UKAPUIt is the intention of UKAPU to hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 18th of March at roughly 7pm.
Owing to the obvious difficulties in meeting face to face, we will be holding the meeting over Discord.
If any members wish to listen in/contribute to the AGM, this can be done via joining the Discord session. Information on how to join this session will be published in due course.
If a member wishes to contribute a topic for discussion, please get in contact with us.
Normally around this time of year, we’re all eagerly looking under the Christmas tree, waiting to see if the lovely Santa has gifted to us a nice shiny new Airsoft replica (to use in January, probably).
Anyhow as I’m sure you’re aware, this year has ended up being slightly different to normal. And the next year will be different for a fair while yet.
Despite that I’ve heard that Santa* was still taking orders, and hopefully he might have answered my request of owning a gas shotgun… 🤔
What hasn’t changed is our commitment to our members, to you. And whilst the next year is shaping up to be both difficult and interesting, we’ll still be here, waiting and ready to help out.
On behalf of the UKAPU committee, we wish you a Merry Christmas – although it really doesn’t feel like it.
Normally around this time of year, we’re all eagerly looking under the Christmas tree, waiting to see if the lovely Santa has gifted to us a nice shiny new Airsoft replica (to use in January, probably).
Anyhow as I’m sure you’re aware, this year has ended up being slightly different to normal. And the next year will be different for a fair while yet.
Despite that I’ve heard that Santa* was still taking orders, and hopefully he might have answered my request of owning a gas shotgun… 🤔
What hasn’t changed is our commitment to our members, to you. And whilst the next year is shaping up to be both difficult and interesting, we’ll still be here, waiting and ready to help out.
On behalf of the UKAPU committee, we wish you a Merry Christmas – although it really doesn’t feel like it.
I’m waiting for the legislation to come through, however as far as I can tell, our English members will be able to resume skirmishing after the 2nd of December if they so wish, under essentially the same guidance as before their second “lockdown”
We’ll publish further information when we have it.
~ David
I’m waiting for the legislation to come through, however as far as I can tell, our English members will be able to resume skirmishing after the 2nd of December if they so wish, under essentially the same guidance as before their second “lockdown”
We’ll publish further information when we have it.
~ David
Happy Halloween 🎃
Normally we’d be posting our standard public service announcement about not taking out airsoft imitations to Halloween parties but I don’t think that will be happening this year.
What will happen this year is uhm, looking forward (in England at least) to a load of nothing.
There’s no details that have been announced excepting the speech by the Prime Minister, however my expectation is that the situation in England will be placed under a “lockdown” similar to what England was placed under in March – that is, no Airsoft from Thursday onwards until December (at the earliest).
We will be posting on the Lobbying for UK Airsoft links to any relevant legislation whenever it is published (which will probably be Wednesday evening)
I believe the Welsh assembly won’t be extending their “fire breaker” lock down, Scotland will have further legislation enacted on the 2nd of November and Northern Ireland’s “circuit breaker” lockdown currently allows outdoor skirmishes up to 15 people – therefore it’s very likely that after next week, England will be the only home nation where Airsoft can’t be played for the time being.
But we’ll know for definite the plan for both England and Scotland some time early next week, hopefully.
~ David
Hey!
Just though that I’d remind our members (and the wider UK Airsoft community) that whenever new Coronavirus-related legislation that I think will affect Airsoft is published, it’ll hopefully be posted in the Lobbying for UK Airsoft group.
This post being spurred on of course by the latest changes to Welsh legislation…
~ David
UKAPU Chairman
Apologies for the delay in posting our latest opinion on the changes in English legislation, there were some things that popped up that we needed to think about.
In summary, our opinion is that outdoor skirmishing is unaffected however indoor skirmishing is now being treated the same as other indoor leisure activities.
https://www.ukapu.org.uk/coronavirus-portal/regulations-in-england/
~ David
I’ve got around to reviewing the changes to the secondary legislation that deals with Coronavirus regulations for England (boy, what a time to be alive) and Airsoft is thankfully largely unaffected by these latest set of changes.
A brief overview of the latest set of English legislation is available below.
We’d like to stress that if you wish to go skirmishing, please continue to do so in a manner that keeps both you, your fellow skirmishers and those who are involved in running your skirmish safe.
~ David
