# Glossary **Agenda**: A list of items and topics for discussion during a meeting. {% embed url="" %} **Annual General Meeting (AGM)**: A yearly meeting to discuss important co-operative matters. {% embed url="" %} **Articles of Association**: Legal documents outlining the structure and rules governing a company. {% embed url="" %} **Autonomy**: The co-operative's ability to operate independently to achieve its aims. {% embed url="" %} **Board Director**: A board member responsible for overseeing the co-operative's management. {% embed url="" %} **Board Handbook**: A document outlining guidelines and responsibilities for board members. {% embed url="" %} **Board of Directors**: The governing body overseeing the co-operative's operations. {% embed url="" %} **Bylaws**: Rules that explain how we run the co-operative and govern operations and decision-making processes. {% embed url="" %} **Circle Meetings**: Meetings involving specific groups within the co-operative. {% embed url="" %} **Circles**: Alternative word for groups within the co-operative representing different membership categories and functions (e.g. general members, workers, users or purpose circles). {% embed url="" %} **Code of Conduct**: Established guidelines and expectations for members' behaviour within the co-operative. **Co-op**: Short for co-operative, an organisation emphasising cooperation and shared ownership. {% embed url="" %} **Co-operatives**: People-centred enterprises owned, controlled and run by and for their members to realise their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations. **Co-operative Principles**: Guiding principles emphasising democratic member control and one member, one vote. {% embed url="" %} **Co-operative Society**: A specific type of co-operative with shared ownership. {% embed url="" %} **Co-ops UK**: An organisation or resource related to co-operative businesses in the United Kingdom. {% embed url="" %} **Companies House**: Agency for registering companies. {% embed url="" %} **Conflict of Interest**: Situations where personal interests conflict with co-operative duties. {% embed url="" %} **Decentralised**: Where decision-making authority and resources are dispersed among members or entities rather than centralised in one location or authority (e.g. the board). {% embed url="" %} **Democratic Control**: The co-operative is governed by its members, who make the decisions. {% embed url="" %} **Directors**: Individuals overseeing and managing specific areas of work within the co-operative. {% embed url="" %} **Eligibility Criteria**: Requirements for co-operative membership. {% embed url="" %} **Equity**: Money invested in a business by members or investors. {% embed url="" %} **Extraordinary Resolution**: A vote requiring a 75% majority to pass, used for important decisions. {% embed url="" %} **Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)**: Regulator for financial organisations, including co-operatives, to ensure compliance with financial regulations. {% embed url="" %} **General Members Meetings**: Regular meetings of co-operative members to discuss various aspects of co-operative business. {% embed url="" %} **Interpreting**: Live translating of spoken language to sign language or vice versa. {% embed url="" %} **Investor Members**: Members who have invested in the co-operative. {% embed url="" %} **Member Economic Participation**: Members contributing and benefiting economically. {% embed url="" %} **Membership**: Being a co-operative member with specific rights and responsibilities. {% embed url="" %} **Members**: Individuals or organisations with co-operative rights. {% embed url="" %} **Multi-stakeholder Co-operative**: A co-operative with different membership categories. {% embed url="" %} **NRCPD**: The National Registers of Communication Professionals working with Deaf and Deafblind People (NRCPD) is a national voluntary regulator of over 1,700 language service professionals. {% embed url="" %} **Ordinary Resolution**: A vote requiring a simple majority (51% or more) to pass. {% embed url="" %} **Proposal**: A formal suggestion or idea on how we operate presented for discussion and voting during a meeting. {% embed url="" %} **Reserves**: Funds set aside for specific purposes, such as financial stability or community initiatives. {% embed url="" %} **RBSLI**: The Regulatory Body for Sign Language Interpreters and Translators (RBSLI) is an independent, voluntary regulator. {% embed url="" %} **Rules**: The co-operative term for Articles of Association, the comprehensive legal document that guides and explains how we run the co-operative. {% embed url="" %} **Secondary Rules**: The rules for the day-to-day governance of how we run the co-operative. {% embed url="" %} **Shares**: Members or investors buy shares in a co-operative to become a member. {% embed url="" %} **Society Law**: Legal regulations ensuring co-operatives are managed and run properly. {% embed url="" %} **Sociocracy**: Where everyone can say what they think and be involved in discussions to make decisions together. {% embed url="" %} **Transparency**: Open and honest communication and decision-making. {% embed url="" %} **User members**: Deaf individuals in the co-operative. {% embed url="" %} **Voting**: The process by which members participate in decision-making. {% embed url="" %} **Worker Members**: Communication professionals providing services within the co-operative.