Editing UK Paintball Sports Federation (section)

== History ==

=== European Paintball Sports Federation ===

The federation's constitution traces the formation of the EPSF to concerns about the use of carbon dioxide as a propellant in paintball markers. An archived federation history dates its formation by players and members of the trade to 1990. The federation's later committee history gives 1991.[1][2][3]

Terry Martin, who founded the paintball fanzine ''Born To Dye'', recalled serving as EPSF chairman and discussing paintball markers with the Home Office's firearms division. He also recalled helping to draft guidance on setting up paintball sites with English Nature. The federation's archived website lists the resulting woodland paintball guide among its publications and records that the EPSF produced tournament rulebooks.[2][5]

=== Renaming and publications ===

In the late 1990s, the EPSF adopted the name '''United Kingdom Paintball Sports Federation'''. The federation's accounts say the name reflected the organisation's UK remit. Its archived history records that the committee had no representatives from other European countries.[1][2]

The federation relaunched its newsletter, ''The WORD'', in March 2000. Its website announced that ''Paintball UK'' (''PBUK'') would take over as its official magazine from 1 August 2003. By 2004, the federation also maintained online directories of venues, trade members and tournaments run by members.[2][6][7]

=== Incorporation and leadership ===

Companies House records the incorporation of '''UK Paintball Sports Federation Ltd''' on 13 January 2012 as a private company limited by guarantee without share capital, company number 07909807. The federation's constitution dates its move to limited-company administration to 2013 and gives protection of the federation's name, pursuit of sporting recognition and financial administration as reasons for the change.[1][8]

[[Steve Bull]] ran the federation for many years and later became its honorary lifetime president. Mayhem Paintball recorded Bob Schofield's election as chair on 16 March 2015 as part of a transition to a broader volunteer committee. The federation records that Don Logan succeeded Schofield in 2017.[3][9]