Club News

AGM
Helen Porteous has kindly agreed to be club secretary, taking over from David Reid
Junior club membership fees were set at £40 quarterly and £5 per night
The proposed changes to the constitution were agreed - with the new definition of member and the new junior membership category

Membership Survey
It's your last chance to fill out the membership survey, which will close Saturday 2nd April. Please let us know how you'd like us to run your club!

Late Night Fencing
The second extended fencing session will take place on Thursday 7th April and the 1st Thursday of the month for the rest of the year. We start at 8pm as normal, but fence til 10.30pm.

Fencing Social
The next fencing social / non-fencing night will be on Thursday 12th May - event to be announced, but put it in your diaries now please!

Hoodies and T-shirts
Just to remind you all club branded hoodies and t-shirts are still available, please speak to Helen T, or any of the committee if you're interested

Thank you for reading! See you Thursday!

Helen

AGM, County Championships, BFA Coaching Course, BAF Performance Day

On 22 March, 8PM it is our AGM at the Garibaldi. As always there's free food and a free drink to be had if you'll come along. This is your chance to have you say on fees and there is a proposal to change the constitution to create a new membership catagory for U18s. A copy of what is proposed is here. It would be helpful if you could have you say on the membership survey beforehand though.

County Championships time is nearly upon us again. Individual events are on 2nd April and we would thoroughly encourage anyone who'd like to go to do so. There is a novice foil category for those who have been fencing less than two years but you will need an electrified bib and current BFA membership. For those of you on BFA social membership you get a free local competition anyway so for the majority of you this would be it. There will be a team foil competition on June 11.


The BFA are running a coach education course in April - this is a two day course designed to get you to Level 1 in your chosen weapon. If you are going please let Jon know. The full details are on the BFA website.


Finally, Liam and his friends in the BAF have come up with a performance/training day in Staffordshire on 21/22 May. Those of you who have been with us a few years will remember Liam and Peter Wright running a gigantic fencing session for all three weapons as a pre-season warm up. Blurb from Liam below:

COURSE INFORMATION

Maestro Roberto Piranio (CV below) will be coming over from Italy to run the course with Prof. Philip Bruce. It is possible that we will also have other European and British Fencing Masters assiting.

Plans are to run the course from 10 am to 4pm on the Saturday and Sunday of the weekend, with a dinner on Saturday evening for those who wish to have a social element to the event. All three weapons will be covered and we are setting a minimum age of 13 for participants (we will be requesting that any participants under the age of 17 should have a few years of fencing and competitive experience under their belt)

Lunch will be included in the ticket price which will be as follows

£45 per head if you have booked by April 20th, £47.50 per head thereafter, £50 within 2 weeks and £55 on the day. A light lunch and refreshments will be included in the ticket price.

If you'd like further information ask Jon for an entry form.

Finally, the date for this year's open air event will be September 11th - mark your diaries.