Happy New Year! Club sessions will restart on Friday 7th January 2022 at 19:15. Please book a place using our admin site as usual.

Tuesdays will restart on 11th January 2022 at 20:00.

There is a shortage of Sabre fencers at our club at the moment, and we’d like to try to address that by building some critical mass of regular attendees so it’s worthwhile coming to fence Sabre. We have a group messaging system to help Sabreurs coordinate their attendance. Please get in touch if you’d like to be added to the list.

The next fencing session will be on 7th January 2022. On behalf of everyone at OFC, I hope that you have a restful holiday.

Our last guaranteed Friday session of 2021 is on the 10th December 2021, but we do have the option of using the hall on the 17th. Please could you let us know if you’d like to fence on this evening so that we can decide whether the session is worth running?

We will be holding a beginners course, starting on Friday 8th October for 8 weeks. Tickets will be available for purchase on the club admin site at 10am on Wednesday 29th September. Since we’ve not run a course for nearly two years, we expect that there will be high demand for places. If you’re not able to book, please be assured that we plan to hold another course in the early spring (COVID-permitting).

Our regular club sessions will be restarting this week (21st September). If you managed to come to the club since the COVID pandemic started, then everything will be very similar to then, although we can now welcome more people to each session. Everyone is really looking forward to getting back to fencing, so please do book a space at a session and come along!

The gate code has changed, so please check your email for the new one.

There is a new risk assessment and COVID instructions for you to read on the website (below).

The club committee has been working hard on getting us ready to restart sessions. Here is the risk assessment for club sessions.

Please read the instructions that try to explain the various things that we’ll each need to do for a club session to take place.

Club sessions have changed a little bit from what you may be used to.

1. You must book a space at a session before you leave home, and complete the health questions for everyone (including parents/volunteers) who will be entering the school site. If there are no tickets available, then please do not come.
2. Everyone in the sports hall should wear a face mask at all times when not fencing.
3. We invite everyone to wear a face mask or liner whilst fencing to ensure that everyone feels safe.
4. Parents/guardians who wish to accompany their children MUST remain in the hall for the duration, and will be asked to help out with running the session.
5. Read the instructions (download link below) to familiarise yourself with what to do.
6. Take things easy when fencing, it’s great to be back but it’s been a while.

We’re going to be resuming club sessions on Tuesday 21st September at Rye. Friday sessions will restart on 24th September. There will be some changes to our protocols and we’ll communicate those nearer the time. As before, we’re going to ask everyone to book in on the day of the session via the form on our admin site since we still need to control numbers attending the club.