Issue - meetings

To agree the transfer of control of the Guest House Lingfield, a charity registered with the Charity Commission (number 207424) to a Company Limited by Guarantee which has the maintenance conservation and enhancement of the Guest House at the heart of its activities, and to provide for the Council’s intention to continue to use the Guest House building to accommodate a library open to the general public, becoming a community partnered library from June 2016.

1.   That Surrey County Council’s (SCC) trusteeship of the Guest House Lingfield be transferred to “Lingfield Guest House Trust Limited”, a Company Limited by Guarantee to be incorporated with the sole purpose of acting as corporate trustee to the Guest House Trust.

2.   That authority be delegated to the Assistant Chief Executive to sign on behalf of SCC authorising the above transfer.

3.   That all assets, in relation to the Guest House Lingfield, including the Trust fund of £549,474 (subject to variation as described in paragraph 10 of the submitted report) that SCC holds, be transferred to the new Trust and that the agreed directors are appointed all subject to the grant of the lease.

4.   That the library will transfer to a Community Partnered Library arrangement from June 2016 onward.