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ESAN Extraordinary General meeting Thursday 22nd May 2025 1.30-3.00pm

The next ESAN members meeting is an Extraordinary General Meeting. It will be held online on Zoom from 1.30pm on Thursday 22nd May 2025.

Eligible Members will formally vote on resolutions to wind up the Essential Services Access Network (ESAN) charity (Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number 1157865) and to dispose of the surplus funds.

The meeting will also approve the 2024-25 Annual Report and Accounts.

The meeting papers were circulated to full members in the week commencing 5 May 2025.

Agenda ESAN AGM Meeting May 2025 final ESAN Constitution amended February 2023

ESAN Constitution amended February 2023

Annex 1 ESAN AGM and members meeting 17.10.2024 minutes Draft for approval

Annex 2 ESAN members meeting 24.04.2025 minutes for approval

Annex 3 ESAN Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 for approval

Annex 4 ESAN AGM Resolution to wind up ESAN charity

Annex 4B Resolution Proxy Voting Form

Zoom meeting link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82382343471?pwd=e0i0gSeAnIb9ZCJ1DKop8XksSvRmhr.1

Meeting ID: 823 8234 3471

Passcode: 474435

ESAN members meeting Thursday 24th April 2025 1.30-3.30pm

The meeting will take place in London and online

Room 416, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London SE1 9GY

The meeting will include:

Sustainability First presentation: David Murray and Zoe McLeod – Future of ESAN

CAP presentation: Juliette Flach – The state of financial difficulty in the UK

Roundtable discussion: Andy White, CCW; Matt Copeland, NEA; David Southgate, Scope – The outlook for essential services in 2025

A special general meeting will take place on Thursday 22nd May online from 1.30pm.

Details to follow soon.

ESAN members meeting 19 February 2025

The next ESAN members’ meeting will take place on Wednesday 19 February 1.30-3.30pm, hosted by Independent Age in London and online:

8 Avonmore Rd, London W14 8RR

(Nearest TFL stops are Kensington Olympia, or West Kensington)

Teams link:
Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 319 218 121 39
Passcode: iZ7ym7w7

Independent Age will be presenting their new research, to be published in December, about single social tariffs for water bills.

Fair By Design will be presenting their new research on credit.

Agenda ESAN Members Meeting February 2025

ESAN AGM & members meeting Thursday 17th October 2024

The ESAN members meeting and AGM took place on 17th October from 1.30pm, hosted by CCW in Birmingham:

Agenda ESAN AGM and members meeting October 2024

Presentations from Uregni, CCW and CAP:

Energy Hardship – Consumer Lived Experience – summary report – Utility Regulator

ESAN Presentation Deficit budgets The cost to stay alive CAP presentation

ESAN Draft Determinations

GSS ESAN Oct 24

WaterSure Recs Stakeholder Briefing

ESAN members meeting 17 July 1.30-3.30pm

The last ESAN members meeting took place on Wednesday 17 July 2024 on Zoom.

The meeting focused on progress with Ofgem’s ban on forced pre-payment meter installations, with presentations from Ofgem and Citizens Advice Extra Help Unit.

There was also a presentation from CCW on the Guaranteed Standards Review and a Call for Input to the review of the WaterSure support scheme.

Agenda ESAN Members Meeting July 2024 updated

Extra Help Unit Presentation on PPM 170724

CCW presentation on WaterSure and GSS 170724