LKA Christmas Party Awards Evening

The first LKA Christmas Part and Awards Evening was held at Harrogate High School on Saturday 14th December. There was over 100 people in attendance with three very special guests in the form of WKF World Karate Champions Rory Daniels and Paul Newby together with World Cycling Champion Anthony Gill.

The World Champion's Cyclists Jersey and an England Karate Team T-Shirt were auctioned off having been kindly donated by the Guests. Dave Bulmer won both, together with a private lesson with Paul Newby at his Olympik Dream Gym. Dave caused much ammusement to everyone by continuing to bid against himself after all other bidders had withdrawn!

Nine awards were made in total with notably Ryan Tucker taking the 'Player's Player' award and Nick Midgley receiving the 'Lifetime Achievement' award in recognition of his 30 years training.

There was also the unveiling of the new LKA promotional DVD which went down very well with the crowd. The whole evening went very well and made a profit of £750 which will be used towards the Japan trip in April of 2009.