All the indicators are green at the Poher Judo Club. This Friday, October 18, 2024, in the early evening, the club held its general meeting at the sports hall. Before this traditional annual meeting, parents and children gathered at the dojo for a moment of discussion. “The aim of this gathering is to reveal to parents the activities that their children discover and carry out during lessons”, explains Béatrice Grandin-Rubeaux, professor of the association for more than 20 years.
Thirty new licensees
Some 120 people were present. After these moments of discovery and sharing, the club held its general meeting in the room adjoining the dojo. Around twenty people including Henri Mazéas from the sports office attended this meeting. Everything is going well within this association which is chaired by Nathalie Auffret. The club had 130 members at the end of the last financial year. Today there are 160. “This is the result of the success of the judokas at the Paris Olympics,” added Béatrice Grandin-Rubeaux.
But there is also the other side of the coin: the different groups are too large for comfortable and more targeted teaching of the discipline. “We are missing time slots. Before covid, we had more.” Judokas and basketball players alike are impatiently waiting for additional time slots to be allocated to them at the high school gymnasium currently under construction. But for various reasons, this work has been considerably delayed.
In addition, the floor of the combat room is in very poor condition and the judokas are impatiently waiting for work to be carried out.
A positive financial balance sheet
Financially, no problem. The financial balance sheet for the last sporting year is in surplus due in particular to the profits left after the championship and the interclub organized by the association.
Also note that, from now on, the Judo club will operate in a different way. It will be administered by the “seishinkan” group of clubs from Carhaix and Châteauneuf-du-Faou.
