I was due to attend this as delegate from the Doncaster Congress, but thought that would also serve to feed back to the S&DCA. It the event, I got engrossed in other things, and I quite forgot the ECF meeting, and didn’t attend. Looking at the Forum for English Chess, whereon much pre-meeting discussion had been rumbling on, I saw there were 35 attending (more than last time), and also saw somebody commending a post-meeting report on the Shropshire CCA website.

The following is all that most people are likely to be bothered about, the new season’s membership fees:

Category	Previous
	Rates for	Rates for
	2025/26	2026/27
	£	£

Junior Bronze	7.5	9
Junior Gold	14	16
Junior Platinum	80	82

Bronze	21	22
Gold	37	38
Platinum	80	82

Supporter	13	10

Congress Pay to Play	16	16
Congress Pay to Play (junior)	6.50	7
Congress Pay to Play (junior only events)	3	3
FIDE Admin fee (non-England)	1.50 (waived)	n/a
Non-Members Game fee	21	22
Non-Members Game Fee (Junior)	7.50	9

If you want to know more of what happened then look at https://www.shropshirechess.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Report-on-2026-ECF-Finance-Council.pdf. I don’t understand the comments on future increases in Gold and Bronze membership fees, also the previous Supporter rate is given as £9.99, The rest of the report confirms my gut feeling that I didn’t miss too much!

The ECF AGM will be in Leeds on Saturday the 4th of November, and potentially any ECF members so-wishing can attend, it seems. For details see https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AGM-arrangements-v2.pdf.