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Events & Competitions Committee Restructuring
British Orienteering Federation: Articles of Association
The proposed Articles of Association are now available and are included within the AGM Booklet to be mailed with the next edition of Focus. These Articles are being presented to the membership for consideration at the 2012 Annual General Meeting.
Further information about why the Articles were changed can be found here.
The draft Articles can be found here and the draft Articles containing the proposed changes can be found here.
A document showing the cross referencing from the current Articles across to the proposed Articles will be published as soon as possible but no later than the 26 March. A previous version of this document is available here.
Events & Competitions Committee Restructuring
At the December Board meeting the appointment process and appointments panel was ratified and a Director was identified to sit on the appointment panel.
NOTE that the process is now underway and the appointment of the first 4 members is on-going.
The members of the committee will be appointed along the lines specified within the British Orienteering ‘Recruitment & Selection Policy’.
The appointments are taking place in two stages:
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The 4 association representatives are currently being appointed. Associations have been asked to nominate as many members as they think are appropriate for positions on the committee. A brief CV and table outlining the skills, understanding and experiences of each nominee have been required.
Why would associations nominate more than one person? The process of appointing people is first taking a sweep through the nominations and the 4 committee members are being appointed that best meet the criteria with a maximum of one person from any association. - The remaining 2 appointed members of the committee will come from all other nominations from members, clubs, associations, committees, staff, etc. This means that in the final instance there may be more than one member from some associations.
The appointment panel consists of:
The Chair of the Events & Competitions Committee – Mike Forrest
The Chair of an Association – Ernie Williams, EMOA has been asked and has accepted
A Director of British Orienteering – Scott Collier
The Events Manager
The appointment process for the initial 4 members of the committee, the association representatives, is now on-going and nominations for the next stage of appointments are being sought from any member, club, association, committee, staff. Those nominations from associations that are not appointed in the first round of appointments will automatically be moved forward for consideration in the second stage appointments.
Committee Structure - Amended timetable
The timetable for the implementation of the review of the Committee Structure was agreed.
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January 2012
21 Feb 2012
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Appoint members of ECC. Now likely to be February
Board members formally ratify composition of E&CC Committee. Board members discuss and agree action plan for formation of Business Support Committee (BSC). Board to agree timeline for roll-out of remaining ‘new’ Committee Structure. Previous Committee Chairs informed of Committee Structure review roll-out process and the timing of any subsequent disbanding.
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February/March 2012
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First meeting of the new Events & Competitions Committee; induction followed by discussion on the groups that may be required to support the work of the committee, followed by recommendations being made to the Board. Board discuss and agree TOR for BSC.
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25April 2012 |
Board consider and agree proposed support structure for Events & Competition Committee e.g. any groups required
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May 2012 |
Appointment process to fill the membership of any groups aligned to E&CC. Appointment process to fill the membership of the BSC.
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June 2012 |
Current groups cease operation, if not already done so. |
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July 2012
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Board representatives meet with Events & Competitions Committee and any support groups as a part of the induction process. Commence any necessary recruitment process for Chairs of ‘new’ committees. |
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20 October 2012 |
Association and Club Conference
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Whole Sport Plan (2013-2017)
Firstly, can we thank again the 54 clubs that provided significant input into the development of the Whole Sport Plan 2009/13. It was thanks to their input that we were able to feel confident that the plan did meet the needs of our clubs and members.
The Board is now working to develop the Whole Sport Plan 2013/17 and sees this work as of critical importance to the on-going development of the sport in the UK.
The initial consultation with members has taken place (via an online survey) and seems to support the continued use of our vision ‘more people, more places, more podiums’. The consultation does raise a significant number of issues for discussion and we would like to hear the views of members, clubs and associations on these issues. It is worth noting a few points prior to the discussion however:
From the themes identified in the Whole Sport Plan (WSP) online survey, we have developed a number of discussion questions to be considered by individuals, clubs and associations alike. We have asked that these questions be considered and discussed within clubs and associations, and views fed into the Association and Club conference (15thOctober 2011) by delegates attending.
We also welcome feedback from individuals on the discussion questions.
The discussion questions, themes identified from the WSP 13-17 online survey and the raw data have been compiled and can be found in the document WSP 2013-2017 consultation papers.
We welcome feedback from all interested parties. Please feedback, using the discussion questions as a basis, to the following email address feedback@britishorienteering.org.uk.
Look forward to hearing your input on the issues.
Previous WSP 2009-13 Documents can be found here.
Mike Hamilton, Chief Executive