1 § Name, domicile, date of establishment and language

The name of the association is Vietnam-Finland Badminton ry

Abbreviation used for the association is Vifinton ry

The domicile of the association is Helsinki

The association was founded on 24.6.2024.

In these rules, the association will be referred to as the club.

The operating region of the club is Finland.

Official language of the club is finnish. In the clubs’ activities the primary languages used are English and Vietnamese.

2 § The purpose of the club

The purpose of the club is to promote physical exercise and sports and civic activity related thereto in the operating region of the club in a way that everyone has an opportunity to pursue and to participate in fitness training, health-enhancing physical activity, competitive sports and top-level sports and to participate in club activities related thereto according to their conditions and needs. 

The clubs purpose is especially to organise activities within badminton and sports for people of vietnamese background. The club can also organise activities for people and communities of different backgrounds.

The club can also organise cultural exchange for people and communities of different backgrounds, as well as other activities promoting wellbeing.

3 § Fulfilling the purpose

The club fulfils its purpose by:

1.  offering: 

- fitness and health-enhancing physical activities

- competitive sports

- day, club, guidance, training and coaching activities

- information services and public relations

- education.

1.  influencing widely the physical exercise, sports and association matters in its own region.
2. practising publishing activities.

To promote its activities the club may: 

- receive financial support, donations and testaments, own movable and immovable property required for its operation and obtain funds by organising entertainment and dance events, collections of goods, fund-raisings, raffles and bingo activities. 

- conduct business directly related to the fulfilment of the club’s purpose or business that is of little economic value.

4 § Membership of the club in other associations 

The meeting of the association shall decide the memberships of the club in other associations.

The club and the members of the club shall commit to follow the rules of the associations the club is a member of.

5 § Members of the club

As a member of the club, the board can accept a person who accepts to be bound by the rules and decisions of the club.

As a full member, the club can only accept persons who are not less than 18 years of age. As a junior member, the club can accept persons who are less than 18 years of age. 

As an honorary member, the club’s meeting can, by the board’s suggestion, invite a person, who has promoted the club’s activities in a very significant manner. 

As an honorary chairperson, the club’s meeting can invite a person who has acted as the club’s chairperson in a meritorious manner. 

As a supporting member, the club’s board can accept a person or an incorporated society supporting the club’s activities by paying an annual or a one-off supporting members’ membership fee. 

6 § Commitment to ethical principles and to the jurisdiction of the sports arbitration board and the ethical issues disciplinary board 

The club and the members of the club commit to:

- the sustainability programme for the sports community and the fair play principles 

- the jurisdiction of the sports arbitration board set by the Finnish Olympic Committee and the sports community’s joint ethical violations disciplinary board

- the disciplinary provisions of the sports sector pertaining to serious inappropriate behaviour and severe ethical violations 

- follow the decisions of the above-mentioned sports arbitration board and the disciplinary board

7 § Resignation from the club

The member has the right to resign from the club by giving a notice in writing to the board or its chairperson or by announcing the resignation at the club’s meeting in order to record the resignation in the minutes. The resignation shall be deemed to have happened immediately after the notice has been given, but the resigning member shall be obliged to pay their membership fee up to the end of the current calendar year and to discharge their financial duties pertaining to the club’s activities according to the club’s principles of operation.

8 § Expulsion of members due to unpaid membership fee 

A member shall be deemed as resigned if they have not paid their membership fee that was due over six months ago. 

9 § Expulsion of members and other disciplinary measures

Members of the club or persons involved in the club’s activities and persons acceded to these rules are deemed as punishable.

Acts regarded as punishable are:

- behaving in a way that satisfies the criteria of grounds for dismissal specified in the law of associations

- actions against these rules and other provisions and decisions adopted pursuant thereto

- actions against the rules and other provisions and decisions adopted pursuant thereto of the organizations whose member the club is 

- violation of anti-doping rules

- acting against the purpose of the club

- harming the reputation of the club in connection of the club’s activities or elsewhere

- violation of sports ethical principles

- committing a crime in connection of the club’s activities or elsewhere, if the offender has been given a suspended or non-suspended prison sentence

10 § Entrance and membership fees

The club’s autumn meeting shall decide annually the amount of the entrance and membership fees collected from full members and junior members and the amount of the supporting members’ fee. No fees shall be collected from the honorary members or the honorary chairperson.

Entrance and membership fees can vary between the member groups.