Charter and Bye Laws

The Society's Charter and Bye Laws set out our Royal Charter, objective, constitution and categories of membership.

The Bye Laws were last amended on 6 September 2021 after a vote of the Fellowship agreed to a series of changes proposed by Council. The main changes to the Bye Laws were:

• Inclusion of the ability to hold online AGMs and SGMs and enable digital voting.

• Introduction of a new sub-category of Fellowship called Associate Fellow for geographers studying at postgraduate level and for early career geographers.

• Renaming of Young Geographers as Student Members.

• Renaming of Ordinary Members as Members.

• Removal of administrative processes to a separate document that can be more easily updated as the processes develop.