Welcome to the pages for the London area. In this section you can find out more about who we are, what we do and how to get in contact with us and some of the people we work with to help promote and improve athletics in the London area. It became a separate Area of England Athletics on 1st April 2013.

The team in your area

To find out more about who you should contact about different matters please click here to download a chart showing the London Support Team, and view the London Athletics website here: www.londonathletics.org

London Area Manager

Bob Smith
Email: bsmith@englandathletics.org
Mob: 07824 302930

Club & Coach Support Officers

	Vacant (North London) CCSO to be appointed shortly. All enquiries to enquiries@englandathletics.org
	Julia Bailey (South London) Email: jbailey@englandathletics.org Mob: 07718 526355 (covering Sarah Wade's maternity leave until September 2013)
Other Staff
	Coach & Teacher Education - Rebecca Turford Email: rturford@englandathletics.org Tel: 07850 515094
	Officials' Education - Cheryl Moore Email: cmoore@englandathletics.org Tel: 0121 347 6548   .
	Run England - Natalie Kavanagh-Clarke (Area Coordinator, London) Email: nkclarke@englandathletics.org Tel: 07718 394752 Click here for more London Run England staff
	Run! Project Manager - Rhian Horlock Email: rhorlock@englandathletics.org Tel: 07850 514938
	Online Content Officer - Chris Minn Email: info@londonathletics.org   For details of Area Coach Mentors working in London please see www.englandathletics.org/ACM .

Regional Council

Councillors have responsibility for individual areas (known as Portfolios), such as coaching, schools, etc. New Portfolio responsibilities will be outlined below in late June.  Each member of the council will take on an area of responsibility, which not only reflects areas of interest, but also their experience in athletics.  It means too that there is always someone you can contact with any questions, ideas or concerns.

• Tony Shiret (Chair)    tshiret@englandathletics.org
  Tony has been Chair of the London Council since September 2008. He is a former Chair of Newham & Essex Beagles. In 2008 and 2009 he was the Manager of the Beagles' British League Men's team that was unbeaten and won the BAL Premiership in both years and represented the UK in the European Clubs' Championships where they finished 5th. Professionally he is a Managing Director at Credit Suisse, an international bank, specialising in researching retail companies. Competitively he was a 400m Hurdler some time ago and his finest hour was competing with (well, behind) Ed Moses in the AAA. He has two sons under 11, both of whom run somewhat further and faster than their father.        
• Lorna Boothe   hurdles100@blueyonder.co.uk
  Lorna is a double Olympian and Commonwealth Gold and silver medalist in the 100m hurdles and GB team manager for 9 years which included being the Senior Team Manager for the Sydney Olympics.  She worked for the IAAF and was part of the Academy Management Group responsible for the setting up of the IAAF Academy and World Class Coaches Club.  She was also a part of the consultation team and then a development officer for the setting up and management of the Lottery Funded World Class Performance Programme.  As a member of English Sports Council Racial Equality Advisory Group she worked with the Commission for Racial Equality to set up the now high profiled Sporting Equals programme.  She is currently the European Athletic Coaches' Association’s General Secretary and on the Board of the Olympians Committee UK.  At present she is enjoying a successful time coaching sprints and hurdles - primarily at junior level - and this year set up the Surrey hurdles squad with colleagues Judy Vernon and Marina Armstrong.      
• Steve Bosley   stevebosley1@aol.com
  Steve has been a member of Herne Hill Harriers for over twenty five years and has also been president of Surrey County and club as well as county team manager at cross country, track & field and sportshall in addition to being chair of the South London Athletics Network.  He has organized events in all facets of athletics including co-organizer of athletics at London Youth Games.  He enjoys all aspects of athletes whether dealing with newcomers having their first introduction to the sport or Olympic athletes.     

• Geoff Morphitis  geoffrey.ca.morphitis@uk.gt.com
  Geoff has been Treasurer and team manager for Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers for too many years to remember. The winner of the prestigious "Houdini" award from the British Athletic League for maintaining SBH in the BAL Premiership for ten consecutive years when all the pundits forecast relegation each year, he has also been an active member of the BAL F&GP committee. He was a founder member of the London Inter Club Challenge which has grown year on year with a record 430 competive performances at the first round of the 2010 competition.  Most recently, he helped form the North London Athletic Network.
• Peter Crawshaw   peter.crawshaw@achilles.org   01737 761626
  Peter has worked in the City of London in a range of senior Finance roles over the last 30 years, during which time he has also been closely involved with athletics as a:
  • Competitor:  Hertfordshire 800m champion and a Blue at Oxford University
  • Club administrator:  Achilles Club team manager, Membership Secretary and Treasurer for over 20 years and closely involved with the organisation of university athletics
  • Field official: after years as an ungraded helper, Peter took the exam in 2001 and at the end of 2008, was promoted onto the National Officials’ list.  For the last five years, Peter has been a member of the SEAOA Field Sub-Committee and has served for the last year as a member of the General Committee.
• Benjamin Noad 
  
• Timothy Soutar

London Strategy plan - 2012 and beyond

The London Strategy Plan for Athletics has been prepared following consultation with the London athletics clubs and endorsed by UK Athletics, England Athletics, LOCOG and the Mayor of London’s Office. This is a team effort and London already benefits from national strategies funded in particular by Sport England and McCains, which have together funded seven Athletic Networks in London – encouraging clubs and coaches to work more closely together for the benefit of the sport.  The London Strategy plan provides an essential review of the situation in London, and offers important suggestions for additional ‘acceleration’ activity that will make a big difference.  With the Olympics only two years away, this is an ideal time to invest in athletics in London and to ensure we reap the maximum rewards from the Games' legacy." 

The framework is set to achieve two main aims:

• Using the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games as a catalyst for the first stages of regeneration of athletics in London; and
• Providing access to the sport for 1.5-2.0m Londoners who currently have little or no chance of participating in the sport meaningfully, because of the lack of clubs in the Inner City boroughs in particular.

This plan seeks to build on the work already in place in a way that will allow London to take advantage of the long term benefits that the 2012 Games will bring to the city.  London Athletics (the London Regional Council of England Athletics) would like to thank everybody who has contributed to the formulation of the London Strategy Plan. Working together we now have to seize the opportunity to make the sport great in London.  

If you would like to discuss this strategy further, please contact London Area Manager Bob Smith (bsmith@englandathletics.org), or Chair of the London Council Tony Shiret (tshiret@englandathletics.org).

Downloads:

You can download the Executive Summary (1.1MB) and the full document (3MB) below.

• London Strategy Plan Exec Summary
• London Strategy Plan Full Document