The EGM held last night saw the election of three new members of the committee. Attending the EGM were: Laura V., Heley M., Mark N., James B., James W., Li Z., Andrea C., Georgios E., Robin T., Phil R., Rosie S. and Massimo.
The three new members of the committee are:
(l-r) font row: the winning team Chris Kelly, Chris Webb, Frank Gorringe and Alex Howard; back row: Sam Goldschneider (vice president), Heley Matthews (captain), Veronika Kantorivich (social organiser), Heidi Holmes (president) and Massimo Gaetani (coach)
Cambridge University Kickboxing Society won yesterday the 4th Kickboxing Varsity match vs. Oxford University Kickboxing Club for a final result of 3-1!
This was a much suffered event: until Thurs it was unsure whether we would have had an event at all and where. When OUKC nearly gave up we managed to put together a last minute venue, get the referee to leave his family at a holiday location to come and ref the fights and even invited about 30 spectators…but it was all worth the effort.
When in 2007 the CUKBS committee at that time asked me to become their coach they put it in simple terms: “we want to win Varsity”; it was hard work, lots of sweat, it wasn’t just about teaching techniques (that’s easy) it was matter of changing completely the way they practice. After an encouraging 4-5 loss last year I can now finally say: “mission accomplished :-)”
More details, videos and so on will follow in the next few days.
Please note the change of date!
We would like to invite every member of CARISMA to an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on Thursday 6th May 2010. The EGM will be held on the first floor of the “Clowns” coffee house on King Street, at 8:30 for a 9pm sharp start.
The sole item on the EGM agenda is to bolster the CARISMA committee’s numbers with some fresh faces to bring it back up to its full complement of five. A committee member’s most important responsibility is to help take decisions regarding the direction and running of the club for the benefit of its members – it’s a low time commitment, but a valuable contribution to the club.
So if you train regularly and would like to help CARISMA to continue to grow & improve, consider standing for the committee! The aim is to have 2 new members. All candidates will be considered, and should be prepared to explain to the meeting why they should be chosen as members of the committee, after which there will be held a vote.
Please try your best to be there as we value your opinion as a member and as a possible candidate to relevant position in the committee. We aim at finishing the whole meeting within an hour in order to allow people in a hurry to leave: please try to be on time.
CARISMA are pleased to announce the introduction of a new range of discounted monthly fees. These reward all members for a commitment to the club of three months up to a year with discounts equivalent to almost two free months of lessons for a full-year’s subscription!
For more details, please visit the Fees page:
https://carisma.org.uk/join/fees/
A new automatic calendar has been added to the events page so from now on every event that gets annouced will be included in the official calendar of events.
Please have a look at the Events page.
Despite regular reminders, there are unfortunately some club members who do not pay their CARISMA monthly fees on time. In order to encourage everyone to make their payment at the beginning of each month, and to keep the club’s cash flow steady, we are introducing a fine for the late payment of fees.
Ideally those who pay by cash/cheque should pay on the first lesson they attend in a given month. We will issue a reminder on the second lesson of the month, and a fine of £10 if they still fail to pay on the third lesson of that month. The fine will also apply to those who pay their fees directly into the CARISMA bank account.
That said, if you find it difficult to remember to bring the money along to lessons, why not switch to paying by standing order? The fees work out £2/month cheaper that way, too 🙂
CARISMA was recently invited to run demonstrations of Kickboxing and Multicombat at the Martial Arts Festival UK that was held in Leicester on 4 and 5 April 2009.
A group of CARISMA members was selected to represent the club in the 3 half hour shows running on Sat 4 April.
A big thank you to James Bush, Heley Matthews, Robin Turner, Georgios Evengelinos James Weatherall and Zeb Pietras for their time and effort to help with the success of these demonstrations.
Please leave comments at the bottom, after having seen the video:
Following the committee meetings at the end of last year, discussing CARISMA’s finances, the committee voted to introduce grading fees from the new year. The cost per grading will increase with grade, with the breakdown of costs as follows:
• The first three gradings (white to yellow, yellow to orange, and orange to orange 2nd belt) will be priced at £10
• The next three (orange 2nd to green, green to green 2nd, and green 2nd to blue belt) will cost £20
• The last three (blue to blue 2nd, blue 2nd to brown, and brown to black belt) will cost £30
If someone takes a double grading (for example, going straight from yellow to orange second, or orange to green belt), they would only pay a single fee relative to the final grade attained (so, £10 in the first example and £20 in the second). Most other martial arts clubs charge similar or higher fees, and CARISMA remains an extremely
competitively priced club. The grading fees will apply from the next grading (March 2009).
Just a reminder of this month’s fee increase – this is £2 per month across the board.
If you pay by standing order, please make sure you have amended the amount paid to Carisma each month; if you haven’t done it in time for the February fees, please give the outstanding £2 to Massimo at the next lesson.
If you pay by chash or cheque, you can use this as an opportunity to change to the more convenient (and cheaper!) standing order option.
For all those that are super keen to get back into training and starting early with their New Year’s Resolution the first lesson of the year will be on Sunday, 4 January 2009.
