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BRITISH JUDO ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REPORT&ACCOUNTS 2017/18 AH 37 k B4 .u r, rg o.o t Bar k ea .u Gr rg : : ad, to o.o rs ne rt bja@britishjud E Pa .britishjud Afﬁliated 20 www BRITISH JUDO ASSOCIATION 21 728 69 01 T dhail House, Birmingham Ro Ku Judo Report Accounts18_oer.indd 1 Year Commission Afﬁliates Home Country Area Reports Appendices 2018 Accounts Overview Reports Reports 1

YEAR OVERVIEW CONTENTS

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YEAR OVERVIEW HOME COUNTRY 1 01 Contents 42 REPORTS 02 CompanyInformation 03 Chairman’s Annual Review 42 Judo England 06 Chief Executive’sStatement 43 Judo Scotland 08 Membership Report 44 NorthernIreland Judo Federation 09 Events Report 45 Welsh Judo Association 12 Sports Directorate Report 16 PerformanceReport 20 Marketing andCommunications Report AREA REPORTS COMMISSION 47 47 EasternArea 47 London Area 23 REPORTS 48 Midland Area 23 British Judo Trust 49 North West Area 24 Coaching Commission 50 NorthernArea 24 BJASchools Commission 51 NorthernHome Counties Area 25 InclusionCommission 53 SouthernArea 26 MastersCommission 53 WesternArea 28 National Competitions and 54 Yorkshireand Humberside Area Technical Ofﬁcials Commission 29 Promotions andGradings Commission 31 Refereeing Commission APPENDICES 33 Commercial Commission 55 55 Dan Grade Promotions AFFILIATES 32 34 Army Judo Association 36 RoyalAir ForceJudo Association 38 RoyalNavyJudo Association 2017 ACCOUNTS 39 PoliceSportUKJudo 57 57 Reportand Financial Statements 40 British Universities Judo 2017/18

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COMPANY INFORMATION

CHIEF EXECUTIVE AUDITORS Andrew Scoular Haysmacintyre 26 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4AG BUSINESS ADDRESS British Judo Association Head Ofﬁce Kudhail House 238 Birmingham Road PRESIDENT GreatBarr Dr George Kerr CBE10th Dan Birmingham West Midlands B437AH

VICE PRESIDENTS DIRECTORS Colin Draycott, Senior Vice President Ronnie Saez, Chair RichardBarraclough PeterBlewett Andrew Haffner Brian Davies, JP LorettaCusack MickLeigh Ryan Wilkinson Rowena Birch Malgorzata Grzyb Tony Sweeney, Universities Representative Fred Prosser, Chair, WelshJudo Association Bill Taggart, ChairNorthernIreland Judo Federation ClaireLish, (appointed 22 August 2017) COUNCIL MEMBERS Graham Campbell, (appointed 3 David Allen - WesternArea October 2017) Roger Houston - Midlands Area Alan Rickard Dave Rance-NorthernHome Counties Eddie Awford, Chair, EnglandAreas (resigned 22 August 2017) Nadia Minardi, - London Denise Oates - EasternArea Dave Stanley-SouthernArea SECRETARY Garth Illingworth - NorthernArea Andrew Scoular Harry Holt-North West Area Alan Stanbra-Yorkshire/Humberside Area COMPANY NUMBER Bill Berry MBE - Judo Scotland DarrenDean-Welsh Judo Association 1393958 Robin Newett - NorthernIreland Judo Federation REGISTERED OFFICE Matthew Clempner - PoliceSportUK Jim Mackenzie - Army Judo Kudhail House, 238 Birmingham Road, GreatBarr, Birmingham, John Thacker - RoyalNavyJudo West Midlands B437AH SteveParlor - RAF Judo

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CHAIRMAN’S ANNUAL REVIEW APRIL 2017 TO MARCH 2018

thas been alandmarkyearfor the British to stage theinaugural ID European Judo Association both on and off the mat as Championships at the UniversityofEast Iwe strivetomakemajor strides in moving London’s SportsDock. Over the coming years, the Association forward. September sawthe we have acomprehensiveevents strategy that GB Squad pickuptwo bronzemedals at the will hopefully see us hosting more international WorldChampionships in Hungaryinthe form events at all age groups to widen the exposure of Nekoda Smythe-Davis andNatalie Powell of judo across the countryand put GB on the to continue the amazing momentum that the map! squad currently has in international competition. With the qualification forthe LifetimeMemberships TokyoOlympics beginning this year, it is vital Iamdelighted that duringthe year, lifetime that this success continues forour athletes memberships have been awarded to: TheBoard Brian Moore, Northwest Area During theyear, the following BoardDirector Nekoda Smythe-Davis, London Area resignations and appointments took place: Eddie Awford resigned on 22 August 2017. Natalie Powell, Wales Area ClaireLish wasappointed on 22 August 2017. Alan Lingham, SouthernArea Graham Campbell wasappointed on 3October 2017 as the Scottish representative. Finance TheAssociation is currently in the process of We have continuedtobuild upon our finances appointing oneElectedNon-ExecutiveDirector overthe past couple of years following the andafourth Independent Non-Executive loss of keypersonnel. TheChief Executiveand Directortojoin theBoard. Senior Leadership Team continue to manage thebudgets and expenditure throughout TheBoard andCEO have worked hard theAssociation to ensurethatour reserves to ensure theAssociation met theSport continue to increase andprovide more GovernanceCode whichweachievedand will financial strategy as well as provide forthe continue to work on. development andgrowth of theAssociation. Major Events British Judo CentreofExcellence Whilst not necessarily stagingamajor judo The CentreofExcellence, based at the event throughout theyear, we have laid the UniversityofWolverhampton (Walsall Campus) foundations to ensure that the coming years has been in operation nowfor overfour will featureanabundance of worldclass judo and ahalf years.Asaresult, the WorldClass coming to GreatBritain as the likes of the PerformanceProgramme arereaping the VeteranEuropean Championships which benefits of traininginacentralised location. will be held in GlasgowinJune 2018 come to This is reflectedinthe number of medals, Scotland, in an event whichweare expecting in whichour PerformanceDirector, Nigel alarge entryfield from across Europe. The Donohue will touchupon later, that the squad European Open will onceagain be returningin arepicking up on aregular basis in high-quality October 2018 whilst we have the opportunity competitions.

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Sponsorship We have retained astrong portfolio of sponsorsonthe booksatthe Association with the likes of Nissan and A-Plan joined with sports injurysupplier, Physique. We arecurrently in the stages of renegotiating our contractwithCimac whichshould see thedealbecome alot more accessible for our membersand the Association. BJAAwardsEvening November 2017 sawthe 11th edition of our annual Awards Evening. Thenight offersusachanceto thank the judo family forall of their hardworkbehind thescenes ensuring that thesportcontinues to grow.The evening waswell organised and the host venue, East Midlands ConferenceCentre, was the perfectsettingfor us to celebrate theworkofour members, coaches, athletes and clubs alike. Our thanks, as always, go to our dedicated volunteersand the Awards Evening is theopportunityto showour appreciation. This year’s winnerswere:

CATEGORYGOLD SILVERBRONZE

YoungReferee of theYearAmber PascoeJoseph Chraniuk -

Referee of the Year Lisa Harrison Michael Leng -

Ofﬁcial of the Year Barbara Holmes Joe Foster Michael Leng

Club Volunteer of the Year Sarah Jackson MatthewHarrison Dan Brown Rob Seabright

CommunityCoach of the Davie Reilly Garth Illingworth Joe Glynn Year ScottThomas

Talent Coachofthe Year Adrian Dove Laurie Rush Samantha Chraniuk Kevin O’Reilly

CommunityClub of the Year Rush Judo Highland Budokan DrakeJudo Club Judo Jim’s

PerformanceClub of the Judo Club OsakaRush Judo Bishop Stortford Year

Young Volunteer of the Year Deryn Allen-Dyer Jamie Drew Joseph Chraniuk

Volunteer of the Year Chloe Nunn Barbara HolmesLaurence Buckingham

Event Volunteer of the Year KimTilleySimon Goodman Ros Edwards Denise Oates

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CATEGORYWINNER Cadet Playerofthe Year (Male) Joshua Giles

Cadet Playerofthe Year (Female) Chloe Nunn

Junior Playerofthe Year (Male) Rhys Thompson

Junior Playerofthe Year (Female) AcelyaToprak

Senior Playerofthe Year (Male) Colin Oates

Senior Playerofthe Year (Female) Sally Conway

MastersPlayerofthe Year (Male) William Sargent Junior

MastersPlayerofthe Year (Female) Dianne White

VI Playerofthe Year Chris Skelley

Inclusion Playerofthe Year Skye Westwood

President’sAward Stephanie Inglis

On Reflection Iamveryexcited forthe futureofthe British Judo Association and howwecontinue to makegreat strides in ensuring ahealthy andsuccessful future. It gives me greatpride that Ican call myselfthe Chairman of the Association, one whichstandsbyits morals and six values, andone that comes together as one as a“judo family”. It hasn’t been an easy yearfor the staff at Head OfficesoImust saythank youtoall of them who have worked tirelessly to ensure asmooth operation behind the scenes. It isn’teasyattimes, but our dedicated team have our members’ best interests at heart. Outside theoffice however, we have excellent teams of volunteers, referees andofficials that arethe backbone of theAssociation. Without you, we would not be whereweare today. Your contribution cannot be thanked enough!

Ronnie Saez 6th Dan Chair

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S STATEMENT

sIwrite this reportinpreparationfor the Association and work of the Board. annual general meeting thereare only Directors Atwoyears until thestartofthe Olympic Games in Tokyo. The last yearhas been an In earlyMarch, webegan the recruitment process exceptionally challenging year. Governancetook to source afourth Independent Non-Executive alarge proportion of timetoensurethat we meet Director. This has culminated in an excellent with the standards required to securefunding shortlist of candidates forthe Nominations from both UK Sportand SportEnglandwhich Committeetointerviewfrom. In order to obtain we managed to achieve within the timescales suchahigh calibreofcandidates to apply forthe allocated and wererecognised forour forward fourth Independent Non-ExecutiveDirectorwith thinking. In addition to that, performances alegal/IT background we engaged the services on the mat at theelitelevel have improved of aspecialist recruitment agencywhichproved significantly, however, the core membership very successful in termsofthe leveland expertise numbersappear to be under pressureand of the candidates being put forwardfor interview. have slightly reduced only to be coveredbythe Thereishope that we would appoint on 13 August development of Destination Judo 2018. Governance Areas Following theAGM in November last year where Part of the ongoing work of the governancearea we approvedthe changes to the Memorandum is to begin to cascade thegovernancestandards andArticles relating to the Nominations from national leveltolocal and regional level, Committee, we then became Code compliant this will begin to takeshape overthe next 12 to whichallows us to secureour UK Sportand 18 months anditisanticipated that through SportEnglandfunding. This however, is only the appropriateengagement with the areas, this beginning of theprocess andweneedtoensure will ensurethat we have astrong andvibrant asignificant number of objectives overthe next structure within British judo. three years in ordertocontinue to be Code Performance compliant. The worldclass performanceprogramme has The Boardhas, overthe last yearundertaken nowbecome fully centralised andonly athletes three training courses covering thefollowing: based at the centrewill receivefull supportand 1. The role of Director fundingtothe world-class performancesystem. 2. Financefor non-financial managers This has been communicated overthe last four 3. Safeguarding andchild protection years so that people had an opportunityto Council preparefor this significant change. Thereare howeversome players whodonot wish to be One of thekey recommendations of the based at the centreand thereforethis rules them governancerevwiew as an increase in the role out from lottery athleteperformanceawards that the Council plays especially around the (‘APAs’). However, we have not been restrictivein checkand challenge of the Board. This has been suggesting that we would not selectthose who done through quarterlyreviewmeetings which do not wish to be based within the centrefrom the Chairman and myself together with the participating in Worldand European events. appropriatemembersofstaff have met with On the contrary, theperformancedepartment the Council. During the year, we met on four has devised asupportstructurefor those occasions whichallows the Council members athletes outside of the world-class performance to checkand challenge thedirection of the centralised programmebyestablishing atop

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16 supportprogramme whichhas been offered resultedinmoreofthe hubs beingstill at the to some athletes, some of whichhaverefused introductory development levels with lowlevels the offer.Being outside thesystemdoes not of participation. Participation will improve quickly preclude those athletes who have reachedthe as the hubs move intoafully functioning mode qualification standards from being selectedand whichwill generatemembership and income to fully funded to attend majorevents representing the organisation. GreatBritain. Separategradings, events, competitions This time last year we had areportaround and coaching reports will be coveredbythe the culturewith the worldclass performance appropriatedepartments to giveyou afull programme. This is averyimportant issue and insight intothose areas. one that we have worked hardoverthe last year General to ensurethat our athletes arewell catered for and supportedwithin the high-performance The decision to move the head officefrom environment.Wehaveaverypositiveaction Loughborough to Walsallfi was nalised in plan and we will be assessing our improvement January2018 whichled to the offices closing through questionnaires supplied by UK Sport in Loughborough on 30 June 2018. The new together with a‘walk the floor’assessment group offices opened on 1May 2018 whichallowed from UK Sportand other independent agencies foratransition of staff andequipment to take whichwill assess our cultureand environment placeoverthose twomonths. Therehavebeen within the centre. some significant staff changes as aresultof the move whichwas anticipated but whichhas Following thegovernancereview, it wasfelt caused some disruption to serviceprovided to that an Independent Chair of our Performance the membership.The disruption wasdue to a Management Group (‘PMG’) would help in combination of staff who knew theywereleaving developing this group, ensuring that we have a windingdownand notcompleting work andnew world-class performancesysteminplace. Mark staff picking up work on whichtheyhavelimited England, OBE whohas been appointed as Chef knowledge. One of thebiggest areasofdisruption de Mission forthe British Olympic Association wasfinancewherewewereunable to securethe forthe Tokyo2020Olympic Games andwho was services of all the finance membersand therefore the Team GB chef de mission in Rio has been had to engage three newmembersofstaff, all of appointed Independent Chair of the PMG. whom have startedand areworking extremely The UniversityofWolverhampton has been very effectively so muchsothat theyhavecaught supportiveoverthe last yeartoassist with the up on most of thebacklog of work andare development of thecentrethis culminated in a beginning to have moreinput intothe strategic final plan to add changingfacilities to the centre direction of the organisation. together with alarger medical/physio room. This The other areaswhichhavealarge impacton will makeasubstantial differencetothe running membership areour gradings and membership and operation of the centre. It is hoped that teams. Again, these twoareas have been very everything will be completebythe end of 2018. busycatching up on theworkthat has not been SportDirectorate done as well as trying to devise newoperational procedures within the newCRM system which It has been abusyyearfor the SportDirectorate will be launched in August 2018. and Iamsurethat the SportDirector, Colin McIver’s reportwill outline moredetailed Along with the newoffices and CRM we have progress and changes made in this area. been able to rebrand theorganisation following However, it is important to us to identifythat Boardapprovalinearly in 2018.Ihope youall thereisasslight reduction in memberswithin likethe newvibrant design. One of the keystaff our core clubs. moving on wasGaryHenderson who hadbeen This has been offset by theincrease in our CorporateServices Directorand whohad participation by Destination Judo whichisnow been with the organisation since2013. Gary over1760members. While these 1760 members has been responsible in assisting with thenew showahealthy increase in the participation that strategic plans, CRM and coordinating theoffice has been across 11 hubs, 4morethan originally move and we were sorry to see him move on planned. This rapid expansion of hubs has however, it is important that individuals develop

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within the organisation and he wasunable been recognised nationally.The world-class to do that, landingand excitingsenior role in performanceprogrammehas grownfrom another organisation. strength to strength together with Destination International Relations Judo, however, our core judo marketwithin our clubs and areashaveseen some slight reduction It wasverypleasing to see Lisa Allan being in membership and this is an area wherewe electedontothe International Judo Federation needtoworkhardtoredress. executivecommittee-the first female, nowwe At thestartofthe yearwehavemade have aBritish person involved in and working at some significant progress in bringingjudo the highest levelwithin International Judo and organisations closer together and with the we wish her all thebest in their role. relocation from Loughborough to Walsall we We were successful in bidding forthe European have an exciting and vibrant newbrand together Veterans competition whichwas held in Glasgow with anew and exciting CRM system whichwill in June 2018.Sosuccessful wasthe event that launchinAugust 2018 after asignificant amount we have been recommended to host afuture of testing within theareas. WorldVeterans competition. This is not only a Finally,Iwould liketothank all the ExecutiveStaff, greatrecognition forBritish Judo and the way the Boardand in particular our volunteersand we run our events but also fantastic recognition officials who put in countless hourstosupport of our highly talented team of volunteersand the organisation and events without whom we officials. would neverdeliver suchhigh qualityprograms Summary and activities. In summary, it has been astrong andpositive yearand one in whichwehavedeveloped and Andrew Scoular delivered our governance processes whichhave ChiefExecutiveOfficer MEMBERSHIP REPORT

hereweresome major staff changesin Sheffield andBedfordshireproviding new themembership department during employment opportunities forcoaches. T theyearmainly due to theimpending As well as manningthe phoneline and relocation of the Loughborough officeto answering emails, processing membership and Walsall. Harriet Whittam the Department gradingapplications 9am-5pm weekdays, the Manager left to takeonanewrole with the team also provided supportatmajor events, Youth Sports Trust.Harriet had been in the either on theJudo Store, at registration or at role foreight years and we wish her well in her the information point.The membership team newrole. We also lost JenMurphyand William have continued to provide coaching support Watkiss twoofour most experienced staff who and all staff have been trained to help with unfortunately were unable to relocate. Matt general coaching queries. Watkiss wasseconded from the Development Team to lead thedepartment in the interim In October,anew membership surveywas until the officerelocation wascompleted. introduced whichwillbesent annually to members. Feedbackfromthe surveywas very It was, as usual, averybusyyearfor the positiveand has been used as aplatformto membership team whichincluded taking over improve our customer strategy for2018-19 the added responsibilityfor theadministration whichwillallowusto provide amoreefficient of the Destination@BritishJudo (D@ and prompt service. Anew CRM is being BJ) programme. TheD@BJ membership developed whichwillallowmembersthe ability increased significantly during the year and to updateand checktheir status at the touchof anew paymentsystemwas introduced to abuttonwhile being fully GDPRcompliant. improve the serviceto our D@BJ members and to bettersupportfuturegrowthofthe MattWatkiss programme. Newvenues were opened in Customer Services Manager

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EVENTS REPORT 2017/18 2018British Schools Championships 14-17June 2018.

