The committee is pleased to announce that the two long standing regional rep vacancies have been filled and welcome aboard Chloe Allcorn who will be covering 
Northern Home Counties - Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and North London and Jeannette Shelley who will be the rep for the South Coast of England - West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent

Please note that each region has its own regional group and we would invite you all to join the group for your region

It is with great sadness we have to report that as of the last competition in December, our fantastic and long serving record and stats team Ron and Vera Edge, will be retiring and hanging up their keyboard. 
First and foremost, on behalf of the BFA, we'd like to take the opportunity to thank them for all their hard work entering what i'm sure would be hundreds of thousands of pieces of data for results and points over the years! They've done a brilliant job and will very much be missed.

Thank you to all members for your patience at this difficult time. Since Co opting the 3 new committee members we have prioritsied our workload accordingly and are aiming to bring outstanding items to a conclusion at the earliest oppurtunity. There are many issues we cannot discuss publicly but please rest assured we are all working hard to move forward. We have prepared a few updates as below. Measuring update. The work on the database is continuing and we are hoping to have a new master list available shortly.

The Committee would like to announce the following changes to the BFA rules effective from 6th November 2017:

Ammend 4.1 k)

Running orders and tournament information must be posted on the discussion board on the BFA website so they are available to all team members. An emailed version can be sent if requested by the team captain. Seed times used must be shown with faster and slower declared times clearly marked.

 EGM

Six Committee members, as a majority of the current BFA Committee, are calling an Extraordinary General Meeting of the British Flyball Association, on 15th October at Wythall Community Hall, with the subject being the conduct of 3 committee members in multiple breaches of confidentiality during an investigation of an official complaint having compromised the committee

Official Announcement .
3 BFA Committee members have been suspended tonight. The remaining committee members will make an official announcement of an EGM imminently

Following the resignation of Donna Culley as Height List Administrator, please send all C9's and height queries to Tony James BFA Secretary in the time being. An announcement will be made soon with regards to finding a replacement for the post.

Tony James

For and on behalf of the committee