Governance
BF3 is established as a company limited by guarantee. Unlike a company limited by shares, a company limited by guarantee cannot disburse profits as dividends. This means that all profits are retained in the company for the benefit of the purpose for which it was established.
However, a company limited by guarantee still issues shares. These shares are issued to the guarantors who guarantee the debts of the company up to the value of the shares issued to them. These guarantors are known as ‘members’ and they are the only people who have the authority to execute certain corporate functions, e.g. appointing Directors, winding the company up, or entering voluntary insolvency.
The ’members’ are thus different to the ‘membership’. The rights and obligations of ’members’ is set by Company Law, while the rights and obligations of the ‘membership’ is set by the BF3 Constitution.
BF3 comprises the Council (Board), the Executive, Committees, and the Membership; each playing a very important role in its direction, development and delivery.
Council
The Council is responsible for: establishing the vision, mission and values of the BF3; setting the strategy and structure of the BF3); delegating execution to management (the ‘Executive’); and, exercising accountability to the Membership and being responsible to relevant stakeholders.
Harry Thomsett
CEO & Chairman
Harry is the Chairman and Chief Executive of the British Federation for Functional Fitness (BF3).
A former Royal Marines officer, Harry has been involved in planning and delivering mega-events like the Olympic Games and World Expositions for over a decade. He has also served as the Event Director for some of the UK’s most successful functional fitness competitions.
His deep interest in sports governance is driven by a commitment to achieving better outcomes for everyone in the competitive functional fitness community, reflecting his dedication to the sport’s growth and development. Efforts focus on building a sustainable future for functional fitness, ensuring it gains recognition & respect within the broader sports community. Through visionary leadership, Harry continues to inspire both current and aspiring athletes, making a lasting impact.
Magda Rotsztejn
Director of Operations
Magda Rotsztejn is a Council Member and Operations Director at BF3 playing a critical role in strategy formation and execution. Accountable for the British Functional Fitness Championships (BFFC), National Trials selecting Team UK to represent the country at international events; Technology, Membership & Participation initiatives. Also, the key liaison with iF3 and other governing bodies Magda is spearheading our recognition process with Sports England.
Magda is also a Masters athlete in competitive functional fitness. When not dedicating her time as a volunteer to BF3, Magda’s also a Technology leader with over a decade of experience working in start-ups, scale-ups and large FTSE50 organisations.
A mother to two little girls, she’s passionate about professionalising functional fitness, encouraging more girls and women to the sport, and changing the perception of body image of athletic women.
Mark Brine
Director of Sport
Mark has been the owner and Head Coach of CrossFit Rotherham for over a decade now. He’s been in the fitness industry for over 30 years with a background in Sports Science, Sports Development and Strength & Conditioning.
Mark is passionate about sport and more importantly the development of athletes to reach their full potential. He has worked with several athletes from scratch and taken them to the CrossFit Games. He strongly believes this journey would have been much easier with the support of a governing body, which is why he is excited to be part of the British Functional Fitness Team.
In his role as Sports Director Mark is focussed on the creation and implementation of our whole sport plan, a full coaching suite of competitive functional fitness qualifications and the development of a structure for athletes to thrive in the sport of competitive functional fitness.
Richard Blunden
NED (Non Executive Director)
Richard’s main role is to help the Council on an advisory basis with strategy and commercial development of the BF3. With extensive knowledge of the functional fitness market through his relevant fitness business experience & connections he is tasked with bringing in more NEDs and help with the commercial aspects of growing the BF3 into a respected and well run national governing body.
Richard has been involved with iF3 and BF3 since 2018 and it is his aspiration to get the sport recognised and into the Olympic Games. He’s also very passionate about increasing participation across the UK. Specifically encouraging functional fitness across the older generation athletes to promote longevity and improve quality of life.
In Richard’s personal life he has 2 grown up children, he’s a competitive masters athlete, he runs a functional fitness rig company and owns a functional fitness gym!
Executive
The role of the executive is to manage the day-to-day operations of the BF3, implementing the strategy given to it by the Council and decisions taken at the AGM by the Membership and in the Policy & Operations Committees.
Committees
Committees are the means by which the BF3 develops plans, programmes, policies and procedures. There are two types of Committees: Governance Committees and Policy & Operations.
Governance Committees
- Nomination Committee – responsible for finding members of the executive, appointing committee chairs, supervising elections and committee membership.
- Risk & Audit Committee – responsible for risk management, financial reporting and disclosure, and compliance with regulatory and Company law.
- Ethics Committee – responsible for establishing values, setting, implementing and overseeing disciplinary and related policies.
- Remuneration Committee – responsible for setting remuneration and allowances and their implementation.
Policy & Operations Committees
- Athletes’ Committee – responsible for representing athletes’ interests and all aspects of sport.
- Membership Committee – responsible for improving the membership ‘offer’.
- Participation Committee – responsible for increasing participation in sport, and all aspects of training for the sport.
- Events Committee – responsible for conceiving, planning and executing federation events.
- Technical Committee – responsible for rules and setting the technical parameters of the sport, e.g. field of play and equipment standards, movement standards, etc.
- Anti-doping Committee – responsible for clean sport in the federation.
- Qualifications Committee – responsible for the BF3's qualifications.
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