British Kendo Association

The following were nominated by the 7th April deadline and elected unopposed:

POSITION
NOMINEE
NOMINATED BY
SECONDED BY

NC Vice Chair
Hilary Hadley 2315
Errol Blake 344
Malcolm Smalley 8100

Iaido Bucho
Christopher Buxton 1627
Len Bean 163
Douglas Evans 1280

Iaido Grading Officer
Judith Farncombe 3154
Douglas Evans 1280
Terry Cook 1969

Jodo Bucho
Andy Watson 5351
Greg Drewe 863
Dragomir Lubomirov 5008

Jodo Events Officer
Al Colebourn 4648
Alan Nash 3192
Harry Jones 4974

Jodo Grading Officer
David Fanning [...]

Reports published for the 2010 AGM (pdfs):

NC AGM Final Agenda
Chairman’s Report
Iaido and Jodobu Coaching and EMP Report
Jodobu AGM – Bucho Report
Jodobu AGM – Final Agenda
Iaido AGM – Bucho Report
Iaido AGM – Final Agenda
PRO Report
BKA Health & Safety Report
Membership Report (added 3/5/10)
DIA Report (added 3/5/10)
Kendo Bu AGM – Agenda (added 3/5/10)
Kendo Bu Strategy proposals from Events [...]

Dear Members,
The National Committee of the BKA would like to propose the following (see Word document download here) changes to the constitution at the AGM (Saturday, 22 May 2010).
These recommendations are based on our experiences over the past year. Some of the changes are already in effect via the Special Powers given to the NC, [...]

A list of nominations received for vacant posts at the 2010 BKA AGM can be found here.
Election statements for four of the candidates for posts can be downloaded as follows:

National Committee Vice-Chair

Iaido Bucho

Iaido Grading Officer

Jodo Bucho

Nominations have not been received for the following posts (therefore, under 14.4.3 of the constitution, nominations may be accepted from [...]

Membership of the complaints committees for the Iaido and Jodo Bu have been announced.  The participants are:

Iai Bu Complaints Committee – Peter West, Chris Buxton, Brian Stockwell
Jodo Bu Complaints Committee – Andy Watson, Val Hodges, Peter Ellis
 

Members should not contact the committee’s directly about complaints but should email the Complaints Officer (Jo Hirst) at complaints@kendo.org.uk [...]

The NC has just co-opted a Complaints Officer whose job it is to be the receiving point for complaints and to advise members who are considering using the Complaints procedure.  Details of the Complaints procedure are given in the constitution here http://kendo.org.uk/files/minutes/BKAConstitutionAdopted30May09.pdf. Please see Article 13: Complaints Procedures.

The 2010 AGMs will be held on Saturday 22 May at Caroline Chisholm School, Wooldale Centre for Learning, Wooldale Road, Wootton Fields, Northampton, NN4 6TP.
http://www.kajimacommunity.co.uk/caroline_chisholm/index.html

A revised policy on travel and subsistence claims has been issued by the National Committee.  The policy can be found in the Resources section of this site of via the direct link here.

BKA Chairman, Errol Blake

Report from the BKA Chair, Errol Blake, on a variety of activities undertaken this year, including:

What are the major issues of the year ahead?
Central Services costs
Subscription Fee-setting
Bu budgets
Dojo Representatives Committee (DRC)
Online facilities
Significant Medical Issue policy
Website improvements
Child protection and vulnerable persons policy
Email communications
The past year
Tribute to our “founding fathers”
Appendix – Use of [...]

Chairman’s update on matters arising from the ex-President’s report re EKF/FIK gradings etc. 22 September 09
The EKF has no problem in recognising the BKA Chairman as the equivalent of President.
There are no impediments to BKA members taking foreign gradings, referee panels, Renshi-shogo applications etc.

Summary:  There were no problems with foreign gradings or Renshi-shogo or other matters that I am aware of, prior to the publication of the outgoing President’s report of discussions/decisions at the EKF and FIK meetings in Sao Paolo. The latter gives rise to concerns over terminology and I shall debate this with the EKF.
Full text [...]

14 World Kendo Championships logo

Today we are publishing two reports on events that took place at the recent Kendo World Championships:

John Howell sensei reports briefly on the competition and more seriously on the meetings of the European Kendo Federation (EKF) and International Kendo Federation (FIK) that took place in Brazil at the same time [...]

Dear Dojo Leader,
Please forgive me for writing to you about a bit of the new constitution – I’m sure you have had enough of all this stuff by now!  However, I just want put my request to you in perspective.

The Iaido and Jodo DRC meetings will be held on Monday 10 August 2009 at the Summer Seminar in Brighton, straight after practice finishes for the day.
The Kendo DRC meeting will be held on 18 October 2009 at the Mumeishi Grading, being held across the road from the dojo at the BA Concorde club, during [...]