15 Any member shall be entitled to invite guests to the
Association, provided that no person whose application for
membership has been declined or who has been expelled
from the Association shall be invited as a guest.
16 These rules may be changed by resolution carried by a
majority of at least 75% of the members present at the
Annual General Meeting, the notice of which shall contain
particulars of the proposed changes.
Ratified at AGM June 1997
Amended at AGM June 1998
Amended at AGM February 2001
Amended at AGM March 2007
Amended at AGM February 2008
Mission Statement
The object of the Ipswich and Suffolk Small Business ISSBA does not seek to be a definitive source of fact on law,
Association (ISSBA) is to provide a forum for the mutual legislation, finance or general business activity and accepts no
support of small businesses. legal responsibility for the advice given by its members or
speakers at ISSBA events.
Within this forum small businesses within Suffolk may, to the
benefit of their businesses, exchange views, sales, general Methods
information and acquired experience with others involved in
ISSBA organises meetings for its members throughout the
the small business sector. They may also band together from
year. These will be a mix of talks on specific subjects by
time to time to present their businesses to the wider world of
members and non-members, commercial presentations, visits
potential customers outside ISSBA.
to other organisations and businesses, and social functions.
ISSBA also recognises the social needs of many small
ISSBA publishes a monthly e-newsletter (ISSBA Issues)
business people, often working on their own, who wish to
containing details of forthcoming events, professional articles,
meet others in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere for social
comment and relevant business information.
interaction.
ISSBA also publishes an annual membership directory
Background
containing information on member’s businesses and their
ISSBA is an informal organisation of small business owners contact details, together with advertisements from members
and others involved in small businesses, funded by member’s and sponsors and information about ISSBA itself.
subscriptions and organised by a Committee elected at an
AGM.
Details of forthcoming events and articles together with
information about the Association and member businesses are
ISSBA is not a profit-making organisation; its revenues are also available on the ISSBA website at www.issba.co.uk which
directed to the business aims of the Association through is updated regularly.
meetings, mailings and promotional activity.
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