Diploma in Sporting Excellence Expression of Interest 2025

Diploma in Sporting Excellence Expression of Interest 2025

There are several areas to complete:

Personal Information
Education Information
Fencing Information
Ambition and Personal Statement

Please complete the expression of interest form before the 1st August 2025

Note the date for the GBR Pathway/DiSE induction days as part of a training camp:-

30-31 Aug 2025, in Nottingham

Surname*

First Name*

Address

Fencer Email

Fencer Mobile Phone

Parent Email

Parent Phone(s)

Date of Birth*

National Insurance Number

Competitive Gender Category*

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Membership Number*

Weapon*

Epee

Foil

Sabre

Fencing Club (Main)*

Personal Coach (Main)*

Coach Register Check

Please check the BF Coach Register to confirm the status of your personal coach. https://www.britishfencing.com/accredited-coaches/

Fully-Compliant

Non-Compliant

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Fencing Club (Secondary)

Personal Coach (Secondary)

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School or College 2025-27 - Name and address

What course, qualifications, and subjects are you doing?

What are you aiming to do post July 2027, e.g. university, work, etc?

Anything else we should know about your education?

Are you already part of the GBR Pathway Programme?

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What is your current British National ranking (Senior, U23, Junior, Cadet)?

Briefly describe your normal term-time training

What are your best 5 results?

Anything else we should know about your fencing?

What are your ambitions for your fencing career?*

What have you done to support your ambitions so far.*

Personal statement - future plans*

Please state what future training and commitments you are planning to support your ambitions in the sport, include details of education, career plans, etc. This should be no more than 300 words and please confirm you have shared this application with your personal coach.

Data Privacy Notice*

Please tick to confirm that you have read and understood the Data Privacy Notice below and that you consent (or in the event that you are completing this form for someone else that you have their consent) to personal information being used in the way described.

The personal data you have provided in this form will be used by BF for the following purposes: In the application process to the Athlete Development Programme and/or the Diploma in Sporting Excellence.

To do this process your data will be shared with appointed staff responsible for programme delivery.

BF will store and retain the personal data you have provided in this form as follows:

Your data will be stored securely and retained in line with Section 8 of the BF Privacy Policy (https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/gdpr-data-protection/). If you have provided consent for use of your image your name will be retained securely by BF and will be deleted following any termination of the use of the related images.

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 Data Protection Officer, British Fencing Head Office, 1 Baron's Gate 33-35 Rothschild Road, London W4 5HT or dataprotection@britishfencing.com

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