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Help For Heroes fund raising

On 7th March, the BKF Sports Injury Specialist, Dave Inman, will be running in the Bath Half-Marathon. He is running on behalf of the BKF to raise funds for the Help for Heroes charity, which supports the servicemen and women who have been injured and lost limbs whilst serving their country.

Dave was a career soldier before he qualified as an osteopath, serving for 23 years in the British Army.

Dave is a 6th Dan and has trained with Mike Billman for 38 years, starting when he was 12 years old.

He is a highly qualified sportsman and represented the Army on many occasions in various sports including football (Dave is also a fully qualified FA Coach).

He has set up a web-page in conjunction with H4H and donations can be made by clicking on the link below:

www.bmycharity.com/daveinman/

Last September the BKF karate fraternity raised a sum of £13,000 for the charity and we would like to ask you all to dig deep again to support our injured servicemen.

When you donate please leave a message in the space provided to say that you are a BKF member.

British International Open Karate Championships

The full bulletin for the Championships in Glasgow, Scotland running from 10th-11th July 2010 can be found in PDF or WORD format. A dedicated section will be created shortly on this website.

UNICEF and British Karate Federation partnership

Thursday the 17th December saw Terry Connell and Mike Billman meeting up with the UNICEF head of fundraising for the UK, Miss Paula Pearce.

Over lunch in London's West End it became very clear that UNICEF are keen to develop a partnership with the British Karate Federation. [More Info]

BKF President, Mr Terry Connell, appointed as the WKF representative for UNICEF

It was officially confirmed today that the WKF President, Mr Antonio Espinos, has appointed the BKF president, Mr Terry Connell, as the WKF representative for UNICEF, the charity that aims to feed, protect, and educate, needy children all over the world.

To view the latest news please click here.

British International Open 2010

The only WKF approved British Open in 2010.

The BKF have entered into a partnership with UNICEF UK and this event will be a dedicated fund raiser. Should any individual or association wish to become involved we would be absolutely delighted to hear from them.

Please contact Terry Connell: 0141 882 4880 or terry.connell@bt.com

Please click here for the bulletin.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Please be aware that there is a British International karate event (The BIKO championships) organised by Abdu Shaher, being advertised on e-mail and on the Internet.

This is NOT the official British International Open and is therefore not recognised by the WKF or the BKF.

The official British International Open Karate Tournament is scheduled to be held on July the 10th & 11th 2010 at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, and is the only British Open tournament recognised by the British and World Karate Federations.

Further information on this competition will be made available at the forthcoming tournament in Rabat, Morocco, later in November.

BKF donate £13,000 to Help For Heroes

On Wednesday the 21st October myself, along with WKF, EKF, and BKF member Mike Dinsdale, and Osteopath and BKF Sports Injury Specialist, Dave Inman, flew to Glasgow in our roles as British Karate Federation representatives to present a cheque to Help for Heroes representative, David Gardiner. [More Info]

British Karate Federation Championships 2009 Results/Testimonial

The results for the championships can be found here.

Dear sir/madam,

May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on a very well run, and successful championships held at Meadowbank stadium this year.

2 things I would like to note, which are hugely admirable and which I have never seen either at a Karate competition before, is the disabled Kata and the big push on the chosen charity, Help for Heroes. Very heart warming, and very worthwhile. Just to take a minute to think, and most of us really don’t realise how lucky we are.

Yours

David Jardine

British Karate Federation Championships 2009 Gallery - Updated 23/09/09 11:23

Around 500 photos were taken at the event over the weekend. These are currently being seleceted and added to the gallery page. Please check back as more photos are added. [More Info]

Meeting with BKF President, Terry Connell, and Sir Craig Reedie CBE

On Monday the 3rd August the BKF President, Mr Terry Connell, was invited to the home of the British IOC representative, Sir Craig Reedie CBE, for an informal chat about karate, the WKF, and the possibility of karate’s inclusion in the Olympic Games. [More Info]

Proud sponsors of Help for Heroes

Help For Heroes was the idea of Appeal Chairman Bryn Parry and a group of friends and relations, many of who have connections with serving servicemen and women. Bryn and his wife Emma wanted to do something to help the wounded and came up with the idea of a sponsored bike ride. They mentioned it to some friends who mentioned it to some more friends and suddenly Help For Heroes was born and growing fast. A flurry of visits to various offices led to the campaign being blessed by the head of the army, Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt.

Help For Heroes does wonderful work for soldiers and other servicemen and women both directly and through its support of other service charities.

Karate competitions for disabled athletes

The recent development of Sport Karate for the Disabled is having a positive impact on the enhancement of the performance for people with disabilities, and on their social integration.

To view the full document prepared by Mick Billman, please click here.

Welcome to the British Karate Federation

As everybody in karate is now aware, karate is being put forward very soon in the hope of being accepted as an Olympic Sport.

With this in mind the BKF are raising their profile and have started by putting in place the dossier to cater for the Disabled in karate. This is a requirement of the Olympic Charter and Mike Billman, who has also secured the video presentation being put forward by the WKF, has now finalised the package. (Thanks must go to Mr Wolfgang Weigert and Ernes Kalac from Germany, for their valuable assistance, and the WKF General Secretary George Yerolimpos for giving Mike permission to use the video to promote this section of our sport. The dossier has been passed to the four home countries various boards and is available on request.) Should you have any difficulty obtaining a copy then please contact info@britishkaratefederation.com.

The next step for the BKF was to create a web-site. Mike Billman has also taken on this task and the result is that the BKF now have a sponsor who has paid for the construction and maintenance of this new web-site, launched last week. Not only have the sponsors paid for this but they are offering top discounts for anybody wishing to purchase a new mobile phone, such as the new i-phone. Please click here to visit their website. This company are only one of fifteen outside contractors used by o2 in the UK.

Furthermore, the BKF are pleased to announce that they have appointed Wayne Otto OBE as Team Coach for the BKF in the interim period to the September Championships.

At this time this position is unpaid, with only a contribution to expenses for the coach's efforts. Wayne, who is in China, at this time, said that "as far as he is concerned, he would be greatly honoured to accept the position as GB Coach on these terms."