BOF Levees

[Scott]

I wonder why and by whom?

Hello!

Note: I've not actually read everything that's appeared on the BOF website yet. Contrary to certain rumours, I do occasionally do things with my time.

The actual FOI requests (to Sport England and UK Sport) cover a lot more than just the WSP, although I expect a lot of what I'll get will be tedious sports council bureaucracy. Obviously I'll stick everything online somewhere once I've received it (by my reckoning I'm due a response by 23 Sept). I'm guessing that the international targets Gross is after (if there are such things - according the draft WSP, the podiums target by Dec 2013 is "??") will be somewhere in the UK Sport submission.

As for why, I'm basically fed up having to figure out how new BOF initiatives fit into a coherent strategic plan which has to be pieced together from a variety of sources. In the Age Of Transparancy, it'd be quite nice to have the guiding vision for the next four years set out in one easy-to-refer-to document, rather than having to leaf back through committee minutes and old copies of Focus. And if we have agreed actual targets with the sports councils, I don't think it's unreasonable to want to know what those are too.

I understand that the need to communicate the whole plan in "orienteering friendly" language is of utmost importance, and I hope that this can be achieved (to be fair, Focus Winter 2008 is a pretty good attempt), but that's not a reason not to have the unfriendly-but-official version of the plan openly available on the website. Indeed, although it's a bit dry, and I expect very few people will actively "engage" with it, the version they've put on the website is significantly lighter on sports-council jargonese that I'd been led to expect, and is quite easy to follow.

Anyway, as I suspect there are some people who will see this as a lynching offence, I'm off into hiding now to plan my next move.

[Spookster]

Does anyone know what the BOF Levees for an event are?

Thanks
Rob

Rob,

If you get the same number of people at the Sprint Race this year as you did last year (220), then the levy is about £232.

Martin.

[Blanka]

With the arrival of the new season now is probably the time to press for improvements. A new company is now in place to carry the web site developments forward.

The Association Fixture Secretaries developed a "things still to do list" in the run up to the BOF AGM.

The new fixtures facilities have now been in place for 6 months. If you want improvements now is the time to let BOF know what you think.

Maybe BOF have now listened. As DrongO's fixtures secretary (for the one event we organise every two years!!), I have received an email from the EAOA fixtures secretary forwarded from BOF stating the following.

(BTW, I know the e-mail has got all those disclaimer things at the bottom saying that you shouldn't disseminate the contents of the email if unauthorised and so on but it does say to tell your committees and I do not see any harm in passing the info on to the general O community, especially as people have asked about the issue before. I am also not forwarding the whole email, just the gist of it)

"Different “official roles” e.g. Treasurer, Event Fixtures Secretaries or Activities Fixtures Secretary will be authorised to access different aspects of the system.

Event Fixtures Secretaries and Activity Fixtures Secretaries will now be two separate “official roles” that have different access rights.

This will enable the number of Event Fixtures Secretaries to be kept to a minimum (2 per club) thus enabling strict control over the event fixtures list, whilst enabling more coaches, weekly club organisers etc to be given access as a Club Activity Fixtures Secretaries. We would allow each club to register an additional 3 Activity Fixtures Secretaries. Treasurers will also be given access to the online registration system to access the levy through “Finished Events”."

So perhaps we are getting at least some way of solving the workload problem...