About Us
We strongly believe in a family friendly club, somewhere not only the students feel welcome and at ease, but the parents and extended families of our students. We welcome visitors and people are free to stay within the dojo to watch or from the viewing gallery. In our time so far, we like to think that we have established a good bond with our parents. They are all keen and enthusiastic and are known to join in when we have "fun lessons" and create a great social atmosphere afterwards. We encourage parent participation and believe that good communication between instructors, students and family is extremely important.
Reikan Karate is run purely as a club and not a business. We have a board of five members that assess our performance and decide the best way forward. We have a Child Protection Policy in place and a copy of this can be obtained on request from either Instructor, as can our Constitution and Equal Opportunities Policy.
Reikan Karate are part of the IKC Association who are affiliated to the current governing body of Karate for England and also the World Karate Federation. We think that the partnership of Reikan and IKC will be successful and mutually beneficial for students, parents and instructors.
Chief Instructor Lesley Darrington, 5th Dan maintains as much contact with Reikan as possible and tries to attend our weekend fitness/kumite lessons. Reikan are extremely lucky to have Sensei Lesley willing to share her knowledge with us, as Sensei Lesley is still competing herself. We are also very grateful to Sensei Colin who seems to be able to connect to the younger students in the way he teaches and explains. Other IKC Instructors often attend our gradings/weekend lessons to help out, notably Sensei Svapnil.
To read more about IKC's Chief Instructor, Sensei Lelsey, please click here
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