Volunteering

Samurai Judo Club is built on volunteering, and we welcome all volunteers.

For non-judo persons, there are three main ways in which you can volunteer at events.

1. FIRST AID: we will always have an experienced first aider present at events, but qualified helpers are also welcome. If you have a first aid qualification, please talk to Emma Martin at the club about joining the first aid group. If you don’t qualify, the club arranges first aid qualification courses from time to time. The club will pay the course fees as long as the volunteers are prepared to help out from time to time at our events. Again, talk to Emma about this.

2. TABLE OFFICIALS: you do not need to be a judo player to work on the table at any event, or even to (eventually) run competitions. Being familiar with the words and signals used is necessary, but this can be learned quite quickly and there are always opportunities at events for new officials to be trained. Our club chair, who has only been on the mat once as a player in her life, took this route and ended up becoming the best judo competition organizer in Britain.

3. KITCHEN: any help in the kitchen at events is always most welcome.

Volunteering at an event does not mean that you need to be there all day. We arrange shifts so that volunteers do only a few hours each, also to coincide with when their children are competing.

Judo players (minimum grade green belt) can also become REFEREES. This is a great way to achieve this, and the club has three international referees who have traveled all around Europe refereeing. A course is held each year to qualify referees, with lots of additional support and training.

Of course, if you have other specific skills that can be of help to the club, please let us know!