British Fencing COVID-19 Community Club Restart Fund Application

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 Covid-19 Club Restart Fund is open to all BF affiliated clubs that are facing financial hardship and challenges relating to the restart of play to apply. We expect demand will outweigh the funds available so for the purposes of panel decisions, the following considerations will be taken into account: • Your ability to engage with the needs of your local community • 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 experiencing short term financial hardship and who have genuine concerns with being able to make sessions financially viable or are facing the potential ceasing of operations. 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. bank statement etc)

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 complete session registers through the BF online monitoring and evaluation tool 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