Regional Disabled Members Committee AGM

Branch Disabled Members Self-Organised Groups are invited to submit nominations to the Regional Disabled Members Committee ahead of the AGM.

The Regional Disabled Members’ Committee meets quarterly and reports to the Regional Council and Regional Committee.  Amongst the Committee’s objectives is the promotion of disabled members’ participation in UNISON at every level, and to campaign for the elimination of discrimination towards disabled people.  The 2025/26 committee will be formally constituted at the AGM on 25 September 2025.

If you would like to be a member of the Regional Disabled Members Committee, please speak to your branch in the first instance.

If your branch does not have a Disabled Members SOG, then the nomination must be made by the Branch Committee.

Nominations

Branch Disabled Members’ Self-Organised Groups (SOGs) are invited to make nominations to the Disabled Members’ Committee for 2025/26. However where a branch Disabled Members SOG does not exist, then the nomination should be made through the Branch Committee.

Each branch is entitled to nominate one delegate to sit on the Regional Disabled Members Committee 2025/26 and attend the AGM on 1 October and one observer (who will not be eligible to vote, and the branch will be required to pay expenses for). At least one of the branch representatives (delegate & observer) must be a woman.

All existing members of the Regional Disabled Members’ Committee will have to be re-nominated by their branch as their committee membership will not be carried forward.

Nominations and registrations must be received by no later than 5pm on Tuesday 2 September. 

Register your branch representatives and any access requirements online here

or

Complete a return appendix A and B to Sherron King, RDMC administrator (s.king2@unison.co.uk)

Appendix A – nomination form

Appendix B – access requirements form

Where nominees are interested in holding an officer position on the Committee, or would like to attend other committees as a Regional Disabled Members Committee representative, Appendix C and/or D must be completed and returned to Sherron King (s.king2@unison.co.uk) by no later than 5pm Tuesday 2 September.

Appendix C – nomination form for committee officer positions

Appendix D – nomination form for directly elected seats