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NEWS: BMC Open Forum Meeting December 2023 - Report

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 UKC/UKH News 14 Dec 2023

The first BMC Members Open Forum Webinar took place yesterday evening (13 December). Members submitted questions ahead of the webinar, some of which were answered by BMC President Andy Syme, Chair of the Board, Roger Murray and Nominated Director Martyn Hurn. The Chair described a "systemic failure" regarding a recently reported ~£200K UK Sport budgeting error, and an anticipated £300-350K loss in 2023, but maintained that the organisation is "not going bankrupt", while outlining a planned leadership restructure and more conservative membership targets and budgets in 2024.

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 Alphacker 15 Dec 2023
In reply to UKC/UKH News:

The most frustrating thing to keep reading is these responses from the BMC that completely misunderstand the “lack of competition access” point. Lots of people were left out of teams last year who were very capable of competing strongly at international level and gaining valuable experience. Also, those that did go typically went to fewer events than their international peers and couldn’t (for example) compete for the overall European title because they simply didn’t attend the required events. Absolutely nobody has ever suggested sending athletes who aren’t ready to compete at that level, but GB/BMC seem (to me at least) to keep reframing this point as if that’s what people are demanding. Eventually it ends up being quite insulting to hear the same response over and over again, a response constructed by misunderstanding the complaint in the first place. Nobody is against performance standards, but people are against silly implementations thereof, and turning down the opportunities for selected athletes to compete for things like European titles.

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