Ballot Paper Arrives

[wkb21]

I think we could end up becoming a sport filled with more rules and regulations than we neither want or need just to please a larger organisation.

Not necessarily. If you read the objectives of SHR (http://www.shr.uk.com/WhatWeDo.aspx) they are very inclusive and promote open access. Their championship is open, the calendar is freely accessible, race organisers are given priority support. It does not have a rule book (although it has a safety code of course). This is the model to go for.

Some points you should consider before voting:

1. Does UKA affiliation help you as a race organiser?

2. Does UKA race affiliation help you, personally, as a competitor?

3. Does UKA affiliation really help your club in what it does?

4. Who does UKA affiliation really help?

5. Has the UKA PST really helped FRA, or race organisers, or you?

6. Is there real evidence of UKA changing in the busy run-in to the Olympics?

7. How many UKA professionals do you know, and when did you last see one at a fell race - - ?

8. Does UKA matter to the majority of fell runners?

9. Name a UKA publication that included something interesting on fell racing.

10. Why did the sub-committee not ask themselves these questions and list the advantages and disadvantages of affiliation (something that should have been a fundamental first priority)?

11. Why did the committee not ask for an interim progress report and give the SC a steer in the right direction?