Meetings of the Executive Committee

The relevant section of the FRA Constitution, is Article 48:-
Subject to the Articles, the Executive Committee members may regulate their proceedings as they think fit. Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held not less than four times each calendar year. Members may attend meetings of the Executive Committee as observers and may speak at such meetings but may not vote. If any business at a meeting of the Executive Committee is deemed confidential, then any Member attending as an observer will be required to leave the meeting whilst such matter is discussed.

What This Means
Any of the 8,000 members of the FRA may attend a meeting of the Executive Committee to observe, subject to the "confidential" proviso. Such observers are also free to speak but not vote. Normal committee rules are observed, namely that speakers, whether Committee members or observers, should address the meeting via the Chairman, and should restrict what they say to the agenda item under discussion.

Attendance
Committee members are expected to confirm their attendance in advance of each meeting. For reasons of practicality, any member who wishes to observe should make their request to the Secretary one week before any Executive Meeting. It may be necessary to restrict the numbers of observers if space is limited.

Committee Minutes / Papers
Briefing papers supporting agenda items are issued to Executive Members one week before each meeting. These are normally restricted to the Committee. Meeting Minutes are not circulated to the membership; however, in the interests of transparency, established practice is for the Secretary to produce a report for each Fellrunner to keep all members informed of business conducted by the Executive on their behalf.

The FRA Committee

The FRA Committee comprises the following roles and personnel. Please click on the Role Summary to see a description of the role, and click here to see a summary of the general requirements and expectations of Committee Members.

Please feel free to contact any Committee Member.

Position	Name	Club	E-mail	Phone	Role Summary
Chairman	Charmian Heaton	Black Combe Runners	Mail	07749 844212
Secretary	Neil Talbott	Ambleside AC	Mail	015394 37824
Treasurer	Andy Watts	Cheshire Hill Racers	Mail	01625 536896
Membership Secretary	Patrick McIver	Black Combe Runners	Mail	07717 224976
Fixtures	Andy McMurdo	Pennine Fell Runners	Mail	07834 912222
Magazine Co-ordinator	Dave Littler	Bowland Fell Runners	Mail	07745 738495 or 01524 68529
Championships Co-ordinator	Lesley Malarkey	Keswick AC	Mail	07881 597457
Environment & Access	Nicky Spinks	Dark Peak Fell Runners	Mail	07548 283545
Junior Co-ordinator	Helene Whitaker	Harrogate Harriers	Mail	07950 033781
Race Liaison Officer Lead	Stuart Ferguson	Northumberland Fell Runners	Mail	07849 881161
Coaching and Education Co-ordinator	Nigel Hetherington	Fife AC	Mail	07938 921045
Welfare Officer	Ed Gamble	Cheshire Hill Racers	Mail	0161 4455243
International Selection Chair	Duncan Richards	Helm Hill Runners	Mail	07764 610799
Liaison Officer to Athletics Bodies	Wendy Dodds	Dallam Running Club	Mail	01539 564747
Website	Brett Weeden	Keighley & Craven AC	Mail	07970 206003
Membership Reps	Ben Abdelnoor	Ambleside AC	Mail	07896 151179
	Scout Adkin	Ambleside AC (Scot: Moorfoot Runners)	Mail
	Ricky Parrish	Todmorden Harriers	Mail	07942 881215
	Kelli Roberts	Helm Hill Runners	Mail	07798 753859
Honorary Committee Members	Graham Breeze and Morgan Williams
Co-optees with specific responsibilities
Communications Officer	James Lowe	Dark Peak Fell Runners	Mail	07772 298302
COVID Co-ordinator	Jamie McIlvenny	Trawden AC	Mail	07725 357024
First Aid Co-ordinator	Ian Winterburn	Dark Peak Fell Runners	Mail	07733 266595

Members of Sub-Committees

(* = not a member of the Executive Committee)

