UKRA regrets to announce that, effective immediately, it must withdraw all official support from the UKAYRoC competition.

With only a few weeks to go until registration for the 2009 UKAYRoC competition opens UKRA encourages all schools and youth groups to take part. The 2008 competition had teams from The Guide Association and ATC taking part along with the many school teams.

UKRA will be announcing in the next couple of weeks Youth Rocketry Introduction Sessions for teachers and youth group leaders so they can get familiar with all the skills involved in safely designing, building and flying model rockets so either keep checking back with us or contact us using our Youth Outreach contact form and we'll let you know when the dates are published.

Morning all;

In order that we can get the voting papers out to members (and give those not attending the AGM a chance to return them by post) we are going to have to close nominations at 1pm on Friday 30th May - i.e. tomorrow lunchtime.

The Rockets & Space Event at the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey have kindly extended to UKRA an invitation to hold our AGM at the event. This will be on Saturday the 21st of June.

In addition to the always riveting UKRA AGM the event includes rocket workshops, low power launches, talks, displays and, of course, Waltham Abbey's rather cool looking rocket exhibition!

Afternoon all;

As I am sure you are aware UKRA has, traditionally, held its Annual General Meeting at the same time as a national launch event, although last year we held both the UKRA launch and AGM in conjunction with Black Knights at their BK Flamer event.

After a number of years of very hard work by Charles Simpson on behalf of UKRA (for mid power and high power rocketry) the following represents the outcome.

The New HSE Certificates of Exemption

The new Certificates of Exemption were signed by the HSE on the 4th of December, 2007.