Quote Originally Posted by FellJunior View Post
To AlwaysInjured:
You have referred a number of times to the FRA becoming a limited company in order to avoid/reduce its responsibility. The FRA is in fact a company limited by guarantee, a completely different legal entity designed specifically for member organisations such as the FRA. As a committee member of another company limited by guarantee, I would be interested to know how this status can be used to reduce responsibility, as we are about to make a difficult decision on behalf of our members regarding public liability.

Contrary to popular opinion, I have little time to involve in this subject,beyond what seems to be reasonable minimum to get some issues addressed

I assume what I said from an FRA statement - the rationale apparently clear at the time.

"As outlined in the Summer edition of The Fellrunner, the committee of the
Association believes that it is unreasonable, unfair and unnecessary for each member
of the committee, all of whom are volunteers, to be wholly responsible for all the
debts and liabilities of the Association, by virtue of the legal principle of joint and
several liability.
The move to incorporate is to primarily address this risk, to protect the assets of the
Association within a shell of limited liability, to be clear that members themselves
have no liability to the body beyond a nominal £1.00 each and to allow the
Association to enter into contracts and other relationships in its own right, something
it currently has to do, having no separate legal status, via individual members of its
committee"

Limiting liability to £1 each. RO have no such limitation.
I have not, and have no intention of finding out how good that legal protection is beyond what was stated
. I assume they took advice.