Allotment committees

[sally james]

Can anyone with a committee on their plots tell me if husband and wife can be two of  the three signortarys for the bank  cheques, we have a treaserur and secertary who are husband and wife, took over the committee over 2 months ago, and still have not changed the mandate, is this right? anynthoughts on this matter.
good growing everyone

[sally james]

[SMP1704]

Speaking from experience, married couples can both be signatories.  Not sure what you mean by the mandate not being changed - does that relate to when the couple took over and haven't gotten around to it yet?

[Unwashed]

It depends on what your constitution says?  There isn't any rules per se, but granting organisations often won't give you money if the signatories aren't required by the constitution to be unrelated, and there are good reasons for that.

[Trevor_D]

The simple answer is "yes". I am Secretary, my wife is Chairman; we are both signatories, along with the Treasurer.

At the moment, he is ill, so I'm dealing with the petty cash. Fortunately, there aren't any bills in the offing. But when I went into the bank to pay in a couple of cheques from new members I asked them this very question, just in case we had an emergency and needed to write a cheque. I was told that it was no problem - we could both sign. (Banks don't actually look at the signatures until the cheque is a big one!)

We have a private agreement that we won't both sign and that it must be - under normal circumstances, that is - the Treasurer plus one of us.

But the Lottery Fund won'e be able to give us a grant unless the bank forbids us both to sign, as per our private agreement.