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24/02/07 Maggie's Centres Kendo Workshop

We have now achieved the workshop on 24th Feb without any major injuries and would like to thank all of you who sponsored and supported the event.
We have collected £620 via online and £308.83 by cheque and cash. Including the gift aid scheme, which adds 28% to the total that we have collected £1152.54!

The below names listed made 21,126 cuts in an overall total by doing 1006 kirikaeshi, this means a great deal to us as much as the collected donation means to the Maggie's centres, which has now exceeded double of our target.

The online site will continue to collect until 24th April so if you haven't made a donation and would like to do so please visit the link below.

I would like to organise this event again next year at a different venue perhaps in London to celebrate their new building now being built at the Charing Cross Hospital. If you would like to join us please contact me.

Participants:
K Yamazaki, E Yamazaki, A Yamazaki, E Seki & J Fustin (Aberdeen), A Bamba, L Turner, S Laycock, R bint Al-Hussein, A Elms, C Baecker & W Urapeepatanapong(Edinburgh), A Grahm & K Matsuda (Kodokan), D Hanson (Kagamishin), K Brazil & A Jarvis (Reading), K Shimizu & Y Matsuda (Tokyo Science University), S Hernandez (Zurich)

For donation until 24th April:
http://www.justgiving.com/maggieswomenkendo

Kazuyo Matsuda

05/02/07
Portsmouth & Southampton Kendo Clubs Launch Charity Competition

First Macmillan Cancer Support Taikai (Competition) Raises £488

London, 5th February 2007: South coast based practitioners of the Japanese martial art of kendo (fencing) held a competition on Saturday, 3rd February at the St. Lukes Community Centre, Portsmouth, in aid of the Macmillan Cancer Support.

The competition was organised jointly by the Southampton and Portsmouth kendo clubs, with the support of the British Kendo Association and raised £488 for the charity.

The results were :

1st Stuart Gibson (UCL Kendo Club)
2nd Will Wright (London City Kendo Club)
3rd Justin Ruddle (Horsham Club), Terashima Shuichi (Leader of Portsmouth Kendo Club)

Fighting Spirit: Neil Sharp (UCL Kendo Club)

Commenting on the competition, Phil McLaughlin, leader of the Southampton Kendo Club, said: "This is the first year of what we hope will become an annual competition. We are delighted that the proceeds will be going to such a worthy charity and hope to attract even more participants from across the country in the future."

For further information, please contact:
Paul Gray
BKA PRO
Email: bka.pro@kendo.org.uk
Tel 020 7403 3990
Phil McLaughlin
Leader of Southamton Kendo Club
mclaugp@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 07787 515341

Other Announcements

05/02/08 - Kendo was featured in The Guardian in a comparison to fencing Article

01/06/06 - Kendo was the weekly featured site on the website www.BritishSports.com.

29/09/06 - Kendo features on the Blackpool Citizen website with Kim Holt's win at the British Open. www.blackpoolcitizen.co.uk