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- Annual Report & Accounts
- BuDS’ Trustees
- Evolving BuDS
- BuDS’ Values
- BuDS Annual Meeting 2024
- BuDS Annual Report 2022/23
- BuDS AGM 2022 Minutes
- BuDS Annual Meeting 2023
- BuDS Strategy & Plan – 2023/24
- BuDS’ Policies
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- BuDDies
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- Covid-19
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- Fair4All Attitudes and Hate Crimes
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- Fair4All Education
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- Fair4All Services
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- Neurodiversity and Learning Disability
- Offers and Discounts
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BuDS’ Trustees
As a user-led activist charity, the role of BuDS Trustees is different from that in many other charities. As a charity, we are by policy strongly Trustee-led. It is inherent in our status as a user-led organisation that the BuDS Trustee Board is the clear leadership and direction setting body for the charity. Accordingly, we expect and require all Trustees to have a strong commitment to our values and objectives, and for Trustees to play an active role in the life of the charity.
75% of BuDS Trustees must be, and must identify as, disabled people within the meaning of the Equality Act 2010. We expect our Trustees to bring and share their lived experience as disabled people when we are making decisions. We aim to ensure that all significant impairment groups are represented across the Board. We work inclusively and accessibly so that disabled Trustees do not experience barriers to their participation.
It is BuDS’ policy that all Trustees are re-elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). In practice, Trustees tend to serve for a period between 2 and 5 years. Prospective Trustees shadow the Trustee Board for a minimum period of 3 months before becoming eligible to be co-opted.
Sadly, to protect our Trustees from online abuse, we do not publish information about our Trustees beyond that which we are legally required to disclose. This information can be found on the Charity Commission website by clicking the button below.
Evolving BuDS
BuDS continues to grow and develop, and the charity has to have a legal form which is suitable for the future. This article explains what Trustees are doing to evolve BuDS to give it a secure future.
Moving Forward Together
BuDS carried out a public and member consultation in 2023, which overwhelmingly supported the changes listed below. The 2023 Annual General Meetings approved the changes, and gave Trustees the authority to put them into place.
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BuDS’ Values
BuDS wants to be a charity which has strong, clear values which guide our work and everything done by our trustees, staff and volunteers.
BuDS first adopted formal values in 2020. We review them regularly, and the following values were adopted by the 2024 Annual General Meeting:
- BuDS is an inclusive & diverse working community of and for all disabled people
- BuDS is a strong, honest, voice for disabled people
- BuDS is a proactive charity that lives the social model, removes barriers and finds answers
- Fair4All is at the heart of all BuDS does
- BuDS is an empowering, reflective, caring, supportive, kind and safe organisation
- BuDS has an open culture and is committed to collaborative working
Twice each year, the BuDS Trustees will assess how well BuDS has kept to its values, and report back to the Annual General Meeting.
BuDS Annual Meeting 2024
Bouncing Into The Future!
The BuDS Annual General Meeting for 2024 was held online on 18 January 2025. As an “unincorporated association” of disabled people, the AGM is the opportunity for our members to make key decisions including electing Trustees and approving strategies and key policies, and hearing about BuDS’ work. The AGM also formally approves the annual report and accounts.
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BuDS Annual Report 2022/23
The BuDS Annual Report covering the period of April 2022 – March 2023 was published on 31 January 2024. The Chair of Trustees’ Introduction is below, and you can read the full report and all its annexes using the buttons below.
Read MoreBuDS AGM 2022 Minutes
In preparation for the 2023 BuDS Annual Meeting, the Minutes of the 2022 Annual Meeting have been published so that people can look them over ahead of their discussion. They can be downloaded from the link below.
You can download the 2023 Annual Meeting presentation here.
BuDS Annual Meeting 2023
Your chance to learn more about us and get involved!
The BuDS Annual Meeting for 2023 will be held online at 3 pm on Saturday 13 January 2024. This isn’t a stuffy meeting but a celebration of all we have done in this extraordinary year. There’s plenty of opportunity to ask questions and get involved in our work. This year, we are also making some big changes to evolve BuDS so that we can help more people.
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BuDS Strategy & Plan – 2023/24
In April 2023, BuDS Trustees agreed that the charity’s main strategic objective for the year ahead would be to complete the transition from Covid-19 contingency funds to conventional charitable funding, and so enable all of our current projects to continue and expand. By July 2023, it was clear that we were succeeding in re-funding our current projects, and that we needed to change our strategy to reflect our quick growth. BuDS Trustees have therefore agreed an updated strategy for the remainder of the current financial year. This can be downloaded below.
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BuDS’ Policies
On this page, you can find all of BuDS’ key policies. These are constantly reviewed and updated, so you may find different documents available compared to the last time you visited this page. Documents are available as PDF downloads. If you would like the documents in any other format, or have any questions about the policies, please email us.
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