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<span id="3_1"></span>3.1. Each Director shall take reasonable steps to engage with a broad range of Hackspace members to ensure that they (the Directors) have a good understanding of the collective needs and desires of the membership.

<span id="3_2"></span>3.2. In instances where there is a lack of a formal mechanism for the membership to express its collective will, Directors shall take reasonable steps to consult with the membership with a view to understanding whether a consensus exists.

<span id="3_3"></span>3.3. Directors of the Company shall exercise their responsibilities impartially. No individual member, whether Director, supplier, or by dint of holding any other position, formal or otherwise, shall be treated preferentially by the Directors in exercising their responsibilities.

<span id="3_4"></span>3.4. Hackspace members who find themselves in a position of being conflicted as a result of holding excessive power, for example by being a strategic supplier or having disproportionate influence over the finances of the hackspace, are expected to exercise restraint and not use that position to influence proceedings of the Company or the Hackspace more than any other Hackspace member. This holds regardless of whether they consider themselves to be acting in the Hackspace membership’s best interests by doing so.

<span id="3_5"></span>3.5. Directors should expect to be able to fully enjoy the benefits of also being members of the Hackspace. Directors of Reading Maker Space Ltd fulfil their roles on a voluntary basis without payment for their services. Hackspace members should pay regard to these points when making requests of Directors.

<span id="3_6"></span>3.6. Directors are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with the companies legislation in force at the time.

<span id="3_7"></span>3.7. All matters that are not the responsibility of the Company and its Directors are the responsibility of the collective membership of the Hackspace.

<span id="3_8"></span>3.8. At the time of writing this document, Directors are not responsible for the resolution of conflict between members of the Hackspace. However there is work underway to develop a disciplinary process, and further develop the safe-guarding policy and process, and this document should be updated to reflect the balance of responsibilities between Members and Directors accordingly.

<span id="3_9"></span>3.9. In lieu of completion of that work, the Directors are afforded the power to immediately suspend a member, or members, of the Hackspace if deemed necessary to preserve the safety and/or well-being of other members.