Affiliation for the 2025/2026 season is now open. The deadline by which all fees are due through your club’s Blocworx portal is 5pm on June 20th.
Assistance
If your club requires assistance with any aspect of affiliation not outlined below, the following staff members are assisting clubs, by region
| Name | Region | Phone | |
| Paddy Barnes | Antrim | patrick.barnes@iaba.ie | 07884745612 |
| Stephen Flynn | Connacht | stephen@iaba.ie | 086 0748 867 |
| Sally Ann Kinch | Dublin | sally@iaba.ie | 085 131 1870 |
| Maeve Clarke | Leinster | maeve@iaba.ie | 086 177 1812 |
| Sophie Doolan | Munster | sophie@iaba.ie | 086 045 3904 |
| Bridget Scott | Ulster | bridget@iaba.ie | 07841470296 |
Cost
The total cost of affiliation is €735 per club, 100% of which covers your club’s insurance fees as follows:
- Travel insurance
- Group personal accident for approved club events
- Public liability cover
Every year, we endeavour to ensure the best possible deal for our members. As part of membership of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association, successfully affiliated clubs receive the benefit of the association’s comprehensive insurance package. Please note:
- This cover only applies to activities recognised or authorised by Irish Athletic Boxing Association, (e.g. training of boxers, permitted shows).
- For any activities not controlled, sponsored, recognised or authorised by Irish Athletic Boxing Association, individual clubs are advised to arrange their own Public Liability cover.
- Employers’ liability is not provided for clubs. Clubs must ensure that they arrange this cover should they employ any person.
- Cover does not extend to cover liability arising out of alleged physical abuse, road traffic liability, contractual liability, asbestos, or libel.
- The policy does not provide insurance for premises of individual clubs or their contents.
- All club members, including recreational members, must be registered to IABA on The Blocworx system to be insured under the Associations insurance policies.
Fees due:
Midnight, June 15th: Fees must be paid, in full, through your club’s Blocworx portal. In completing affiliation for the 2024/2025 season, clubs must review:
Main contact email:
This is the email address that IABA uses to send correspondence to your club. Please check that:
I. This is the email address your club wants to use to receive all of its correspondence
II. This is a functioning email addresses, with no typos or errors
III. This email address is able to receive emails.
IV. If the club is using the personal email address of a club member, please ensure this person consents to the inclusion of their email address as the club’s main contact email
V. Please do not use email addresses linked to your employment as your main contact email address. Doing so means that sensitive information which belongs to your club is being stored on the email server used by your employer, and that information is accessible by your employer. It also means that, should you move to a different role with a new employer, your club has lost all access to all of its emails and all of this sensitive information.
VI. IABA strongly advises that clubs set up a club email address, so that, in the event that officers change, all club information is stored in the same place, and not spread across several email accounts in the event that officers change within your club.
Secretary’s Address
Please review and up-date your secretary’s home address. This is the address to which any and all postal ballots will be sent. Please ensure that a relevant Eircode or Postcode is included
Boxers
All boxers, whether they are competitive or not, must be included in your Blocworx portal so that they are insured. If you haven’t already done so, please now review the details of every boxer in your club in your portal, and add any boxers in your club who are not present. Please remove any boxers who are no longer members of your club, including boxers who may have transferred to another club.
Coaches and R&Js
A significant number of club members have qualified as coaches, Judges and Referees since clubs affiliated for the current season. Please make sure that all of your club’s new coaches are included in the coaching section of your affiliation portal, and that any members who have qualified as Judges or Referees are named in the relevant section of your portal, including their qualification.
Officers
If your officers (President/Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Child Protection Officer) have changed, or changed elected roles within your club since your last affiliation, please up-date those records in Blocworx. Note: No one person in a club can hold two elected offices – for example, the Secretary cannot also be the President/Chair, Treasurer or Child Protection Officer. However, an officer can hold an elected role and act as a coach or other form of volunteer, for example.
Affiliation Timeline
Your affiliation goes through several steps before it is approved. Once your club has completed the review and up-date of affiliation information, then:
- Your county board has a two-week period from the time your club submits its application to review that application; this will not begin until June 20th
- Your provincial unit has a two-week from the time your county board has completed its review to, in turn, review your application; this won’t begin until July 5th
- Your application will be reviewed by National Stadium staff
- If all is in order, affiliation will be approved.
Blocworx
The portal is here
- Usernames and passwords issued to clubs for this season’s affiliation process have not changed.
- Here’s a tutorial on how to complete your affiliation :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqeWJhdt51s
- Here’s a tutorial on how to add members: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TylE3I5N_RU
Important Notice
Membership of the Association is granted under the provisions laid down by the constitution and rules o clubs , county boards and provincial councils who have paid their annual affiliation fee and registered with their county boards and provincial councils.
Clubs should be advised that if their affiliation actions, including all Garda/Access NI matters are not addressed during the applicable period, clubs will not be able to undertake the following:
- Vote in any AGM or EGM
- Vote in any Central Council or Provincial Council elections
- Enter any boxers in any National Championships
- Submit any club members for participation in Fundamentals: Assistant coach courses
- Submit any club members for participation in Level One: Club Coach courses
- Submit any members for participation in IABA Safeguarding workshops
- Submit any member for participation in IABA iBoxClean anti-doping learning
- Submit any member for participation in IABA 360 Degrees: Diversity & Inclusion learning
- Submit any member for any Women in Sport, Diversity & Inclusion or Club Development programme.
