In the 2024 Annual Report, BJA CEO Andrew Scoular states that membership has now exceeded the Pre-Covid number.
BRITISH JUDO ASSOCIATION Ltd 2024 Annual Report in Full – Click
But the Annual Report table does not provide Pre-Covid data, 2019-2020.
The membership table in this year’s report only goes back to 2020-2021.
Total British Judo membership 31 March 2024,
For BJA England, NIJudo, JudoScotland, Welsh Judo, AJA & BJC = 38,823
On the face of it, great news for judo in Britain and an achievement by the BJA, Board and Executives!
If it were true!
Total membership, 31 March 2024 = 38,823
So today’s British Judo Membership is NOT higher than Pre-Covid but at least 8,800 members lower!
Notable is also how this year’s 2024 BJA Annual Report does not contain the previous 6 year’s membership figures as was previous practise.
This could be because when Andrew Scoular and the BJA Chair, Ronnie Saez, presented and later launched the British Judo 2022-2025 Strategic Plan.
They had stated there were 100,000 people in Britain practising judo, 50% of these being BJA!
He is on record lying in connection with the bullying complaint made against Lucy Renshall and coach Jamie Johnson when he stated that the disciplinary panel was “fully independent”.
After he and the BJA Board of Directors had rigged the panel with the daughter of the BJA Sports Director who also has a long history of close personal relationships with both BJA Directors and Executives.
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