British Kendo Association

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.

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 [...]

A copy of the new BKA Constitution, approved at the AGM this year, can be downloaded from here
The direct link to the pdf is here

The new constitution (adopted at the AGM on 30 May 2009) has, as part of its structure, a Dojo Representatives Committee (DRC) for each Bu. The Chair of each DRC becomes a voting member of the National Committee.

Those who live by the sword…. as the saying goes….
Well, we will see about that, but it is certainly the case that the engineers of the new Constitution, approved overwhelmingly at the BKA Annual General Meeting (AGM) today, will have to live with the changes they have wrought – as four members of the constitutional [...]

News Online May 2009 edition

A new edition of the BKA newsletter has been emailed to members and is available online here.  The newsletter carries lots of information about the Annual General Meeting as well as recent grading results and event advertisments.  
Apologies to members who received the email several times – there was a technical [...]

Constitution Approved at the 2009 AGM
Constitution Working Group Chairman’s letter & recommendations for the AGM
Details of Annual General Meeting
For full details of the AGM see here