Following our call for applications for the UKU board positions advertised on our website we're pleased to have had multiple applications for both the the University Ultimate Coordinator role and the two Without Portfolio positions. We will running elections for these roles and anyone who is a UKU member will be able to vote. 

We have also had an application for the Director of Safeguarding role, as this is the only application for this role we won't be running an election for this position at this time, and the UKU Board will discuss and agree a process for appointing to this position.

Voting

Voting will be open from Friday 14th May through to Friday 4th June. In order to vote you must be a member of UK Ultimate (please see further down for more info).

You can read about the candidates for the roles here. You can vote using this google form.

Last night, on Wednesday 12th May, UKU staff and the UKU Competitions Committee held a virtual meeting to carry out the draw for the UKU National Cup in the Mixed and Open divisions. This follows the announcement made on Tuesday 11th May regarding the National Series Rules & Dates, as well as the plan for the Women’s Division (entries are still open).

Thank you to all of the teams that entered into the UKU National Cup! We’ve had a fantastic number of entries, and following some work on what this will mean for scheduling games, we are now able to publish the complete 2021 calendar for the National Series*.

The EUF Board have provided an update on their planned approach to EUCF 2021 (previous announcement of that plan from February). The key points at this time are summarised as follows:

• Should an event take place it will be one xEUCF event in Bruges
• Planning the xEUCF is currently going ahead.
  • The TOC has approached the city council and we are waiting for their decision on June 15th. After that EUF and the TOC will reassess the financial risk to make the final decision about the event viability.
  • Any registraion or fee's would only be after this decision.
• TOC has to make financial deposits on the 1.7. and it is not sure if a refund is possible after that date.
• The bid distribution is being revaluated from last year:
  • Without last year's competition, we will give bids to national federations so that they can decide which team to send. 
  • The distribution is based on previous EUCF results (last 4 Events).
• The current aim is to host:
  • 20 Mixed Teams
  • 20 Women Teams
  • 32 Open Teams. Should the number of teams need to be reduced that reduction would start in the open division until it reached the same number of teams as the other divisions.
  • The minimum required number of 16 per division

Over the next few days there will be a few changes to each home nation’s return to play status. Below we have outlined the details for each, and we also try to provide some clarification on the situation moving forward. 

We will update the Return to Play infographic in line with the changes that are outlined below.

We are inviting applications from individuals or small groups* that would like to put themselves forward to manage one of the GB teams entering European Ultimate Indoor Championships (EUIC) 2022 or World Beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC) 2022 .  (*) Groups should have an identified lead individual.

Please read on for more information including how to apply.

This update includes details on:

• Clarification on the travel restrictions in England
• Northern Ireland's return to play on Monday 12th April