Disability Action works out of a Belfast headquarters and three regional
centres in Carrickfergus, Derry and Dungannon. The Derry office also houses a
number of voluntary organisations for whom we provide “nursery” accommodation
i.e. accommodation and office services.
Disability Action introduced new structures in 2001, designed to ensure the
most effective and efficient delivery of our objectives.
Disability Action’s Board of Directors is responsible for all issues of
corporate governance. Disability Action currently has 180 member organisations
and all are invited to nominate candidates for Disability Action’s Board by a
certain date each year, ballot forms listing all the candidates validly
nominated are then issued to members and election is by a simple majority of
the postal vote. The results of the election are declared at the Annual General
Meeting. In any one-year under Disability Action’s constitution not less than 8
or more than 12 people comprise the Board of Directors and approximately 1/3 of
the Directors retire each year. No one can serve more than six consecutive
years on the Board.
The positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Treasurer are elected at the first
formal meeting of the Board of Directors following the Annual General Meeting.
Although it is not a requirement of our Constitution, traditionally the
majority of Board members have been people with disabilities.
Disability Action is a registered charity (Charity reference. XN71868A), a
voluntary organisation and a company limited by guarantee, (company no. 19258).
It has a subsidiary company, Disability Action Employment & Training
Services, which houses a number of our projects.
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