Agenda

An agenda is sent to all people who will be attending a meeting. It lists what will be discussed (and also, possibly, who will be leading each discussion). It should use the word AGENDA as a heading, and list all the items to be discussed. It will normally also include a “notice of meeting” which gives details of what the meeting is for and when/where it will take place.

Some items always appear on an agenda. Items shown in bold in the example below always appear in a meeting agenda – these are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, - (these are the first four items in any meeting agenda) – whilst items 8 and 9 are the last two items on the agenda.. The “business items” to be discussed at the meeting are usually listed between these two sections. Obviously if there are 8 business items to be discussed then the numbering will be different – but the last two will still be “Any Other Business” and “Date, Time and Place of next meeting”.