CARISMA for corporate seminars

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CARISMA announces the launch of purpose designed corporate seminars, ideal for team building and alternative fun days with colleagues.  These seminars are called Personal Empowerment Through Martial Arts (PETMA) and their content can be delivered to anybody: age, gender and level of fitness are totally inessential to the full enjoyment and appreciation of any PETMA seminar.

Having tried wine tasting, paintball fighting, bowling, karting and the various other activities available to companies for recreational purposes this is a new, interesting and fascinating way of spending a few hours with friends and colleagues.

PETMA seminars are run by experts in martial arts, certified and fully insured instructors that have natural inclination and skill to convey martial arts techniques and concepts to total beginners.

Anybody can learn a few basic moves in a 4 hours seminar but the main purpose for PETMA is to increase awareness about street safety and, more than anything else, knowing how to avoid trouble rather than fight your way out of it.

For more details about PETMA seminars please check this page. Alternatively please contact us for more information or to book a seminar.

Xmas Dinner 2008

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Another year is coming to its end.  Once more it was time for celebrations. With nearly 20 people around the table mixing novices with senior ranks and instructors, excellent food and great company it was surely an event not to missed and we are sorry for those of you that did.

Here are a few of the many pictures (courtesy and Copyright Duncan Grisby 2008) taken during the night: please refer to Duncan Grisby’s web site for the whole collection.

Chrismas Break 2008

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We would like to inform everybody that the last lesson of 2008 will be on Tuesday 23 December at Kelsey Kerridge.  The first session of 2009 will be on Sunday 4 December at Kelsey Kerridge.

CARISMA, its instructors and the committee wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all members in the hope to see you all back for a fantastic beginning in 2009.

Club finances

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The committee has been reviewing the club’s finances recently, and Carisma is overall doing very well. We are growing, slowly but steadily, and each beginners’ course brings new regular members. The existing members have been progressing well by regularly grading to higher belts and we have now 5 black belts, 2 brown, several blue and an interesting number of other medium and beginners ranks.

Our main cost centres, Kelsey Kerridge and Manor Community College, increase their rental fees on an annual basis and since October we increased the training schedule by extending our Monday lesson by an hour. In order to face these raising costs, we are pushed to increase our monthly fees by £2, starting from February 1st 2009:

We would like to invite everybody who pays by standing order to adjust their payment, starting from February, and to ensure that the payment is made on the first day of the month so it reaches us within a few days.

We thank all of our members for the continuous effort and support given to the club that keeps growing stronger, year after year.