Fish Hoek Art Society is YOUR society and it is up to you to support it. Without your efforts and support, it will die. The very able committee do all they can to keep it going but it needs YOUR IMPUT too.
With new regulations, it has become imperative to have a Public Officer to represent the society. This person has to be voted in and it is the only way in the future the Society will be able to continue functioning.
Sue Green, the Society's long-standing accountant and artist, has agreed to fill this post. But YOU DEAR MEMBER need to vote her into the position. Once this is done, the Society will be able to continue to function legally and fiscally - with the usual amount of effort.
You have probably read the latest news from acting Chair Lady, Ann Zwets. Ann and Sue have been working in conjunction with an auditor and with the bank to try and clarify the status of Fish Hoek Art Society - something that all societies and clubs will also have to do in compliance with SARS regulations to continue their existence.
They have given countless hours of their own time to this end.
Reread Ann's letter:
With new regulations, it has become imperative to have a Public Officer to represent the society. This person has to be voted in and it is the only way in the future the Society will be able to continue functioning.
Sue Green, the Society's long-standing accountant and artist, has agreed to fill this post. But YOU DEAR MEMBER need to vote her into the position. Once this is done, the Society will be able to continue to function legally and fiscally - with the usual amount of effort.
You have probably read the latest news from acting Chair Lady, Ann Zwets. Ann and Sue have been working in conjunction with an auditor and with the bank to try and clarify the status of Fish Hoek Art Society - something that all societies and clubs will also have to do in compliance with SARS regulations to continue their existence.
They have given countless hours of their own time to this end.
Reread Ann's letter:
Dear Members
Sue Green, our Treasurer, has received a letter from Nedbank, where we hold an investment for the Society, asking us to declare our tax status.
Following this Sue and I have had a meeting with an Auditor to see how best we can set up a legal entity to satisfy SARS. On his advice we would need to register the Society as an “Association of persons managing the collective interest common to all members” – this being a section of the Body Corporate tax law.
We have to pass a Resolution to appoint Sue as the Public Officer representing the Society before she goes to SARS to register the Society. Sue, who has handled the books for the past 18 years, is the only person qualified to represent us, and I can only say that we are extremely grateful for the work she had done for the Society in the past, and the time she is giving up now to sort this out for us.
We need all paid up members to sign the Resolution, and we are holding an ad hoc meeting at Nerina Gardens Hall on Monday 11 December at 6 pm to do this.
It will be a very short meeting – no longer than 30 minutes - and we urgently request that you attend to sign the document. If, for some reason, you are unable to attend on Monday, please let me know and I can either come to you or meet you somewhere.
Given that we are struggling to find new members and that the membership is somewhat diminished the alternative to registering the Society would be to cease operating as an Art Society and to donate whatever monies we have accrued to a designated third party. The Society is 63 years old, and in my opinion we would only like to do this as an absolute last resort.
Kind regards
Ann Zwets
If a quorum of members is not reached, then the alternative will probably be the dissolution of Fish Hoek Art Society. That, after 63 years, would be a pity.
It is up to you members to keep the Society alive.
Nerina Gardens Hall on Monday 11 December at 6 pm
See you there!
