BAFA COMBINE – POWERED BY ARCHON Pete Ackerley (Chief Executive at BAFA) and Matt Ford (Founder of Archon and ex Britball player) have formed an alliance in order to forge a new era of fitness within the British American Football landscape. Our aim is to create players who have a higher level of physical readiness…
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Message from Chief Executive Pete Ackerley Today the UK Government shared information on the proposed roadmap out of lockdown in England. We are very pleased to welcome the news that as part of this, outdoor teams sports can potentially return to activity from 29 March. While this is very encouraging, we now need to be…
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We are delighted to have entered into partnership with Sports Structures to support BAFCA in streamlining and developing our coach education pathway. Sports Structures are supporting British American Football Coaches Association in developing online content including a virtual classroom. This streamlining of the coach education pathway has taken the theory of the coaching courses out…
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Upcoming Safeguarding Course BAFCA are working with Sports Structure in developing an e-leaning / virtual learning platform. As part of this we will be promoting relevant courses to our members: Sports Structures have a live online safeguarding workshop on Monday 7th December (6.30-9pm). They are offering a 10% discount to BAFCA Members as partners who…
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): grassroots sports guidance for safe provision including team sport, contact combat sport and organised sport events
Message from Pete Ackerley I want to provide you with an update on the situation with return to play, registrations and refunds. We are obviously in a challenging period at the moment for British American football and sport as a whole, and the various rules across different parts of the country provide further complications. While…
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Message from Pete Ackerley Thank you to everyone who joined the recent Q&A session which followed our AGM. For those who were not able to participate, a recording of the session is available here.(Please note that you will need to download the recording from a WeTransfer link and due to a technical issue the welcoming remarks…
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Message from Chief Executive Pete Ackerley The last few days have seen a number of announcements relating to restrictions across England, Scotland and Wales that impact on our sport. You can find the updated position for each nation below. Yesterday I attended calls with DCMS officials and ministers and leaders of other National Governing Bodies…
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 New guidance on outdoor training In our last update, on 28 May, we said that we would keep the situation with the season suspension and return to play under constant review in line with any new advice from the Government. Many of you will have noted the Government issued further guidance…
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