Spookster wrote:But this has nothing to do with whether BOF office knew the event was happening. There was no report on the website because nobody who was at the event wrote one and submitted it! Had they done so, it would have been published, because quite clearly the CompassSport Cup and Trophy is a significant event that the BOF membership would like to hear about.
As you say, the CSC and Trophy is a significant event that BOF membership would like to hear about. It is surely therefore not unreasonable to expect that those responsible for publicity and promotion on the website, for communicating with the membership, would have commissioned somebody to write something for the website. It is naive and, dare I say, amateurish to expect people to write unsolicited articles on the off-chance they get published, especially for a website (and organisation?) that few have any real connection with - it's difficult enough getting them written for club magazines etc, as any editor will tell you.
Personally, I find it all rather symptomatic of an increasing remoteness of the governing body from its membership - underlined for me by the Chief Executive's opening paragraph in the recent Focus: "Unfortunately, the launch of WOC 2015 was the one rainy day as I understand it". Those last four words say it all. Little wonder then that British Orienteering (not BOF - it hasn't been a Federation for some time) is more and more nowadays 'them' rather than 'us'.
