Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
I do not believe that UKA are actively preventing the FRA representing all UK fell or hill runners.

Trail running does not have separate Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish sections.
Up to Oct 2004 the FRA was organising a race Calendar throughout the UK. Race organisers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were registering their events with me as FRA Fixtures Secretary and thereby obtaining their UKA insurance through the FRA.

In Oct 2004 UKA insisted that events should be registered/insured only through the relevant UKA national organisation ie Scottish Athletics, Welsh Athletics and NIMRA outside England. Therefore from 2005 onwards the FRA has only been able to provide registration/UKA insurance for races in England organised by FRA members.

As I understand it Scottish Athletics, Welsh Athletics and NIMRA wish to manage events in their own countries, as indeed they have every right to do. UKA are supporting the requirements of their constituent national organisations.

Therefore if grassroot fellrunners in England, Scotland and Wales would like to see the FRA working with the non-UKA affiliated SHR and WFRA with a common race registration/insurance system, it cannot be achieved whilst the FRA remains affiliated to UKA!