The2018 British Schools Championships were GB Judo Mastersfinished dayone of the2018 held on 17-18March at the English Instituteof VeteranEuropean Championships with twelve Sport, Sheffield. medals in total after along dayofterrific judo at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. This means Theevent hosted multiple athletes and schools that GB Judo have already matched their competing to be crowned the topschool medal haul from last year’sVeteran Europeans forjudo in the UK. This markedthe highest in Zagreb and thereare stillthree moredaysof number of entries in recent historyand shows competition to come. GB Judo took their final greatgrowthinthis fantastic event. medal tally to 53 at the 2018 VeteranEuropean Judo Championships in Glasgow, with four Simon Hicks Trophyfor the overall school bronzemedals in theTeamevent on Sunday champions waspresented to Ernest Bevan 17 June. College, who gainedatotal of 23 points, after fightingoff close competition from both With arecordhigh of 1031 individual HarrowSchool andBirchwood High School. competitorsand 51 teams entered across the six male and female categories it provedtobe The2019 event will takeplacebetween 15-17 another event of high-class judo.Ofthe three March and will onceagain behosted the GB teams entered in theTF30categoryitwas English InstituteofSport, Sheffield. the GB1 line-up of Miriam Moreno Velazquez (ESP), Sophie Cox, Natasha Glassford, Kylie Adams and Donna Riggs that finishedonthe medal rostrum with abronzemedal.

2018 VeteranEuropean Judo Championships

TheVeteran European Championships was hosted at the Emirates Arena, Glasgowonthe

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2018 Awards Dinner 2017 British Championships

BJAAwardsDinner washosted at the East The 2017 BritishChampionships were held Midlands ConferenceCentre, Nottingham on again over twosuccessiveweekends on 2-3and the11th of November 2017. 9-10 December at the English InstituteofSport, Sheffield. Theevent hosted volunteers, officials, coaches andathletes from aroundtocountryto The Pre-Cadet and Cadet Championships, on celebratetheir contributions to Judo. the first weekend, held atotal of 550entrants.

The Junior andSenior Championships gained atotal of 199 entries in total, due to the Senior Championships being aclosed entryevent for highly ranked Britishelitejudoka.

2017 School Games

The School GamesNational Finals returns to Loughborough Universityfor 2017, taking place between Thursday31August and Sunday03 September.

Over 90 judokatook to themat from the Home Nations of England, Scotland Wales and NorthernIreland in an actionpackedthree days whichstarted with atwo-day individual competition followedbythe competitiveTeam competition on the Sunday.

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England previously lifted the Individual crown ﬁnal of the competition without dropping a back in 2015withScotland winning the single contest throughout –animpressive21 title last yearbut with a7Gold medal haul contest wins with three draws. They came up accompanied by 6silvers and 13 bronze, they against aresurgent Scottish side in theﬁnal were able to reclaim the title. In thefemale but theyprovednomatch forTeamEngland competition, theywon 5out of the 7Gold as theysecured a4-1 victory with FindlayAllan medals available in an impressiveshowing on scoring Scotland’sconsolation point.Wins thetatami. forHannah Niven (-48kg), Leah Grosvenor (-57kg), Reuel O’Neal Marshall (-66kg) andJake England were in dominant form on the Sunday Popplewell (-81kg) ensured Team England forthe Team Competition as theyreached the ended the weekend on ahigh. HostedNational Events

EVENTS2017 DATE English Open -Pre-Cadet andCadet 4February2017 British Schools Special Needs &Visually 9April 2017 Impaired Championships English Open -Juniorsand Seniors 29 April 2017 National Team Championships 1July2017 British Special Needs Open 26 August 2017 British MastersChampionships 30 September 2017 British MinorsChampionships 1October2017

EVENTS2018 DATE British Schools Special Needs &Visually 8March 2018 Impaired Championships English Open -Juniorsand Seniors28April 2018 English Open -Pre-Cadet andCadet 5May 2018 National Team Championships 8July 2018 British AdaptiveOpen 25 August 2018 British MastersChampionships 13 October 2018 British MinorsChampionships 14 October 2018

Rob Hartley Head of Events and Competitions

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SPORTDIRECTORATE REPORT British Judo is in astrong position across the UK andweare well onour waytomeetour four-year target of 50,000 members. Thetarget foryearone of 45,000set at 31st March 2018 wasexceeded by 1,134.Our afﬁliates, the British Judo Council and theAmateur Judo Association (wenolonger include British Ju-jitsu as an afﬁliate), arealsoshowing alevel of growth.

Membership across the home countries and afﬁliates is as follows:

NORTHERN YEAR ENGLAND SCOTLAND WALES AFFILIATES TOTAL IRELAND 2015-16 28,035 2,100 7,4571,724 4,290 43,606 2016-1728,564 2,239 7,621 1,7503,757 43,931 2017-1828,4862,469 8,7311,804 4,644 46,134

This is the ﬁrst year that we have looked at the gender and new/renewalpercentages forthe home countries and thereforeunable to provide acomparison at this time. British Judo Membership: Male/Female &New/Renewal

MALE FEMALE NEWRENEWAL England 74%26% 41%59% NorthernIreland 70%30% 38%62% Scotland70% 30% 39% 61% Wales 73% 27%35% 65% TOTAL 72%28% 38%62%

Thegender balancefor Englandremains the sameasthe previous year; thereisachange in the new/renewalfigurescompared to the previous yearwith renewals up 4%. Thebalanceofthe reportrelates to the development and technical work done in England supportedbySportEngland; the work done in theScotland, Wales and NorthernIreland is covered in thehome countrysections of the report. Membership Membership in Englandincluding affiliates was33,130, up809 on the previous period but 870short of our 34,000 endofyeartarget. Membership retention rate is 59% and thegenderratio is 74%male -26% female. Thetable belowgives aclear indication that growing participation within our core marketisa challenge andthereisthe need forurgentaction. If it were notfor theStudent VoucherScheme whichcontributes 528members to the British Universities numbersand Destination@BritishJudo contributing 1760, membership growth would be muchlower. Good progress has been made with thePrivate Operatorsand we have successfully developed bespokemembership schemes to helpusengage with them. We have an issue in administering these schemes due to the inflexibilityofour current CRM (Salesforce)and this has slowedthe process down. To deal with this issue, and other administrativechallenges, we have invested in a completely anew CRM developed forusbyprovided by 4Global. It is also envisaged that the recent government’sSafeguarding Code in Martial Arts Framework’ proposal to ensure that organisation, clubs and individuals delivering judo have amorerobust

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safeguarding process in placewill also actasacatalysttoencourage PrivateOperatorstoregister their memberswiththe Association in the coming years.

ENGLISH MEMBERSHIP 2016-17 2017-18 VARIATION British Universities 1,063 1,013 -50 Eastern1,421 1,4287 London 2,7862,689 -97 Midlands 2,918 2,661 -257 Northern1,242 1,196 -46 NorthernHome Counties 3,6353,614 -21 Northwest 2,086 1,950 -136 Southern4,9674,961 -6 Western2,258 2,543285 Yorkshire&Humberside 1,3581,248 -110 Combined Services/Police77127 50 Registered Persons 1,668 1,485-183 Miscellaneous 1,909 1,811 -98 Destination@BritishJudo 1,1781,760 582 ENGLISH TOTALS28,566 28,486 -80 Afﬁliates (BJC &AJA)3,755 4,644889 TOTAL 32,321 33,130 809 Gradings Participation in gradings at 29,120 is up 1,120onthe previous year.Toget an accuratepictureofjunior gradings, Sho andMon participation needs to be added together as theincrease Sho participation is to adegreeatthe expense of the reduction in Mon participation -takingthis intoaccount, junior participation is still up by 771onthe previous year. Both Kyuand Dan participation is down slightly but by negligible amounts. The main cause forconcernisthatgradingparticipation within the ‘coremarket’ is down andthe overall growth is largely accounted forbythe growth in Destination@BritishJudo.

YEAR SHO MON KYUDAN TOTAL VARIANCE 2013-14 –23,9423,584 582 28,108 – 2014-15–24,445 3,454442 28,341 233 2015-16 –24,230 3,671517 28,418 77 2016-171,716 22,752 3,392 54528,405 -13 2017-184,245 20,994 3,344 53729,120 715

CoachEducation Over 360 coaches and potential coaches participated in the22coach awardcourses organised across the UK. Therewereover1840 attendances in 149revalidation events and 509 coaches completed revalidation and safeguarding modules through our on-line portal.

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Thenumber of qualified coachesisupthis yeardespitemanycoaches have difficulty of keeping their revalidation requirements up-to-date. We currently have over1,700 coachesregistered who are notvalid as theyhavenot metone or moreofthe revalidation criteria. Thefirstofthe twoNational Conferences forCoaches in partnership with theEJU Coaching Commission planned forthisyeartook on 17/18Februaryatthe PerformanceCentreinWalsall. Hiroshi Katanishi, the EJU expert, delivered an excellent technical programmecentred on the ‘basics’. The102 coacheswho attended were extremelycomplimentaryofthe weekend, the only slight downside to the weekend wasMrKatanishi’sgrasp ofEnglish wasnot as good as we were led to believe, heovercame this difficulty with thequality of his technical demonstrations. Each coach wasgiven access to online video recordings of all the session as an ‘aide memoir’ofthe material covered. We hope to organise 3-4weekendconferences annually with avarietyofthemes and special guest instructors.The first Conferenceinthe current washeldonthe 23/24June at SKK Judo Club in Newton-le-Willows with Mr Katanishiasleadinstructorbypopular request.

AGELEVEL 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/172017/18 VARIATION BJALevel 1496 399479 680785 105 BJALevel 21,959 1,296 1,301 1,4111,428 17 BJALevel 3576 418449 445445 10 BJALevel 4– –713 10 -3 BJALevel 5– ––352 TOTAL 3,0312,113 2,236 2,552 2683 131 Technical Officials TheNational Competitions and Technical Officials Commission (NTOC) completed the work on updating thecourse resourcesfor technicalofficials startedthe previous year and these have available to all course tutors. As apriority, we areputting in placeinthe Areasaprogramme technical officials courses to boost the number of officials at all levels. Considerable work needs to be done and to improve manyofthe non-technical aspects of our national competitions to provide abetterexperiencefor spectators, players, coaches andothers involved -only by increasing thepresentation of our national events will we be able to attract sponsorship.Anew ChairofNTOChas been appointed and we arelooking intoreformingthe Commission with the aim of taking amorewholistic approach to competition organisation and presentation.

AWARD LEVEL2015/16 2016/172017/18 VARIANCE Timekeeper 164 185 104 81 Contest Recorder 93 101 87 14 Senior Recorder 47 55 40 15 Competition Controller 42 41 33 8 TOTAL 367382 264-118 Referees At an international level, tenreferees have attempted and successfully completed their IJF award in thelast three years –all achieved with zero failures or rejections of the candidates. These are

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unprecedented results forBritish Judo within suchshort time period; basedonthe statistics from thelast 20 years we would normally averagearound three successes and one failureevery three years.This provesbeyond thatour current system of training of thecandidates forthese awards is working well and, by building on these solid foundations, improving thetraining andpreparation further we will have muchmoresuccess in the future. In the coming year, our attention is being placed on rolling thenew learningprogramme forthe introductory andlowerlevel of referees that we requiretosupportour signiﬁcant competition pathway.

AWARD LEVEL2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 VARIANCE Club 67 79 45 -34 Area 57 77 53 -23 National C697254-18 National B374739-8 National A252925-4 Senior National 8880 IJF B810 10 0 IJF A573-4 TOTAL 276 329 237 -92

AdaptiveJudo AdaptiveJudo is coveredinmoredetail in theInclusion Commissions report. The first ID WorldChampionships held in Cologne in November 2017 is worthy of mention here.The introduction of the event came about because of thevision and foresight of agroup of passionate people from severalcountries in Europe including GB.The event wasagreat success and has given a boost to the development of judo forplayers with an intellectual disability. British Judo wassuccessfully represented at theevent mainly thankstothe efforts of KerryTanseywho playeidan mportant role not only in the organising of theevent but also in managing the British Team. LookingForward At theend of thefirstyearofour current funding cycle, the first annual reviewsubmittedtoSport Englandwas approved, despiteushavingfallen shortofsome our participation targets. We face some difficultchallenges in this funding cycledue to the focus on ‘activities and an activelifestyle’and less on core sports activity. Akey part of developing the sportwill be to improve our understandingofhow the sportinglandscape is changing and what thechallenges and barrierspeople todayface. This will help us provide, and develop better, moretargeted opportunities fordevelopment. To achieve the outcomes we seek, itiscritical that we recruit, retain and develop the people in our sport. We must ensurethe entirejudo community, coaches, technical officials and volunteers, whether they arepaid or voluntaryhas theright knowledge, skills and experiencetodevelop and deliver high-quality judo experiences that will inspirepeople of all ages to get involved, develop and achieve their potential. Acknowledgement andAppreciation We gratefully acknowledge the supportwereceivefromSportEnglandand themanyother agencies andorganisations that provide directsupportfor our coaches, players and volunteers. We would also liketoacknowledge and sincerely thank the staff, coaches, volunteersand otherswho makesuchvaluable contributions to the development andgrowthofour sport. Colin McIver SportDirector

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PERFORMANCE REPORT

ost Rio, our focus quickly turned to the PTokyo cyclewith also one eyeonParis 2024 as well. Over the last 12 months, in yearone of the Tokyocycle, therehavebeen many highlights to the year, but therehave been some standout performances that this reportwillfocus on. 2017 IJF WorldChampionships and IBSA European Championships

As part of our TokyoStrategy, wehaveanumber of Milestone Target (MST) events to track therounds andultimately wonher first World progress throughout thecycle in the lead in medal. Twodayslater,Natalie Powell followed to theTokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In 2017, the this up, byalsowinning herveryfirstWorld main event being theWorld Championships medal, in winning Bronzewith aworld class that were held in Budapest,Hungaryfromthe performance in the78kgdivision. In November 26 Aug–3Sep 2017. of 2017,Natalie also become GB’sfirstever GreatBritain has not wonamedal at aWorld athlete to be ranked WorldNo.1onthe IJF Championships since2010, but we went into WorldRankingList. this event with ateamcapable of performing These performances at the 2017World at this level, based onthe consistent success at Championships aresignificanttoBritish Grand Prix andGrand Slamsoverthe last few Judo at this stage of the cycle, in that it gives years and on the back of winning twomedals confidencetothe team, that we as anation, at the 2017 European Championships earlier can consistently competeand performonthe in the year.Wewerecertainly ‘knocking on Worldstage. the door’and the team put in some excellent performances to come away with twoBronze In August 2017,British Judo hosted the 2017 medals -our first Worldmedalssince2010 and IBSA European Championships. This wasthe ourbest medal haul at aWorld Championships first IBSA event sinceRio 2016, which gave since2007. GreatBritain the opportunitytoselectan established teamand give some young and On day3ofthe championships, Nekoda Davis, newVIathletes an opportunitytocompete who had notcompetedather 57kg category in amajor championship on homesoil. Chris sincethe Rio Olympic Gamesdue to injury, Skelleywas the standout performer in front wasoutstandingasshe progressed through of his home crowd whowon his first ever European Championship Gold. This wasa significant performancefromChris, who narrowly missed out on amedal in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, as he showedhehas the tenacitytol earn from the Rio cycleand bouncebackwithanimpressiveperformance to become European Champion. Additionally,Elliot Stewart, anewly classified VI athletewho wascompeting in his first ever visually impaired event, finished avery credible 5th. It will be exciting to see howElliot progresses overthe Tokyocycle as he gains the necessaryexperienceonthe Paralympic programme. Elliot is certainly one athleteto watchout forinhis bid to qualifyfor the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

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2017 Junior EuEuropeanropean ananddW Worldorld Championships

Ittisi is imperativemperativet thathat we have asa strongtrong pathway to develop the nextnext generation of athletes who will transition ontontoot thehe Senior programmprogrammeea andnd build on the success and performances of the current Senior teteaamm to ensuensurere ththatat British Judo has coconsistentnsistent and cocontinuedntinued success at the highest level.

