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 7500 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 Chair, 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	E-mail	Phone	Role Summary
Chair	Charmian Heaton	Mail	07749 844212
Secretary	Neil Talbott	Mail	07769 518277
Treasurer	Andrew Watts	Mail	01625 536896
Membership Secretary	Patrick McIver	Mail	07717 224976
Fixtures	Dave Bowen	Mail	07568 092534
Magazine Co-ordinator	Neil Talbott	Mail	07769 518277
Championships Co-ordinator	Lesley Malarkey	Mail	07881 597457
Environment & Access	Nicky Spinks	Mail	07548 283545
Junior Co-ordinator	Helene Whitaker	Mail	07950 033781
Coaching and Education Co-ordinator	Nigel Hetherington	Mail	07938 921045
Welfare Officer	Ed Gamble	Mail	0161 4455243
International Selection Chair	Duncan Richards	Mail	07764 610799
Website	Brett Weeden	Mail	07970 206003
Membership Reps	Ian Winterburn	Mail	07733 266595
	James Lowe	Mail	07772 298302
	Catherine Slater	Mail	07581 189858
	Ben Abdelnoor	Mail	07896 151179
Liason Officer to Athletics Bodies	Wendy Dodds	Mail	01539 564747
Honory Committee Members	Graham Breeze and Morgan Williams
Co-optees with specific responsibilities
Chair Communiciations Sub Committee	Britta Sendlhofer	Mail	01539 431569
Under 23 Co-ordinator	Sarah McCormack	Mail	01539 443322
Race Liason Officer Lead	Stuart Ferguson	Mail	07849 881161
Commercial Adviser	Richard Brown	Mail	0161 691 7219

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	Dave Bowen, Stuart Ferguson, Charmian Heaton,Chris Hodgson*,Steve Wathall*, Andy Watts, Ian Winterburn,
Communication	Britta Sendlhofer	Paul Booth*, Graham Brown*, Barny Crawshaw*,James Lowe, 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	Pin Dhillon-Downey, Peter Ehrhardt, Pita Oates, Pete Tayler
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, Mark McDermott, Jasmin Paris, Steve Pyke, Peter Simpson,Nicky Spinks, Hugh Symonds, Yiannis Tridimas, Chris Upson, Helene Whitaker, Tony Wimbush, Rob Woodall

Other FRA Information

	Name	E-mail	Phone
Handbook	Christine Bowen	Mail	07894 044239
Magazine Editor	Paul Booth	Mail	07968 814451
Statistician	Carlos Bedson	Mail
Equipment Officer	Steve Wathall	Mail	01229 467585
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	Karen Brooks, Mark Crosdale, 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	Website	Mail	07779 254808
Scottish Athletics Hill Running Commission	Hugh Buchanan	Website	Mail	01786 473776
Scottish Hill Runners	Neil Gilmore	Website	Mail	0131 445 3769
Welsh Mountain Running Committee	Arwel Lewis	Website	Mail	07772 302411
Welsh Fell Runners Association	Andrew Blackmore	Website	Mail	01633 882558
World Mountain Rrunning Assoc	Anne Buckley	Website	Mail	07817 681826
British Open Fell Runners Assoc	Su Thompson	Website	Mail	07739 100389
Long Distance Awards	Martin Stone		Mail	01931 714106