I ran a session of rounders yesterday. looking to run a couple day walks. another squadron in my wing is running mountain biking.
There have been a few low-level AT events in W&W, mainly from one Wing at the moment.
More like a case of ask and get told NO or enter without permission and get forced out for disobeying a direct order from CoC.
How… my wing sports officer banned rounders when suggested.
Do you sanitise bat and ball in between every throw? That’s what he wanted.
Do you have people not on the bases? No running past each other…
I followed the guidance from Rounders England . . .
A summary of key points to consider are listed below:
- Everyone should self-assess for COVID-19 symptoms before every training session or match. If you are symptomatic or living in a household with possible or actual COVID-19 infection you must not participate or attend.
- Teams should ensure that any facility they use is compliant with current Government legislation and guidance related to COVID-19.
- Competitive training and match play is now permitted, with groups limited to a maximum of 30 people, including coaches.
- Competitive match play is permitted, with social distancing in place before and after the match, and at any breaks in play.
- There are no proposed rule changes.
- Each team should appoint a COVID-19 Officer.
- Equipment sharing and handling should be kept to a minimum with equipment sanitised between innings.
- Teams should keep a record of attendees at a match or training session, including contact details, to support NHS Test and Trace.
- At this stage, indoor Rounders is not permitted.
They even have a template RA.
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This is all nonsense. How can there be a rounders association? Everyone knows there are no proper rules to rounders.
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Half the region still aren’t allowed to do anything as far as I’m aware to be fair.
Yes, that is a fair point, it’s only the Englishers that can do stuff at the moment. We are still waiting on someone somewhere to say that we can do face to face training in Wales.
How many cadets did you do this with? Current guidance for sport is 5 cadets 
Was it inside the perimeter or do you have an EUF?
This was bubbles of 15 as per the overarching guidance.
this was neither, but EUF would have been nice. landowner (local council) and TOPL were needed as normal.
Out of interest - single unit, or multiple units?
Only 1 unit (although i tried to get my unit interested 
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Personally I think that’s the right answer. It’s not really clear in any of our guidance but I think mixing units on weekend activities is not a great idea initially - simply from a unit exposure perspective. If you have 10 cadets from 10 units join an activity and one ends up having COVID, you potentially seed outbreaks in 10 units rather than one and you could end up shutting half a Wing down before you’ve even started.
Absolutley, and this is why our normal september wing events have all been out right cancelled rather than re-arranged to allow each squadron to bubble.
I am still amazed that my wing seems to be planning a fieldcraft camp for October.
I just checked on SMS, our cadets come from well in excess of 10 schools and colleges. The vast majority of which go to school with cadets of different squadrons.
They’re already mixing.
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I think mixing units is a red herring of an argument. I would suggest that most units will have cadets from a mix of education establishments and 2 or 3 units will have cadets who go to the same school. This is the case in my unit.
Yeah but presumably all of the cadets on a unit will be from roughly the same geographic area. If you have 10 units coming together from across the Wing you could be seeding infection from a high density area into a low density area.
My wing is 42 miles east to west and 31 miles north to south, there’s a huge variety in population densities in that area (and current infection rates).
I just don’t think it’s worth the risk bringing multiple units together at the moment. Depending on the size of sectors in your wing it might be more viable but I don’t think so in mine.
It’s irrelevant what they are doing outside of our setting. We can only control what occurs within our sphere of influence, and we need to do so with a view to the effect on our personnel and our organisation.
Part of the idea of splitting into bubble is to minimise the mixing that goes on. That bubble should remain for as long as possible (e.g. not just a single parade night or weekend event).
I’ll just be glad to get regular parading underway before I start worrying about multi-squadron activities.
The problem is not multi-squadron activities, it’s cadets across multiple schools attending a single squadron.