Over the last fivfi veye years, wweeh haavvees seeneen our Junior programme cocontinuallyntinually producproduceeJ Juniorunior European and Junior WoWorldrldm medallistsedallists who have rerecentlycently transitioned and performed at Senior level. 20201717 wawassn nood differentifferent with AcAceellyaya Toprak winning Silver and Jamal PePetgrtgraavvee BronzBronzeeatt at thehe Junior EuEuropeanropean Championships. Lulu PiPioovevesana wowonnB Bronzeronzeatt at thehe Junior WoWorldrld Championships with StuarStuarttM MccWWaatttta andnd Jamal Petgravepe placinglacing 5th at these chchampionshipsampionships as well. IncidentallyIncidentally,,L Luluulu is GreatBt Britainritain’s thirthirddJ Juniorunior Worldmd medallistedallist at 63k63kggint in thehe last three yeayears, following in ththeef footstepsootsteps of Jemima YeYeaats-ts- Brownan andnd LuLucycy Renshall. FoForrt thehe firfi rst time, in ava veryeryl longong time, we ararees startingtartingt toob builduild strength in depth acacrossross ana numberumber of weweightight categories, whichbodes well forthe future. to theteam. Anumber of the athletes 2018 ParisGrand Slam commented howtheycould hear the support from the GB supporters and howthis spurred As 2017 cametoanend, 2018 startedwith a them on in somehigh-levelcontests. bang with the first main event being arguably, the biggest event in WorldJudo –the Paris Lucy Renshsall wasone suchathletewho was GrandSlam. inspiredbythe crowd andcameexceptionally close to defeatingthe current Olympic Our Rio2016 Olympic Bronzemedallist,Sally Champion in thequarter final. In theend, it Conway, who hadtaken abit of breakpost wasnot to be forLucy, whofinishedin5th Rio, announcedher arrivalbackonthe World place forthe second yearrunning. stage in style. Sally demolished astrong70kg field, including defeatingthe current World Nonetheless, the2018 ParisGrand Slam was Champion andWorld No.1,AraiofJPN in the oneofour most successful tournaments for final.These arespecialmoments anditwas some20years.Thisbodes well forthe future. fantastic to have aGBathleteontop of the Theperformances over thelast12months podium in Parisfor thefirsttimesince Craig areateam effort andincollaboration with Fallon in 2003.Additionally, and equallyas theHomeNationprogrammesand Club impressive, Ashley McKenzie at 60kgand Coaches.Additionally, without thesupportof Nekoda Davis at 57kg, both wontheir first ever UK Sportand TheNational Lottery, theWorld ParisBronzemedals. Class Performance Programmecould not This wasafantastic performancebythe have achieved anyofthese results. Finally, we team, whichwas made even morespecial by would liketothank our various partnersand the number of patriotic Brits who go out to sponsors–British Olympic Association, British this event each year, and whoshowedtheir Paralympic Association, EIS,CIMAC, Physique, incredible supportthroughoutthe weekend theUniversityofWolverhamptonand our CEO,

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Notable Performancesin2017-2018

Gold Silver Bronze 5th 7th Total MEDAL TABLE 2017 –2018 Medals WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 002 01 2 IBSA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 100 20 1 IJFMASTERS 000 21 0 GRAND SLAM 425 22 11 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 002 00 2 U23 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 002 00 3 GRAND PRIX 0817 11 12 25 CONTINENTALOPEN 234 149 JNRWORLDCHAMPIONSHIPS 00 1 20 1 JNREUROPEANCHAMPIONSHIPS 01 1 20 2 TOTAL 71434 22 20 55

2017 SENIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 JUNIOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Nekoda Davis 57kg Bronze AcelyaToprak 57kg Silver Natalie Powell 78kg Bronze Jamal Petgrave 90kgBronze AmyLivesey 63kg7th Neil MacDonald 60kg5th Lulu Piovesana 63kg5th 2017 IBSA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Chris Skelley 100kgGold 2017 JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Elliot Stewart 90kg5th Lulu Piovesana 63kgBronze Jack Hodgson +100kg5th StuartMcWatt 81kg5th Jamal Petgrave 90kg5th 2017 SENIOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS AliceSchlesinger 63kgBronze 2017 EYOF Natalie Powell 78kg Bronze AmyPlatten 44kgGold Josie Steele 57kg Bronze GRAND SLAM thePMG andBoardofDirectors, who have all Sally Conway 70kg Gold ParisGrand Slam contributed to thesuccess of British Judo. Nekoda Davis 57kg Gold Dusseldorf Grand Slam During theperiod coveredbythisreport, many AliceSchlesinger 63kgGold AZE Grand Slam other athletes have performed with distinction Natalie Powell 78kg Gold UAEGrand Slam at everylevel of competition from cadet through to senior level. It is not possible to name them all, but we recognise and congratulate them on 2017 U23 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS their effortand achievements. Kelly Staddon 48kg Bronze Nigel Donohue Daniel Powell 73kg Bronze PerformanceDirector

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Vl Germany We took alarge team to Heidlebergincluding someofour development athletes and our current VI national team members. The standout performances would be the returnof2012 Paralympian Dan Powell in the 81kgbeating athletes within the top20ranked in the world. Chris Skelleydominated all in the 100kgclass and demonstrated some devasting newaza in thethree matches he won. Without doubt the throw of the competition came forJackHodgson +100kg against Worldranked number 1 Arujo (BRA)- Afantastic pieceofAshi waza planted the Paralympic Silver medallist in Rio and agold medal to boot.

NAME WEIGHT SENIOR JUNIOR Sam Price60kgunplaced Silver Connah Anders66kgunplaced N/A Cameron Bradley81kgunplaced Gold Daniel Powell 81kg Bronze N/A Christopher Skelley100kg Gold N/A JackHodgson +100kg Gold N/A Natalie Greenhough 70kg Silver N/A

Vl Brazil This wasbyfar the biggest entryfor GBRthatwehavehad foranumber of years in averycompetitive field in Sao Paulo. With somehelp from the Judo Trust we managed to helpfund our development athletes to enterthis very tough event with athletesfromaround the world. Dan Powell continued his comebackwith another very positive performanceagainstworld class athletes including Worldranked 7BRA whom he beat with afantastic shime waza in the bronze medalmatch.Chris Skelleywas again on form beating Rio 2016 silver medallist Tenario Da Silva(BRA)inthe fina lwith a beautiful San Gaku.Elliot Stewartcame back from injurywith abang throwing with the throw of the tournament-amassiveO-soto-Gariagainst twotime Paralympic medallist DartanyonCrockett(USA). The stand outperformance from the team came from Connah Andersinthe 66kggroup.Not only did he winhis first ever fight at this level, he gave everything and lost in atense bronzemedal match, his performancereallydid lift the rest of the team andalthoughhedidn’t medalcame away with a massiveconfidenceboost.

NAME WEIGHT SENIOR Sam Price60kg5th Connah Anders66kg5th Evan Molloy81kg7th Cameron Bradley81kg5th Daniel Powell81kg Bronze Elliot Stewart90kg Gold Christopher Skelley100kg Gold Jack Hodgson +100kg Bronze Natalie Greenhough 70kg Silver

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VlTu rkey This wasthe ﬁrst WorldRanking event of the year and wasbyfar thebest attended competition with numerous Paralympic medallists in each weight category. Elliot Stewartcontinued his great form with awell earned Bronzemedal only losing in averyclose match to Nazarenko(UKR).He beat anumber of worldclass athletes and in thebronzemedal match against European Champion 2017-Safarov (AZE) he demonstrated whyheisone of the topcontendersfor medals at the Tokyo 2020 games. SamIngram100kgreturned to international competition and performed exceptionally gaining asilver medal in aworld class ﬁeld. Otherpositiveperformances came from JackHodgson +100kgand Natalie Greenhough 70kg who both wontough matches only narrowly missing out on medals.

NAME WEIGHT SENIOR Connah Anders66kgUnplaced Evan Molloy73kgUnplaced Daniel Powell 81kgUnplaced Elliot Stewart90kg Bronze Christopher Skelley100kgUnplaced Sam Ingram 100kg Silver Jack Hodgson +100kg5th Natalie Greenhough 70kg 5th

Next up forthe team is theWorld CupinKazakhstan 6-9thSeptember andthen in November the 2018 WorldChampionships whichwilltakeplaceInPortugal.

Dave Stanley

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS REPORT

Social Media

Our Marketingand Communications team As part of the ParisGrand Slam andthe have been working hardtoimprove our qualiﬁcation period forTokyo 2020 opening, we social media output over the past 12 months. launched anew rangeofliveevent reporting Differentiating content across our various graphics whichhavebeenwell received by channels has been aprioritywithour main fans. As with recent years,aprimaryfocus for channels consistingofFacebook,Twitterand the content has been to engage closed with Instagram. We have acombined following of fans, athletes and clubs of the sport. Our live over167,000 followers across these channels coverage of major events continues to resonate KeyStatistics with our audienceand receives ahigh levelof engagement andkeeps followers informed of Instagram: 30.9% increase in followers.No. the team’s success throughout theyearaswell of engagements increased by 17.2%.No. of being ausefulengagement tool with thepress. engagements per media increased by 44.6% Sally Conway’s Gold medal at theParis Grand Twitter: 11.3% increase in followers.No. of Slam provided us with our most engaging engagements increased by 27.1%. Organic content of the year on social media. impressions increased by 43.7%

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We ranour first social media giveaway Media &PR competition in Februaryfeaturing asigned Sally Conway canvaswhichsaw fantastic Unlikethe previous yearBritish Judo have not engagement levels with fans with over500 had thebenefit of amajor quadrennial event entrants intothe contest.Moving forward, we suchasthe Olympic and Paralympic Games to will look to stage amonthly contest to reward create aspikeinmedia coverage. Therefore, the fans forfollowingand engagingwith the last yearhas been just as muchabout building Association. on relationships, creating newones, increasing the catalogue of media contacts and testing out newwaysofgaining media coverage for the sport. Particular successes include: SkySports studio appearance forNekoda Smythe-Davis and BekkyLiveseyaspartofWomen’s SportWeek in June 2017;BBC Sportsendingareporterto the 2017 WorldJudo Championships which resultedinstrong national coverage; Sky Sports featureonboth Worldmedallists; BBC TV coverage of Chris Skelley’sIBSA European gold medal; CNN Sportfeatureonthe Stewart brothersand BBCand SkySports coverage of Sally Conway’s ParisGrand Slam gold on an Olympic Games andSix Nations weekend. Results at worldranking events continue to be featured regularly on theBBC Sport websiteand in print both locally and nationally. Internally we arecontinuing to provide as many opportunities forWCPPathletes to spend time in front of camerawhether that’sthrough interviews or filming sessions. This is all with aim of making them comfortable when it comestodoing interviews with external media. Events It has been abusyyearofevents within the Association and theMarketing and Communications team work very closely with the Events team to ensure aconsistent brand image. The 2017 IBSA European Championships staged at theUniversity of Wolverhampton randuringAugust and sawBritain’s ChrisSkelley win his first major international title as he claimed Gold in front of ahome crowd.Our PR Officer has been building upon his media relationships throughout the year to ensure our press releases arepublished across a range of channels.The VeteranEuropean Championships washeldinJune 2018 and the build up to the event sawarecruitment drive across the sporttopromotethe tournament and encourage British entrants. By the time event entryclosed, we hadover200 British entries registered forthe competition.

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Staff communications received alongwith tracking various aspects of their membership (i.e. 2017/18has been asteadyyearwithin the membership renewaldate). department as Ben Pollardand Abdullah Mahmood continue their roles as Marketing Matside andCommunications Manager andPROfficer We continue to outsource content production respectively. forMatside to an external designer.The Member Engagement department decides the keyarticles and features foreachissue beforecontent is then Following thesuccess of the Membership produced. This allows aprofessional magazine Insight Survey, the results were collated intoa to be createdfor our membersand aparticular reportwhichthe department has sincebeen benefit that is very popular upon each edition. working from to ensure closer engagement We makeahuge effort to ensure awide with our members. Oneofthe major feedback range of articles andtopics areincorporated points has seen the Association invest in a everymonth to keep our audienceengaged; newstate-of-the-artCustomer Relationship and in turn, becomes avital benefit of our Management System whichwillallow membership programme. membersthe opportunitytoengage with the British Judo Association moreclosely and take Ben Pollard completecontrol of their membership.This Head of Marketing andMembership will include an online login area, control over Engagement

11TH EDITION

summer 2018 ISSUE 46 JUDO IS FOR LIFe eNTeR THe MASTeRS &VeTeRANS 20172017 BRITISHBRITISH JUDOJUDO AWARDSAWARDS

Event Programme

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COMMISSION REPORTS BRITISH JUDO TRUST

am very pleased to reportthatthe Trust towardsaVICompetition and training camp has experienced another highly successful in Tokyo, this resultedinThree Gold Medals for Iyear. Following an increase in our income Elliot Stewart, ChrisSkellyand JackHodgson we have been able to provide even more financial help formoreyoung players to attend The Trust also provided acontribution £1,500 International Competitions and trainingcamps to assist 10 youngMidland Area players with or development courses to gain valuable theircompetition costs and to attend an experience and knowledgefor their judo International event in Holland career. In March the Trust contributed £1,200 towards The positivenewstoreportisthatmanyofthe the cost of taking ateamtoanInternational youngplayers whohavebeengiven financial Grand Prix in Sao PauloBrazilthisevent assistanceinprevious years from theTrust are is regarded as astarting platformfor the nowwinning medals at International events. 2020 TokyoParalympics. The results were outstanding, Elliot StewartGold Medal, Chris At the2016 AGMIundertook to inform the Skelly Gold Medal, Natalie Greehough Silver membership whereappropriatethe names of Medal, JackHodgson BronzeMedal andDaniel those whohaverecently received training or Powell Bronze. judo development grants from the Trust, these areasfollows; Our thankstoNigel Donohue andhis excellent team of coachesfor their valued help in Sam Hall; Lubjana Piovesana; Lele Nairne; providing vital background information on Jamal Prtgrave; Neil MacDonald; Sam Potts; young potential medal winnersneeding Warren Cooper; Charlotte Potter andStefan supporttoreach their full judo potential. Newbury My thankstomyfellowTrustees, Rowena All the above received grants of between £250 Birch,Richard Barraclough and Densign White to £500 fortheir help andsupportduring thepast twelvemonths. Also our thanksfor the much Inaddition following; Daniel Powell, Eric Ham appreciated administrativehelpand assistance and Sian Bebrowskihavereceived grants of from anumber of BJAstaff and officials. between £500 and £1,000 Brian Davies JP Last November the Trust contributed £2,000 Chairman

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COACHING COMMISSION

his reportiskept purposely shortas Last yearIreportedthat the three-levelaward coaching is coveredindetail in theSport structurewould be enlarged to fivedistinct T levels andIampleased to reportthatthis was Directorate report. achievedbyearly in 2017 when we sawour It has been ayearofchange, notonly have first Level 5coaches qualified. We continue we to cope with areduction in funding, we to emphasise coachdevelopment andwould have had to face up to thechallenges of encourage coachestotakefull advantage of the changing landscape andthe demands the ‘Shaping the Future’programmeand other placed upon us by the need to promotethe revalidation events. ‘activelifestyle’agenda that is thefocus of the Governmentand our funding partners. The introduction of the UK Coaching Framework, which has done muchto Coacheducation is mainly the remit of the professionalise the deliveryofcoach education, professional staff and the Commission nowacts is conducting areviewofthe current awards moreasanadvisorygroup and to driveforward and in thecomingyear, we arelikely to see special projects likethe ‘Shapingthe Future’ changes to the awards. programme whichisproviding coaches with access to some the best coaching expertise. Recently therehas been adisruption to service that we have been able to provide coachesdue Ihavecontinued with the ‘hands off’approach to the move of theoffice from Loughborough Iadopted when taking as Chair of the to Walsall. We apologise forthisreduction in Commission. Ihaveagood appreciation of servicebut by thetimeyou readthis, we will the work that is being doneand, working in be back on trackand normal servicewill have conjunction with the SportDirector; my role resumed. is morestrategic through the provision of supportand adviceasrequired. Iwould liketorecognise and express my thanks to all the voluntarycoaches who makesuchan As Iwrite this report, we areredefining the important contribution to the development of role of Commission. We arealsoundertaking our youngpeople and the growth of the sport. arestructuring of the SportDirectorate which Your voluntarycontribution is acknowledged will involveareduction in the number of and muchappreciated. Finally,I would liketo professional staff available to deliver coach thank the membersofthe Commission and education programmes. We will have to the professional staff fortheir supportadvice change andadopt adifferent approach;the throughout the year. deliverystrategy will change with fewer, morecentralised courses andthe Areas PeterBlewett playing amoreproactiverole in the deliveryof Commission Chair revalidation events.

