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Attending and Voting at the 2025 ACM

Only certain eligible clubs can vote at the 2025 ACM. The document below details a list of all eligible clubs.

One voting representative may be registered per elegible club. The link below is for club secretaries/team leaders to register their voting representative or proxy. Please submit your email address using the form below so that the meeting details can be sent to you, and indicate if the representative will be attending in person so that we can order refreshments for the correct amount of people, or send a digital meeting link if attending online.


For those clubs that will be voting, they must register who is attending on the club’s behalf by 23:59 on Sunday 21st September 2024 using the following form:

On this form they can also register if they are accepting a proxy vote from another club, or if a club is nominating another club, or for the SRC Chair to hold their proxy vote.

Anybody with an interest in Sprint Racing is warmly invited to attend the ACM. In order to do this, please complete this Google Form, and also indicate if you will be attending in person or online. If you are attending online, the meeting link will be sent to your provided email address.

Annual Consultative Meeting 2025

The 2025 Annual Consultative Meeting will take place at 15:00 on Saturday 27th September at Falcon Boat Club, Oxford. The agenda, along with other documents and information regarding the meeting are available below. If you are planning on attending in person, please register your attendance using the Google Form found on the news post ‘Attending and Voting at the 2025 ACM’.

Committee Elections at the 2025 Annual Consultative Meeting

Your sport needs you!

Running canoe sprint in the UK wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated work of many volunteers who give up their time and energy. The Sprint Racing Committee is the group tasked with a lot of the management and administration of our sport, and we are looking for individuals to put themselves forwards for election to the committee. Being a member of the committee is a great way to shape the direction of our national sprint competitions, local event strategy, and engagement with our community.

The elections will take place at the 2025 ACM to be held at the end of September, and nominations need to be submitted by the end of this week. If you have any questions about involvement in the SRC, please get in touch with Phil Miles, committee secretary, or Nick Fowler-Rimell, committee chair. Nominations need to be supported by two full Paddle UK members, and can be submitted online via the simple nomination form below. Alternatively, a paper nomination form can be sent by post or by email to the committee secretary.

The deadline for nominations is 23:59 on Friday 15th August.

Mr P Miles, Secretary, PUK Sprint Racing Committee, 9 Barnsley Terrace, Nottingham, NG2 2FQ



ACM 2025 – Preliminary Notice

The Annual Consultative Meeting will be held on
Saturday 27th September 2025 at 3:00pm at Falcon Boat Club, Oxford

The Sprint Racing Section’s Annual Consultative Meeting will take place at 3:00pm on Saturday 27th September 2025 at Falcon Boat Club, Meadow Lane, Oxford, OX4 4BJ. There will be an option to join the meeting online for those unable to travel, and there will be a social event following the meeting.

Further information concerning the meeting and nomination forms will be made available on the SRC website.

Each year, one of the positions of Treasurer, Chair or Secretary is open for election. The election term is for 3 years.  In 2025 the position of Chair of the committee is to be elected. 

The Sprint Racing Committee members are also elected for a period of 3 years; at the 2025 ACM there are 4 positions open for election.

Anyone wishing to stand for election to the Sprint Racing Committee as a member or as the Secretary should return a completed nomination form, supported by the signatures of two full Individual Paddle UK or Home Nation Association members, either electronically or by post to reach the SRC Secretary no later than midnight Friday 15th August 2025.

Likewise, any item for discussion at the ACM must be proposed in writing, with supporting signatures of two full Individual Paddle UK or Home Nation Association members, to reach the Secretary either electronically or by post no later than midnight Friday 15th August 2025. 

Mr P Miles, Secretary, PUK Sprint Racing Committee, 9 Barnsley Terrace, Nottingham, NG2 2FQ



2025 GBR Team selection – registration

All athletes wishing to be considered for GBR Team selection during 2025 should complete the relevant online registration document by Sunday 16th March 2025.

First, make sure you have read and understood the relevant selection policy: https://canoesprint.org.uk/2024/12/17/2025-canoe-sprint-and-paracanoe-selection-policies-released/

2025 Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe Selection Policies Released

The 2025 selection policies have been published by the International Panel (IP) and are the result of significant work behind the scenes. In particular, the IP would like to thank everyone who contributed to the development of the policies through the public consultation process in the autumn of 2024.

Please take the time to read the policies and familiarise yourself with the processes to be used for the 2025 season.

The IP has also published an accompanying statement which highlights the sprint and paracanoe registration process and shares the key themes from the consultation process.

DRAFT 2025 Selection Policies for consultation

Draft 2025 selection policies for senior, U23, junior canoe sprint and paracanoe are now open for public consultation until midnight on Tuesday 26 November 2024.

Please take time to tell Paddle UK what you like about the policy as well as dislikes, errors or omissions as if you don’t tell us that you like it, we may change aspects in response to feedback.

The policies have been derived from feedback on previous policies and further evolution of how best to support the Sprint Performance strategy and enable further evolution of the National regattas.

Each policy has a specific hyperlink within the document for you to provide feedback on that policy. They are also provided below.

Closing date: please feedback on the policies below by midnight on Tuesday 26 November 2024.

Draft policies:

Feedback forms:

2024 ACM – Minutes

A draft of the minutes of the 2024 Sprint Racing Committee Annual Consultative Meeting is now available. If you were present and you believe there are any anomalies, please contact the committee secretary using the email address below.

A copy of the slides presented during Item 11) National Regattas Future Strategy can also be found below. If you have any comments or feedback, please submit them using the Google form below.

Attending and Voting at the 2024 ACM

Only certain eligible clubs can vote at the 2024 ACM. The document below details a list of all eligible clubs.

One voting representative may be registered per elegible club. The link below is for club secretaries/team leaders to register their voting representative or proxy. Please submit your email address using the form below so that the meeting details can be sent to you.


For those clubs that will be voting, they must register who is/are attending on the club’s behalf by 22:00 on Monday 23rd September 2024 using the following form:

On this form they can also register if they are accepting a proxy vote from another club, or if a club is nominating another club, or for the SRC Chair to hold their proxy vote.

Anybody with an interest in Sprint Racing is warmly invited to attend the ACM. In order to do this, please complete this Google Form and the meeting link will be emailed to you:

Annual Consultative Meeting 2024

The 2024 Paddle UK Sprint Racing Committee ACM will be held online on Thursday 26th September at 19:30 using Zoom. All the most up to date reports can be downloaded by clicking the icons below.