October 2010.

Shropshire - MOTION LOST 

GROUP D - General (External)

MOTION 13
This Conference requests the Board of Trustees to ask the MoD that Other Ranks of all the Reserve Forces who have been awarded the Service medal for their Reserve Forces Service be authorised to use post nominals after their name.
Middlewich, Cheshire - MOTION LOST

MOTION 14
This Conference requests that the Board of Trustees approaches HM Government to grant pro rata pension rights for regular ex-Service members who were discharged before 5 April 1975.
South Staffordshire - MOTION LOST

MOTION 15 *
This Conference urges the Board of Trustees to lobby HM Government to make (16) a commitment to ensure meaningful remunerative occupation appropriate to their condition for every Service war casualty.
Wimbourne, Dorset - MOTION CARRIED

The subject matter of motions marked * (if any) is already Legion policy. Such motions will be formally proposed and seconded. They will not be debated but a statement may be made by the Board of Trustees before the vote is taken. If formations have new information on the subject which they would like included in the Board's statement it should be sent to the Director General as soon as possible.

Conference voted Torquay as the venue for its Annual Conference in 2014