BMC Open Forum

BMC Open Forums

These forums present an opportunity to engage in a Q&A session with BMC CEO, Paul Ratcliffe, and a variety of BMC staff and board members. The aim of our members open forums are to build on our opportunities to engage with our membership, continue to build trust and community. It's also a way to share knowledge and information, raise awareness and discuss concerns.

We've seen Olympians join our panel to reflect on their journey, given updates on finances and direction of travel of the BMC, shared successes and presented volunteer awards too.

This is your chance to discuss YOUR BMC, with those from BMC HQ, to get up-to-date information, straight from the source.

Registering for the Forums

Upon registering you will be asked to enter:

• First name
• Surname
• Email address

Note: Registration closes at noon on the day of the forum.

Submitting questions

If you wish to submit questions in advance, please email events@thebmc.co.uk. The deadline for submitting questions is 48 hours prior to the forum. We strongly encourage submitting any questions you may have beforehand. This allows us to provide you with the most up-to-date information and helps us adhere to our schedule. Live Q&A will commence once all pre-submitted questions are addressed.

Points to note:

• You will receive a link the join the meeting once the registration closes (on the day of the event).
• To allow us to answer as many as possible, we would ask that you limit your questions to a maximum of three per person.

An interview with Adriana Brownlee - the youngest woman to Summit all 14 8,000m peaks

Join us at the start of the Forum where we will be interviewing Adriana Brownlee who will be sharing her experience of summiting the 14 highest peaks in the world - all at the age of 23 - last month.

DRAFT AGENDA

Chair: Dominic Oughton

Host: Mary-Ann Ochota

Panel: Paul Ratcliffe, Laura Needham, John Wilmott (Interim Chair)

Guests: Robert Blackhall-Miles, Adriana Brownlee

Welcome and Overview - 5 minutes

Celebrating 80 years of the BMC - Reflection over the past 8 decades with Dom Oughton and Paul Ratcliffe - 10 minutes

Winter Monitoring with BMC Access Officer Tom Carrick and Robert Blackhall-Miles - An interactive talk about the Ecological reasons behind the BMC winter monitoring programme - 15 minutes

CEO Update - LA2028, Plans to capitalise on the funding and the Para programme. BMC HQ Status update. Strategy refresh. Q&A - 25 minutes

14 x 8000m Peaks - A Q&A with British mountaineer Adriana Brownlee – the  youngest woman to summit all 14 8000m peaks - 15 minutes

Membership restructure  - 10 minutes

Q&A  - 10 minutes

In an expansion of our engagement opportunities, we have also added a 'club forum', aimed at those who are running club activities, whether on the committee, operating the club hut, organising and leading club meets or social events or any other role within their club.  However, even if you don't have that type of role in your club we would still welcome you joining us.

We'll talk about some of the work we've been doing to support clubs and huts and we'll share our future plans with you, but there will be plenty of time to ask your questions