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Competition Updates

Updated 31-Jan-2006

Updated information in the Competitions section - including details of the GWEFC Foil 48er.

Equipment Regulation Changes

Updated 28-Dec-2005

The changes to the BFA Equipment Regulations come in to effect as from 01-Jan-2006. If you missed all the nagging about this at the club, you can read the technical details from the BFA Safety Standards. Alternatively, speak to one of the Club's Committee.

Beginners Course

Updated 28-Dec-2005

Since the demise of Strathclyde University's Further Education Fencing class, the club has been asked about running some formal beginners coaching. So starting in January we will be organising the first of these 10 week courses - hopefully, these will be repeated throughout the year and may lead on to some intermediate level courses.

Highland Open

Updated 27-Jul-2005

Details and entry forms have been added to the Competitions page. We are looking for a large turn out from GWEFC at this year's Highland - and to have everyone make their check-in too. Maria has been challenged with organising us.

West End Festival

Updated 04-Jul-2005

A report and some pictures from the Glasgow West End Festival have been uploaded.

Summer Classes

Updated 08-Jun-2005

The club will be running some special classes over the Summer months. The classes will be run during our normal Thursday evenings, lasting about a hour.

West End Festival

Updated 05-Jun-2005

Members of the club will be demonstrating (ie recruiting) at the Glasgow West End Festival on Sunday 12, June - come and see us between 2 - 3pm near the flagpole in the Botanic Gardens.

GWEFC 48er Photos

Updated 15-Mar-2005

The results are now available - medal winners photos added.

GWEFC 48er Results

Updated 02-Mar-2005

The results are now available - still waiting on the photos.

Coaching Rota

Updated 12-Feb-2005

The coaching rota has been updated - plan your class lessons now.

GWEFC 48er

Updated 05-Feb-2005

Apparently we are having a 48er this year - so get your entries in. The Competitions section now has a link to download the entry form.

Dundee Duel

Updated 05-Feb-2005

Also updated in the Competitions section is the Dundee Duel 1-Hit Epee competition - now with a link to download the entry form.

GWEFC 40er

Updated 30-Jan-2005

The Glasgow West End Fencing Club will be holding a Foil 40er competition on Saturday 26 February. See the Competitions section for more details.

Scottish Open

Updated 29-Nov-2004

The Scottish Open 2005 competition will be held at Westwoods Health Club in Edinburgh (next to Fettes School). See the Competitions section for more details and entry forms.

Club AGM

Updated 11-Dec-2004

The club had one of the quickest AGMs on record - possibly something to do with the fact that most people were too busy eating pizza to raise raise any objections.

The new committee were elected - same as the old committee except Ewan stepped down as Secretary to be replaced by Katie Wilkie. There was agreement to elect a Junior member to the committee - an election for this post will be held next Thursday (since we only had one Junior member at the AGM).

Club AGM

Updated 09-Nov-2004

The Annual General Meeting of the Glasgow West End Fencing Club will be held on Thursday 11th November 2004 at 9.00 pm in Pizza Hut, 203-205 Argyle Street, Glasgow. We will stop fencing at 8:30 on that evening.

10th Anniversary Dinner Dance

Updated 22-Oct-2004

Just a reminder that the club's 10th anniversary dinner dance will take place on Sat 30th October (ie next weekend) in the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, 1 - 10 Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow G12 0TA (corner of Byres Road, Great Western Road, Glasgow).

The theme is 60s/70s not 70s/80s as was originally stated.

Be there for 7pm sharp - otherwise you'll miss your dinner.

Club AGM

Updated 03-Oct-2004

The Club Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday Nov 11. We will stop fencing at 8:30 on that evening.

Night Class Delayed

Updated 03-Oct-2004

The evening class has been postponed by a week whilst they sort out storage space for kit. Anyone got a spare flameproof cabinet?

Back to usual

Updated 01-Oct-2004

As from next Thursday, Oct 7th, the club will be back to its usual time of 7-9pm in the main gym hall at Cally Uni.

