Last weekend saw our third winner on the Portsmouth Lottery in as many weeks!
To be in with a chance to win the top prize of £25,000 sign up today! A proportion of each ticket sold comes back to the club, or is put aside to support other community projects in Portsmouth.
Only two weeks in, and already we have our second winner of the year on the Portsmouth Lottery!
Playing the Lottery helps to support us, and other good causes in the City. A ticket only costs £1, with 50p coming to us and 10p going to a Community pot for grant making purposes.
You can buy tickets via our page on the Lottery website.
Good luck!
It’s the first Hampshire squad session of the year on Sunday, 12 January. The session is open to all competitive players, junior and senior, who are looking to improve.
The session will be held at Holbrook Judo Club, Brune Park School in Gosport. The session will start at 1000 and run to midday. A £5 mat fee will apply.
The first weekend of 2025 was marked by success for one of our players on the Portsmouth Lottery, who successfully matched several numbers.
The Lottery is open to all players over 18, with 50% of each ticket sold being donated back to the Club and 10% to a Community pot supporting other activities in Portsmouth. We have been part of the Lottery for 8 years.
It’s only £1 a ticket, with a potential prize of £25,000 to win and regular bonus prizes – currently a £1,000 Aldi gift card is up for grabs.
To support the Club and Portsmouth, you can enrol at our page on the Lottery website.
A number of players have recently graded. Congratulations to:
All grades have been registered with British Judo.
Don’t forget, if you want to grade you must have a current valid membership of the British Judo Association (BJA).
For insurance purposes, all players should have some form of BJA insurance.
This is the final week of term for 2024 – our final classes are tonight (17 December) and Thursday (19 December).
Classes will resume from Tuesday 7 December.
We’d like to say a big Well Done to everyone, and thank you to those who supported our session with Nekoda – we hope you all enjoyed it. It was nice to be able to welcome players from other clubs (Holbrook, Meridian and Chichester) across both sessions and was a fantastic way to wrap up the year.
It’s been a great year – we have expanded our mat area, most of our classes continue to be well supported and we have finally got a functioning committee in place, of which more in the New Year. It means that a lot of the background administration essential to running a club is now in place.
Looking forward to next year,
We’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, once again thank you for all your support and see you in 2025!
We are delighted to announce that Rio Olympian, twice World Medallist and Commonwealth Games champion Nekoda Davis will be making a return visit to the club on 30th November.
Nekoda visited us in 2018 to help celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary, and we had a great session with her. This return visit has been organised as part of British Judo’s Paris Roadshow series of events.
Nekoda will be delivering two sessions on the afternoon of 30th November:
The normal £5 mat fee will apply.
Court Lane players may pre-register and pay in advance if they wish.
We hope to be able to open the playground for parking.
Classes resume tomorrow after the two week half term break.
Looking forward to seeing you all back on the mat.
In a change to messages given yesterday, there will be no Judo next week or the week after.
As you may be aware, Court Lane Academy is piloting a two week October half term break. We were originally told that school staff would be on site in the first week and the hall would be available.
We have been advised today that we will not be able to access the hall over the half term period, due to maintenance work scheduled by the Trust that manages the school – the skylights in the hall are being replaced, meaning there will be scaffolding in place. This was only communicated to the school yesterday.
This means there will be no Judo on the following dates:
The school have apologised for the late notice, we can only repeat this and apologise for the inconvenience.
Jonty Bassil gets a mention in the Royal Navy Judo Association’s contribution to the British Judo 2023-4 Annual Report, for his part in the National Teams.
This is not the first time the club or associated players have got a mention in BJA publications – the Club was featured several years ago when it received the Sport England Clubmark. Photos of Brett Caswell at the GB World Cup were also used in an annual report, Brett also got several mentions in The World of Judo.
Please ask Kay if you would like to see the 2023-4 Annual Report.
