Our Structure

NABMA is a membership organisation and major decisions are taken at the Annual General Meeting of the organisation. In the period between annual general meetings, a Management Board undertakes responsibility for developing policy, overseeing staffing matters and providing general management of NABMA. The Management Board is made up of a number of elected Officers of NABMA, together with representatives of the various subscription bandings. Further details of the NABMA structure, and particularly additional information regarding the Annual General Meeting and the Management Board can be found in the NABMA Rules and Constitution.

NABMA operates under a service level agreement with Oswestry Town Council, under which Oswestry provides all administrative, clerical and financial services. David Preston, Town Clerk of Oswestry, is currently Manager of the service level agreement and all the staff at Oswestry Town Council contribute in some way to the effective operation of the current arrangements.

The day to day management of NABMA is undertaken by Graham Wilson, its Chief Executive, who also fulfils the role of Legal Advisor to NABMA.
Graham has been involved with NABMA for almost fifteen years and was appointed as NABMA’s first Chief Executive in April 2005.

In addition to the roles undertaken by Graham Wilson and David Preston, NABMA currently has Richard Walden working as a Membership Development Officer. Richard will be spending the first half of 2008 in seeking to develop the NABMA membership and also looking at way of generating additional income for NABMA. NABMA is also looking to appoint a Training and Development Officer and hopefully this new position will be filled very shortly.

The NABMA Forums, covering retail, livestock, wholesale and private markets play an important part in the NABMA structure and give members an opportunity to discuss in detail matters relevant to each particular area of market activity. All the Forums are supported by specialist advisors who give their time voluntarily to assist member and identify issues relevant at local and national level.

Any member of NABMA is entitled to attend any meeting arranged by the organisation. Details of dates and venues can be found in the NABMA calendar.