We’ve been working hard following your extensive feedback provided last year on the new competition structure proposal. The Rules & Fixtures Committee, alongside the working party established to look into the structure, have digested over 600 pages of comments and incorporated them into a revised structure to incorporate the feedback. Through the end of 2014 and January this year, we’ve been sharing the revised structure with technical committees and other internal stakeholders before the agreed release to members in February.
At the members’ request at the AGM, we made a commitment to go out on the road and deliver road shows to explain the structure and be on hand to answer questions. We can now release a full listing of dates as below. The main focus will be on sessions at the seven winter regional championships with other dates throughout the regions – all members are welcome at any of the dates to listen to a presentation, ask questions and feedback. Our final date will be the Members’ meeting at the NAF Five Star Winter Championships. BD staff will be on hand at all of the dates to answer all of your questions and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.
| Date | Day | Time | Venue | County | Region |
| 30 January | Friday | 19.00 | Vale View EC | Leicestershire | NORTHERN |
| 04 February | Wednesday | 19.00 | Holiday Inn, Doncaster | South Yorkshire | NORTHERN |
| 08 February | Sunday | 12.00 | Bishop Burton College | East Yorkshire | NORTHERN |
| 12 February | Thursday | 12.00 | Addington Manor EC | Buckinghamshire | CENTRAL |
| 17 February | Tuesday | 12.00 | Kingston Mauward College | Dorset | SOUTH WEST |
| 17 February | Tuesday | 19.00 | Forest Edge | Norfolk | EASTERN |
| 19 February | Thursday | 18.00 | Myerscough College | Lancashire | NORTH WEST |
| 22 February | Sunday | 12.00 | Merrist Wood | Surrey | SOUTHERN |
| 28 February | Saturday | 12.30 | Morris EC | Renfrewshire | SCOTLAND |
| 02 March | Monday | 12.00 | Patchetts EC | Hertfordshire | EASTERN |
| 21 March | Saturday | 12.00 | Pencoed College | Glamorgan | WALES |
| 31 March | Tuesday | 19.30 | Solihull RC | West Midlands | NORTH WEST |
| 08 April | Wednesday | 19.00 | Richmond EC | Yorkshire | NORTHERN |
| 16 April | Thursday | 18.30 | Hartpury College (Winter Championships) | Gloucestershire | SOUTH WEST |
We’d be really grateful if you could let us know if you plan to attend one of the sessions at a regional championship (highlighted in bold above) so we can make sure we have a large enough space and plenty of chairs. Visit this link to let us know you want to come along - click here. To attend the other Road show dates, you’ll need to apply through your RDO – visit the regional pages for more information.
Below is the presentation and a couple of flow charts so that those who are coming can read ahead of time and have questions ready and, of course, for those who are unable to attend. It's advised you read the simple flow chart to get the idea of the flexibility of the system before the full version with the level detail.
Presentation: click here
Simple flow chart: click here
Detail flow chart: click here
We welcome feedback from all of our members, so please do email us with any comments either after you’ve read the documents or attended a road show - click here to send an email.
We hope to see you at one of our road shows soon!