Worcestershire Chess Association

President and Vice-Presidents

President: Ray Collett (Worcester)

Life Vice-Presidents: Maurice Bissell, Dr Ray A Collett, Andrew Farthing.

Vice-Presidents: Richard Collett, Giles Stanton, Dr Brian Turner, Stephen Woodhouse, John Wrench, Tim Yates

WCA Executive Committee

See paragraph 8 of WCA constitution. By convention, the honorary auditor is not a member of the Executive Committee because this role requires an independent assessment of the management of the association’s assets. Appointed officials, team captains and WCA delegates are, by convention, invited to Executive Committee meetings.

President: Ray Collett (Worcester) also an assistant secretary, website editor and controller for the Wheatley Cup competition
Honorary General Secretary: Chris Lee (Worcester), 9 Dace Road, Worcester WR5 3BZ.
Honorary Treasurer: Brian Turner (Malvern) also Minutes Secretary and controller for the Ball and Bennett Cup competitions
Chairman: Stephen Woodhouse (Longbridge)
Junior Organiser: Simon Berry (Worcester) also Deputy Safeguarding Officer
Lead for Safguarding: David Smith (Redditch)
Competitions Secretary: Alex Nicholls (Warndon) also organiser for the Woodcock Prize
Ratings officer: Dan Lambourne (Redditch) also controller for Summer Cup team competitions
Two representatives from Dudley & District Chess League, Secretary John Fahy (Warley)
One representative from each affiliated club: Evesham, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Longbridge, Malvern, Pebworth, Redditch, Stourbridge, Warndon, Worcester

WCA appointed officials

Website editors: Ray Collett (Worcester) and Nigel Towers (Redditch)
Congress organisers: Aiden Griffiths (Worcester), Scott Oxtoby (Worcester) also assistant secretary, Nigel Towers (Redditch) and John Wrench (Kidderminster)

Team Captains

First Team: Harry Evans (Redditch)
Under-1650 team: Aiden Griffiths (Worcester)
Under-1850 team: Alex Nicholls (Warndon)
Worcestershire Windmills 4NCL over-the-board Division 4: Ben Attwell (Redditch)
Worcestershire Wolfpack 4NCL Main Online teams in Divisions 1, 2 and 4: Co-managers Ray Collett and Sai Rentachintala (both Worcester)

WCA Delegates to other chess organisations

English Chess Federation Delegate: NIgel Towers (Redditch)
Midland Counties Chess Union Delegates: Stephen Woodhouse (Longbridge), Aiden Griffiths (Worcester), Gavin Cartwright (Longbridge), Alex Nicholls (Warndon)
Birmingham & District League Delegate: Dan Lambourne (Redditch)
Dudley & District Chess League: David Waud

ECF registered coaches national list

Simon Berry (Worcester)
Alex Holowczak (Oldbury)
Nigel Towers (Redditch)
Colin Vernon (Warndon)

Passed the ECF examination for level 1 arbiters

Gavin Cartwright (Longbridge)
Aiden Griffiths (Worcester)
Scott Oxtoby (Worcester)
Sai Rentachintala (Worcester)
David Smith (Redditch)
Alaric Stephen (Worcester)
Colin Vernon (Warndon)

FIDE International organiser and International arbiter

Alex Holowczak (Oldbury)

FIDE Lead School Instructor

Colin Vernon (Warndon)

Safeguarding policy

The association's policy, code of conduct and procedures are under review and will be updated at the next Annual General Meeting to conform with the newly published ECF Safeguarding Policy.