Like all registered UK charities, the IBMT is required to hold an annual general meeting, to elect the committe and review the previous year's business. However, the IBMT's AGM weekends are much more than a bureaucratic meeting, involving up to three days of conversation, commemoration and celebration. Since the initial AGM in Manchester in 2002, each event has been hosted in a diffferent town or city, reflecting both the wide geographical origins of the British and Irish volunteers for the Spanish Civil War in the thirties and the membership of the Trust today:
2002: Manchester
2003: Glasgow
2004: Cardiff
2005: Dublin
2006: Manchester
2007: Belfast
2008: Dundee
2009: Durham
2010: Liverpool
2011: London
2012: Newhaven
2013: Edinburgh
2014: Oxford
2015: Aberdeen
2016: Dublin
2017: Cardiff
2018: Hull
2019: London
2020: Online
2021: Southampton
2022: Manchester
2023: Stockton-on-Tees