Re: AFFS

MJ Ray wrote:
>> Is it more practical to wind up AFFS and then restart with a new
>> organisation that has similar aims but a much more simple constitution
>> and rules or try to reboot AFFS and drastically change the constitution
>> which has proven to have effectively crippled it and caused it to drift 
>> into the state that it is now in?
>>     
>
> I think it's most practical to start successor organisation(s) and
> *then* dissolve AFFS in their favour.  However, I don't think that it
> was the constitution that crippled AFFS.  The constitution was
> surprisingly buggy and cumbersome for one from a respected national
> body, but I feel a more cooperative group could have made it work.
>   

I think this is the right move as well; I agree with your other comments 
too - I was a bit surprised by the problems that we had; and I think it 
was a bit telling that the model we used actually disappeared quite 
quickly from the site of said national body (as I recall, anyway).

I do think something based on a known model is the way to go again - 
people have previously mooted ideas about a charity, and there are 
structures available now that were unavailable when AFFS was setup 
(CICs) that deserve some thought. In terms of taking over from AFFS, 
though, I think the only absolute necessity is a similar enough set of 
objects and a similar enough asset lock - neither of which should cause 
problems.

All that is needed :) then is a set of people who will put together a 
new org.

Cheers,

Alex.