What is an EA registration number?
What is an England Athletics registration number?
What is a Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland Athletics registration number?
What is a National Association registration number?What is a URN number?
What is a competition licence number?
What is a competitor licence number?
What type of registration number qualifies me for the £2 discounted race entry fee?
When introducing a new system, it’s obviously a good idea to make all the names and terminology the same to avoid confusion. Unfortunately this hasn’t happened in this case as illustrated by the myriad of terms above.
UK Athletics have changed the rules with regards to how attached/affiliated club runners get a £2 discount on a race entry, quite a few races and clubs have failed to pick up on the new rules properly. Keyworth Turkey Trot was inspected by BARR on behalf of UK: Athletics in 2008 and pretty much got a clean bill of health apart from not implementing the new rule!
To get the £2 discount, runners need to be BOTH a member of a UK:A affiliated/attached club AND in addition have paid some extra money to a National Association, ie England (or Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland) Athletics for a “Registration Number” which is sometimes called “competition licence” or “competitor licence”.
This means you may have paid two fees to your running/athletics club, one to join it, and the amount for this fee is typically between £10 and £30 and a second optional/additional fee of £5 to register with England Athletics.
If you have just paid the first fee, then you are not eligible for the £2 discount, and you are not insured to run in races. The £2 extra you pay to the race will cover you for the insurance.
If you have paid both fees, you will have received a plastic card, with your name, club and registration number on it. (The card gives you discount at Sweatshop on the back). This is the number that is needed for your £2 discount.
Valid numbers are seven digits long and contain just numbers, no letters.
Do not confuse this number with your club’s affiliation/registration to UK Athletics, or your own club membership number. Neither of these qualifies you for the £2 discount.
The UK Athletics/RunBritian online entry system refers to a URN number; surprisingly they are unable to tell us what URN stands for, our best speculation so far is Unique Registration Number, or UK Athletics Registration Number. It’s just another name for the same number as above.
Background Information
Here is the UK:Athletics Rule from the race licence:
42. A minimum discount of £2 on the entry fee will be allowed to all entrants who are club members registered with a National Association. Registration status will be confirmed by requesting the National Association registration number on the event entry form.
So you have to be both a club member AND registered with a national association . The National associations are England Athletics, Wales Athletics, Scotland Athletics and Northern Ireland Athletics.
The same rule appears in the rules for competition, the UK: Athletics rule book, but the wording is clearer:
http://www.uka.org.uk/EasySiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID=31427&type=full&servicetype=Attachment
Rule 204 (4) (iii) grant a minimum discount of £2 from the advertised race entry fee to any member of an affiliated Club who is also registered with a National Association.
The England Athletics web site give an explanation too:
http://www.englandathletics.org/page.asp?section=725§ionTitle=Registration
England Athletics believes that athletes are at the centre of our sport. That is why we work hard to attract athletes into the sport and then provide them with the support they then need. A major aspect of that is our registration scheme. Many of the services that are available to athletes are best accessed through being part of an athletics club that is affiliated to England Athletics. By joining a club you can also become a registered athlete and enjoy many of the benefits this brings. Once you are a registered athlete you will be sent a competition licence.