Avon Valley Runners

Club Badge Rules for Avon Valley Runners

1. Title

The name of the Club is Avon Valley Runners

2. Headquarters

The Headquarters of the Club is the Culver Close Recreation Ground, Pound Lane, Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire.

3. Object

The object of the club is the promotion of social and competitive participation in road, cross-country and multi-terrain running and multi-discipline events such as duathlons and triathlons.

Our Mission statement is To be the club of choice for runners in West Wiltshire and to be recognized as a club of excellence and support for the promotion of running as a sport and a recreational pursuit.

4. Management

  1. The management of the club is vested in a committee consisting of a president, vice-president(s), chairman, deputy chairman, honorary secretary and assistant secretary, honorary treasurer, men's captain and vice-captain, women's captain and vice-captain; and such other additional officers and committee members as may be deemed desirable for the optimum operation of the club. Five members will constitute a quorum. The committee may at its discretion fill any vacancy which arises.
  2. The committee will meet after club training on the first Tuesday or Thursday of each month at a suitable and agreed venue.
  3. The annual general meeting shall take place on the second Tuesday or Thursday in January, or as soon as practicable thereafter, to receive the committee's report and financial statement, elect officers and committee and deal with any other matter specified on the agenda. The honorary secretary must give members twenty-one days' notice of the meeting. Proposals, nominations and any other items desired to be included in the agenda must be given in writing to the honorary secretary for consideration at least fourteen days before the meeting.
  4. The honorary secretary shall give at least seven days' notice to every member of the time and place of any special general meeting and of the business to be dealt with, and no other business shall be dealt with at any such meeting.

5. Membership

The club is open to all who are sixteen years of age or over on the day of joining. Membership implies acceptance of these rules.

6. Resignation

A member wishing to resign from the club shall give notice in writing to the honorary secretary, and his or her membership will terminate on the date of that notice unless he or she is financially indebted to the club, in which case the committee may withhold acceptance of the resignation until such indebtedness is discharged.

7. Subscription

The Annual Subscription of the Club for Seniors, Juniors and Students is set by the committee at the Annual General Meeting and is payable on election and subsequently every 12 months thereafter.

  1. The Committee shall have the power to expel any member whose subscription is six months in arrears provided a month's notice in writing shall have been sent to such a Member by a registered or recorded delivery letter, addressed to his last known address, informing him of the proposed action of the Committee.
  2. The name and address of any person so expelled from a Club shall be sent to the Honorary Secretary of Athletic Services. The named person shall be suspended from competing at any Meeting held under UK Athletics Laws until the liability causing his said expulsion, which shall not exceed one year's subscription, shall have been discharged.

8. Eligibility

For purposes of Club Championship qualification or Club Record consideration the performance must take place on a certified measured course and that the runner concerned be entered as an Avon Valley Runner - exception will be made for runners representing in county, regional or national teams. Any other exceptional circumstances will be considered by the Captains and accepted only on their appeal to the committee.

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