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.

Jon's role is to contribute to the club's decision-making process and to ensure Bristol & West's best interests are maintained. 

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. 

You should contact Junayd for any club-related queries of a general nature.

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Betti is in charge of managing all club memberships, including new membership requests, changes 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. 

As club Treasurer, Katharine'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. Katharine deals with daily intra-club financial transactions and anything else relating to club finance.

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

As marketing and publicity officer Lucy is in charge of communications with club members, and our social media.

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You should contact Lucy 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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Nick Harris is a sprints coach at Bristol and West AC and has led athletes to county, regional, national and even international success. Nick is in charge of developing and growing the juniors athletes in the club and providing advice to the committee on how best to achieve this.

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.

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

Jack's role is to contribute to the clubs decision making process and to ensure Bristol & Wests best interests are maintained. 

Alexi's role is to contribute to the clubs decision making process and to ensure Bristol & Wests best interests are maintained. 

Mike Down is a former coach and original founder of Bristol & West athletics club. He has been involved in competitive athletics for over 50 years and brings a wealth of experience to the club.  

Simon and Vickie are 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. You can contact them here.

Rachel is responsible for managing and maintaining the website. You should contact Rachel for any website-related queries.

If you are interested in any of these roles, please contact our Chair, Ben.