Contents
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Welcome
Foreword 4
Membership
Activities & Events
Super September Highlights 38
Coaching and Leadership
Information about changes to British Canoeing membership |
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British Canoeing invites you to the 2018 UK Coaching & Leadership Conference |
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Upcoming Event
Festive Events |
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Winter Club Challenge |
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Dates for the Diary |
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News
Things you might have missed |
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Canoeing in the spotlight |
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News |
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Promotion
Member Benefits |
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Outdoor Gifts on Everyone ’ s Wish List |
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Countdown to the Coach Award 44
Which Coaching Qualification or Leadership Award is right for me ?
Bucket list
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Members Adventures 50 Kaysee The Adventure Dog 52 Jack Eyres Interview 54 Tips for Cold Weather Paddling 60
Forget your wet kit woes this winter with our special offer from The Dry Bag
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Cheshire Ring Race 2017 64 Winter Photo Competition 68 The Fish River Canoe Marathon 72
WELCOME
Performance Environment
Performance Overview 2017 29
Why do we need to bash the Policeman ’ s Helmet ?
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Featured Interview
An Interview with Mallory Franklin 34
South Walney Nature Reserve 79
Canoe Focus Winter 2017
Mallory Franklin Interview p34 Super September Highlights p38 Jack Eyres Interview p54 Bash the Policeman ’ s Helmet p76
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Welcome to the
Winter Issue of
Canoe Focus
How time flies. It’s early December again,
my second year within British Canoeing is
drawing to a close and what a year it has
been. Before I review 2017 and look ahead
to the New year, I am pleased to share
some exciting news about Canoe Focus.
Many members have requested that we find a way
to bring back a printed “Focus” and we have! On
the 06 December we announced a new partnership
with Peter Tranter and Anne Egan who publish The
Paddler Magazine. From March 2018, all members
of British Canoeing (in England) will receive 6 issues
of the digital version of The Paddler as part of their
membership. The new Paddler will incorporate
24 pages of Canoe Focus. In addition a quality
print version will also be available at a reduced
subscription price of £20.99 for the 6 issues. British
Canoeing will also be sending 2 print copies to each
club as part of the club subscription. I hope you will
enjoy this fantastic new benefit of membership.
We launched our new strategy, Stronger Together in
March. We listened, drafted, redrafted and created a
plan which is already helping to build a more united
British Canoeing. Big steps forward have been taken
in coaching, with the new and much improved Coach
Award designed and the new work force trained and
in place to start delivery from January (page 44).
We also consulted widely to redesign the
membership packages which will be relaunched in
April 2018. The introduction of the Club Associate
Membership should lead to us communicating
more directly with another 30,000 members.
Pleasingly membership has also grown this year
to 35,000, which is a small but significant step
towards our goal of 75,000 members by 2021.
There has been huge success in designing and
promoting canoe trails which continues to be
one of the most visited parts of our web site.
We now have 137 trails published and well
on the way to our target of 150. Go Canoeing
Week produced fantastic engagement as 13,008
people recorded their miles in search of their
own big adventure, exceededing our target.
We engaged strongly with the Welsh Government in
their consultation to bring about clarity in legislation
and the right to share the water and paddle
responsibly in rivers and inland waterways in Wales.
Internationally we had another amazing year with
our athletes winning 35 bronze, 25 silver and 30
gold medals in European and World Championships
across the disciplines (Page 29). A particular congrats
should go to Liam Heath, Jeanette Chippington,
Emma Wiggs, Claire O’hara and Mal Franklin
who all stepped onto their podiums to receive
Senior World Championship Gold medals in 2017.
A full round up is available on pages 29-31.
2018 saw elite sport under the spotlight for the wrong
reasons and we were not exempt from this. During
2017 we have made great progress in working with
our athletes and coaches to build the healthy culture
which will allow athletes to flourish and thrive.
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