In October 2017 we added a donation option to the UKU membership renewals.  Members are offered the option of adding a donation to their membership renewal payment - more details here.

We want to say a huge thanks to everyone that has kindly added a donation since we introduced this scheme.  We have raised about £800 for our schools development work so far, and have just used this to purchase more of the new Discraft J-stars that we can send to primary schools joining our Schools Affiliation scheme.  On average, an affiliated school results in approx. 100 new school children trying ultimate or other disc games. In 2017, we hit 20,000 pupils reached by the scheme. With these extra J-stars we will build on the growing interest we are seeing at primary schools across the UK.

• Thanks again to everyone that donated so far.  Further donations are of course always welcome!! :-)
• Did you know that Ultimate is being added to the School Games?
• Do you work for - or own - a company that you think might be interested in becoming a corporate sponsor of our Schools Affiliation scheme?  If so, please contact us.

And finally - if you are still due to renew your membership prior to Open & Women’s tour - please remember that membership renewals will be unavailable for a few days as of 5pm this evening. Why?  Please renew today if possible. And if you feel moved to add a donation that would be amazing! Thanks!

We are pleased to announce the appointment of five UKU board members.  In addition to the three board members appointed following the elections held in March (see below), today we are also announcing the appointments of Fowzia Mahmood and Serena de Nahlik.

The UKU website is well overdue an overhaul.  This is obvious. The good news is that this is underway, and later this month (i.e. in May) we will be moving the data management and payment processing aspects of the website to a new commercial NGB membership management system called GoMembership.  The bad news is that this will not change what our homepage looks like in the short term!

We prioritised moving the management of membership data to a commercial system partly because of the impending changes to data protection laws (GDPR).  We selected a supplier that is already working with a number of other, larger UK National Governing Bodies of sport. Once we have completed that part of the work, we will then start on upgrading the more visible aspects of the website.

The new website is going to cost more than our old, volunteer-supported system.  When the new system goes live we will be increasing membership fees (for the first time in over 15 years) to help cover the increase in costs.  Full Membership will increase to £30, Uni/U18 Full Membership to £20, and Basic Membership to £6.

It is likely that we will experience some teething problems in the first few weeks of running the new system.  We urge players that will be playing Open & Women’s Tour events in June, but who have not yet updated their membership, TO PLEASE DO SO BEFORE FRIDAY 18th at 5pm.  This will undoubtedly help us, and it will also mean you pay a bit less.