Changes to BAFL Directorate
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By BAFA Media and Marketing
Jun 25, 2009 - 1:42:40 PM
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At a recent BAFL board meeting, the BAFL Directors implemented changes to the Directorate that include the following:
- Ken Walters retired from his ‘Interim Chairman’ role – but remains as Media and Marketing Director
- Jeremy Rogers is to retire from his ‘Development Director’ role after completing this years associate application processes for 2009
- Jeremy Rogers was unanimously elected as ‘Non-Executive Chairman’ with immediate effect
- Simon Newnham was appointed as Performance and Development Director
- Nigel Clift confirmed his decision to retire as Administrations Director at the AGM in March 2010
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Pat Mapleston confirmed his decision to retire as Finance Director at the AGM in March 2011
Richard, has a First Class Honours Degree from Brunel University in Sport Science and a variety of post-degree qualifications/courses from risk management to marketing and executive administration. Richard has worked at CCPR since 2005. His current role covers a variety of commercial, funding, membership and strategic planning projects – as well as working with national governing bodies of sport and recreation (NGBs), Non-Departmental Public Bodies, Government departments, civil servants, commercial organisations and Members of Parliament on a variety of topics relating to national sports policy. Richard has worked actively with BAFA board since 2008 as part of his personnel development programme.
Speaking on his new role, Richard commented, “I am delighted to become an official part of the British American football scene. Over the past few years working with the BAFA has demonstrated clearly to me the potential for American football in this country. I sincerely hope that in this role, with the support of the Directors’ of the BAFL and BAFA, we will be able to continue, and build upon, the successes of recent years”.
The new Non-Executive Chairman, Jeremy Rogers, was also unanimously elected to the second post on the BAFA board by the BAFL Directors.
Speaking on his new roles, Jeremy commented, “In my time on the Board of BAFL I have witnessed membership more than double in size from the growth of existing teams, formation of new ones, and the encompassing of flag and youth competitions. Similar challenges will be faced by BAFA in its path to becoming the single association for the sport and I hope that my experience will be able to contribute to this being successfully achieved. For BAFL my Non-Executive Chairman role I see as strengthening corporate oversight and maintaining strategic advice to the executive directors".
Jeremy Rogers returned to active involvement in football in 1997 when moving to Oxford where he has undertaken a number of roles including game management and external liaison. He also was an active part of the University of Reading Knights as coach and Director of Operations from 1998 to 2007. After spending one year as BAFRA Liaison Officer for BAFL he took on the responsibility of BAFL Development Director that he has retired from in becoming Chairman.
Professionally he is a Principal Consultant specialising in performance and technical assessment, working most recently with the Department of Work and Pensions, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, BIG Lottery Fund and Natural England.
Outgoing Interim Chairman, Ken Walters commented, “I saw my brief tenure as an opportunity for the incumbent Directors to reflect on their roles and responsibilities and consider the duration of their tenures”. Ken added, “the outcome of this activity was to ensure that the BAFL was able to deliver its objectives over a longer period – in particular, to be able to support the delivery of the BAFA objective of a single association by 2013”. Ken concluded, “Some of the headline changes mentioned here will benefit, not only BAFL, but also BAFA in achieving these objectives – and there are more announcements from the BAFL to follow as we consider the succession planning for some of my fellow Directors”.
Further to this, the BAFL wishes to notify its members that, after many years of service, Nigel Clift will be resigning from his post as Administrations Director at the AGM in March 2010. For the remainder of his tenure, Chris Halford has kindly accepted an invitation from the BAFL to support Nigel in his role. Chris will be contactable, along with Nigel on administration@bafl.org.uk and the role of Administration Director will be advertised in the not too distant future.
Chris Halford has been involved in British American football for over 25 years. He started his involvement as a referee before helping to form the Redditch Arrows in 1986. He initially was one of the clubs first coaches and then moved on to taking a team management role. For the last five years he was chairman of the club before stepping down at the start of this season. Chris has also in the past designed and run the BAFA website for a period of two years as well as helping indirectly with the Great Britain Lions and the National Programme.
Professionally Chris is a Senior Project Manager in the IT Support services marketplace. He is Prince 2 qualified and has a speciality in the design and implementation of Project Management process.
Simon Newnham also accepted the amalgamation of the roles of Performance and Development. Simon will be consider how to tackle this dual and combined roles presently. Please note, for an interim period, all Development topics sent to development@bafl.org.uk will be received by Jeremy Rogers whilst he and Simon co-ordinate a ‘hand-over’ of tasks.
Finally, Pat Mapleston – a founder of the BAFL and longest serving BAFL Director – confirmed that he will be retiring from the post of Finance Director at the BAFL AGM in 2011. As a result, BAFL will be looking to recruit a Director Designate for as long a period as possible to ensure a robust handover in the not too distant future.