Committee	Chair	Members	Role Summary
Championships	Lesley Malarkey	Ben Ablelnoor, Carlos Bedson*
Disciplinary, Review and Appeals	Charmian Heaton	all Executive Committee members except Secretary and Welfare Officer; Alison Wainwright*, Chris Evans*
Junior	Helene Whitaker	Pin Dhillon-Downey*, Wendy Dodds, Ed Gamble, Charmian Heaton, Jamie McIlvenny, Graham Wright*
Safety, Equipment and Rules	Neil Talbott	Stuart Ferguson, Charmian Heaton, Chris Hodgson*, Steve Wathall*, Andy Watts, Ian Winterburn
Communication	James Lowe	Barny Crawshaw*, Dave Littler, Pat McIver, Britta Sendlhofer, Neil Talbott, Andy Watts, Brett Weeden
Coaching	Nigel Hetherington	Steve Pearson*, Andy Watts, Ian Winterburn, Graeme Woodward*

Members of other teams

Committee	Chair	Members	Role Summary
Race Liaison Officer Team	Stuart Ferguson	Catherine Brennan (email) – Lake District North Pete Tayler (email) – Lake District South Clive Thornton (email) – North York Moors / Yorkshire Dales Pita Oates (email) – Bowland / NW Lancs / South & West Pennines Peter Ehrhardt (email) – Peak District West Richard Bradbury (email) – Peak District East Pin Dhillon-Downey (email) – Junior Championships Stuart Ferguson (Chair) (email) – Northumberland & Durham / North Pennines (plus Shropshire & Welsh Borders / Midlands / South West / South East / Isle of Man)
Access and Environment Team	Nicky Spinks	Bob Berzins, Steve Hall, Louise Hawson, Max Howard, Richard Patton
FRA Long Distance Award Panel	Martin Stone	Rick Ansell, John Ashcroft, Adrian Belton, Bob Berzins, Steve Birkinshaw, Jon Broxap, Charlie Campbell, Wendy Dodds, John Fleetwood, Jon Gay, Manny Gorman, Mark Hartell, Anne Johnson, Jim Mann, Mark McDermott, Jasmin Paris, Steve Pyke, Peter Simpson, Nicky Spinks, Hugh Symonds, Ken Taylor, Paul Tierney, Yiannis Tridimas, Chris Upson, Helene Whitaker, Tony Wimbush, Rob Woodall

Other FRA Information

	Name	E-mail	Phone
Handbook	Dave Bowen (Pennine Fell Runners)	Mail
Magazine Editor	Dave Littler (Bowland Fell Runners)	Mail
Statistician	Carlos Bedson (Cheshire Hill Racers)	Mail
Equipment Officer	Steve Wathall (Black Combe Runners)	Mail	01229 467585
Under-23 Training Camp Co-ordinator	Sarah McCormack (Ambleside AC)	Mail	01539 443322
Junior Statistics inc Champs results	Jim Godwin	Mail
FRA Navigation Course	Pauline May	Mail	07515 129327
Fellrunner results	Dave Weatherhead and Barbara Carney	Mail	01535 273508
England Mountain Running Committee	Duncan Richards	Members: Karen Brooks, Mark Croasdale, Alec Duffield, Carol Evans, Sharon Hudson, Helen MacVicker, Neil Wilkinson, Sarah Wilkinson

Other Information

	Name	Website	E-mail	Phone
British Championships	Judith Jepson	Website	Mail
UKA Information inc Insurance	John Temperton	Website	Mail
N. Ireland Mountain Running Assoc	Anne Sandford (Secretary)	Website	Mail	07779 254808
Scottish Athletics Hill Running Commission	Hugh Buchanan (Convenor)	Website	Mail	01786 473776
Scottish Hill Runners	Jill Stephen (Secretary)	Website	Mail
Welsh Mountain Running Committee	Arwel Lewis (Secretary)	Website	Mail	07772 302411
Welsh Fell Runners Association	Andrew Blackmore (Secretary)	Website	Mail	01633 882558
World Mountain Running Assoc	Anne Buckley (UK representative)	Website	Mail	07817 681826
British Open Fell Runners Assoc	Su Thompson	Website	Mail	07739 100389
Long Distance Awards	Martin Stone		Mail	01931 714106