Membership 2009 - 2010 -IMPORTANT NOTICE

[bottyboo]

Hi Jogs

Our membership year is currently out of line with the England Athletics year and this means that some people believe they are already signed up for a racing licence for the year and therefore don't feel they renew their membership with us. There is also a delay in England Athletics getting the Racing licence cards out on time. In order to resolve these anomalies the committe have decided to change the club membership year to be the same as the England Athletics year. To do this we need to make changes to our membership. These are as follows:

1. Anybody who has already paid for membership since 1st September 2008 will be covered on their membership until 28th February 2010. there will be no additional charge for this, it is free, gratis, without further payment. Just think, this means for some an additional 6 months racing without additional charge!!!!!

2. Membership fees will be then due from 1st March 2010, up to and including 31st March 2010,and will cover the the England Athletics year from 1st April 20010 until 31st March 2011. The current fee is £10 per year per member although this may change nearer the time. Notices/Announcements will be posted accordingly.

3. Members are expected and will have to ensure that they get their completed membership forms and fees to me by 31st March 2010 to ensure that I have the time to load them onto the England Athletics portal and pay the fees in April. This should mean that all England Athletics racing licences will be posted out to the members in a timely manner rather than 6 months later as is the current system. Anyone not getting their forms and fees to me on time will have to wait until I am able to add their details at a later date to the portal and pay their fees to England Athletics EBFORE they can race under Black Pear Joggers AND benefit from the reduced entry fees. Please note: IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT YOUR MEMBERSHIP FEE IS PAID ON TIME!

Hopefully this will eliminate some of the problems we have been having with racing licences and make the organisation of our membership so much easier. Your support in this will be greatly appreciated.

Yours in running

Julie (and the committee)

[gavinpaskin]

Cheers Julie

Just to officially remind you that John Shacklock won 1st prize in the Tony Ballard memorial raffle which was 1 years membership donated by the club - so perhaps you can make a note for when membership is due for re-newel next year.

Thanks
Gavin
SS

[gillridgway]

All,

Updated membership form now available to download from BPJ website in Word and PDF format.

http://www.blackpearjoggers.org.uk/join_us.html

Gill