GUGB Constitution – Ghana Union Greater Birmingham

The GUGB constitution is the formal and legal governing document that set out the rules, regulations, and the way GUGB operates and manages its affairs, makes decisions, consults, and communicates with its members. Our constitution includes information about what GUGB is set up to achieve, often termed as its objects or purposes. Also, how our union goes about achieving its purposes, often termed as its powers.

Preamble

This is the revised constitution of the Ghana Union Greater Birmingham [GUGB], a Community Development Organisation, and a not-for-profit organisation; serving the interests of the Ghanaian community in Greater Birmingham and its environs, as amended by the Annual General Meeting on the 20^th day of October 2016. The GUGB is a community-based organisation dedicated to supporting human infrastructure development that maximises and strengthens community building.

The revised constitution enacted supersedes any other constitutions that may have been promulgated in the past for our union. The revised constitution and the bye-laws are made to:

Provide a structure for GUGB that delineates the rules and rights to govern itself.
Provide for the orderly conduct of internal affairs of GUGB matters in governance, management, and administration of our union.

Ideological Orientation

GUGB shall be a non-partisan organisation and it shall not align itself with any faith group and political party either here in the UK or in Ghana. GUGB shall remain neutral in the way it conducts its affairs, and shall not be motivated in any way by any political or religious ideologies. GUGB shall place the interests, welfare, and well-being of its members above partisan views in respect of political, religious, ethnic, tribal, or sectarian interests.

Affiliations

GUGB shall be affiliated with the Ghana Union Midlands [GUM], the regional umbrella body for Ghanaian groups in the Midlands region, and any other reputable charities, and not-for-profit organisations that the management committee may decide to affiliate our union with in furtherance of the objects of our union. The President, Vice President, and or any member of the management committee of GUGB shall act as agents and are duly authorised to attend and represent the union on the board of any charity or a not-for-profit organisation that GUGB may be affiliated with, and also to attend and represent the union at their meetings, events, and functions when invited.