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* We are light on governance and have a level structure. There are no committees, no officers, and fundamentally no member is any more important than any other.
* We are light on governance and have a level structure. There are no committees, no officers, and fundamentally no member is any more important than any other.
* Four of our members are directors of a limited company - Reading Makerspace Ltd - that has been set up solely to provide us with sufficient legal identity to pay the rates, energy bills (which you can imagine are quite large), and buy things such as insurance
* Five of our members are directors of a limited company - Reading Makerspace Ltd - that has been set up solely to provide us with sufficient legal identity to pay the rates, energy bills (which you can imagine are quite large), and buy things such as insurance
* Our current directors are Tony, Steve, Vance, Mark, and Andrew [point out on touchscreen once we have it]
* Our current directors are Tony, Steve, Vance, Mark, and Andrew [point out on touchscreen once we have it]
* Members often describe our governance arrangements as a ‘do-ocracy’ – things get done by people on the basis of consensus
* Members often describe our governance arrangements as a ‘do-ocracy’ – things get done by people on the basis of consensus