The Night Class

Updated 01-Oct-2004

The Night Class will be running again 6-8pm on Tuesdays (starting Oct 5th). Chucky being the coach with Elaine helping. It will be held in one of the gyms in the PESOE building Jordanhill Campus, Strathclyde Uni. Cost £75 for 10 weeks. Requirements are tracksuit/jogging bottoms and training shoes. However the first block is already fully booked, the next 2 blocks start on 18th Jan and 19th April. Details and joining from The Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Strathclyde, 0141 548 4389.

10th Anniversary Dinner Dance

Updated 05-Sep-2004

The club's 10th anniversary dinner dance will take place on Sat 30th October in the Grosvenor Hotel (corner of Byres Road, Great Western Road, Glasgow).

The theme is 70/80s, so if you feel like dressing as part of Abba or a Charlie's Angel, you'll be more than welcome. Otherwise, your best clobber from your youth.

The cost is £25 which includes the meal (3 or 4 courses) and the dance afterwards. Partners are invited too. Please give a £10 deposit (or the full amount) to Katie or a committee member as soon as possible as we will need to give numbers to the hotel.

Competitions list updated

Updated 05-Sep-2004

The competitions calendar has been updated with information for the Scottish competitions.

Beginner's Coaching Rota

Updated 26-Jul-2004

To allow more time for individual lessons and to get everyone in the club more involved in coaching, we have introduced a Coaching Rota. Everyone who has been fencing for more than a year is expected to take a turn at coaching complete beginners - help and advice will always be on hand.

40er Results posted

Updated 31-Mar-2004

The results for the Foil 40er have been added to the Results section.

EGM Date confirmed

Updated 02-Feb-2004

The date of the club EGM has been confirmed as Tuesday 3rd Feb at 8pm. Venue will be Mark MacKenzie's flat. (Please contact Mark or Chucky if you need the address or directions). This meeting is to discuss fundraising and fees issues.

Calendar Updated

Added 09-Jan-2004

The competitions calendar has been updated with information for the Scottish competitions.

PayPal Donations

Added 09-Dec-2003

We can now accept donations to our Fire Fund via PayPal. The following page has a button to make payments:

http://www.glasgowfencing.com/firefund.htm

Club AGM

Added 05-Dec-2003

The Club will hold an AGM on Thursday December 11 at 9:30-11:30pm. It is really important that we have as many members present as possible. The venue is provisionally the family area at The Crystal Palace on Jamaica Street in Glasgow city centre.

Chucky is organising this so, please send proposals of agenda items to him.

Forum

Added 05-Dec-2003

The club now has a yahoo group to improve communication.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgowfencing (This link will open another window.)

Fire Fund Forum

Added 05-Dec-2003

Arturo (aka "the ginger one from Bosnia") has posted an appeal for help on the Leon Paul fencing forum.

http://fencingforum.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1229 (This link will open another window.)

Clubs and individuals wanting to send donations of kit or money may contact us via the email addresses on our contacts page.

Fire on Campus

On Tuesday, November 25th, there was a major fire at the Jordanhill Campus. As far as we know there are no casualties.

However, the buildings containing the fencing gym have been completely destroyed. Along with all the equipment belonging to the club and the Night Class. This means that the Tuesday night Fencing Club and the associated Strathclyde University Night Class are now cancelled for the foreseeable future.

Spot the Changes

Now that we have returned to the Jordanhill hall, the challenge is on — to find out exactly what has been changed. (Much like the website then.)

So far, the following changes have been spotted:

• They have build a big car park in front of the hall entrance (which is nice)
• They have replaced all the broken light bulbs (hurray)
• They have cleaned the floor

Keep looking everyone, I'm sure they must have done more...

... okay, the most recent change is that the whole building has burned to the ground. Not sure that was in the spirit of this competition — you weren't supposed to add your own changes.