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Southampton Canoe Club in partnership with British Canoeing are delighted to be running a racing skills day on Saturday 28 July 2018 at Southampton Canoe Club, Woodmill Activity Centre, Woodmill Lane, Swaything, Southampton, SO18 2JR.
Continue reading “Flatwater Racing Skills Day, Southampton, 28th July”
REMINDER – The 2018 Marathon ACM will take place on Saturday 21st July at Reading, immediately after the saturday National Championships prizegiving. Exact venue will be on the promenade or nearby, but all clubs are encouraged to attend.
Nominations for MRC elections close on 1st July. Please email James Smythe if you wish to discuss standing. Applicants need to be full BC members and be proposed and seconded by similar; and to write a short bio for circulation prior to the election.
Items for discussion also close on 1st July. The meeting will include the usual business (elections, presentation of the Chair’s report and Finance report), as well as items for discussion requested by members. Please email any such requests to James via the link above.
The following athletes have been selected to race for Great Britain at the 2018 European Marathon Championships in Metkovic, Croatia, from 5th to 8th July. Continue reading “GB Team for the 2018 European Marathon Championships”
The following athletes have been selected to race for Great Britain at the 2018 International K4 Cup. This is a series of two international K4 races in Spain, plus a new K1 race, between 20th and 22nd July. Continue reading “GB Team for the 2018 International K4 Cup”
Following consultation last year, the MRC has agreed a revised set of rules for U12s marathon racing, to be adopted from 1st September 2018. Continue reading “New rules for U12 marathon racing”
Bradford on Avon CC are organising their annual weekend of races on 30 June / 1 July. Continue reading “Bath to Bradford / Bradford Hasler Circuit weekend”
Draft minutes of the 11th May MRC meeting can be downloaded here. Please note that these are draft until approved by the Committee at our next meeting on 25th August.
If you have any items for discussion at that meeting or the Annual Consultative Meeting of 21st July, please email the Secretary
British Canoeing have issued a GDPR Toolkit to clubs, to help them work out whether any of their practices must change with the arrival of the new data protection regulations on Saturday 26th May.
For race organisers, until specific advice comes from British Canoeing, the MRC would advise a common-sense approach.
Please email Graeme Haigh for more details
Details of Bishops Stortford’s Hasler race on 1st July can be found on the club’s website or in this document: