Swindon  fencing  Club

IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT FEE’S

 At the AGM in September it was voted upon the raising of the Membership fees and the door fees in the new year, from January 1^st 2011

 It was decided to raise the Standing Orders by £1 and the door fees by £2.00  for Adults and £1.00 for Juniors

This is the first increase in about 2 years

This will alter the fees as below

 Fees are being raised in order to cover ongoing repair and equipment replacement, professional coaching fees and Hall hire.

Remember that everyone paying by Standing Order will have to increase the amount themselves with their banks.

Southern Fencing news Jan 2011

 

Refereeing
We are planning a course before Easter to include exam/assessment (depending on your response will depend how soon!)
Please register your interest via Stephen – secretary@southernfencing.org.uk

We need to know if you hold an existing qualification - if so at what level/weapon and approx when it was achieved.
Also what experience you have…
those who are qualified, please let us know roughly where you use your skills many of you competently ref at county/region/?? competitions already tell us and consider this as an opportunity to collect formal recognition for your efforts
All refs who have any qualification, however old, please confirm it to Stephen whether or not you wish to attend the course

 Alan Knowles and Austen Rose have become members of the Southern
 Section Competition Committee.

The main purpose of the competition committee is to ensure the efficient running of the Southern Section
 competitions. We know that a number of club members already help out  with the running of section competitions. We would like to encourage more members to help out when and where they can. There are a number of  jobs that need doing during an event, from marking out pistes to refereeing. Even if you can only help for 1/2 a day it would greatly  benefit the running of an event.
 
 The next events are:
  
 F - Foil, E- Epee, S -Sabre.
 
 If you are willing to help out in any capacity then please send an e-mail to Austen at arose8518@aol.com  with your name and phone details.
 If you can help out at the above events then please also mention that.
 
 Jobs:
 Piste assistants
 Referees - please indicate weapons
 Dogsbody, learning, etc
 Armourer
 Running of refreshment stands.
 

Swindon Fencing is now affiliated with Shrivenham fencing club.

Our Juniors do it again!!!

Our Juniors have just taken part in a southern Region Team event on Sunday 21st November.

We entered 2 Foil teams and 1 Epee team in the u14 categories.

Swindon Foil A won the competition . This was for the second year running
The team consisted of James Hendrick, Sam Tushingham and Hector Steenberger.

Swindon Foil B came 12th overall.
The team consisted of Rebecca Knowles, Charlotte Knowles and Eve Williams ,

Rebecca Knowles was also awarded the "individual achievement" award (see picture) for her personal
performance as team captain and for achieving several high scores including one bout of 21 hits in 2
minutes!

The Epee team came 3rd. We borrowed an epeeist from Abingdon club at short notice.
All fenced exceptionally well.

Well done Swindon Juniors

Congratulations to Zoe Sheehan. After getting the Silver medal at the English Youth Championships at Hatfield , she has been picked to represent England for the u15 Epee squad going to Poland in March 2011

The club AGM was held on the 14th September .

The turn out was very poor.

The Minutes will be posted shortly.

The present committee was voted in again.

There is an opening for a club Secretary, so if you are interested see committee member and come along to the AGM

I would like to announce that we have a new Child Protection Officer.

I would like to thank Deirdre Godfray for taking on the role

New Foil masks came into Regulations as of last Autumn.

Part of the bib has become part of the target area.

See the BFA web site for more details ,or talk to one of the coaches.