BJASCHOOLS COMMISSION

his has been another year of change overthe last fewyears, which we have been and consolidation. Maybe this is a monitoring. We areglad that these arenow the Tgood timetoreﬂectonour aims of a) normand the event continues to be asuccess. increase participation: by offering thechance Thereweremorethan 700entrants and even forchildren to succeed at thelevel that is though we transitioned to a2day event we are appropriatefor them andthen to aspiretothe approaching thelimit.Entries were received next level; and b) celebrate thesymbiotic link from morethan 430schools andthe number between school and Judo. of home-schooled contestants is increasing. Our main event the British Schools The British Schools special needs and visually Championships washeldinShefﬁeld. We impaired championships is held within have made anumber of enhancements the event and continues to grow.Ron and

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Jean Cleerehavebeenworking with the The high number of young referees and Commission foryears and this yearlikeprevious technical officials that qualified to be selected years theyensured the SN and VI contestants wasthrilling.Hopefully this will whettheir hadagreatexperience.This yearwehad more appetiteand broaden their viewofwhat Judo than 40 entrants. has to offer.Itwas inspiring to see the potential we have coming through. TheCommission arepleased with theregional school championships being run around The Simon Hicks trophyfor the winning school thecountry. These events arerun by Areas went to Ernest Bevin College, second place or agreed clubs. Children areable to enter went to Harrowand Birchwood High School thecompetition that is closest to them. The were third. Eric Sierswon the KenWebber Commission supports these events by taking trophyfor his refereeing andCiaran Marren on someofthe risk and ensuring consistency. wasawarded the Jerry Hicks Trophyfor Organisersare encouraged to use as many volunteering in various roles. young referees andtechnical officials at regional competitions and recommendthose WayneMelville that do well forthe national event. Schools Commission

INCLUSION COMMISSION

he drivefor disabilitytobeincorporated ID European Championships supportedby Tintomainstreamevents is continuing to the EJU.The event will be held on 22nd –24th progress with the success of the ‘Special August 2018 with athletes currently from 10 Needs’ event included in theBritish School European Countries. National Competition. Awareness of judo for judokawithdisabilities is on asteadyincrease. Driving forwardwith positivesteps, British Judo However, improvededucation andinformation is leadingand hosting an Educational Seminar aimed at coaches andparents would (24th Aug2018) inviting all personnel who encourage participation in the competition have valuable contributions in creatingthis pathway. inaugural pathwayfor judokawithDisabilities within the EJU andIJF.Jane Bridge –EJU Thename change from Special Needs to Vice President will be in attendancewiththe ‘AdaptiveJudo’has been welcomed both by objectiveofcreating aDisability/AdaptiveJudo British Judo andthe European Countries taking Working Group within the EJU. theleadinthis aspectofthe sport. This name change has been made as an aid to achieve Opportunities forvisually impaired (VI) athletes fairness, inclusiveand acceptancefromall who to enteraspecific competition is also being currently participateand engage. Completion afforded at the British AdaptiveOpen (25th andpublication of ‘AdaptiveRules’ have now Aug) to provide opportunities forall VI judoka been finalised and published. to participateincreatingaVI National and Invitational Development competition aimed In thestrivefor recognition on the Worldand at the next cohortofVIathletes andreferees to European circuit forrecognition forathletes practiceunder IBSA Judo Rules. Judokawillbe with Disabilities, the 1st Intellectual Disability invited to also participatewithin the Adaptive (ID)World Championships washeldinCologne Open forfurther opportunities forcompetition. in August 2017. Thecompetition, whichcatered Annual Training andCompetitions have forjudokawithanintellectual disabilitywithIQ welcomed newjudokawithadditional specific 75 or less, received the recognition of the IJF. training sessions andcompetitions from Eight judokawereselectedtorepresent Great NHC,West and South alongwith theNational Britain and camebackwithasuccessful result Inclusion Seminar in February2018. (5 Gold, 2Silver and a7th place). NorthernIreland is hostingtheir first Inclusion Training DayinNovember 2018 and Wales British Judo wasapproached to host the 1st planning to host an AdaptiveJudo Competition

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early2019.Scotland has an establish The Commission memberscontinue to drive programme of inclusion events and is very forwardthe development of all aspects of proactiveinthisarea. inclusion and progress is beingmade-we Participation in the Annual National Seminar acknowledge and thank them fortheir andCompetition is increasing year on year signiﬁcant contribution. andweexpectthisgrowthtocontinue at a KerryTansey pace as development of ‘AdaptiveJudo’gains Inclusion Commission momentum.

MASTERS COMMISSION

COMMISSION MEMBERS: MastersEvents –Homeand Abroad Ronnie Saez –Commission Chair,Scottish The British Open Masterschampionships Representative(BJAChairman) washosted by The WelshJudo Association at the WelshInstituteofSportinCardiff.This Stan Cantrill –Welsh Representative year’sevent attractedarecordofmorethan 250 participants. This wasonceagain brilliant Mandy Humphrey –EnglandRepresentative showcase of greattechnical judo in afriendly yetcompetitiveatmosphere. TerryWatt–NorthernIrelandRepresentative

Dave Quinn –Publicityand marketing

Paul Sawyer –Publicity

John Thacker –Armed Forces

Barry James –Former Chair *Deceased June2018 Chris Doherty –BJA Executiveleadfor MastersCommission Derek Hopkins –Observerstatus

Aims of commission “Toencourageopportunities forparticipation 9thWorld Veterans Championships forall grades of players, age 30 yearsand over, 2017,Olbia Italy to ensurethat information about activities accessible. To develop apositiveimage for GB athletes gained 17 Medals ﬁnishing6th out master’s judo andtoinform, advise andmake of 48 countries in the overall medal table. recommendations to theBoard of Directors of • Gold –Terry Watt,Kay Andrews, Joyce theBritish Judo”. Malley, Kevin Kinneyand Nick Kokotajlo. British Judo has successfully bid forthe • Silver –Sarah Hopkins, TomMoyse,Danny European Veterans Championships and this Bigwood and Sophie Cox will be held in theEmiratesArena in Glasgow in June 2018.Over1000 entries areanticipated • Bronze –Sophie Cox, Joseph Johnson, forthisFlagship event including averylarge Caroline Rawlins, LesleyHutchins, Fiona number of participants from all four Home Chan, Samantha Chraniuk,PatrickBrynand Countries. “I hope that thestaging of the Europe’s premier Veterans Judo event will give Mark Adams agreatboost to the development of master’s judo throughout theU.K”

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European Veterans Championships GlasgowEuropean Veterans Championships 2017.Zagreb, Croatia these sessions continue to be coached by Alan Jones, Chris Doherty &Derek Hopkins GB athletes gained 12 Medals ﬁnishing 9thin at the National TrainingcentreWalsall with theoverall medal table average attendanceofover50master’splayers. Regular Home Countrysessions arealsorun in • Gold –Kay AndrewsFiona Chan, Samantha Scotland; North and South Wales and regional Chraniuk and JoyceMalley sessions arerun by clubs throughout the • Silver –Sarah Hopkins, TomMoyse, Danny country. Bigwood and Sophie Cox • Bronze –Tom Moyse, Alan Jones, Stan Facebook andWebsite Cantrill, Caroline Rawlins, Kevin Kinneyand Activityonthe MastersFacebook and web Ronda Crompton Reid. sitepages forthe four Home Countries continues to grow with EnglishMasterJudo 10th WorldVeterans Championships will Group having over1800 membersScottish be held in CancunMexico, on 16th to 20th - MastersJudo Group close to 500 Members, October 2018. Welsh MastersJudo Group over550 members MastersPlayers of theYear2017 and in NorthernIreland aMastersgroup of over150 members. These groups and pages Female Award: JoyceMalley, in recognition of provide master’s players the opportunityto heroutstanding competitiverecord. Having sharethinking, advertise events andcelebrate held manyWorld and European master’s titles successes. The qualityphotos, postersetc., during hercareer. Joyceisafantastic supporter have kept the pages visually attractiveand of MastersJudo throughout theworld have been successful in capturing thequality attendingMasters training sessions andevents of judo and fun element of master’s judo.Dave andalwaysready to contribute. Quinn’s contribution in this area continues to be extremely valuable. Male Award: TerranceWatt, in recognition of his lifetime of dedication, exceptional contest Finally,I wish to put on record my appreciation record, true judo spirit and incredible attitude forthe supportfromthe master's community to our sport. He is agreatmotivator and and look forwardtoevenmoredevelopment inspiration to everybody young andold events and success overthe next twelve months'. andalwaysready to contribute. Master TrainingSessions Ronnie Saez National Masterstraining sessions have been MastersCommission Chair increased this yearinpreparation forthe 2018 BJAChair

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NATIONAL COMPETITIONS &TECHNICAL OFFICIALS COMMISSION (NCTOC)

SR: 10 events and18months since qualification COMMISSION MEMBERS: as CR. Candidates must have hadsome Andrew Haffner–Chair (Resigned Jan 2018) experience working in control at an event. Keith Merrick –ExecutiveLead CC: 2candidates per yearare selected for the PCCprogrammeleadingtothe CC Ben Newbury–Member (Resigned Dec 2016) qualification. Thereare four possible routes Paul Sexton –Member fornominatingcandidates to NCTOCfor consideration: AndyScott –Member 1. Nomination from NCTOC ompetitions can only run if we have officials, and we need to increase the 2. Nomination from tutors Cpool of officials if we areto improve the 3. Nomination from Areasand Home Countries running of competitions and allowmoreevents to develop. 4. Self nomination.

During 2017,NCTOC developed new Nominees should have considerable course materials, with aset of power-point experience in both officiating at events and presentations and exercise materials to cover runningmulti-mat events, includingrunning the Contest Recorder and Senior Recorder severalthree or four matevents, before courses and assessment papersupdated to nomination. coverthe new2017 IJF rules. These would Thequalification of TK canbedone on apurely ensurethatcourses across thecountrywouldall practical basis.Candidates can download a coverthe same material and be fully updated. form from theBJA website My last action wastoupdateboth the course materials and the assessment paperstomatch (www.britishjudo.org.uk/my-judo/officiating/ the new2018 IJF rules. NCTOCestablished a how-to-get-started-in-officiating/), arrange to network of tutorsacross the countrywho can work or be trained at eventsunder supervision, deliver these courses, and hopefully theywill get theformsigned at three suchevents and receivethese materials in due course. senditintoHeadOfficeto becomequalified. Thechallenge is to increase the number Qualifications of qualified andactiveofficials at all levels. Thefour technical officials qualifications are: Courses forCRshould be held annually in each Area andHomeCountry, but clubs can QUALIFICATION MINIMUM AGE also host courses. Clubs, Counties, Areasand HomeCountries need to encourage potential Timekeeper/Scorer(TK) 10 years candidates to getinvolved.Therewould Contest Recorder (CR) 13 years naturally be fewerSRcourses, but thereneed to be suchcourses aroundthe countryfrom Senior Recorder (SR) 16 years timeto time. Samurai JC runanannual SR Competition Controller (CC) 21 years (andCR) course around the beginning of July each year, but hopefully otherswillberun as Criteria forexamination are: well aroundthe countryfromtimetotime.

TK: qualified “onthe job”, requiring 3signatures, Havingmorelocal officials means that events one of whichfromaminimum SR, at 3events. can runatlowercost by nothavingtobring as manyofficials in from distance, as well as CR: 3events since qualification as TK –but cuttingdownrelianceonafew overworked tutorscan at their discretion takeacandidate stalwarts. straight to CR onacourse if theyfeel the candidateissuitable.

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NewIJF Rules Shiai. Both of these arefreetodownload and areproventohelp events run smoothly and After the considerable changes made to efficiently. the contest rules by the IJF in January2017, another set of changes were made in 2018, TheFuture some of whichmovedbackfromthe 2017 changes towardsthe pre-2017 rules. With the Both Ben Newburyand Iresigned from qualification period forthe 2020 Olympics NCTOCatthe end of last yearand so new startingshortly, itislikely that the rules will then blood is needed. Thereismuchtodotoget remain constant until after 2020, but it would moreofficials qualified and developed, the be really good if the IJF were to have aperiod of Tournament Handbook is overdue forreview stabilitybeyond that time. and at somepoint hopefully theCRcourse should include the option of an onlinelearning Hosted National Events course. The BJAneeds more officials, and anything that can encourage more people to The British Mastersand Minors, the National become involved is surely agood thing. Teams, the English Cadet &Pre-Cadet Open and theEnglish Junior &Senior Open areall Finally events whichthe BJAinvites bids to host.This allows events to be spreadaroundthe country, Iwould liketothank all of youfor your allowing local officials thechancetoparticipate continued support, participation and and gain experience, and encouragingthose contribution that enables BJAevent organizers bodies (Home Countries, Areas, Counties at all levels to run efficient, enjoyable and and Clubs) who host events to develop their safeevents forour players, whether theybe volunteer workforceand thus strengthen the recreational or performancecompetitors. If you national pool and infrastructure. All of these go to awell-run event, makeapoint of thanking were well run in the last year, and theBJA the officials, who givetheir timefreely, because encourage otherstoalso look at the possibility without them we would have no events. of hostinganevent.The BJAevents team will be pleased to giveadvice. These events must Andrew Haffner use one of thetwo approvedcomputer systems Chairman (until January 2018) Competitions forrunning events, Judo Technologies or Judo &TechnicalOfficialsCommission

PROMOTIONS &GRADINGS COMMISSION

Aims of commission ADofEshavecontinued as acohesiveworking group on operational gradingmatters andare COMMISSION MEMBERS: avital partofthe organisation and continuing success of CompetitiveDan Gradings. Andrew Haffner–Chair Dave Horton-Jones –National Promotions Iwould onceagain liketo thank theArea Committees, their Area DirectorsofExaminers andGrading’sManager (NPGM) (ADofEs) and membersofthe Promotions SteveLesik –Member Commission fortheir continued and valued NickFletcher –Member contribution to the BJA. These commission membersand ADofEshavethe opportunity he format of the Promotions Commission to formally pass on theopinions of their area continues in accordance with current BJA membership to the Boardand also feedback Tpolicy, this has provedtobeasuccessful to the areasthe gradingstrategy, plans and unit providing aconsistencyofapproach to proposals. Theyare also responsible forall all gradingmatters.The Area Directorsof CompetitiveDan Gradings in their area -avital Examiners(ADofEs) and afﬁliateorganisation task carried out with credibilityand quality.

