Code Of Practice

Wednesday 22 February 2023

In conjunction with UK Anti Doping, Welsh Athletics have undertaken a review to ensure
that the sport of Athletics in Wales has the most robust approach to anti-doping.
As part of this review, we have identified a number of areas of improvement that we will be
looking to implement at the start of the next affiliation year (April 1st 2023).
Affiliated Athletes
Currently, an athlete becomes a member of Welsh Athletics by joining an affiliated club. All
the clubs are bound by the various codes of practice that comes as being an affiliated club –
this relates to the adhering of codes of conduct, safeguarding regulations, the rules of the
sport and the rules relating to anti-doping.
We need to ensure that every athlete who joins a club understands that by joining the club,
they are adhering to the same codes of practice that each club meets as part of its affiliation
to Welsh Athletics.
We are therefore requesting that the following text is included in all club membership
forms;
‘By becoming a member of the club, you are automatically agreeing to the codes of
practice as stated by Welsh Athletics – this relates to the codes of conduct, to the rules of
UK Athletics and to adhere to all anti-doping rules and regulations.’
Athlete membership termination
Currently a member pays an annual affiliation fee to Welsh Athletics. This fee is set at the
Annual General Meeting. An athlete remains affiliated to Welsh Athletics until the stage
where they decide to no longer renew their affiliation.
If an athlete decides to no longer take part in the sport, they tend to continue with their
annual affiliation until the end of the affiliation year. We would like to include the ability for
an athlete to terminate their affiliation with the governing body should they wish to do so at
any point during the affiliation year