Membership Renewal
 
Your club needs you!!!

Firstly, thank you to all members that renewed with us last year and have continued to support and run with the club during Covid and lockdown restrictions.

We are now contacting our current members and those members that did not re-join for the last athletic year to advise about renewal membership processes and let you know what proposals we have for running over the next year. Of course, plans may have to change, depending on how the pandemic develops.

As current guidelines are indicating that we can resume organised running from 29th March 2021, the committee have been undertaking some preparatory work to enable group running to recommence and have put together a rota to enable the three ability groups to operate led by qualified Run Leaders (RL). Within the Bronze group there will also be a RL assist both on Monday and Thursdays, allowing for a bigger group and offering a split where necessary.

As we are currently running as an independent running club due to our partnership with KAL unable to resume, runners wanting to attend the run sessions must be paid up registered affiliated runners with UK Athletics. This is for insurance purposes both as a group and individually, and to ensure we remain compliant with Covid regulated guidance. We hope that we will be able to resume our relationship with KAL as soon as possible. We will keep you informed about this.

New membership Fee

£30 for Athletic year April 2021- March 2022.

£15 of this fee will be paid to UKA for each person’s individual affiliation payment.

The remaining money will go towards enabling the club to develop running sessions and events that we hope will become possible to arrange, as we move forward out of the Covid restrictions.

All group running sessions, for registered club members, will currently remain free, but reviewed, when we discuss with KAL, our partnership agreement.

However, to help these sessions operate safely and be well organised the club are committed to investing in the required UKA training for all Run Leaders who volunteer their time to lead sessions. We also operate and administer the run booking app, Run Together.

To enable a good level of communication and keep members up to date with all the club news, we issue a monthly newsletter, including the Sports Shoes 10% discount code. We also have dedicated private members Facebook page and a website, which we are in the process of investing in and upgrading.

Other benefits offered by UKA include various discount offers, opportunities and promotions which can be found in their monthly newsletters that are emailed out and your membership offers discounts on most race entries.

In terms of running events for members, but dependant on Covid rules allowing, the club will pay and register with the West Yorkshire X country league, West Yorkshire Veterans league and the Calderdale Way Relay.

When we feel confident to promote races, we will also be putting together a race championship. It is likely to be a shortened season, but we really want to offer something as we have all really missed racing over the last year.

Registered members, for a small fee, will also be able to book onto the running development sessions that are offered currently on a two weekly basis which run alongside the regular organised run sessions.

Information about the renewal process will be sent out by email and for any new members wanting to join the club please contact the me.

Thank you.

Alison Cottam
membership@stadiumrunners.co.uk

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