About UK CAU
History
The first Inter County team and Relay Championship was organised by the Counties Associations Committee and held on Saturday 22nd August 1925, at Stamford Bridge, London, under the auspices of the then Amateur Athletic Association.
In November of that year at a meeting held in the Offices of the AAA, delegates representing Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Wiltshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, proposed that the County Associations were the proper body to be entrusted with the promotion of an Inter County Championship. The General Committee of the Amateur Athletic Association raised no objections and had minuted at one of their meetings that representatives of County Associations are the proper body to be entrusted with the promotion of an Inter County Meeting.
Thus the Counties Athletic Union was formed at a meeting held in the Amateur Athletic Association's offices on Thursday 4th February 1926, attended by delegates from Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex. Letters of apology were received from Hampshire, Wiltshire and several County Associations in the Midlands and the North who were unable to attend the meeting, but nevertheless were in interested in the movement. This meeting also endorsed the staging of the first Inter County Cross Country Championship held at Beaconsfield on Saturday 3rd April 1926.
On the same day as the first Inter County Cross Country Championship were held at Beaconsfield in 1926, the first meeting of the newly formed Counties Athletic Union was held in the Old Rectory, Beaconsfield. Delegates representing Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Wiltshire and Worcestershire attended the meeting and approved the Union's Constitution.
At an Extraordinary General Meeting held in Corby on Monday 25th May 1992, the Counties Athletic Union was dissolved, being replaced by the newly established UK Counties Athletic Union. At the same meeting a new constitution was formally adopted.
From their inception in 1925 through to the late sixties, apart from the war years 1940 - 1946, the CAU Inter County Track & Field Championships were a major international fixture held annually at the end of May, on what was then known as the Whitsun Bank Holiday. After spells at the WhiteCity, Crystal Palace, Leicester, Birmingham and Corby, the event for the last 8 years has being held in Bedford.
The Inter Counties Cross Country equally became a major fixture in the athletic calendar and today still plays an important role in endurance running, providing a high standard of competition for U13, U15, U17, U20 and senior athletes. For the past ten years the Championships have been held in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, and are screened live on Bskyb television.
Objects
The object of the Union is to encourage, develop and promote Inter County Competition in the various UK Athletics disciplines of Athletics.
Affiliated Members
| Athletics Northern Ireland | Essex | Norfolk | Surrey |
| Avon & Somerset | East Wales | North Eastern Counties | Sussex |
| Bedfordshire | Gloucestershire | North Wales Counties | Warwickshire |
| Berkshire | Greater Manchester | Northamptonshire | West Wales Region |
| Buckinghamshire | Hampshire | Nottinghamshire | Wiltshire |
| Cambridgeshire | Hertfordshire | Oxfordshire | Worcestershire |
| Cheshire | Humberside | Scotland East District | Yorkshire |
| Cornwall | Kent | Scotland North District | |
| Cumbria | Lancashire | Scotland West District | |
| Derbyshire | Leicestershire | Shropshire | |
| Devon | Lincolnshire | South Wales Region | |
| Dorset | Merseyside | Staffordshire | |
| East Wales Region | Middlesex | Suffolk |
Officers
| President | |||
| Peter Matthews | |||
| Vice Presidents | |||
| E T Wheeler | J C Smith | C H Neal | F P Orton |
| W J Ferguson | C Robinson | G Clarke | H Goode |
| C Brunning | J How | J Gebbels | D J Hayward |
| H Williams | B J Wallman | Mrs Megit | K Bray |
| O Young | B W Hart | J G R Mower | |
| Chairman | |||
| Edward Bellamy | |||
| Vice Chairman | |||
| Mary Hodges | |||
| Management Council | |||
| George Burton | John How | Malcolm Fletcher | John Gebbels |
| Jane Gledhill | Sandra White | Jim Jones | Laurie Kelly |
| Joe Mower | Howard Williams | ||
| Officials Secretary | |||
| Nick Folwell | |||
| Auditor | Trustees | ||
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Geoff Clarke |
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| Honorary Treasurer | Honorary Secretary | ||
| Stephen Rooney | Cliff Robinson | ||
Contacts
| Secretary | Cliff Robinson |
| 9 Knoll Close | |
| Littleover | |
| Derby | |
| DE23 3SG | |
| Tel: 01332 519521 | |
| E-mail: ukcau@aol.com | |
| Officials Secretary | Nick Folwell |
| 4 Bishopstone | |
| Bradville | |
| Milton Keynes | |
| MK13 7DJ | |
| Tel: 01908 579978 | |
| E-mail: nicholas.folwell@btinternet.com | |
| Treasurer | Stephen Rooney |
| 8 Turnfurlong Row | |
| Aylesbury | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
| HP21 7FF | |
| Tel: 01296 436793 | |
| E-mail: s.rooney@martinnye.co.uk | |
| Cross Country | Joe Mower |
| Championship | 188 Hadleigh Road |
| Secretary | Ipswich |
| Suffolk | |
| IP2 0DH | |
| Tel: 01473 216289 | |
| E-mail: joseph.mower@ntlworld.com | |
| Track & Field | Sandra White |
| Championship | 35 Maclntyre Road |
| Secretary | Stocksbridge |
| Sheffield | |
| S36 1DG | |
| E-mail: sandra.white13@tiscali.co.uk |
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