Trager® UK Ltd
Memorandum of Association.

Click here to view the Articles of Association

 
1) The company's name is TRAGER UK LTD (Hereafter referred to as "the Company" and abbreviated to TUK)
2) The company's registered office is to be situated in England & Wales.
3) The company's objects are:
 
a) To foster world peace, one person at a time through promoting public awareness and use of the work of Dr. Milton Trager variously known as: TRAGER®, Psychophysical Integration, The TRAGER Approach, TRAGER Work, TRAGER Bodywork, TRAGER MENTASTICS® Movement Education and MENTASTICS; hereafter called 'TRAGER'.
b) To protect the integrity of TRAGER, including to establish, maintain, and enforce professional standards of practice and instruction, and to establish criteria for professional practice and continuing education as directed by Trager International and the laws of the United Kingdom. The name 'TRAGER International' refers to the presently constituted international organization or to any successor international organization and shall be abbreviated to TI in this memorandum.
c) To be the sole professional governing body for Practitioners and Students of TRAGER in the United Kingdom subject to the bylaws, rules, regulations, and enactments of TI.
d) To coordinate and promote TRAGER trainings within the United Kingdom.
e) To License Practitioners of TRAGER within the United Kingdom and other countries under the auspices of TUK within the guidance, terms, training and criteria set by TI.
f) To carry on any general commercial activity.
4) In furtherance of the objects the Company may exercise the following powers:
 
a) to promote the interests, both economically and socially, of the members and those involved therein by means of education, advertising, publicity, alliances or other means
b) to advance the welfare of, and provide support and protection for the members by assisting with debt and other financial problems and by helping to reduce overheads within the inter trading environment and on an individual basis
c) to apply to the Government, Local Government Authorities, the European Community, International Organizations, bodies corporate and others for and to accept grants of money and assistance with a view to promoting the Objects of the Company for the public benefit and to conform to any proper conditions upon which such grants and other payments are made
d) to take and accept any gift of money, property or other assets (whether subject to any special trust or not) for the Objects
e) to borrow or raise money for the Objects on such terms and on such security as may be thought fit subject to such consents as may be required by law and to a 75% majority of the voting members
f) subject to such consents as required by law and to a 75% majority of the voting members to mortgage all or any part of the property of the Association
g) to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills, cheques and other instruments and to operate bank accounts
h) to invest moneys of the Company not immediately required for its purposes in or upon such investments, securities or property as may be thought fit
i) to subscribe for, take or otherwise acquire and hold shares, stock, debentures or other securities of or interests in any company or undertaking established with the intention of furthering its Objects and benefiting the Company
j) to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire and or sell any patent or other intellectual property rights in pursuance of the Objects of the Company and with the intention of directly benefiting the Company
k) to purchase, take on lease or in exchange hire or otherwise acquire real or personal property and rights of privileges anywhere in the world, and to construct, maintain and alter buildings or other structures subject to such consents as may be required by law
l) to enter into such contracts and take out such insurances as the Directors may deem expedient in the interests of the Company
m) to adopt such means of making the Objects known as the directors may deem expedient and in particular by publicity in the press or through public meetings, lectures or otherwise by circulars, by publication of books and periodicals, making information available in electronically accessible form, and by granting rewards, scholarships and prizes
n) to undertake and execute such charitable trusts as the Directors may consider appropriate pursuant to the Objects of the Company if approved by 75% of voting members
o) to engage and pay upon such reasonable and proper terms as may be thought fit any officer or other person or persons whether on a full or part-time basis or whether as consultant or employee to supervise, organize, carry on the work of and advise the Company and to reimburse the reasonable costs of traveling, accommodation, subsistence, conference and study expenses necessarily incurred in the course of employment by the Company or the provision of professional and other consultancy services
p) to make any reasonable or necessary provision for the payment of pensions and superannuation to or on behalf of employees or former employees and their spouses and dependents
q) to execute and do all such other instruments, acts and things as may be requisite for the efficient management, development and administration of the Company
r) to amalgamate with any companies, institutions, societies or associations which shall have objects mainly or similar to those of the Company and which prohibit payment of any individual or profit to and the distribution of any of their assets amongst their members
s) to make and alter such rules and regulations as may be requisite for the efficient management, development and administration of the Company
t) to do all such other lawful things as will further the attainment of the Objects or any of them
u) to perform prudent and necessary business and legal functions, including entering into contractual obligations and to maintain organizational viability for the execution of its purposes.
v) to purchase or otherwise acquire any patents, brevets d'invention, licenses, concessions, copyrights, trade marks, designs and the like, conferring any exclusive or non-exclusive or limited right of use, or any secret or other information as to any invention, process or development which may seem to the Association capable of being used for any of the purposes of the Association, or the acquisition of which may seem calculated directly or indirectly to benefit the Association, to use, exercise, with a view to the working and development of the same to carry on any business whatsoever, whether manufacturing or otherwise, which the Association may think calculated directly or indirectly to achieve these objects.
5) TRAGER UK LTD can be abbreviated to 'TUK' and is trading as "TRAGER UK and Affiliated Countries".
6) Where students and practitioners from other countries journey to the United Kingdom to study under the auspices of TUK, and where no such TRAGER association exists in their own country, they may be supported in the same way as UK members by TRAGER UK and Affiliated Countries. When trainings are run in that country, it becomes an Institutional Member. These conditions continue until such time as:
 
a) A supporting TRAGER association is founded within their own country
b) A majority of the practitioners and students from the country concerned request to be affiliated to another Association
c) All practitioners and students in the country concerned cease to be members of TUK
d) The Committee, or the majority of the membership of TUK decide to end that country's affiliation
e) Once the number of practitioners in another country exceeds 10 in number they may be requested by the Committee to opt out of TUK and form their own National TRAGER Memorandum
7) The income and property of the Company shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the Objects as set forth in this Memorandum of Association and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend or otherwise to the members of the Company.
8) The liability of the members is limited.
9) Every Director of the Company undertakes to contribute such amount as may be required (not exceeding one pound) to the Company assets if it should be wound up while he or she is a Director or within one year after he or she ceases to be a Director, for payment of the Association's debts and liabilities contracted before he or she ceases to be a Director, and of the costs charges and expenses of winding up.
10) If the Company is wound up or dissolved and after all its debts and liabilities have been satisfied there remains any property it shall not be paid to or distributed amongst the members of the Company, but shall be given or transferred to some other business Company, charity or association having similar Objects which prohibits the distribution of its or their income and property to an extent at least as great as that imposed on the Company by this Memorandum, chosen by the members of the Company at or before the time or dissolution and if that cannot be done then to some other charitable object.