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UK Athletics is the national governing body for athletics in the UK. RunBritain is the brand UK: Athletics use (together with England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) Athletics to focus on road running. www.runbritain.com is the web presence of the above brand, and is set up as a portal for all things to do with [...]
Some race organisers feel that the way in which UK: Athletics and its multitude of cohort sub-organisations administer the sport has become complex, convoluted and bureaucratic. They have set up a rival organisation that running clubs can affiliate to, to get race permits/licence/insurance. Some running clubs are affiliated to both UK: Athletics and ARC. It’s [...]
UK Athletics is the national governing body for athletics in the UK. UK: Athletics produces the rule book, and administers race licence/permits. Races (and their organising clubs) need to be affiliated for insurance purposes etc. Affiliation is to a National Association ie England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland Athletics, not UK: Athletics. In effect races affiliate [...]
There seems to be a love of changing names and continual reorganisation within the Athletics world. Whist this may make some sense to those close to it, it just serves to add general confusion for runners/athletes, clubs and race organisers. Currently UK Athletics is at the top of the tree for Athletics and Running. UK [...]
Just ask one of the officials at the club. They will know. Be careful if you are a triathlete. Tri Clubs are affiliated to the BTA which is not the same as UK Athletics. Some Tri Clubs are affiliated to both BTA and UK:A. Please note that ARC – the Association of Running Clubs is [...]