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National Senior Examiners tools to develop combination and counter techniques using technical frameworksand sequencing. The dayconcluded with anumber of presentations and awards to newSenior Examiners. Dan GradeAdministration BJAStaff Sarah Gilbertcarried out all registration of Dan Grades ensuring that membership records areupdated, therehas been an increase in enquiries from Judokaresident in UK that have nonBJA DanGrades andthis has presented a higher workload of due diligence. Certificates and completed RecordBooksare always dispatched by registered post.DaveHorton- Everyyearisalwaysbusyand productive, this Jones continues to have responsibilityfor all yearwas no exception. We held aNational technical issues and overseeing all grading Senior Examinersmat basedworkshopin activity. June2017 at Samurai Judo Club.Inattendance Revalidation Of Senior Examiners were over60judoka, including 32 judokaof grades 6th Dan and above.This wasparticularly All Senior Examiners(SEs) arecurrently exciting as thegroup provided acollective validated up to April 2020.Wehaveatracking experienceand knowledge that is arare process whereall SE Dan Grading activityis occurrence. Their views were sought on a attached to their membership recordsand number of gradingissues and have formed it has become apparent that thereare some part of the gradingreviewprocess. Participants SEsdonot appear to be active, they will be also included IJF referees, exGBInternationals, reminded this year that in order to remain valid kata experts and 4membersofthe BJA theymust keep up aminimum levelofactivity. BoardofDirectors, aswell as area committee We have anumber of newSenior Examiners membersand BJAstaff, again offering unique under training this year and Ilook forward perspectives, knowledgeand experiences. to them finally qualifying andaddingtothe We looked at kata in gradings andduring this experience of our SE team. reporting period Dave Horton-Jones andother kata Examinershaveheld anumber of kata training events throughout the UK with many judokaqualifying forfull kata levelcertificates. We also looked at consistencyofmarking the CompetitiveDan Grade skills exam and the operation of CompetitiveDan gradings using thelatest IJF refereeing rules. It wasaccepted that at Dan gradings, scoring decisions area CompetetiveDan Gradings collaborativeteameffort between the referee Therehavebeenagreatnumber of grading on themat and the twoSenior Examiners. We events, promotions to and within theDan also had an excellent KoshikiNoKata display grades areprovided in other reports. The by JoeFoster and Dale Fenwickfollowed continued use of the Senior Examiner by aworkshoponthe first 6techniques of Assessment Schememeans that judokaare thekata. Area syndicates then practiced having to attend less gradings in order to andfed back on the trial electronic grading accumulatetheir points thus saving them time sheets with an agreement to trial them at and expense, without effecting theintegrity area gradings during theyeartodevelop a of the gradingstructure. The changesinIJF final document.DaveHorton-Jones then led competition rules have hadsome effecton presentations on the differenceinexamining Dan gradings wherethe syllabus has had atechnique forcompetitiveskills and fora to be amended in particular with regard to Technical Dan Grade andintroduced coaching

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waza-aris. These amendments will nowbefully Commission via theNational Promotions and incorporated and afinal Dan Grade syllabus Gradings Manager, this provides an auditable published. International Judokarepresenting record of the promotion process, from initial GB areable to gain promotion points in application through to informing theapplicant selectedInternational events, as areDisabled of the final BJABoarddecision. andMasters judoka, full details on this process areinthe DanGrade syllabus. The Boardselection of aHigh Grade Review (HGR) panelhas provided afair and transparent Technical Dan Gradings process to makerecommendations to the BJA National TechnicalDan gradingpreparation Chair forpromotions to 7thDan and above. andexamination weekends arenow firmly During this period we arepleased to announce established, the deliveryofthese weekend that therewereanumber of successful courses areheldmonthly in various locations promotions authorized by the EJU/IJF.There subjecttodemandthroughoutthe UK. These have been some unfortunaterefusals by the events areeither delivered by BJAtechnical EJU/IJF and although they provide feedbackas staff or by the areaswithassistancefromBJA to whyanapplication wasunsuccessful, thereis staff.DaveHorton-Jones has createdacalendar no appeals process andthese applications are of these events and theycan also be found on beyond our control. BJAevents using thefilter option to save time. FutureProducts High GradePromotions We arenow looking at incorporating the An applicant driven process forpromotion to paperless process whereCompetitiveDan 6th Dan through to 10th Dan is nowfirmly Gradings arecarried out using laptops in a established. The 5th to 6thDan process has similar waythat competition officials operate, worked extremelywell andweare always keen This means the BJAwill nowhaveamoreup to celebrate suchamilestone in ajudokacareer to datearchiveprocess and be able to retrieve by the presentation of their red/whitebelt, gradingrecords andsatisfysearchrequests for certificateand unique lapel badge specifically lost points easier, thus providing an improved designed foruse by the BJAonly.Inorder to serviceto our members. increase the transparencyand fairness of the Finally gradingstructure, we introduced aprocess Iwould liketothank all of youfor your wherebyall applications forpromotion are continued support, participation and passed to the BJABoardsothat those that do contribution that enables us to provide an notprovide evidencethat theyhavesatisfied effectiveand efficient promotions pathway. thepublished criteria have adecision ratified at Boardlevel. It is important to notethat all Andrew Haffner applicants must apply directtothe Promotions Chairman Promotions Commission REFEREERING COMMISSION

Development COMMISSION MEMBERS: The development of referees at all levels is gaining Bill Taggart–Chairman momentum with the underlying UK trend being Keith Merrick –Vice-Chair and Technical Lead an upward one overall and indeed in most areas individually.The NRC has grownthe high-level James McBeath –Project&Administrator Ofﬁcer trainingprogrammes to include National Baswell CarolLeverton–Secretaryand under20 as National Aand Continental levels. This is having Referees Development Ofﬁcer the effectofdrivingupthe quality.

ArchiShrimpton –Communications All the candidates from national programmes QualityControlOfﬁcer arebeing supportedmorethrough moreevent Neil Lawcock–Examination &Assessment Ofﬁcer selections and more mentorsassisting in the

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process, this has led to 2national Bsuccesses and The under 20 years programmes includes referees 3national Asuccesses in the period. In addition, at theBritish Schools wherewehavemost we arenicely setup to reportfurther successes referees under 20 years and nowthe BUCSand in the2018-19 period with the qualitycandidates BritishMinorswheretheyare also performing well theNRC arecurrently steering from national B, in different environments. national Aand continental levels. The NRC would liketothank CarolLevertonfor her highly signiﬁcant contribution in this process. Examinations andAssessments The assessment andexamination structurehas continued to develop throughout the year and the NRC were very pleased with theareassubmission of candidates forthe national program. It is hoped that the national program can consistently have 3–6candidates being formally trained in order to ensure anationally resilient workforcefor the ranking events and above in thefuture. The NRC would liketothank Martin Rivers, Alan Event Selections Lingham, Dave Francis,Rueben Davison, Dave Stanleyand othersfor their contribution in these Keith Merrick –CadetEuropean Championships, processes. VeteranEuropean Championships Bill Taggart–Hon IJF B Dave Stanley–Paralympic Games Andrew Tremlett –Veteran European Championships CarolLeverton–Hon IJF B The NRC will continuetoworkveryhardto MikeGuatieri–Senior National qualify more referees forhighlevel events, however, this is notaneasytask in Europe Davis Smith –Senior National given that thereare around 300 activeIJF MarkDenney –Senior National referees to competewithfor limited spaces. George Lawes–National A Europe should be very proud of itsreferee prowess in theworld, soany selections that are Paul Tansey–National A made areofrealsubstance andrepresent a Paul Grady–National A very good levelofrefereeing by thatindividual. Ben George –National B Education Programmes Andrew Taggart–National B To ensure consistencyand professionalism of delivery, the education andtrainingprogrammes CameronMcDowell –National B beingrun from version controlled resourcesin aconsistent fashionisproducing results. it is Promotions envisaged that this will generateaBritish referee Well done to everyone who has achievedtheir team whichismoreconsistent across each level next grade and please keep up thehardwork. of development forthe whole countryand lead to muchhigher-levelperformances overall in the IJF Referee Performances longer term. The IJF refereeclassiﬁcation system has settled Theunder 20 years educationand training down overthe past 18 months, British referees are programmes have been extended to include gradually climbing theladder andare represented awider levelofexperience at moreevents, this well in the tophalf. strategy is helping theareasand indeedthe NRC National RefereeingSeminars to identifyreferee talent and acceleratetheir progress whereappropriate. Referee seminarshavecontinued under theBJA policyof4per annum and areattracting around

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100 attendeesintotal per year. the material is useful to coaches and also bonds close working relationships. The seminarsare critical components of referee and coacheducation, the NRC hopestoattract a Bill Taggart higher percentageofcoaches in 2019 onwardsas Chairman, National Refereeing Commission

COMMERCIAL COMMISSION

benefitting from significant cost savings as a COMMISSION MEMBERS: resultofproviding acar schemefor staff whoare Malgorzata Grzyb – Chair eligible foracompanycar allowance. The initial phase of this partnershipwill see 12 members GaryHenderson – Lead Executive of staff moving across to the scheme, resulting BenPollard in circa £19,400ofbudgetrelief.Asthe scheme rolls-out, there will be afurther c£19,700 in budget spartofUKSport/SportEngland savings over the final twoyears.Inaddition to the funding, National Governing Bodies are companycar scheme, Nissan will also provide two Abeing challenged to become more self- vans as value in kind. Thebudget relief forthisis sustainable by theend of theTokyo 2020 cycle. £7,500 per year. We have identified sponsorship as akey area of helpingtoachieve this target. Physique

As it stands, there have been no additional ThePhysiquesponsorship deal continues to partnerscome on boardduring the year, prosper andhas seen the companyprovide the but we arehopeful of securing additional BJAwith an in-kind value of £5,000 worthof sponsorship in the next financial year. Talksare Physique’s products (including tape, strapping taking place all yearround regarding further andathletic supports) to supportour WCPP at engagement between our partners and our theBJA CentreofExcellenceand afurther 15% membership. discount on all products in excess of £5,000.The BJAcurrently spends up to £10,000per year A-Plan Insurance on Physique products so the deals represents asaving of 50%through the partnership. We arenow in thethirdyearofour partnership Additionally, members will be able claim an with A-Plan Insurance. The basis of the deal is afee exclusive10% discount off Physique products with agreement wherebythe BJAreceives apayment afurther 5% as part of an affiliateprogramme, of £5 forevery club member that requests aquote coming backtothe BJA. and£30 foreachpolicythatissubsequently taken out (including renewals). Estimates indicatethat Cimac/Adidas this could yield approximately £10,000-£20,000 in revenue forthe BJAoverthe course of the 3-year Thepartnership with Cimac/Adidas is currently contract. As part of the deal, it is also intended to beingre-negotiated whichwillsee amuch twin A-Plan branches with local clubs and schools more financially sustainable deal signed that will to provide further support, both financial and benefit both organisations in the longrun.There marketing. have been discussions to explorewaystofurther promotethe partnership and build Adidas’ profile Nissan within thejudo communityand in turn drive our merchandise sales via the Judo Storeand at We arenow in the3rd yearofour deal with events. Nissan who becameour Official Automotive Partner, wherebytheysupport the BJA’svehicle Malgorzata Grzyb requirements. The relationship will see the BJA Chair

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AFFILIATES REPORTS ARMY JUDO ASSOCIATION

AJASecretary–Capt Regan Pierce Coaches Courses. Without theassistanceofBJA Technical OfficerssuchasMrChris Doherty, RAPTC SteveFraser and DermottHeslop therewould Introduction not be anySkills/Coaches conductedatthe ASPT. As theSecretaryofthe Army Judo Association (AJA)itonceagain gives me greatpleasureto So, the AJAare in excellent shape as faras provide Army’s Annual Report, on behalf of the qualified Coachesare concernedwehavein Chairman of theAJA,LtCol RichardGilby, Royal the region of 57 Coaches, rangingfromLevel 1 army Physical Training Corps(RAPTC). to L3 (see Photo1below). The intentions of the Army Technical Directoristoensurethat the This year’sreporthighlights the success of our secretary’sopening statement at paragraphs players and thecontinued supportprovided 3&4 above areimplement.This in turnwill by theBritish Judo Association (BJA), our affordour Judokas farbetteropportunities to Governing Body (NGB) forjudo.Improved revalidatetheir qualifications, plus allowthem communication with the BJAand our support to attend further BJAorientated Judo Courses staff has seen an improvementofresults on and devised to their further. off the mat forour all our athletes. Sincethe implementation of our 5-yearplan twoyears ago, wehavedrivenforward and continue to exploit our success at higher levels, we have improvedsupporttoCoaches and Skills courses, and we have increased our playernumbersand the number of women Army &UKAF(UK Armed Forces) Joint Skills, competing at Judo at higher levels. Most Revalidation and CoachesCourse, 2-06 October 2017 importantly, wehavealso established better at the ASPT(Army School Physical Training),Aldershot ways of communicating with our Army Judokas, Army Reservists. Army Area Team Manager –WO2 Phase 2ofthis plan will nowencourage the Abbas Salihu, RLC sportofjudo to be advertised and promoted This has been averybusyand successful year betteratUnit leveltoincrease the number forthe AJAsoIam highlighting significant of novices within our ranks. We also plan to changes to their standings so Ihaveset out incorporatemoreshortJudo courses and belowtheir judo highlights: seminarsatthe Army School of Physical Training (ASPT), Aldershot, suchas‘Coaches Judo Highlights Updates’ and more ‘Revalidation Events’. Cpl Sarah Hawkes Army Area Technical Director European Open, Belgrade –Bronze; British Senior Championships –Gold (securing hera Coaching–Maj (Retd) Jim placeonthe GB Squad). Sarah is the first Army MacKenzie Woman Judokatowin aBritish Senior Gold Iwould liketosincerely thank all the Coaches Medal. that have supportedmeduring this reporting Capt AlexPaske period. Their coaching techniques were British Senior Championships –Gold (secured comprehensiveand embraced our current aplaceonthe GB squad);Placed in the top BJAteaching methods. Iwould also liketo 8atthree back-to-backWorld Cups in South thank the BJAfor their continued supportand America i.e. 7th- Chile, 7th-Peru and 5th assistancewhen conducting our BJALevel 1 -Argentina). Alex has nowmoved up the

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rankings i.e. nowplaced214th insteadof400th Army Area MastersReport/Results -amajor improvement. – WO2(AQMS) LeeBrown, REMEN TprEmmanuel Nartey&LCpl Victor Ahiavor Both Army Senior Judokas competed for Capt Geary LCpl JayneWright Ghana at the2017 Senior WorldChampionships in Budapest. British Masters(S) British Master (S) Army Judo Championships – Scottish Masters(S) LBdr Ant Lowe September 2017 WO2Lee Brown Fassam Another impressivecollectiveeffortbythe Berlin Masters(G) British Masters(G) Army Judo Management Team andbythose 4thVikingMasters(S) Welsh Masters(B) Judokas entered thereforesecuring another successful Army Judo Championships. All Sgt LyndsayDelany Legend: Gold (G); those involved with the planning, preparing, English Open (G) Silver (S); Bronze(B). executing of theevent and of course, last but notleast he Judokas competing on the day Scottish Masters(G) should all be very proud of their achievements. Norththwest O-Masters(G) Following theArmyJudoChampionships the Army Judo Teams went on to winthe UK AF Iwould liketoconclude my reportbystating overall Team Trophy, achievedGold in the Men’s that all Master Competitorsare deﬁnitely Dan Grade Team, Silver in the Female Dan interested in entering thenextEuropeans, Grade Team, Intermediateand MastersMale Commonwealthand Worlds Events. Team. Army andUKAFWomen’s Judo Army SportsAwards-Judo Lifetime Coaches&Manager – Cpl Sarah Achievement Award Hawkes, RMP Iwould liketotakethis opportunity, on behalf TheUKAFJA Ladies only Judo camp was of theAJA, tocongratulateMajor (Retd) Jim conductedatRAF Cosford, in April 2017.Since Mackenzie the recipient of the Army Sports taking on this role Ihavefound that thesport Control Board, ‘Judo Lifetime Achievement of Judo within the UK AF is increasingly in Award2017’.Thisaward wasfor his outstanding popularityand Ipersonally feel this solely contribution to Army Judo since 1965 (see due to betteradvertising andthe promotion Photo2below). He is both the Army and UK AF following last year’s Training Camp -the Technical DirectorCoaching. Facebook group createdisnow widely used andeffective. Therewere13Ladies on themat from all three branches of theUKAF. Amixtureof grades, from completebeginnerstoseasoned competitorsattended all lessons set by myself and my sister Cpl RachaelHawkes, Int Corps. All lessons were made interesting and challengingbut at the same time enjoyable andthe ﬁnal session of each daywas a Randori sessionset to the standardofJudokas attending. Iwill close by thanking RAF Cosford forallowingusthe UK AF to use their facilities on aregular basis. Summary Ifeel obliged to mention Sapper (Spr)Jack Radburnand hisfellowSapper team mates, Capt Ancel Lupkeand LCpl Chris Coleywho Army Sports Awards –RoyalMilitaryAcademy wonthe Senior Team Event –Jackalso wona Sandhurst (RMAS) November 2017. Silver medal in the Under 90’s. However, the

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moral of my storyisthatJack’sfather Paul stating that theArmyneed soldierswho are Radburnwas theretowatch Jack achieve his physically very ﬁt, robust, can handle arduous medal successes. What jack failed to disclose training andwhenthe time comes, look after wasthathis father wasindeed adouble Judo themselves and their comrades in combat. Olympian, who attended the 1980 &1984 So, whatbetterway to do it than becominga Olympic Games! Jack, on that dayyour father Judoka? would have been be full of pride about your successes, just as youare about his –well done. Maj (Retd) Jim MacKenzie Army Area TechnicalDirectorCoaching Iwould liketoconclude this reportby &Report Co-ordinator ROYALAIR FORCE JUDO ASSOCIATION Squadron Leader SMParlor BSc(Hons) RAF – RAFJA –Chairman

Introduction Iwrite as the RoyalAir Force(RAF)Judo Association Chairman, and provide youwith an Annual Reportonthe performanceofRAF Judo 2017-18. Sincelast year’sreport, the RoyalAir Forcehas RAF Judo Team on Overseas Visit maintained ahigh operational tempo overseas and thethreattoUKMainland securityhas at We currently have 66 activeplayers, and we times been regarded as aseverethreat. Despite have sustained our holding of qualified Coaches these challenges, thehierarchyofthe Services at asteadystateof16intotal: 2xLevel 3; 2x still maintain their support, wherever possible, Level2and 11 xLevel 1Coaches. In addition, to Servicesport. Securing personnel’srelease we have RAF Station Clubs registered at RAF forsporthas remained challenging, but Iam Waddington, Lossiemouth, Honnington, pleased to reportthat even though we remain Marham, BrizeNorton, St Mawgan and RAF aminor sportinthe Services, RAF Judo has AkrotiriinCyprus. The Club at Akrotirihas continued to grow in participation at grassroots flourished sinceits inception in early2018.The level, qualified coachesand RAF Unit Judo Club nowboasts averyhealthy membership Clubs. RAF Judo has continued to flourish, and in adults and children’s classes. Forour major we have continued to stage monthly fixtures, Championships we have maintained avery RAF squad training sessions, aFestival of strong relationship with Mr Malcolm Limrick Judo,RAF Championships andInter-Service (Samurai JC, and BJAWesternArea) to support competition. our championship through the provision of Tournament Director, Referees and Table Officials. As well as with Mr Paul ‘Smudge’ Smith MBE;retired RAF Warrant Officer.

