Ben is our club chair and is in charge of ensuring that the committee uphold high standards across the board while meeting and exceeding the needs and expectations of our membership. Ben will ensure that we continue to deliver on our development plan over the medium and long-term while executing short term tasks that make Bristol and West AC one off the leading athletics clubs in the country.
Ben is also a competing member of our club and regularly represents Bristol and West AC in middle and long distance competitions.
You should contact Ben for urgent club related matters only.

Paul is our vice chair, sharing the leadership of the Club Committee. Paul brings brings added skills, experience and perspective to the role, assisting in key decision making for the club. 

Paul is a UKA qualified coach and has worked primarily with the female junior middle and long distance runners at the club for nearly 10 years. He has a large and thriving group and is incredibly passionate about Youth and Junior athletics more widely within the club.

As Secretary, Junayd is in charge of ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the club and supporting the chair in ensuring the seamless and effective functioning of the management committee. Junayd is also in charge of ensuring communications at club meetings are documented and minutes are distributed to relevant parties so that actions can be easily identified and put in place.

For any club related queries of a general nature, or for anything relating to committee meeting minutes you should contact Junayd.

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Betti is in charge of managing all club memberships, including new membership requests, change of membership status, and season ticket purchases. She is also in charge of managing our club officials for competitions and anyone who wishes to volunteer in any capacity for the club.
You should contact Betti for queries regarding your club membership, volunteering, or officiating using the associated email address below. 

You should continue to contact this email add for queries regarding training at Whitehall Track, including finding the right training group for you, or for general queries related to training/coaching.

As club Treasurer Andy's role is to ensure the financial health of the club is maintained and that budgets are in place to allow us to continue providing an excellent service for all our members. Andy deals with daily intra-club financial transactions anything else relating to club finance.

You should contact Andy for anything to do with club finance.

As marketing and publicity officer Felix is in charge of communications with club members, our social media and working with sponsors such as BCU and ON running who have recently contributed to the club.

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You should contact Felix for anything relating to marketing and publicity, such as competition reports, articles, or updates you wish to have publicised, or sponsorship related matters.

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Nicole is responsible for maintaining the website. She is interested in building widgets such as calculators for the website, so if you have any ideas do get in touch with a mock-up in spreadsheet form.

Eugene is responsible for keeping Bristol and West’s Whitehall facility in order and ensuring issues and problems are addressed promptly. Eugene is a leading jumps coach at the club coaching multiple English Schools athletes and is still the English school junior boys triple jump record holder.

You should contact Eugene for anything relating to our Whitehall facility. 

Tristan is the Development Advisor.

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Simon is our Safeguarding Officers. Their aim is to ensure a safe environment is provided for all members of BWAC to enjoy athletics. We have a legal duty to ensure that we look after and treat properly the children in our club and that also means that we are responsible for reporting any concerns about a child’s welfare if we have due cause to. A safe environment is everyone’s responsibility but policy, procedures, processes, awareness and training are also required so that we can honesty say we have got it right.

Josh Moody is an elite endurance runner and has been integral in establishing the successful training group, Bristol Track Club, who's aim is to bring together high quality distance runners in an effort to progress the competitive end of endurance running within BWAC. Josh, has also been fundamental in the conception of a new series of road races held at Odd Down Cycle Circuit, which promises to be an exciting series of events across the summer.
You should contact Josh regarding the Southwest PB Series, On Bristol Track Club Elite 5k Race, or if you would like more information about Bristol Track Club.

While still relatively new to the sport, Kurt has quickly established himself as one of the clubs leading endurance athletes and was the team captain of the successful Men's team who won the midland road relays, silver in the National road relays, and bronze in the National XC championships. 
Kurt has also played a leading role in organising the new Southwest PB Series set to take place this summer and has been instrumental in its success so far.
You should contact Kurt regarding the Southwest PB Series, On Bristol Track Club Elite 5k Race, or if you would like more information about Bristol Track Club.

Nick Harris is a sprints coach at Bristol and West AC and has led athletes to county, regional, national and even international success. His role includes providing the committee with a practical insight and feedback about the coaching on the ground during club nights.