GOVERNANCE

The Bournemouth Interpreters’ Group was formally constituted as a not-for-profit community organisation in August 2005. In August 2011 the Group became a Community Interest Company Limited by Guarantee (No. 7757781). You can view the full text of our Articles of Association here.

Management of the day-to-day affairs of BIG is in the hands of the Directors, who have in part retained their previous committee roles as key areas of responsibility under the CIC structure. They can each be contacted at any time on any aspect of the Group’s affairs:

• Alan Marshall (Chairman) 07818-420522

• Yvonne Porras  07980-965539

• Sylvia Pielok (Treasurer) 07931-572487

• Fathi Salih  07748-632309

• Paul Bourdais 07771-593952
  

The Directors meet formally at regular intervals.  Members may view the minutes of any such meeting on request.    All members are notified individually in advance of the Annual General Meeting and of any extraordinary general meeting.

ORIGINS in the COMMUNITY

The Bournemouth Interpreters' Group CIC originally grew out of a Community Interpreting Course run by Bournemouth and Poole College in 2004. The Course itself originated at the instigation of Bournemouth Borough Council, in order to address three needs:

• to give service providers local access to interpreters in a range of languages

• to give interpreters local access to a nationally recognised qualification

• to meet the needs and rights of speakers of other languages in the area
  in accessing local services

Founder Members: 

• Sayma Ahmed
• Alan Marshall
• Yvonne Porras
• Anna Watson