RAF Judo Team at AMCAN 18 International Cup Cpl Andy Melbourne Gold at British Champs 2017.

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team spirit and to provide an opportunityto competeagainst opposition of adifferent culture. All provedtobeextremely successful and led to improvedtechnique and ﬁghting ability, whichplayers have been able to use effectively in competition.

The RAF, continues to supportathletes who have the potential to competeonthe international stage. Unfortunately, this year SACTommyMercerBronzeatScottish Open 2018. we have seen the international retirement of our heavyweight fighter Corporal Andrew RAF Cosfordcontinues to host to the Melbourne.However, prior to his retirement annual RAF Festival of Judo and RAF Judo he did crownhis judo career in winning the Championships. This yearsaw aminor dip in participation levels, but neverthelessplayers of all abilities competed in an excellent competition in both individual andteam contests. Thecross-breeding of athletes from themartial artofBrazilian Ju Jitsu has continued to be of benefit to both sports. The RoyalNavystaged this year’sInter-Service competition at RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset.The RAF Team’s fought magnificently against the other 2Services and we managed to secure an outstandingresultinwinning 3ofthe 4 Team Titles; KyuGrade Team, Ladies Team and MastersTeam. We finished Runners-Up to the Army in the Senior Men’s Team event.

AmyGold at British Masters British Championships in December 2017 and the Scottish Open in 2018.Whilst he mayhave retired from international competition, he will continue to participateinjudo with the Services. Our one remaining EliteAthletetraining full- time is Senior Aircraftman TommyMercer. He Fred, Amy, and Rob trains at CamberleyJCunder the tutelage of

The RAF Judo Association secured funding and authoritytostage an Overseas Sports Visit to America and Canada to participate in the AMCAN International Judo Challenge. From ateamof10players we secured 4Gold’s, asilver and 3bronzemedals. In addition, and combined with theBritish Army Team we formed aBritish Forces JudoTeam. As a combined Team we managed to securethe International and Senior Cup’s; aﬁrstfor the British Forces Team! The main objectives forthe overseasvisit is to reward achievement, develop Fred Gold at British Champs

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Rob Sabella wins BronzeatEuropean Vets

Trials in Dec 18 and attempt to move up to aTop 5British Ranking List placing in theunder-81kg division. Finally,RAF Judo has also had outstanding success on the BJAMaster’s competition circuit. AmyGold at Scottish Open In Sep 2017, three of our players;Flight Sergeant Fred Harrisand Sergeant’sRob Sabella and Luke Preston, and aspires to represent Scotland AmyAtkins, all wonBritish Masterstitles in at the 2022 CommonwealthGames. At the their respectiveweight divisions at the Welsh Scottish Open he wonabronzemedal, and was InstituteofSport, Cardiff.All 3ﬁghtersalso selectedfor the Scottish Senior Squad 2018 for competed at the Scottish Open Mastersevent the under-81kgclass. However, sincethen he at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. All three has unfortunately suffered aseries of injuries. fought magniﬁcently, but it wasSergeant Amy His immediategoals forthe rest of the 2018 Atkins that triumphed and wonanother gold in season is to fully recoverfromshoulder surgery the under-63kgclass. Both Fred Harrisand Rob and re-gain selection to competeatthe British Sabella wonsilver medals in the under-90kg and under-81kgrespectfully.Finally,Sergeant Rob Sabella also wonabronzemedal at the European Veteran’sChampionships in Glasgow. Overall, an outstandingyearfromour Master’s judo players. That concludes our reportfor 2017-18. YoursinJudo SteveParlor Rob,Amy and Fred at Scottish Open Chairman

ROYALNAVYJUDO ASSOCIATION

thas been ayearofsolid progress and We have also had awealthoftalent join the RN excellent results forRoyal Navy (RN) Judo, as recently, suchasABLeanne Black who picked Itheteamcontinue to impactonevery level up gold at the National Team Championships possible from novicecompetition to the very event last year. best of the international circuit. TheRN’spresencehas also increased Despiteour commitments as amilitaryforce signiﬁcantly in civilian competition overthe being busier than ever, our judokanumbers last year, with our Judokaatkey events such have increased signiﬁcantly overlast yearwith as the British Open, Kent International and arecora d mount of novices taking up thesport LondonOpen. Internationally,Corporal Colin through our grass root sessions fornew recruits. Francis has hadanother impressiveyear, most

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recently picking up Gold in the mastersevent in team wasled by Leading Regulator Matthew Tourmaline, Lille after severaltough fights and Hempstead, currently deployedout on ‘The gaining his 3rdDan along theway. Rock’ and awarded Gibraltar Judo Senior of the Year 2017.The teamhad severalintense The RN Judo Championships, our main annual randori sessions with the ‘Gib’squadbeforea event, saw increased entryfromlast year and friendly competition washeld on the final day. produced acompetitiveday forall involved, with With the RNs strongconnection to Gibraltar, it the average number of fights beingaround 7! A wasfantastic to have the opportunitytotrain futurefighter to watchis1KyuJamie Strawford and competewith their team with agreat who smashed his competition in the +100kg relationship established forthe future. individual categorybeforenarrowly losing out on Gold to Dave Ferguson in the Open Weight Dave Ferguson, whilst on deployment in the Far event.Asalways, the longestablished rivalry East onboardHMS SUTHERLAND, managed to between the RoyalNavyand theRoyal Marines get ontothe tatami in Yokosuka, Japan, where wascontested in ateamevent, with the title of he led atraining session andcompetition for “TeamChampions” proudly being retained by the local club.Healso organised atriptothe the RoyalNavyfor another year. Kodokan forthe Ship’s small team of Judoka, who have been training hardahead of theRN As it customary, the responsibilityfor hosting Judo Championships later on this year. the Inter-ServiceChampionships rotates around the three services and this yearitwas the RNs Looking ahead, theRNJudo Association is turntohost with the location at RNAS Yeovilton. currently in the process of organising their Despitethe Army andRAF comingout in force, International tour, with South Africa and the RN hadsome impressiveindividual medals Washington DC being suggested as potential throughout theday, including from Dave locations. Ferguson, Pieter VanDer Westhuizen &Leanne Black. Additionally, the RN wereproud to enter Overall, it wasanoutstanding year forRoyal awomen’s team at the event forthe first time Navy Judo, whichhas laid the foundation for in severalyears, consisting of Leanne Black, abusyand exciting year of competition and Gracious Phillips and Natasha Wylie. training at all levels in 2019.

In Februaryateamwas selectedfor aweekend David Ferguson of trainingand competition in Gibraltar.The Secretary

POLICE SPORTUK PSUK nother successful yearfor PoliceSportUK PSUK Judo National Championships Judo (PSUK) the judo governing body for Athe United Kingdom PoliceService. Our national championships were hosted by DerbyshirePoliceand despitethe current

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cutbacks and increasing demandonpolice Welsh National PerformanceCoach, supported forces the event waswell supported. Offering by Nao Fukimoto, former All-Japan medallist. categories forservingand retired officersplus This wasaBJA licensed coaching revalidation policestaff andSpecial Constables therewere event whichsaw in excess of 70 coaches opportunities to competefor from kyugrades revalidating. to Mastersand Veterans. After lunch the British Policesquad took to Throughout theday we sawsome amazing the mat forathrilling team match between judo with highly skilled wins repeatedly coming Switzerland and GreatBritain; the teams made from thelikes of Fred Itoise Metropolitan up of amixtureofmales and females across Policeand DarrenDeanNorth Wales Police, the weight categories. NaoFukimoto, who Darrenwinning his 32nd medal from these graciously agreed to fill the under 57 kilogram championships and 23rdnational title, Darren’s spaceonthe GreatBritain team, wonthe first displayofthrowing judo wasnothing short contest forGBwith precision execution of the of amazing. Of special notewas the return O-Uchi-Garishe has demonstrated during the of FrankBoardman Devonand Cornwall morning's master class. Unfortunately, despite Police(Retired) to competeinthe Masters some very strongperformances and painfully U90 kilo event,Frank at 61 yearsofage is the close fought contests the Swiss emerged oldest competitor to competeinthe police victorious, 5wins to 2with one match drawn. championships and showedhestill has the As with the ethos of judo and enhanced by the skills forjudo competition, winningabronze camaraderie of the policeprofession, agreat medal andthe spirit of judo trophyfor his deal of mutual respectwas evident from both fighting spirit and sportsmanship.Other teams. outstandingperformances came from Lee HolleyDevon and Cornwall winning his 8th International PoliceTrainingCamp concurrent national title, Jason MoorePolice Eindhoven Scotland winning his 10th title and GaryCole Dyfed PowysPolicewinning his 8th national In November the British PoliceJudo team title. It wasparticularly good to see entries from travelled to Holland foratraining camp Cumbria, South Yorkshireand Nottinghamshire and international temmatch against the forces not representeds for ome years. Dutch Policeatapurpose builtdojo and accommodation venue just outside Eindhoven, PSUK National Technical Weekend the camp stretching overthree days saw Cardiff ample opportunityfor randoriagainst some of Hollands topjudokaaswell as excellent Friday9th February2018 markedthe startof coaching sessions. The team match proved afantastic weekend of policejudo andthe to be very tough with thescoresconstantly beginning of anew link with the Swiss Police switching beforewin forBritish Police3-2. Judo team. The eight strong Swiss team were enjoyedthe traditional Fridayevening randori The coming yearwill be just as busyas whichsaw in theregion of 75 judokamake we preparefor the European PoliceJudo the most of the excellent dojo facilities at the Championships to be held in MayinHungary. SportWales National CentreinCardiff.Saturday morning saw120 players taketothe mat for Chris Hunt atechnical input from George Bountakis, the PSUK National Judo Committee.

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES JUDO Membership membership ﬁgures areinpartdue to 38 UniversityClubs and over400 newmembers Student membership throughout 2017/18 has taking advantageofthe BJAStudent Voucher seen the British UniversityJudo Association Scheme, giving newstudent membersa membership remain relatively steady with 43 discount on membership and judo suits. clubs and over950 members, these strong

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European UniversityChampionships July 2017 saw18players representing 13 British Universities travel to Coimbra, Portugal forthe 5th European UniversityJudo Championships. This wasBritish UniversityJudos best results at aEuropean UniversityChampionships with 5 Medals. Gold: Mateja Glusac - 100kg Anglia Ruskin University Silver: Emma Reid - 78kg CoventryUniversity Bronze: PeterVincent +100kg HertfordshireUniversity Bronze: Vidar Benjamin Skretting - 90kg UniversityofOxford UniversityofOxfordMen’s Team. BritishUniversityChampions 2018 Bronze: Olivia Piechota - 52kg Coventry University move to Sheffield Icetoaccommodatethe ever-increasing number of students whonow enter this flagship UniversityEvent.Day One sawthe individual event attracting arecord318 competitorsrepresentingover75individual Universities or colleges from throughout the UK, with individual medals beingshared amongst 48 Universities. DayTwo attracted16men’s teams and 12 woman’s teams forthe team event.University of Oxford being theeventual Gold medal winnersinthe men’s team event followedby Anglia Ruskin Universitytaking theSilver medal and Bronzemedals goingtoUniversities of European UniversityMedallists 2017 Nottingham andEdinburgh London UniversityOpen November The Woman’s Team event sawthe Gold Medal 2017 going to UniversityofWolverhampton ladies followedbyThe UniversityofEdinburgh taking Onceagain the London Area of the BJA Silver with Bronzemedals going to Universityof hosted this nowwell established and popular Bath and St AndrewsUniversity. student competition at SportsDockUniversity of East London, attracting over230 student European UniversityGames in Coimbra competitorsofall grades from all overthe UK. Portugal in July 2018. This competition nowcatersfor all levels of 24 medal winnersfromthe 2017 BUCS universityand college students with sections for Championships have been selecttocompetein 16 to 20-year-old students. the European UniversityGames 2108 to be held in CoimbraPortugal, 21st to 26th July 2018. BUCSchampionships 20th -21st February2017 Chris Doherty BJADeliveryOfficer, This yearsaw the BUCSjudo championships National Lead UniversityJudo

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ignificantchanges have taken placein Althoough we did not achieve all the outcomes the sporting environmentoverthe past that we had hoped to achieve, the challenges Sfunding cycleand thereisnodoubt that we faace have been identified. There is alot off we willhaveto deal with morechange in the workk still to be done but good progress has current and futurecycles. These changesare been made that will allow us to move forward necessaryasfunding has been reduced and with clear objectives. I would like to thankBJA theneed to comply with strictercodes of ChairRonnie Saez and Northern Home Counnties governance. The Association, at national level, ChairNick Fletcher for their contributionsand had already had to adopt aradically different assisstance in making the Conferenceasucceess. approach to the waythatitdevelops the sport. Akeyy role of the Commission is to support Therewas arealisationthatthe reduction the executive staff in the delivery of the in funding and the strictergovernance BJA Business Plan where it relates to the implications will soonaffectthe English Areas deveelopment of judo in England: going and the waytheyworkand therewas aneed forwwardthe Areas will be required to align to bring representativesofthe English Areas theirr development plans with that of the together to discuss and agree futureworking Assoociation to ensure attainment of the both relationships forthe long- term benefitofthe theAAssociations and Sport England’smeasures sport. and targets. The need to develop an integrated and During the yearseveral changes in the coordinated approach wasidentified and that membership of the Commission; Garth this couldbestbeachievedthrough discussion Illingworth, the newChairofthe Northern and consultation. The get the process started Area, joinedthe Commission in October 2017 we heldanEnglish AreasConferenceoverthe replacing RonnieScott.Asone of the younger weekend of 24th and 25thNovember 2017 at members,Garth will no doubt bring adifferent the WarwickUniversity ConferenceCentre. perspective to the work of the Commission. Each Area wasinvited to send twodelegates Simon Smith,Chairofthe North West, resigned to demonstrateour current and future in earlyin2018 andwas replaced by Richard c ommitment to widening participation and Barraclough on until anew Chair could be inclusion. appointed by the Area.Ronnieand Simon were The keytopics discussed were around: activemembersofthe Commission and Ithank them bothfor their valuable contribution and • Rolesand Responsibilities support. • Developing aServiceLevel Agreement • FutureFunding Area Finally,I would like to express my sincere thanksand appreciationtoall the Commission Initial feedbackwas thatthe Conferencewas members and the executivestaff fortheir an excellentfirststeptowards defining the supportinwhat hasbeen enjoyable if Area rolesand responsibilities and establishing challenging period as Chair. betterworking relationships. Afull report on the outcomes wascompiled and will beused PeterBlewett as the basis formoving forward. Judo England Chair

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udoScotland areagain pleased to report guesstappearances at some JudoScotland continuing, positivedevelopments Skillss sCool events where they inspired our nexxt Jacross the organisation and theongoing geneeration of judoka. realisation of the three fundamental areas, Our Regional Development Officerscontinuedd these beingto: grow, develop and perform. to woork with local clubs to deliver individual Skillss sCool events throughout the past year. It Membership is weell documented that many children leave JudoScotland membership levels have reached sportdue to (amongst other reasons) engaging an all-time high, and indeed exceedinginitial in inaappropriate competition, resulting in a targets for2017 and2018.Throughout 2017 negaativeexperience and a loss of confidence. membership of JudoScotland continued Skill sCool provides an opportunityfor young to grow, endingthe yearwith the highest judoka to mix with others fromdifferent clubs,, ever membership figureonrecordat8,690 in affriendly environment whilst developing members. theirr skills through activities and challenges moree appropriate to them. This growth in membership reflects a20% increase in those participating in Judo-in- In October 2017 JudoScotland, in collaboration Scotland since the GlasgowCommonwealth with Scottish DisabilitySportand sportscotland, Games in 2014. launchedScotland’sfirstvisually-impaired judo programme -‘idoJudo’. The programme has been developed overfour years with insight from acquired from pan-disabilityJudo and is set to engage visually-impaired young people in Glasgow.

