The HELOA Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a virtual meeting being held on Wednesday 27 January 2027, 09:30 – 12:30 via Zoom.
The 2027 AGM will be a virtual meeting with the voting process being managed by Mi-Voice, an online voting platform. Primary contacts and nominated proxies that have booked onto AGM should receive an email from Mi-Voice on Tuesday 26 January 2027 with voting details and a single-use link to join the voting site which can be accessed through a browser.
Once you receive your Mi-Voice login details on Tuesday 26 January, please login to the site and participate in the ‘Test Vote’ to help identify any issues ahead of AGM.
If you do not receive the email or require any assistance with the online voting site, please contact Mi-Voice at support@mi-voice.com or +44 (0) 2380 763 987.
Primary Contact/ Proxy Role
Institutional members are entitled to vote on motions at the AGM which is the role of the institutional primary contact. If the primary contact is unable to attend the AGM, then they may:
1. Nominate another institutional HELOA member as a proxy to exercise all, or any, of that primary contact’s rights to attend, speak and vote.
2. Nominate their Group Chair – Where there is no proxy available, a primary contact may nominate their Group Chair as proxy to vote on the institution’s behalf.
3. Vote via Email – Where there is no proxy available, votes may be sent to office@heloa.ac.uk which will be added to the votes during the meeting.
Nominated proxy details and email votes must be arranged by Monday 18 January 2027.
Each primary contact or proxy may only hold one vote. It is the role of the primary contact or nominated proxy to canvas the views of their institutional HELOA members and vote accordingly during the meeting.
Voting Online
Both the Mi-Voice email and voting site contain instructions for voting. Please read these details carefully. Voting on each motion will open and close during the AGM when instructed by the Chair of the Meeting. If the Chair states that voting is open for an item and it does not automatically show available, please click the blue ‘Refresh’ button at the bottom of the page.
Once you have logged into Mi-Voice for the meeting, please select ‘Register Your Attendance’. For each motion, choose to vote for, against or abstain.
Decisions at AGM
Any decision other than one falling within clause 10.4 (Decisions that must be taken in a particular way) shall be taken by a simple majority of votes cast at the meeting. In the event of an equality of votes, the Chair shall either:
1. call for another vote or;
2. exercise his or her second or casting vote.
Decisions that must be taken in a particular way including, any decision to amend the constitution, must be passed at the AGM by a 75% majority of votes cast.
Mi-Voice Data Sharing
To use the Mi-Voice service, we must share your name and email address with Mi-Voice. To ensure this is conducted securely, we have entered a data sharing agreement with Mi-Voice. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact the HELOA office.
AGM Reports & Documents
The AGM reports and documents can be accessed via the 2027 AGM pages of the HELOA website.