Vetting & Barring Scheme and Criminal Records Regime Review – Recommendations Announced.The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has unveiled a new scaled back employment vetting scheme and fundamental reform of criminal records checks.Announcing the findings of the parallel reviews of the Vetting & Barring Scheme and the criminal records regime on Friday 11 February Mr…
The BAF is planning an International Coaching and Performance weekend on May 21st and 22nd at the Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre in Stoke on Trent. Maestro Roberto Piranio (CV below) will be coming over from Italy to run the course with Prof. Philip Bruce. It is possible that we will also have other European and…
The following Committe Appointments were made at th 2011 AGM. Vice President – Prof. Peter CormackVice President – Prof.Louisa MillerMembers’ Representative – Stuart CloughProf. Philip Bruce was re-elected as President
The 2011 AGM was well attended this year, with weather conditions being kinder than last year!The following awards were made at the AGM dinner: Prof. P. Cormack – Award of Merit (Team Captain 2010 Fencing Masters World Championship)A. Urquart – DiplomaI. Combes – DiplomaA. Wilkinson – Honourary Diploma for outstanding services to stage and screen…
Sportscoach UK have announced Iain Aberdeen as one of the three finalists for this years Performance Development Coach of the Year. The award recognises coaches that have excelled and shown outstanding commitment to sport whilst providing innovative coaching practice and high quality player centered coaching of young performers. The winner of the award will be…
Heather Jarrold has passed on the news of the death of Bill Vinyard. He died suddenly but peacefully on the 23rd October, aged 86. After Bill began fencing in his forties, he approached the sport with complete dedication. He ran Ipswich Fencing Clubs for decades and never missed a night. He leaves a legacy of fencers…
Andrew Wong, one of our overseas members (Hong Kong) will be visiting the UK next year, for 3 or 4 nights between Jan 16th – Jan 31st. He is seeking a house / apartment or other kind of suitable accomodation to rent for himself and his daughter at that time in London or nearby. If…
It has been my intention throughout my presidency to make every effort to constantly develop and improve our system of coach education and examination . . . I like to think, that with the unstinting efforts of a number of our most senior coach educators, we have made enormous strides in bringing coaching and specifically…
This was the second time we have had the Denstone course in October rather than in the summer and this new date continues to be an advantage in many ways . . . Having the college to ourselves is a great improvement over sharing it with other conferences, although accommodation was limited this year due…
Over the last few residential courses, I have become increasingly concerned about the number of people that are coming with expectations of doing the Advanced and Diploma levels while freely admitting that they “have done hardly any work” “not even looked at the questions” and are “just going to see how it goes”. . ….
