Your BFA committee would like to wish all BFA members a Happy Christmas and a wonderful new year full of tight racing, winning runs and lots of fun.

During the holiday period all BFA officials will, like yourselves, be enjoying some down time with their family and friends so please be aware that there may be delays in answering emails and approving Facebook posts.

See you all in the lanes in 2018

COMPETITION TIME

Planning ahead to next year's Championships, we are looking for all budding designers and artists within the BFA to design a logo to represent the 2018 Championships. Not only will the winning logo be on all the merchandising for the events the winning designer will get a champs hoodie or a fleece in a colour of their own choice. 

This year has seen a fantastic fundraising effort by many BFA members to raise funds for the RSPCA Radcliffe branch.

The Radcliffe branch helped care for many ex Flyball dogs after a cruelty case was discovered and dealt with. Many Flyballers decided to help the RSPCA by organising raffles, auctions and many other fundraising evets as well as individual and team donations.

This was a great effort by all involved so a huge well done to all.  

Below is the link for the article in the Nottinghamshire press.

****Committee Announcement****

We are pleased to officially announce that Dave Long has been appointed as the BFA Lights Co-ordinator, Dave has temporarily been acting Lights Co-ordinator over the last few weeks and has now taken on the role permanently. Any queries regarding lights can be emailed to bfalights@gmail.com.

Please find the minutes for the EGM here: http://www.flyball.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4050

Measuring announcement

Please could we ask all measuring officials and head judges for ALL dogs to be entered onto the C9 form prior to the dog being physically measured. 

The BFA Committee is now inviting applications from members who would be interested in being on the Judges Board.  Applicants must be a BFA Qualified Judge and have a solid understanding of the BFA rules.    Members who are interested in being considered should email the BFA Secretary Tony James (tonyjbfa@gmail.com) with a brief explanation of what skills and experience you believe make you suitable for a position on the Judges Board.

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.