Judo GirlsRock

IdoJudo Equality In 2017,JudoScotland continued with their commitment to equality, with the formation of an Internal EqualityWorking Group who meet on aregular basis with aviewtoimprove the opportunities available to all those with protectedcharacteristics. JudoScotland strongly feels that equalityofat Coinciding with thelaunchofthe ‘i do the core of whoweare and what we do. Judo’programme, JudoScotland worked in JudoScotland Initiatives. partnership with member club Movement Park to open asecond disabilityhub in Scotland, Over the course of 2017,JudoScotland engaged allowing youngpeople to carry on their Judo Scotland’sﬁrstOlympic Judo medallist,Sally journeyafter the ‘i do Judo’sessions. Our Conway andtwo time Paralympic medallist twodisabilityhubs (East andWest Scotland) Sam Ingram as JudoScotland Ambassadors. also offer an excellent opportunityfor local As part of this Sally and Sam createdsome coaches to gain experienceand further develop great, engaging onlinecontent promotingthe their coaching skills by working alongside Judo Moral Code and they also made anumber experiencedcoaches in this area.

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Furthermore, our awardwinning Judo Girls JudoScotland PerformanceSuccess Rocks programme also went National forthe In 2017, therewas podium success at almost first time in 2017, expanding from its original everylevel of international competition and West of Scotland base. JudoGirlsRockwas across all performanceage groups with medals designed to encouragemoreengagement on the IJF/EJU cadet, junior and senior tours. from females intothe sportofJudo and Stand out performances from Sarah Adlington, addresses the barriersfacinggirls wishing to Sally Conway,Sam Ingram, Neil MacDonald, participateinsport, whilst also incorporating StuartMcWattand Josie Steele. fun youth work sessions. Thereare nowten Although 2017was ayearwithout amajor Judo Girls Rockclubs operating from the multi-sportgames forour senior athletes, it Scottish BordersuptoFortWilliam; engaging waspackedwith opportunities forour younger over200 girls. judokatogain experience, and deliver, onthe Bahamas Youth Games international stage at amulti-sportevent. Forthe first time theCommonwealthYouth Games, hosted in the Bahamas, featured Judo. Six young judokaweregiven the honour of representingTeamScotland at this event, returning home with four medals including securing Team Scotland’sfirstgold of the Games. During thesame weekend, Josie Steele also wonbronzeatthe European Youth Olympic Futures in Hungary, as part of Team GB.

Dougi Bryce CEO

NORTHERN IRELAND JUDO FEDERATION

April 2017 sawthe startofanew fundingcycle Performance forNorthernIreland Judo Federation andwe would liketothank SportNorthernIreland for FundingfromSportNorthernIreland’sSporting showing their commitment andsupportto WinnersProgram has enabled us to build on Judo in NorthernIreland. the success from theprevious year. We were delighted to be able to retain the full-time Membership post of PerformanceLeadwith Ciaran Ward and twopart-time PerformanceCoach posts Developing our sportcan sometimes with Paul Green and thenew appointment of be challenging, we strivetoattract new Chloe CowenVickers, who startedinpost in membersand retention can be difﬁcult September.The former GB Olympian &5-time when young people arefaced with so many Senior European Medallist has added awealth different opportunities. This is borne out in of expertise and experiencetoour developing our membership numbersfor the year, our PerformanceProgrammes. newmembersfor 2017 are890 but the overall membership ﬁgureisonly up on last yearby NI Judo PerformanceProgrammes serviced 122, this is an area that we must trytoaddress in fourteen Judokaacross three levels of the coming year. programme within theNIPerformance Pathway, including National andInternational

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Training Camps and Competitions. NI Workforce PerformanceProgrammeathletes repeated their good form at Target Events with astring The funding we have received from SportNI of encouragingperformances and results forthe post of Club and WorkforceOfficer at the 2017 British Cadet,Junior &Senior and Sporting Clubs Program will enable Championships. NI Judokasecured 4medals us to assist our clubs andcoaches with the including our firstSenior British Champion in supportnecessarytobuild and maintain their ageneration, Sarah Hawkes became +78kg member numbersand to structuretheir club Champion. Neil Simpson of Camberley&Abbey development model. Vicki Kennedy started Judo Clubs wonaBronzemedal in thesenior in post in December and we look forwardtoa 100kgcategory. MatthewElliottfinished off a varied program forour clubs and workforceover very successful yearwith 5wins and athird- the coming year. placefinish in his first yearasaJunior.Jodie ABJA Level 1Coaching Course washeld in July Jordan wontwo of her five contests to securea 2017 with potentially 12 newcoaches to add to fourth-placefinish and membership of the 2018 our numbers. GB National Squad. Over twoweekends in Mayand Juneeleven Therewas no mistaking thecompetitive of our coachesparticipated in the Neil Adams highlight of the year, asJudo wonTeamNI’s EffectiveFighting CoachingCourse. This wasa first twomedals of the2017 Commonwealth fantastic technical course and theinvestment Youth Games, Silver medal to Kirstie Strout’s made by NorthernIreland Judo Federation will McCallion and Bronzemedal to MatthewElliott, benefit all our coachesasthose whoattended outstandingresults forthem both. the Neil Adams course will be holding sessions themselves, throughout thecoming year that all our coachescan attend, to disseminatethe technical knowledge gained. Iwould liketothank all theplayers, coaches, parents, officials and volunteerswho have contributed their valuable time andefforttoNI Judo in the last year, without youwewould not have had thesuccesses whichweall should be proud of.

Bill Taggart Mattand Kirsty Chairman

WELSHJUDO ASSOCIATION

Performance She wasn't alone in in putting in strong performances internationally.Wales had three It wasanhistoric yearfor Welsh Judo on the players selectedtorepresent Team GB at the competition mat.Natalie Powellwinning European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF).So Wales first ever worldchampionship medal manycoaches told me proudly that it was in Budapest in September appeared to be the first time Wales had thesame number the highlight.But then twomonths later she of team membersasEngland. It wasagreat became thefirstBritish female to be ranked achievement forsuchasmall country. They worldnumber 1bywinning herfirstIJF Grand performed well too, Dan Rabbit coming 5th, slam. Aphenomenal achievement that so many enough to earn him Cadet male of theyearat people in Wales arepartof. Well done to her the British Judo awards. Jasmine Hacker Jones and everyone involved! arespectable 7th.

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Governance andequality has continued to grow steadily and nowsits at just over1800.Itwas just over1500 three years As with the last four years, this yearhas seen a ago and hasrisen by about 100 each year. Next clearfocus on governance. We appointed two yearwill see us introduceour first incentivised newindependent directors.MarcLonghurst schemes fornew membersaspartofour and WynGriffiths bringing with them awealth strategy called DiscoverJudo.We’ll also reduce of knowledge andexperienceinawide variety our administration costs forgradings to support of areas, but particularly in areasofstrategy, clubs and help them to boost retention. Exciting commercialisation and governance. Its been times! along road sincewestartedworking towards the governanceand leadership framework, Events restructuring towardsaskills based board. It wasafantastic yearfor Welsh Judo events. Finally our boardofdirectors meetings have no Gemau Cymru and theBritish Schools emptyseats. qualification event, continue to grow.Although Our annual governanceaudit sawusachieve smaller than our other events suchasthe another green rating. Whilst we still still have Welsh Opens we recognise their value to the plentyofworktodo, this highlights we continue competition pathwayfor our developing players. to move in the right direction. We’vecontinued We kicked off our strategy of rotating theWelsh working towardsthe EqualityStandard Closed around Wales. This year, forthe first time intermediatelevel whichhopefully we’ll in our history, the Welsh Championships were completebyJanuary2019, and we’vebegun held in north Wales. Agreatatmosphere, Bangor working towardsDisabilitySportWales InSport provedbeexcellent hosts.Aswith last year, it Ribbon. We just need to completeboard wasbrilliant to takeour national championship trainingwhichisbooked forAugust 2018 and to adifferent part of the country. The 2018 we can progress towardsthe bronzeaward. edition will move back south, hopefully that will Strategic Planning be somethingspecial. We’recoming to theend of our 2014-2018 The Welsh Opens were very well attended strategic plan and have been through a andwefoundagreat alternativevenue in the consultation period forour upcoming strategy Newportcentre. The pre-cadet/cadet open had a called ‘This Is Judo’. Whilst our last plan was huge entry, as it wasthe first cadet identification focused on creating astable platformto ranking event forthe European Championships. build from, forexample, building financial We received greatfeedbackand this coming reservesfrom£40,000 to over£100,00, This yearwe’ll use both the SportWales National Is Judo is really focused on ensuring anyone CentreinCardiff and an alternativevenue to who participates in judo gets thehigh quality host our biggest events. experience they should. Thenextfour years Thank You should be an excitingtime foranyone involved in Welsh Judo as we continue to grow towardsa Finally,I’d liketofinish by thanking all of the moremember focused organisation. voluntaryworkers who continue to assist us throughout theyear. Without youour events Operations andmembership wouldn’t run andthe sportwould literally grind Operationally, our online membership portal to ahalt. has continued to have astrong impacton We also owe our biggest thankstothe Japanese the organisation and our offices have gone Olympic committeefor provided the fundingfor paperless in preparation forthe General data Japanese Olympic gold medal winning coach protection act(GDPR). We’vealso gained a Kanamaru Yusuketospend theyearwith us. To couple of newhelpinghands in the officewho have someoneofsquch ualityatour national seem to have settled well. As I’ve said before, dojo on adaily basis has neverhappened before. I'venever worked in an organisation whereI've He impactedonsomanyofour players and for received so manypositivecomments regarding that we very grateful. Thank you… staff.People often quicktocomplain but it usually takes exceptional servicetosend praise. DarrenWarner As with the last three years, our membership CEOWelsh Judo

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nother activeyearand nicetoreport competitions suchasLittleport, Happi our Area events arethriving andwell Dojo,BlackDog, Saxmundham, Kumo Aattended. The Senior Team Leaguegrew and Comberton. Indeed manyclubs have to 15 club teams and our Ranking competition been activeinsendingplayers to overseas together with the East Anglian Foursisverywell tournaments and training camps. attended. We have seen the growth of revalidation events Our Gradings, as most areas, showupand down at clubs likeHappi Dojo and Black Dog with numbers. some eliteGBplayers. Area training has been well supportedand an We have invested in morejudo mats and are overseastriptoGhent,Belgium in November nowable to run 4mat areasatcompetitions. provedtobeagreatbondingweekend and Thereisstill an urgent need to replacethe old our senior players took the trophyfor the most 2x1mats but we have set thecoming yearto points. We also took afew players to Mauberge, achieve this. FranceinMarch wherewehad relativesuccess. Abig thank youtoall the volunteers, referees, The Area fielded 5teams at the National Teams officials and those not in anyofficial capacity afirstfor our Area, ably organised by our team who giveuptheir free time to keep our sport managersMichelle Camp and MarkSalter. This alive. Your unselfish approach to our sportis wasthe swansong event forOlympian Colin precious without thelikeofwhichour Area Oates who has taken ajob as supportcoach could not run so smoothly with GB Judo. Denise Oates Anumber of clubs have organised brilliant Chair LONDON AREA

tthe AGMlast yearwepresented the MedicineConsultant Hon Physician at Bart’s SportDirectorate Plan aimed at growing andSenior Lecturer (Hon) at Queen Mary Athe membership.The headings were as UniversityofLondon (CentreofSports and follow: Exercise Medicine). He is offering free access to his sports medicineclinic forinjured London Destination@BJ,Development,Technical & Area athletes. These athletes must be referred Talent by their GP beforetheycould access the clinic. Each committeemember has achosen area of Dr Malliaropoulos is offering this serviceinorder responsibilitytosupportthe BJA’sambitious to assist his research and build adatabase of targets. Theyreportseparately on their area of judo injuries. work although we decided that the Destination The London Open washeld 20-21May.The model is notone that currently suits the event wasasuccess with entries forsome London Area.The number of judo venues categories being full beforethe closingdate. in London have grownfrom88to101 which Therewereminor issues with people requesting represents signiﬁcant growth. refunds anditwas agreedthat thenorefund Athleteaccess to Nikos Sports policyshould be made clearonall entryforms. MedicineClinic Controlling access to themats wasdiscussed anditwas agreed that forfutureevents Dr Nikos Malliaropoulos is aSports and Exercise additional table ofﬁcials would be used andpart

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of their role would be to provide access control opportunities. to mat-side. In addition to this an increase in mat areasand theuse of tensa barriersshould Congratulations to Nekoda Smythe-Davies also provide asolution foraccess control and an continued securing selection forGreat Britain at adequatewarmuparea. Astaggered weigh-in the WorldChampionships in Budapest where and changingthe weigh-in layout would be she wonabronzemedal andrecently to a improvednexttime. bronzeinParis and Gold in Dusseldorf.Ashley McKenzie fought well to win abronzemedal in Squadtraining the ParisGrand Slam. Chairman London Area BJA LeeShinken has overseen the deliveryofgreat trainingsessions, with over35onthe mat on The Budokwaicelebrated their centenary each occasion andhas engaged even more anniversaryinFebruarywith adinner held coaches thisyear. Leehas movedthe training in Knightsbridge forover240 guests which sessions to include different venues. included Hana Sekine daughter of the The London Area entered four teams in the Budokwaifounder Gunji Koizumi, delegates National Teams Championships, again winning from the Japanese Embassy, twelveformer gold medals forthe senior menand precadet Olympians and ﬁveguests travelled overfrom boys.The precadetgirls team took silver with Japan. An enjoyable time washad by all who the cadet boys and senior women secured watched ashortﬁlm to honour theoccasion bronzemedals. Thankstothe coacheswho and acentenarybook waspresented to all who supportedthe successful teams, LeeShinken, attended. Nadia Minardi, Jo Crowleyand Basil Dawkins. London waswell represented, with alarge The Club received aporcelain statue of Jigoro number of competitorsinall the groups at Kano presentedbyNeil Adams MBE on behalf the age-bandedNational Championships and of Marius VizerPresident of the IJF to Peter Senior National Championships, with many Blewett the Chairman of theBudokwai. securing placesontheir respectiveSquads. Club President Tony Sweeney9th Dan was delighted to receivethe artworkofNeil The Sportif Event movedtoUEL in London Eckersley, apainting presented by BJA due to the current venue (Meadowbank) being Chairman Ronnie Saezinhonour of the renovatedoverthe next 5years.Weplan to have centenary. overseven hundred competitorsfromtwenty different countries. To all the committeemembersahuge thank you, foryour hardwora k nd commitment to the The London Area is delighted to have St futuredevelopment of judo in London. Mary’sTwickenham as anew base providing judo scholarships, strength andconditioning PeterBlewett 7thDan facilities and enhanced coacheducation Chairman London Area BJA

MIDLAND AREA

achyearwhen its time to writethis report medals to theMidlands, thank youall foryour Iﬁnd myself asking myself aquestion time and expertise and patience fordoing this Ewere to start, because the MidlandAreais work,Iknowonly toowell howmuchitcosts to very wide spreadwith over80activejudo clubs become aBJA coachand then to keep it valid, and manyqualiﬁed coachesatdifferent levels Ihope Isee most of youinMarch at the Area most of whichare working voluntaryfor their CoachtoCoach course, Organised yetagain by club, getting players ready fortheir gradings Mr Eddie Awford A.T.D(Area Technical Director). and some forcompetitions around the country We held four Area competitions during 2017 and in other countries bringingbackthe starting with theunder 21s in Januarygood

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entryand some excellent judo , the senior MrsLyndseyHirons minutesecretary high grades and junior age band held in May, MrsMarina Dain ExcelCentreliaison the HeartofEnglandSeptember , and the representative commemorativeDecember , again abig thank MrsVal Fererday Committee youtoall the BJAofficials fortheir timewetry Mr Frank Webb Area Treasure to keep our dates to fall on the same weekend Mr Eddie Sparham Vice Chair each year,but this is sometimenot possible so Mr Eddie Awford A.(T.D coaching) please keep an eyeonthe area websitefor any Mr Matthew Harte Area Development officer changes www.bjamidlandarea.co.uk. (ViceATD) Mr Malcolm Collings Committee(BSJ) We hosted four Dan GradePromotion days, representative this is an area of BJAthat worries me most due to the lack of understanding thevalue of dan Iwould liketoask everyone to spareathought gradings, but the numberscan be very low forMalcolm Collings andhis wifeJoan, at this making it difficulttotruly grade candidates time as Malcolm is unwell I’m sureyou all wish and train newexaminers, on behalf of the Area him well. CommitteeIthank Worcester83Judo Club and their membersfor making it possible to run the Thank youfor taking the timetoreadthis events. report, please feel free to contactmeifyou think the committeecan help youoryour club The area committeemembersworkhard in anyway in the future. throughout theyear, not only attendingarea meeting’s but finding timetoattendthe many Regards area events, competitions, gradings, courses, so onceagain my thanksgoto, Roger Houston Area Chairman MrsPat Hill Area Secretaryand events IJF 7thDan manager Area DirectorofExaminers

