Media Accreditation for British Senior & Para Championships & GB Cup 2025

If you require media accreditation for the British Senior Championships 26th-27th April 2025. Venue: EIS Sheffield, Coleridge Road, Sheffield, S9 5DA then you must complete this form ahead of the event.


Anyone wanting to take photographs using any kind of professional or semi-pro camera equipment must apply for media accreditation in advance of the event – accreditation will not be available during competition. This means any kind of camera with a detachable lens, and/or using any kind of tripod or monopod. Media accreditation is for still photography only – no pro or semi-pro video equipment is permitted.




Deadline for Applications: Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 5pm

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It is not necessary to have British Fencing membership for Media Accreditation but if you do have BF membership please input your BF ID number.

I confirm that I have read, understand, and will abide by the BF Photography Policy


Privacy Notice

Data collected through this form will be held in accordance with the British Fencing Privacy Policy that can be found here: https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/gdpr-data-protection/.


The personal data you have provided in this form will be used by BF for the following purposes:


To assess coaches/parents/guardians/carers meet the minimum operating standards for domestic competitions to be accredited at the selected competitions. To do this your data will be shared with appointed staff responsible for overseeing the competition accreditation. To confirm membership of British Fencing and adoption of the relevant policies

Under the Data Protection Act, 2018, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you. BF tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.


This Privacy Notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of the BF’s collection and use of personal information. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any requests for this should be sent to the Data Protection Officer at the address below.


If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information, you should also contact the Data Protection Officer at the address below. Access to your data BF tries to be as open as we can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information.

Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection Act 2018. If we do hold information about you, we will:


• give you a description of it;

• tell you why we are holding it;

• tell you who it could be disclosed to; and

• let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.


Errors If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes by, once again, contacting the Data Protection Officer as detailed below.


Erasure You can also ask us to delete the data we hold about you by, once again contacting the Data Protection Officer as detailed below.


How to contact us: If you want to see BF’s Privacy Statement and full Privacy Policy you can find these on the website in the Policies section at the foot of every webpage, https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/gdpr-data-protection/, or you can request a copy by email from the BF Data Protection Officer who can be contacted by email or in writing, details below:


BF Data Protection Officer,

British Fencing Head Office,

1 Baron's Gate 33-35 Rothschild Road,

London W4 5HT or dataprotection@britishfencing.com

I confirm that I have read, understand, and will abide by all the relevant BF Policies and Codes of Conduct https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/codes-of-conduct/ in particular the BF Fair Play Code