To be eligible for this fund, you must confirm if your club meets the following criteria.

We would like to know if the club has the following in place:

The Ukrainian Support Club Fund is open to all BF affiliated clubs that have been supporting Ukrainian fencers to participate in fencing since the start of the war.

We expect demand will outweigh the funds available so for the purposes of panel decisions, the following considerations will be taken into account:

• The contribution made by your club to support the fencers (this includes free or significantly discounted membership, equipment, lessons)
• Previous history of affiliation and engagement with BF
• Previous commitment to BF membership for club participants

The fund is targeted at those Community Fencing Clubs who have been supporting Ukrainian Fencers, to enable them to continue to do so.

We will ask you to discuss this further in the comment box below and if your application is successful, we may ask for you to provide us with evidence before the award is granted (e.g. receipts, invoices, membership or equipment loan agreements etc).

Money can be used for the following:

1. To contribute to club membership fees for Ukrainian fencers (the expectation is that the club can demonstrate these are or have historically been significantly reduced)
2. To contribute to equipment costs (the expectation is that any equipment is purchased/provided by the club on a loan basis and returned for general club use and the club can provide evidence of that)
3. To contribute up to 50% of entry fees for domestic competitions.

Based on the level of applications we may consider other uses, however please note we will not support international competition related costs.

BF will share the initial list of applicants with the Safeguarding and Welfare Manager and will take into account any current Welfare concerns BF will inform the relevant Home Nation of the club’s application The club will be required to evidence the impact of the funding. The club may be asked to complete a short case study with a BF member of staff, via Zoom or phone after the funding has been used

Thank you for completing the form above. The personal data you have provided in this form will be used by BF for the following purposes: 1. To provide the information received within this application to the awarding panel. 2. To contact you, on behalf of the club listed, to request further information. 3.To enable BF to contact you regarding the status of the application. BF will store and retain the personal data you have provided in this form as follows: The data will be retained securely for 12 months after the application and funding process has been completed at which point the data will be anonymised and all personal data deleted. Complaints or Queries Under the General Data Protection Regulation, 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 General Data Protection Regulation May 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’s Data Protection Officer Data Protection Officer British Fencing Head Office 1 Baron's Gate 33-35 Rothschild Road London W4 5HT Or dataprotection@britishfencing.com