This is the third Joint Annual Review of the Fives Federation. In spite of some significant changes at the top of our two Associations, the Federation’s momentum has established it as the voice of Fives in the UK. The wide range of items on the agendas we have been pursuing during the year bear ample testimony to this.

Topics discussed during the year have included how to raise the profile of Coaching in the two codes, involving the formation of a coaching sub-committee; the potential for widening the sponsorship of Fives; and common policies regarding child protection, insurance, health and safety, data protection, in all of which we seek to adopt best practice from the experience of each other.

In all these discussions the City Fives Association is an equal and energetic partner, and our enthusiasm to see One Wall Fives expand and thrive is shared by all.

We have said farewell during the year to the RFA’s former General Secretary Ian Fuller and have warmly welcomed Andy Pringle as his successor. Anthony Wagg, as Vice Chairman of the EFA, has replaced Richard Barber on the Federation’s Board in view of the latter’s wider charitable commitments elsewhere.

All these activities are firm evidence of how much each Association has to learn from the other, and of how we can benefit from sharing ideas and experience within the co-operative framework now established. This Joint Annual Review is the visible expression of that co-operation to which each Association remains enthusiastically committed.

Chris Horrocks
President RFA

Richard Barber
Chairman EFA