As an Embroiderers' Guild member, you will have read in your Notice of General Meeting that the Guild has decided it will no longer support the regions and branches. They will ‘redeploy the Guild’s financial resources’, that is to say they will take over the money branches have historically collected for promoting stitch to a large proportion of the Guild’s members, and use it to prevent the Guild from becoming insolvent.
All this was done without any consultation with branches. The resignation of the CEO was the first indication something was happening, closely followed by the calling of a General Meeting. Last week the branch accounts held in Unity Trust Bank were frozen by the Trustees of the Guild and so branches are unable to honour the contracts they have made with speakers and tutors in their current programmes.
Invitations have been sent out to a Zoom meeting on Saturday 27th February to discuss how this branch can adapt to the situation, and the committee hope as many members as possible will attend. If you have not received this, please contact: anneprior@btinternet.com .
Meanwhile, a petition has been organised urging the Guild to negotiate with the branches rather than take precipitate action. You can find the petition at
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/closure-of-all-local-embroiderers-guild-branches
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