The emails for voting on proposals at this year’s AGM have been sent out. If you haven’t received yours please check your spam folder, but a copy of the email will also be in the Members Area on the website.

You will need to be a current member of the BSSF to vote, and please use the email address you use for PayPal in the ‘name’ area of the voting form.

If you haven’t yet voted on the proposals discussed at the AGM, please do so. Don’t forget you need to be a current member, but if you renew now your membership will remain valid until the end of the 2022-23 racing season. Voting closes at 23:59 on Sunday, 17th July.

When you vote, please make sure you include your name AND the email address you use to pay your membership via PayPal so that we can verify you’re a current member to count your vote. If you voted without providing this information please confirm via email to Lee (technical@thebssf.org.uk) so we can match you up with your memebrship.

Your Teams representative Rod is going to be attending this event and will be on hand as your BSSF point of contact. If you have any questions, or just want to say hi, he will be on hand to help…
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This year’s AGM is scheduled for Sunday 26th June. In order to allow as many people as possible to attend this will be a “Teams” meeting from 4pm-6.30pm; the link will go out with the final documentation via email.

While we do have every position on the committee filled at the moment, a number of current committee members volunteered for their roles, rather than being formally elected. Every person who is currently “in post” is happy to stay on for the remainder of the two-year term (subject to confirmation via vote at the AGM), but if anyone does want to stand for election to the committee for the remainder of this term please email Jamie (vpforsport@thebssf.org.uk) to let him know. The positions currently filled by volunteers are: President, Executive Director, VP for Development and Teams Rep, and anyone standing for any of those positions will need to be proposed and seconded by a current member.

If anyone has any proposals for discussion at the AGM please also submit these via email to Jamie (linkto:vpforsport@thebssf.org.uk). The deadline for nominations for election and also for proposals is midday on June 14th.

LOCAL RULES AND CONSTITUTION
Some of the proposals at this year’s AGM intend to to “tidy up” both the Local Rules and the Constitution. There will be few major changes; this is more about clarifying meanings and altering dates where, for example, small edits have been made to the rules over time and they have become ambiguous as a result. In an attempt to keep discussion of these alterations to a minimum at the actual AGM, we are proposing two group calls in advance of the AGM, one to discuss the Local Rules and the other to address the Constitution. If you are interested in being involved in either or both of these discussions, please contact us either via BSSF messenger or email Sarah (linkto:president@thebssf.org.uk). We are really keen to get a cross section of opinions from teams, monosports, hound people and husky people so please do consider joining one or both calls and giving your view. If you can’t make the scheduled calls we can also take written feedback.

Over the last 10 days we have been contacting everyone listed in our membership database to make sure that the information we hold is current and to give people the opportunity to remove their details completely if they no longer want to be involved with the BSSF.

If you have not received this email then please:
1 – check your spam/junk
2 – log into your account on the BSSF website, check that the email we hold for you is up to date and spelt correctly, and update as necessary. Note we are not able to update email addresses or any other contact details on your behalf – you’ll need to do that in the “My account” section of the website.
If you can’t remember your log in details, then please message the page or ping Lee an email at technical@thebssf.org.uk and he can help you.