Hi All
We hope you had a good summer, it’s a shame the weather has not been better but to cheer you up we are back on September 10th, and we have some important changes, so please continue reading as these changes affect how people will pay fees for the coming sessions. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Wednesday Nights
Firstly, hopefully, you have all been reading your emails, we now are fencing throughout the year* on Wednesday nights between 7pm and 9pm in the School Gym at the leisure centre. This is open to everyone who fences electric, including Della and Gordon’s steam group. Please note, this is not a normal club session but a purely fencing session, there will be no tuition unless one of the club coaches is available.
Sundays
The mini group will continue to fence as is, based around school terms, however for everyone else we will now be fencing all year around*. During the holidays the Sunday sessions will become mostly pure fencing sessions like Wednesday nights.
The mini session will continue to be 9am – 10am, with the rest of the club coming in for the 10am – 12pm session.
* When the center is open and available to us, we think that will be approximately 48 weeks.
Coaching Sessions
Coaching will continue as previously with mini’s between 9am and 10am having Della*2 as a coach.
Steamers 10am-11am with Della*2 and Gordon*2.
Lewis*2 will also run his group form 10am to 11am, for those who would like group coaching. 1-2-1 will also be available from 11-12pm with Lewis*2.
Whilst all but 1-2-1 coaching will finish at 11am all members who start at 10am will be able to fence until 12pm.
We are also looking to progress our existing coaches and get new ones on board. If you are interested please speak to Lewis.
You continue to need to be a member (pay by SO) to have coaching sessions.
*2 There may be times when we have to substitute coaches or they are not available.
Fees
As we are now fencing all year around we will be changing the way we charge, for most members. We are trying to make payment easier for all concerned.
Minis: This will continue to be paid termly at the equivalent of £5 per week. Most of our terms are 6 or 7 weeks, so a termly fee will be £30 or £35, this can be paid here http://www.lewesfencingclub.org.uk/purchase/
For the rest of the club we will be asking you to pay by Standing Orders every month, you have two options of either 1 or 2 club visits per week (Sundays and/or Wednesdays).
For Adults, the costs per month will be £24 for 1 visit per week or £ 40 for two
For students and other concessions, the costs per month will be £20 for 1 visit per week or £32 for both.
We have three rules for this way of working.
- Please set up with Standing Order asap to start from the 9th September, details are below. Please email to let us know you have done this and whether you opted for 1 or 2 visits.
- If you wish to stop fencing please let us know, it will be down to you to stop payment, our suggestion is you stop payment four weeks before you want to stop.
- If you pay for 1 visit a week, you can use it either on a Sunday or a Wednesday, but you cannot fence twice in one week*3.
*3 Our weeks will start on a Sunday. 1 visit a week would be Sunday, or Wednesday. You could mix your days as long as you visited only once during our week. If you did want to fence again during the week you would be able to do on PAYG rates.
PAYG Fees remain the same at £10 for adults and £8 for students and concessions.
Bank details
Name Lewes Fencing Club, Sort Code:60-13-09, Account Number 41630378 please use the member’s first full name and last name initial for the Reference.
Beginners Courses and Taster Sessions
We will be going back to a full course for Adults but on a Wednesday. Tasters for Minis and Steamers will continue on Sundays. All will need pre-registering, but tell your friends.
Kit Room
This is really exciting, we now have out own kit room. This room is easily accessible to both halls and will allow us to store more kit to allow the club to grow further. It’s not a big room so we have had to be creative with the way we store things and ask that when putting kit back you do so properly. Thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible, it’s a great resource for the club and will mean we can grow.
Equipment
We are an extremely popular club and we have a lot of people still looking to start, to do this we need to have access to our kit. From September you will not have dedicated kit in a bag, instead all the equipment will be available hung up in the new store room. So you know which kit you need we will have a handy chart on the wall and all equipment will be visibly marked, We took details of your sizes when we washed the equipment so that should make things a little easier in September but we do realise you may have grown so bare with us.
Just so you know, our kit is arranged in the following sizes.
Jackets: 1 through to 7, left right, and ambidextrous.
Trousers: 26 through 38
Plastrons: Small, Medium, and Large
Masks: Small (Yellow), Medium (Blue), Large (Red), X-Large (Black)
Website
Out website is getting dated, the images need updating and it just generally needs a refresh, is there anybody out there that has the skills to take this on? The website is currently built using WordPress. If you would like to do this please contact Gordon or Della so we can discuss it with you.
Competitions
We sent a team to the County Competition this year, what seemed like a low entry of 3 teams turned into 7 teams competing. We did extremely well securing 3rd place. Well done to Will, Will, and Gordon.
September means a new season for competitions, whilst the county has not put the list together yet, when they do (probably before the 9th) we will update you and will be here to support you should you wish to compete. Support can come in many ways from helping with any additional kit needs/loans through to specific coaching.
Societies Fair
Lewes will be holding its successful Societies Fair again on the 2nd September, we have a stall so please pop by and see us, there may be sweets!!!.
What’s next?
Mini’s fees are available on the website now, for Steamers and above please set up your Standing Order asap to start from the 10th September and let us know you have done so by email, please include how many visits a week so we know. Wednesday nights will continue on our special PAYG rate until the 13th September.
If you are planning on giving fencing a rest please let us know so we can make your space available.
Ashley, Claire, Della, Gordon, Lewis and Simon.
The LFC Committee