Just interested in peoples views. If you are attached to a club you will now need to be affiliated to England Athletics if you are a competing runner, they will also have all information about you held on a data base that clubs with have to supply them with. This is from the age of 11 upwards.
For clubs this is a nightmare on the administration side think they've forgotten that we do this in our spare time, some club will be able to absorb the extra fee but smaller clubs won't.
Are you happy with this???
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SEAA are not interested anymore as they are just for competitions.
But if you google 'England Athletics' you should be about to find some info.
and this is a link for you Wilkie if you have not already seen it
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.keeley810/essexaaa/index.html
Essex have set up a Road Running section (about time too)
Gendel ;-)
The "consultation exercise" which RW (rightly) participated in was a farce, and the whole thing stinks as far as I'm concerned.
But, er, yes, I'll shell out whatever I have to shell out.
TL - I think the fees will be on a per-member basis. Cost-wise, it shouldn't hit small clubs disproportionately(?). Admin-wise it will, of course.
Very interesting that on p6 Ed Warner, the new UKA chairman is asked about the issue and says: "I have a rather laissez-faire attitude where I believe someone should be able to stick on some trainers and run without any palaver or without getting caught in a big administritive net."
Does that sound to anyone else like a diplomatic way of saying it's a bad idea?
Whether you think it is right or wrong to have a registration scheme (I think the idea is good in principle) you have to say the way it is being brought in is a bodge job. It has alienated so many people and, as is raised above, even those who want to do what they should are not able to do so as the idea is up in the adminisphere.
To be honest many of the road running clubs are absorbing it because they are generally well off as they don't have many expenses compared to a Track and Field club. There is extra administration although it is not yet clear exactly how it will be collected.
Its still a cheap sport and most others have higher affiliation fees.
Anybody who wants to remain unattached just puts their shoes on and runs and anybody who wants to join a club, pays as before and gets the benefits of club membership (social, coaching, no levy, insurance) and even in a purely financial sense they should still save unless they race rarely.
Aren't we on enough databases already? What the point of keeping all that data on people who race a few times a year (and are never going to be top athletes)?