Are Unaffiliated Competitions Going to be Allowed?

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Has anyone seen or heard anything about unaffiliateds being allowed when/ if affiliated competitions are?

I think I saw that Ireland said they weren't going to allow them but I don't think I've heard anything for the UK or England yet.
 
I imagine when affiliated competitions are allowed unaffiliated will follow their guidelines, as they normally do, using BE, BD or BS rules. I haven’t seen anything that only affiliated competitions will run. That said they do have more funding, being organisations with members, so may be able to run on less competitors/with provisions in place more easily.

**note this is all speculation, I have no official answer
 
BRC's latest statement has said no club can run training or competitions unless they're online but they haven’t said when this restriction ends. Their previous statement in March strongly recommended no riding club activities happen up to and including the 30th June, it will be interesting to see what happens, whether they'll stick to it, extend it or if they'll at least allow training to take place earlier. Of course that only applies to riding clubs affiliated to BRC, I'd imagine most unaffiliated will start up when the affiliated do providing they can get enough willing volunteers to run stuff and if any compulsory safety precautions aren't too difficult or expensive to implement.
 
I think that while technically unaffiliated and affiliated will start at the same time, unaffiliated will run first as it can be organised quicker. A show centre I go to have reopened for facility hire and training and have announced that they hope to run unaffiliated in June and BD in July. They run a lot of competitions and have a slick online entries system so if they decided to hold an unaffiliated they could probably turn it around in a week where as BE the entries usually need to be in 3 weeks before.
 
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