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severmyfirstand most important task is wasn’t made in haste. Therewereaseries of to thank all the hardworking volunteers contributoryfactors that brought about the Athat keep the NW Area and British Judo decision and therationale behind it discussed functional. with the relevant people. Acommitment was made that teams would be sent in 2018 and Therehas been lots of change at both Area and arrangements made as soon as details were National levels with regardtocompetitions available. The financesthat were normally and squads. The area had through thedrive allocated were set aside forsome domestic Junior Squad Manager alteredthe former and lowlevel competitions abroadtoaid the CountyClosed Championships as numbers development of aspiring players. had been falling and forthe majorityofthem had become not viable; either financially or for The Area has continued to fund its members thequalityand number of contests the Judoka across the full spectrum of Judo.Players, were getting. Effectively we were to have three Coaches,Referee’s and Officials have all countyclosed competitions and aGrand Final received supportwahere ppropriateand that wastoassist in finalising the squads for the committeewill continue to provide this planned trips abroadfor further development. assistancemoving forward. The rise in costs forfacilities combined with areduction of It wasregretful that forthe first timesinceIcan rebatesdue to decreasing BJAmembership recall aunified decision wasmade not to send and gradingnumbersmeans we don’t have the players to the National Team Championships. income we used to receive. It wasn’t an easy decision and onethat

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Area Dan Gradinghaveremained steady Area do and attempt to look at best practice and theADOE has introduced someFriday and shareacross the nation forthe betterment evening grading’sthat arebecoming popular of the sport. It wasdiscussed that the NGB with people as it savesaSundaytospend would starttolook at what empowers coaches, with family.Weare gradually see more new playersand volunteerstosee howwecan stem facesatthe evening gradings whichgivethe the decline in membersand starttoﬂourish Senior Examinersmorescope to get avaried again. selection of ages, weights andunfortunately abilities. The differential in thecontest abilities On apersonal note, work commitments have of 1st Kyu’scontinues to be aconcernfor our restrictedmefromdedicating as muchtime Senior Examinersbut this is in the hands of club and resource intothe role as what is required, I coaches to maintain aconsistent quality. am looking to address this forthe forthcoming year. During theyearIattended with Harry Holtan English AreasConferenceatWarwickUniversity. Simon Smith The event wasaimed at looking at what the Chairman NW Judo

NORTHERN AREA

he NorthernAreaisgoing through a to grow our clubs, coachesand judokato massivetransitional period at present, a develop to their full potential and morepeople Tnewexecutivecommitteewith Chairman, areencouraged to takeupand enjoythe sport. Secretaryand Treasurer is nowinplace, the main focus is to increase the profile of area, Acoaching team has been appointed and from newbeginnersatgrass roots judo to top aplan has been devised with events forall levelsenior competitiveplayers. levels of judokahas been put together.We nowhaveacoaching team of minorscoach, pre-cadet andcadet girls coach, pre-cadet and cadet boys coach, junior and senior squad coachand squadmanager overseeing progress of them all. The committeeisfurther boosted with the positions of Examiner,Area Technical Director, Referees Co-ordinator andCompetitions Co- ordinator nowall being filled, giving us astrong team in placeaswemove forward. Communication has been amajor issuethat we have focussed strongly on. We approached this with are-vamped websiteand increased use of social media to highlight news and events both locally and nationally.Internal communication between the committeeand clubs has also increased with the aim to promote engagement from all clubs within our area. Technology wasanother area whichwas identified as in need of attention, we have invested in newequipment to enable us to We aim to bring clubs closer by working run and mange events moreefficiently and together, supporting each other, promoting effectively, this included newcameras, laptops, events, ensuring NorthernAreaJudo continues PA system, radio mics and earpieces.

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our eliteplayers financially with grants being given to assist with attendinginternational competitions. The area squad has also been thefocus of investment anddevelopment, with the area coaches and management working hard to pull together afull squad forthe 2018teams competition, entering ateaminevery category at the event .Wehavealso identified several younger players from across the area who we hope will join thearea coachingset up in years to come, futureplans foroverall area development include officials courses plus events and supportfor our SN andVIplayers. We organised our first Regional Schools Competition in Januarythis yearand followed this up with the Pre-Cadet&Cadet Open Competition in June andthe Senior Closed Competition in July, endingthe yearwith the 2019 British Judo Schools Regional Competition in September. We ranthe popular Multi-Event days at The ParksJudo Club aregiving our players from Minorsthrough to Seniorsofall grades and levels theopportunitytoget together and take part in Training, Randoriand Kata sessions. One of theevents also included aQ&A session whereparents and coachescould have any We also celebrated Afshin Shahverdiinhis questions and concerns answereddirectly, promotion to 6th Dan and invited Joe Glynn as futureMulti-Dayevents will be run to makethis guest to present themedals at theNorthern an ongoingevent. Area Open in June. We continue develop our younger judokavia The remainder of 2018 leaves us with lots to the ETDC programme, with weekly sessions do in continuing thehardworkand effortthat being held at Kodokwaiand Middlesbrough has been put in placealready, these areour Judo Clubs. This is addition REDS events means foundations, ambitions andtargets beingset, thereisanexciting development path in this work will run on long in to 2019 and beyond. placefor our current and futureEngland and GB players.Wehavealso supportedsome of Garth Illingworth

NORTHERN HOME COUNTIES AREA

Thank youtoall volunteersand Judokawho Silver or Bronzeawardstorecognise their help to makethe NorthernHome Counties the achievements.Congratulations to AmyPlatten, strong Area it is. Joe Chraniuk,Jamie Drew,Kim Tilley, Laurie NorthernHome Counties Rush, Sam Chraniuk,Sarah Jackson, Rob Seabright and Chloe Nunn. The successful NHC Clubs and individuals had averysuccessful clubs theyrepresent are, Redbridge, Mickleﬁeld, evening at theBJA Awards dinner andbetween Reading, Rush andBishops Stortford. them they received atotal of thirteen Gold,

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and John Anderson all retired from refereeing in 2017.All arethanked fortheir immense contribution spanningmanydecades andI wish them all thebest forthe future. Martin Bull is the newArea Director of Refereeing and has startedwith enthusiasm and energy. Acombined table official andreferee course to qualifynew table officials and referees has already been held andMartin is nowareferee assessor forreferees up to Level C. NHC Clubs won49medals in National Results from theNational Team Competitions in 2017.The Area Committee Championships were positiveand four out again agreed to offer supporttoperformance of thefive teams who entered were in medal clubs to assist with competition programme winning form. costs. TopClubs were Pineweood, Bishop i. NHC Pre-Cadet Girls –Bronze. Stortford, and Rush. Individual NHC players ii.NHC Pre-Cadet Boys –Silver. of noteare Sam Chraniuk (European iii. NHC Cadet &Junior Girls –Bronze. MastersGold), Thomas Lish whowon the iv.NHC Cadet &Junior Boys -Not Placed. CommonwealthYouth Games, AmyPlatten v. NHCSenior Women–Gold. who wonEYOFand KellyStaddon who medalled in theEuropean U23 Championships. Well donetoall the players andspecial thanks Congratulations to the players, their coaches to the Coaching Team of Nicole Nunn, Joe and clubs. Nunn, Nicki Harrisand Laurie Rush. The NHC have nowformed an Inclusion Four National Dan Gradings were held at Commission (sub committee) whoaim to Wycombe JC and four Area DanGradings were ensurethat everyone is given the opportunity held at BedfordJC. The number of Judoka to participateinthe sportofJudo by removing attendingisconsistently good, particularly in barriers, widening opportunities and increasing respectoffemale entries. KimTilleyand the choice. The three keyareasofactivityare to team of Senior Examinersworkhardtoensure hold an NHC SN Judo event (scheduled 8/7/18), thesuccess of these events. Although Kim an NHC Women’s event (scheduled October has an on-going Senior Examiner training 18) and an Inclusion CoachEducation event. programme, thewaiting list continues to grow All membersofthe inclusion Commission are andalternativesolutions arebeing sought. thanked fortheir unwavering support. 2017-2018 wasaverysuccessful yearfor coach Paul Jordan is working tirelessly to embed development andhighlights included the Kata intothe rangeofNHC activities although 2017 NHC Technicalseminar, which was moreworkand resourcesaswell as innovative combined with theRoy Inman Reviewofthe thinking is needed. Year.The inspirational special guest wasYusuke Kanamaru, All Japan National Coach. Over The NHC 2017Ranking event washeldfor 70 people attended including visitorsfrom the first time at HertfordshireUniversityand Scotland, Belgium and South Africa. the spacious, modernvenue with warm up area, and seating assisted significantly with Thereweresixa -co ch educationcourses provision of an event that wasapositive delivered in NHC (4 xBJA Level 1, 1xUKCC experience forplayers, officials and spectators. Level 2and 1xUKCCLevel 3) progressing 106 The same venue will be used again in 2018. coaches. Thereweretwelve, coachrevalidation Sharon Cottis and Sally Hemming arelead events delivered with atotal of 290 attendees. organisersfor NHC Competitions andwith Congratulations and thank youtoall BJAstaff, their volunteer colleagues they ranafurther 7 particularly Chris Doherty forasignificant NHC competitions providing opportunities for contribution to the Area.Additionally NHC varying agegroups and abilities. has recently completed acoach educational programme in Japan and moredetails will be In conclusion this has been apositiveyear provided in the 2018/2019 report. forNHC and next yearwewill trytofurther improve. Three senior referees,Elaine Down (IJF Referee &NHC DirectorofReferees), Ronnie Tucker NickFletcher NHC Chair.

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his year has been averychangeable one referees have dedicated agreat deal of time to forthe Area, but theAreaCommitteehas supportingevents both within and outside the Tcome through this time with some very Area.The Area has seen an impressive20new positiveactions. Club referees qualifythis year, and Iwish all of these newreferees success and to aim forthe The Area squads performed really well at the highest level. National Teams Championships with 5medals from 6teams entered in all sections. The team We arehaving positiveresults with our training managersand coacheshaveworkedhard program forSenior Examiners thanksto to supportthe squads and organise training Graham Turner andhis team. Competitions sessions within the Area. within the Area arealso running successfully, the Kent International is still, aftery 40+ ears, Therehavealso been significant successes one of thebiggest events in the UK andis forrefereeing within theAreawith aformer alwayspopular and very well run. Iwould like Grade 1Junior refereehaving progressed all to thank all of the clubs and theCounties for the waythroughtobecomeanIJF International all their work in producing good players and (IJFA)referee; congratulations go to ,Martin dedicated volunteers. Ithank all the coaches, Riverswho is the sixth International refereein officials, volunteersand theCommitteefor their the Area’s history. All of our IJF referees have hardworkwithin the SouthernArea. been working very hardabroadtoall gain good Dave Stanley EJU classifications. All of the SouthernArea Chairman

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nceagain we have reached the time for TheMastersagain have gathered awards from our reporttosum up our yearhereinthe all overthe Judo Competition circuit,Within OWest.Therehas been averysuccessful our squad seto up is of c urse the Inclusion yearonceagain, as we all appreciatethis only squad who under theguidanceofSteve happens with the dedication of anumber of Westlakeand his team, have produced avery members, this keeps the momentum running competent group of Judo players who have as smoothly as ever. taken anumber of medals competing in events, this follows on from last year and thesquad TheAreacontinues to makegood use of the develops further, well done to all the squads. equipment that waspurchased with our Grant from SportEngland, other projects arealso now We had averyimpressiveentrytoour Area well intotheir stride and we see good progress Open yetagain, closing theentryearly as we thereaswell. were completely full some twoweeksprior to theevent, inthe process we turned away During theyearagain our Area squad have almost as manyasentered. This year2017 we been entering alarge range of events, they heldatwo dayevent,Andy Scottand his team have succeeded in bringing home some deserve special mention, forthe timeand work very impressiveresults, from domestic and they put in to makethis as good as it is. Iam International competitions. The success of these grateful to all the Senior Referees and Ofﬁcials events last year encouraged otherstowant to who consistently volunteer their services to help join andasaresultour teams have increased at this event from all around the Country, Thank thescope forselection, The Area squad Coaches you, without youitwould be an impossible task have done astirling job andIthank them forall to stage this, making it the successful event their hardworkand initiatives. that it has become.

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Onceagain at the BJAAwardsDinner evening supportthat goes on behind thescenes, thank following theAGM, theAreafeatured on the youtoall the supporters and parents, mat rostrum taking moreawardsfor the Area, all the layers, coffee makers, and ahost of others, you recipients arejustly rewarded fortheir tireless makethe wheels go round. We cannot do this work, well done to all of you. Ialwaysmake without you. mention of the‘unsung’ members, as ever none Dave Allen of our success would happen without thehuge Chairman WesternAreaBJA

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heselastfew years Ihavebeen concerned the efforts of our events team whereovercome. about the lackofinterest in our younger These problems did raise concerns overour TMemberswho arenot willing to takeon entryforms and it wasdecided that we should Committeework. lbis has been highlighted revise these andthis would include a recently by our Area having to close down the Code of practice. lbis will be loooked at by our South YorkshireCountyCommitteethrough Competition CommitteeofBen George, Elaine lackofsupport. Parkinson and Helen Moody.

Therehas been avalient attempt by one of our Our Accounts arestill strong thankstoour CommitteeMembers, Eric Theaker, tokeep it Treasurer,John Bunyan, and we areagain able going, but his efforts have been in vain. At the to supportAreaClubs with small grant, even end of this yearErichas decided to retirefrom though our rebatesare down this year. Committeework, and who knowsmaybe the The Area thanksJohn forhis ﬁne lackofsupportmay be one of thereasons. managementof the accounts. The Area Committeeunderstand his reasons, but areverysad to lose his valuable support We did have some problems with our Website in all matters including his work on our at the beginningofthe year, but these have Competition Committee. We wish him well in nowbeen sortedout by our computer wizard the future. Ben George.

Our Coachingcontinues to be well run by Seth Micheal Leng and Ben George attendeda Birch andJohn Burkill. We ranaverysuccessful Senior ExaminersMeeting andput forward Referees course this yearwith 30 Coachesin proposals whichitishoped will be taken up by attendencefor this we must thank Alan Medley. the B.J.Afor futureDan Gradings. We decided to keep our supportfor coach Imyself have attendedmanyCouncil and training by giving our Level 1trainee coachesa Chairmans Meetings at Walsall and ﬁnd that I grant of £50totheir course and £75for Level 2. enjoytheseMeeting putting my points ofview Dermot Heslop continues to giveour Area representing themojorityofsmall Clubs, like supportand provides awide programmeof my own, it is becoming more efforttoattend events. We had acourse run by Brian Jacks but Iwill striveonand do my best. whichagain wasverysuccessful. Our Stuttgartevent this yearhad good support Finally Iwould liketothank the remaining taking 38 people, 26 of whom entered the Membersofour Committeenot previously competition gaining 12 medals. We had aplayer mentioned, Colin Cleavin our Chairman , who from our Area entered the Commenwealth insists he receives all my Emails, and Dave Games Lochlan Moorhead andwon aBronze PlattenCommitteeMember. Medal.

Our events this year weremainly well attended, Alan Stanbra some problems were experienced but due to Area Secretary

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DANGRADE PROMOTIONS APRIL 2017 –MARCH2018

In 2017-18therewere509 promotions to and within theDan Grades; 416male and 93 female. The promotions in 2017-2018weremade up as follows:-

Male 1st Dan 2nd Dan 3rd Dan4th Dan5th Dan 6th Dan 7th Dan 8th DanTotal Competitive222 43 17 93---294 Technical 30 35 18 11 15 ---109

BoardofDirectors ---1-9 3- 13 Total 252783521189 3-416

Female 1st Dan 2nd Dan 3rd Dan4th Dan5th Dan 6th Dan 7th Dan 8th DanTotal Competitive511122----66 Technical 14 63-2---25

BoardofDirectors -- -1 -1 --2 Total 65 17 53 21 --93

Promotions overthe last 5years areasfollows:-

Male 1st Dan 2nd Dan3rd Dan4th Dan 5th Dan 6th Dan 7th Dan 8th Dan Total 2013-2014281 73 37 17 18 17 --443 2014-2015318 70 48 12 16 16 11 2 493 2015-2016258 75 31 19 27 43 1418 2016-2017266 77 28 24 22 7101435 2017-2018252 78 35 21 18 93 -416

Female 1st Dan 2nd Dan3rd Dan4th Dan 5th Dan 6th Dan 7th Dan 8th Dan Total 2013-2014842055----114 2014-2015529 95 213283 2015-201662256311-199 2016-2017682323----96 2017-201865175321--93

Congratulations to all judokathat were promoted in the last 12 months. Dave Horton-Jones National Promotions and Gradings Manager

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REPORT &FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

THE BRITISH JUDO ASSOCIATION (A CompanyLimited by Guarantee)

ANNUAL REPORTAND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FORTHE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2018

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