This recent update covers the following:

• The changes in England following the announcement from the UK Government of the Covid-19 Winter Plan, confirming the lifting of the national restrictions in England on 2nd December and the re-implementation of a three tiered approach until the end of March 2021
• The status of play in Northern Ireland
• The update and restructure of the UKU Covid-19 Guidance
• A NEW useful Covid-19 Reminder infographic that you can share with your club

We're working on processing everyone's rewards, but for now here is a small thank you to each and every one of you.

Earlier this year we announced that we would be setting up a UKU Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee.  We are now inviting applications to join this group.  Please see provisional terms of reference for the committee here, and a simple application form here.  

In the meantime

• We have signed UK Ultimate up with The Sporting Equals Charter which includes access to some advice and resources.
• As part of the UK & Ireland Black Lives Matter fundraiser, we were asked if teams could donate to UKU to support improvement of diversity in Ultimate in this country.  This donations fund has been running since then to provide the DEI committee with a £2k budget for some initial projects. 

We will be publishing a more substantial update next week as we are currently expecting some more information via Sport England about the latest changes to restrictions in England, effective Wed 2nd December.  Provisionally we are expecting to adopt the following approach, at least initially:

• England Tier 1: phase D
• England Tier 2: phase C
• England Tier 3: phase B

Indoor Ultimate will be extremely limited everywhere and, sadly, we do not expect any UKU Indoor championships to take place this winter.

Our Reset the Stall campaign finished a few weeks ago, but we have a few more thank-yous, and today we are delighted to announce that Fit4Ultimate has joined our line-up of new corporate partners.  

David & Carol at Fit4Ultimate are sports coaches with a passion for training and performance. Working with a wide variety of ultimate athletes, they provide results based strength & conditioning training with the overall goals of improving performance, reducing risk of injury and staying injury free...as well as making S&C training fun.  They have previously coached Iceni Ultimate, Fire of London and the Women's GB team.  

Thank you Fit4Ultimate!

We're pleased to announce that on December 12th, 16:00 - 18:00, we'll hosting our AGM.

Once again we'll be running it online using Zoom to try and make it accessible to as many people as possible. The event is open to all UKU members and is free to attend. Please register for the event using this link : https://bit.ly/UKU_AGM_2020

The extension to the furlough scheme announced at the start of the month presented a number of different options to UK Ultimate in terms of managing the staffing time available to us. We have been operating with the majority of our staff on full time furlough since the start of April (see more info here). However, the November extension of the furlough scheme has allowed us to make some changes to the way we are operating.