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Trustees Annual Report

The Trustees Annual Report for the year 2024-2025 outlines the RCSLT’s activities over the last financial year. It also includes a full independent auditor’s report and financial statements, and is available for all RCSLT members to view. 

Download the full 2024/25 report (PDF)

Reports from previous years:

Download the full 2023/24 report (PDF)

Download the full 2022/23 report (PDF)

Download the full 2021/22 report (PDF)

AGM 2025

Notice is hereby given that the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists will be held virtually by zoom webinar (during RCSLT Conference 2025) on Wednesday 26 November 2025, commencing at 12.45pm. 

The AGM agenda, minutes of the 2024 AGM, Trustees Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025, along with other supporting paperwork and a proxy voting form are available to download below.

All members are welcome to register to attend this AGM but only Full Members are eligible to vote.

The required 14 days’ formal notice of this AGM will be sent in the e-newsletter on Thursday 16 October 2025 to all members for whom email addresses are held, and by hard copy to members who have previously requested formal notices in hard copy, and to members for whom no email address is held.  Please contact the Company Secretary at RCSLT if you did not receive them. If you would like your AGM papers sent in hard copy, and have not previously notified us, please write to the Company Secretary at RCSLT at cosec@rcslt.org.  Likewise, if you no longer require papers to be sent to you in hard copy, it would be helpful if you could inform us, so that we can save on postage costs.

If you wish to send in a proxy form, it must be addressed to the Company Secretary and received at RCSLT no later than noon on Tuesday 25 November 2025.  Proxies received after that time will not be counted.

Please note that:

  • only Full Members are entitled to vote at the AGM. The Full Members category consists of: Certified Members, Newly Qualified Members, Overseas Qualified Members, Non-Practising Members, Returners to Practice, Retired Members, Student Members.
  • under Section 324 of the Companies Act 2006, a member of a company is entitled to appoint another person as their proxy to exercise all or any of their rights to attend and to speak and vote at a meeting of the company. The RCSLT Articles require that any proxy appointed must be a Full Member of the RCSLT.

AGM 2024

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is an excellent opportunity for our members to find out what is going on behind the scenes at the RCSLT and to have their say on important decisions.

The 2024 AGM took place on 9 October 2024 at 12pm and included:

RCSLT documents

AGM 2023

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is an excellent opportunity for our members to find out what is going on behind the scenes at the RCSLT and to have their say on important decisions.

The 2023 AGM took place on 8 November 2023 at 12pm and included:

RCSLT documents

 

Board meetings

Wednesday 24 September 2025

The board of trustees are collectively responsible to the members for the governance of the organisation which includes developing a five-year vision, defining goals, setting targets and monitoring performance against those targets, including delivery of annual operating plans to implement the vision.

They meet on a quarterly basis. Below is a summary of the meeting held on Wednesday 24 September 2025.

  • The board heard from, an independent SLT who runs her own practice in Bradford.
  • Trustees reviewed and approved the minutes of the Board meeting on 2 July 2025 and received updates on matters arising, including a summary of the Chief Executive’s recent activities.
  • In governance matters, the Board reviewed the updated Risk Register and approved the notice for the Annual General Meeting on 26 November 2025.
  • The Board also considered the Nominations Committee’s recommendations for upcoming Trustee and Committee appointments.
  • The Board discussed proposed communications crisis principles for handling crisis communications situations
  • Trustees participated in a strategic planning workshop looking at the development of the new RCSLT strategy for 2027-2030.
  • Financial matters included reviewing the updated forecast for 2025/26 and recommendations for membership fee for 2026/27 The meeting concluded with a review of any new risks.
  • The board said thank you and goodbye to four trustees who are coming to the end of their time on the board; Pauline Downie, Frances Johnstone, Viki Baker and Dharinee Hansjee

View previous board meeting summaries.