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Changing the BMC
shark:
UKC news item linking an article on the the BMC website published on Friday with linked papers on a delay in reporting year end figures, plans to split GB Climbing in two and a paper specifically rebutting my proposal to place GBClimbing in a separate subsidiary.
The proposal to effectively split GB Climbing into two parts can be categorised as the bits that UKSport are interested in (and funds) and those that don’t effectively creates a UK Sport outpost within the BMC which obviously works well for UKSport to the point where we might as well hand them the keys IMO.
I currently think we are reaching a tipping point. The direction of travel seems to be towards becoming “any other faceless, CEO led organisation” as one ukc poster puts it.
Membership concerns and interest and democracy no longer feel to me like they are a priority and more of an inconvenience.
Time for a subsidiary split off for recreational climbing?
petejh:
It was time 5 years ago. As I said back then - the incentives change when UK sport money gets involved. Change the incentives change the behaviour, doing the membership/recreational stuff well just isn’t incentivised as much as building an empire ‘team GB’ of managers and coaches :wank:
Davo:
Hi Simon
I’ve been generally following this stuff and I applaud you for your efforts. I think due to your efforts the BMC are attempting to make some significant changes and improvements. I don’t like the way your resolutions have been handled by the BMC and I think your resolutions should go to AGM. I’m a BMC member via a club.
I have read the latest BMC stuff and am just wondering what your specific objections to them are? I can appreciate that one of the documents would feel like a personal attack on your resolution but I don’t read it that way myself. I don’t agree with all that it says but I just see it as a different opinion to yours that needs to be put forward and discussed at the AGM.
The papers seem to give better financial accountability and to segregate financially comp climbing which doesn’t seem unreasonable. If you wouldn’t mind detailing your objections that would be much appreciated
Cheers
Dave
shark:
Thanks Dave,
I need to go through it all properly (not sure when though!) but in general the rebuttal document is high on assertion and low on fact.
To quote a former Directors reaction: “Some of that is fundamentally incorrect and some just inappropriate”.
My gut instinct is that the CEO £200k in kind figure is highly questionable as it contrasts so starkly with the £81k shared costs figure provided by the previous CEO and I strongly suspect doesn’t subtract the £100k? or so of grant income that the BMC gets for covering GBC’s admin costs.
There is also the notion that it is acceptable to bake in a contribution of £386kpa to GBClimbing before extras! whose participants are perhaps 1% of the membership. Elite mountaineers or elite rock climbers get buttons.
Also what is the money being spent on? In general empire building rather than direct support to athletes to gain comp experience - surely a priority in performing well in comps.
There are also references to problems with grant funding. I had a conversation with the BMC’s governance contact at UKSport and specifically asked her what would be problematic about moving to a wholly owned subsid set up and the only thing she raised was that it would be a nuisance reassigning the contracts to the new body. So things like the compliance with the Code of Spirts Governance objection I’m taking with a pinch of salt unless the BMC can identify which parts of the code and why and back that up with testimony from UKS.
As for keeping it internal I’d like to be trusting but it leaves far too much scope for funny business due to lack of transparency.
That’s just an initial brain dump and as I said I need to go through it more systematically and pick a few brains.
Davo:
Hi Simon
I have read it again and I do agree that the figures seem very high and given the money doesn’t go to the actual athletes I am not sure where the money is going.
I still don’t want comp climbing split off completely from the BMC but I do want to understand better and more clearly where the money is going and what on. I think with good financial transparency and clarity would come better management.
Dave
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