Congratulations to Chantelle May from North Harbour Fencing Club on placing 3rd in Under 13 Girls Foil at the Y-Sparks International Fencing Cup in Singapore. The event was held at the famous Marina Bay Sands. Awesome work!

 Fencing North Annual General Meeting - 2015

Wednesday 9th December 2015, 7.30pm

Meadowbank Community Centre

Notice is given that Fencing North's AGM for the year shall be held on the 9th December 2015 at 7.30pm in the Meadowbank Community Centre, 29 St Johns Rd.

The AGM is where we elect our Executive Officers and set affiliation fees for the following year. All Fencing North members are encouraged to attend this meeting and to exercise their rights to vote. If you cannot attend the meeting you can give your vote to another member to cast by proxy - if you want to do this you need to email Oliver Agnew (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to inform who holds your vote.

Nominees for Executive Positions:

We are looking for nominations for the Executive Officer Positions in 2016. Nominations are open to any member of Fencing North, if you would like to nominate someone to a position please send your nomination to Oliver Agnew (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) before the 27th November. See below the agenda for the descriptions of the roles.

The current Executive Officers are:

• President: John Garelja
• Vice President: Eric Buisman
• Treasurer: Linda Boyd
• Secretary: Oliver Agnew 

Agenda:

1. Present / Apologies
2. Confirmation of minutes of the previous AGM
3. Matters arising from previous AGM
4. President's report
5. Vice-President's report
6. Treasurer's report
7. Secretary's report
8. Election of the Executive Officers
9. Setting of Affiliation Fees for 2016

Description of Executive Officer Roles:

President:

The President presides at all Fencing North meetings. The President also represent's Fencing North at the Fencing New Zealand Board. The President shall ensure that all proper records of Fencing North's business are kept by the Secretary and that proper financial records are kept by the Treasurer. In situations where voting at Fencing North meetings is tied, the President will have the casting vote.

Vice-President:

The Vice-President acts on behalf of the President in meetings where the President cannot be present.

Treasurer:

The Treasurer is responsible for the financial affairs of Fencing North.

At the Annual General Meeting the Treasurer is to present the Financial Report and Balance Sheet to the meeting and be prepared to answer any questions arising.

Secretary:

The Secretary shall keep a record of all Fencing North meetings. The Secretary shall also be responsible for proper keeping of all correspondence, and the records relating to the business and affairs of Fencing North.

We are really excited to announce that we have bought 4 new sets of competition fencing gear! The first part of it arrived last week (see the image below).

So far we have 4x new sets of electric scoring machines and spools, and 2x new professional testing machines (one kindly donated by Daniel Chan from Mainland Fencing). We are also in the process of ordering 4x new lightweight pistes.

Part 1 of our order has arrived - 4x new boxes, 8x new spools & ground wires, 2x new pro testing boxes

So why did we get all this new gear and what are we going to do with it? It's simple - we want to provide fencers with the best competition experiences, and to do this we need to buy more gear! Over the past two years we have seen huge growth in fencer numbers, and as they grow we need to grow with them - it was obvious that we needed more gear for all the new fencers we have (and the fencers yet to come!). Lots of our competitions needed more gear to run than what we had - we would have to borrow scoring machines from other clubs and fence on the gym floors. 

All the new gear we have ordered is the best quality - this means it is highly durable, you get a great grip on the pistes so chances of being injured are much lower than fencing on gym floors, and it is fully compliant with international fencing equipment standards. Now we will be using exactly the same high standard equipment at all our regional events as the gear used for national and international events!

As we are sure you all know - fencing equipment is pretty expensive - especially the gear used for competitions! We want to say thank you to all the fencers, parents, and volunteers  who support us and our events - it makes it possible for us to provide the best competitions we can.