Contact Us

Report Forms:

• Welfare/Safeguarding concerns
• Accident/Injury/Near miss
• Disciplinary Breach (inc Black cards) 
• Sport Integrity (doping/match fixing) concern
• Formal Complaint
• Poor Practice (safety, welfare read this first, policy breaches)
• Policy Feedback

Support Request Forms:

• Request membership reactivation after a break of 9 months
• Request change of region
• Request change of primary email address
• Request support with renewals, upgrades, downgrades and cancellations.
• Referee queries
• Ranking queries
• GBR Pathway Programme/GBR Representation Queries

Other Queries and Support:

• membershipqueries@britishfencing.com – general support for club and individual members
• gbr_support@britishfencing.com – includes GBR representation, international competition – entries, accreditation and licensing (FIE/EFC/WA) and the GBR Pathway Programme (formerly known as the ADP).
• workforcedevelopment@britishfencing.com – includes workforce registers, coaching development, workforce courses, certification, DBS, advertising for coaches.
• events@britishfencing.com – includes domestic events – BF events, licensing events, and support for event organisers
• safeguarding@britishfencing.com   only for safeguarding concerns for queries about certificates, courses or requirements please contact workforcedevelopment@britishfencing.com

Managing your Membership – Before contacting us with queries relating to membership please visit this support page. You can also find various required forms eg to reactivate your membership after a break of 9 months , to change your region, to change your primary email, specific support with renewals, upgrades, downgrades and cancellations.

General Member Queries – For questions that don’t relate to managing your membership (see paragraph above) please complete this form. (Includes queries about events, website, The Sword, Club & Region support, GB League, Coaching and Workforce support, insurance)

Contact Us Online or By Email – The most efficient way to reach us is to use the emails listed above or complete a webform which will be automatically directed to the staff members best placed to deal with your query.  Unless you think that your query can only be handled by one specific person in the organisation we recommend using the email addresses listed above so your query can be picked up by the next available person able to help.

Welfare Concerns – If you wish to report a non-serious concern or a concern where there is no imminent risk to the welfare of a young person or adult at risk, please click here. If you have a serious concern and you believe that a child or adult at risk is at imminent risk in the first instance you must contact the Police or Children/Adult Services in your area and then contact the Lead Safeguarding Officer on the emergency 24hr safeguarding number: 07526 003030 immediately. For more details click here.

Complaints – To make a formal complaint please complete this form (please read our Customer Comments and Complaints Policy here first)

Disciplinary Offences/Black Cards – To report an alleged breach of BF Codes of Conduct or the awarding of a Black Card complete this form.

Job Postings – If you would like BF to promote your vacancy, such as a coaching role, please complete this form.

All other queries please email: headoffice@britishfencing.com. Please note that these emails to will be read by a member of staff every 3 working days and re-directed accordingly.  It will be much quicker to use the contact forms/emails listed above so that the the staff can help you as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Contact Us by telephone

If you unable to use email, we have a message service available on the main office number 020 8742 3032.  By selecting various options you can leave a message that will be forwarded via email to the department selected. These messages will be dealt with in turn during office hours. To help us make sure the right department can help you as quickly as possible please choose the option/department that best aligns with the needs of your query.

If there is only one person in the organisation that can help you can call them directly. Almost every member of the team will have a mobile number at the bottom of their email signature which you can use to contact them during working days/hours.  When they are unavailable your call will be diverted to voicemail and you can leave a message. However, please note if that person is on leave, unwell or in meetings they may not be able to pick the message up in the time frame you are expecting and other team members will not be able to help you.

We would really appreciate your help to make this process efficient and in that way allow us to support as many of our members as possible:

• If you have to call us and leave a message please only leave one message – repeat messages to multiple staff members may only create confusion and won’t make our response any faster (especially if you are calling outside of office hours!)
• Please be aware of normal working hours – we recognise it can be frustrating if staff aren’t able to answer your call but we will respond as soon as we can.
• Please leave your name and contact details – without these we can’t call you back!

Normal Working Hours

Our normal working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, excluding bank holidays.

Our Offices

The BF Head Office is based at 1 Baron’s Gate, 33-35 Rothschild Road, London, W4 5HT. We don’t accept unannounced visitors so if you have a need to visit our office please contact the member of staff you would like to meet in advance for advice.

Please note that the office is closed at weekends.

Street Parking Locator: https://www.myringgo.co.uk/parkinglocator/9909?detail=1​

You can find more information on our Board, our Executive, our President, the Ombudsman and more by visiting our ‘About Us’ Zone.