A new version of the Nominated Caregiver’s Form is now available, allowing for single- and multi-day guardianship at events.
This document contains information for Legal Guardians and Nominated Caregivers in charge of minors at SCA Ltd events, and the consent form required to be completed for a minor to attend an SCA Ltd event. Only the last page needs to be printed and completed.
The new form can be found here.
Kate Turley,
Secretary, SCA Ltd
SCA Ltd has released its new Bullying and Harassment Policy, adopted as of 09 April 2017.
The purpose of this document is to provide:
This policy applies to all persons participating in SCA related events or activities in Australia including, but not limited to, feasts, tournaments, regular meetings, practices, and online activities including mailing lists and social media as well as any other online space used by and/or for SCA participants. It is used in conjunction with all other operating documents, and policies, including the SCA Ltd Code of Conduct and Corpora.
This document sets out the definitions of bullying and harassment, how allegations are to be made and how they will be dealt with when process is followed correctly. This document also sets out the requirements on all parties when a complaint is made, and provides as appendices a one-page summary on those requirements and a form for making a formal complaint.
It can be found here.
Michele le Bas
Chair, SCA Ltd
Greetings from the Board, The Society for Creative Anachronism Ltd Board of Directors wishes to advise that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held on Friday 14 April 2017 in the Guild Hall at Rowany Festival, commencing at 5 pm Eastern Standard Time.
This is the official version of this notice, as per the Constitution. Click Here to find the draft minutes for the 2016 AGM, as well as the Agenda and Proxy Form. The 2016 Financial Report is also available there. We hope to see as many of you at the meeting as possible. Those who cannot attend are welcome to lodge their Proxy form for voting in accordance with instructions on the form.
This year we will be broadcasting the AGM as a live webinar. The webinar will open by 4.45 pm with the AGM commencing 5pm. Please register for the AGM at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3390285111751206913
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The broadcast will be chat enabled for taking questions. Voting will not be conducted online; an appropriate proxy form must be lodged.
Kate Turley
Secretary, SCA Ltd.
If you are reading this, then your copy and paste from Pegasus removed a hyphen from the URL for the AGM notice. Please find the official AGM notice by visiting https://sca.org.au/board/official-notice-of-2016-agm.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
Jeff Nicholson
SCA Ltd Webadmin
Greetings from the Board,
The Society for Creative Anachronism Ltd Board of Directors wishes to advise that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held on Friday 25 March 2016 in the Great Hall at Rowany Festival, commencing at 9 am.
This is the official version of this notice, as per the Constitution. Click here to find the draft minutes for the 2015 AGM, as well as the Agenda, Proxy Form, and the proposed constitutional amendments that will be voted on at the meeting. The 2015 Financial Report is also available there.
We hope to see as many of you at the meeting as possible. Those who cannot attend are welcome to lodge their Proxy form for voting in accordance with instructions on the form.
Michele Le Bas
Secretary, SCA Ltd.
Unto the populace of Lochac, greetings.
After a commentary period and consideration, the Board of SCA Ltd (the corporate body in Australia) welcomes a new Board Member, Tim Liersch, known in the SCA as Lord Eberhard Neggerstein, from Politarchopolis (ACT).
We look forward to his contributions on the Board, and the SCA in Australia, over the coming years.
The Board now has eight members and is no longer actively seeking nominations at this time. However, members of the populace who are considering undertaking a three-year term of service on the Board in the future, are always welcome to discuss their interest and find out more about Board membership.
Yours in service,
Michele Le Bas, Secretary, SCA Ltd
(THL Yvonne de Plumetot)
In trying to keep the SCA Ltd website current and manageable, some changes have been made to the way files are stored on the server. While transparency is important, accuracy is even more so. Therefore, files that are superseded have been removed. This will help prevent web searches showing out of date information. This may cause some broken links in older news stories, and for this we apologise.
Other features designed to keep the website accessible and current include the previously mentioned embedded PDF files for all policy documents. It is known that some or all Mac products experience difficulties with the embedded format, so they also have links underneath for any computer or portable device that might not render the embedded file correctly. These links point to the same file, but in a different way. Please contact the Webminister if you have any problems.
The website is currently designed such that any policy file will have a link to it that remains the same even when updated, so that our group sites can link directly to them, if required. It is preferred that the link is to the page with the PDF attached, instead of the PDF itself.
Finally, in re-organising the files on the website, some historic files have been relocated. While financial reports and minutes for the current and immediate previous years will be available from the website, older files have been removed. These are still available to members, upon request to the Secretary.
In service to the members,
Sorle Maknicoll
SCA Ltd Webminister
As mentioned when the Code of Conduct was updated, the Membership Forms have been updated. Please dispose of any printed membership forms that predate 1 November 2015, and use the new forms from now on. Of course, you can always use the online registry for your membership needs.
In service,
Sorle Maknicoll
SCA Ltd Webmin
A new operating agreement between SCA Ltd (Australia) and SCA NZ Inc has been signed. This updates the previous agreement, in light of changes to the Affiliation Agreements with SCA Inc (US), for the better management of all Lochac. The new agreement may be view here.
In service to the Society,
Sorle Maknicoll
SCA Ltd Webmin
As part of the SCA Ltd Board’s ongoing work to ensure that all policies and procedures are up-to-date and relevant, the Code of Conduct has been revised, simplified, and updated. The Code of Conduct sets out the expectations on all those who would participate in the Society in Australia.
The updated Code of Conduct can be viewed here.
Please note: this update will necessitate changes to some forms (particular membership forms). Please be aware of this and use forms dated after 1 November 2015, when available.
In service to the Society,
Sorle Maknicoll
SCA Ltd Webmin