Badminton Canterbury Board: Many people know that BC is governed by a volunteer Board.  What many don’t know is what is involved being on the board.  The role of the board is to oversee the direction of badminton in Canterbury – from the grassroots up to our representative teams/players.  The board is a small group of people that share one common goal: seeing our sport grow in Canterbury. Being on the board is a bit different from the average club committee – when you join a club committee, you usually end up doing lots of jobs.  The purpose of the board is setting the stra ..read more

Badminton Canterbury AGM: The AGM, including presentation of the annual report, will be held as follows: Venue: VR Skellerup Hall, 220 Pages Road Upstairs in the George Millar lounge Date: 18th April Time: 7.00pm Everyone is welcome. There will be the presentation of the annual financials for 2023, our budget for 2024, and the reports from the various areas of badminton.  The Agenda will be posted soon ..read more

  Great news! We have partnered up with Kora Fuel Cards, so now you can save money and support Badminton Canterbury every time you fill up your car! Tell your friends and neighbours, they too can save and support our organisation.   Great savings for you. Kora is a new fuel card that saves you money every time you fill up at Waitomo or Mobil. As a Badminton Canterbury member or supporter, you get 10 cents off per litre that we can split between savings for you and support for BCI. Extra funding for us. A portion of that discount goes to supporting BCI and you can choose how much you ..read more

  Badminton Coaching opportunity for adult non-rep players, 5 Week Programme.  Price is Dependant on numbers $75 – $100 Tuesday 23rd of January to 27th of February 7.30pm – 9.00pm at 220 Pages Road, Wainoni Please register before the 19th of January 2024. Coach:  William Chen https://badmintoncanterbury.com/fm/   ..read more

Following the strategic review and subsequent creation of our new strategic plan, BC undertook a review of our current staffing levels and positions.  This resulted in a few changes that we have been working through this year.  The first, which you are probably aware of, was additional administrative support, increasing the office hours from 15 to 45 per week as we welcomed Debbie Lennane-Henry to her new role as Office Manager (working alongside Julie) As Debbie has settled in with us, this has allowed the second change to begin, that is with the role of General Manager (GM).  ..read more

Congratulations to our players who have been selected to compete in the South Island Division 4 Inter-association Competition at Hokitika, West Coast.  The event starts on Friday 15th through to Sunday 17th September 2023. DIVISION 4 TEAM Coach:  Alfred Wong Andy Currie Ann Burton Carrie Wilson Ching Yi Lin Chris Gibbens Gordon Lay Ivan Thean Jacqui Taylor Jan Everett Joseph Hill Nick Parker Scott Illington Steve Tapp Warwick Werder   ..read more

Entries are now open for our Badminton Canterbury Annual 2023 Awards. Every year these awards are given to recognise and celebrate our players, coaches, officials, administrators, and volunteers. The qualifying period is October to September each calendar year. However, any background information may be supplied if it is relevant to the nominee’s performance and achievements.  Now is your chance to make sure individuals you work and play with, within the badminton sector are recognised for their outstanding work.   Nominations are easy, simply click on the link below. Canterbury ..read more

Our Canterbury Division 3 teams are getting ready to compete in the South Island Division 3 Inter- Association  Tournament on Friday the 4th of August to Sunday the 6th.  Come on down and support our players. Congratulations and good luck!! DIVISION 3 – RED TEAM Coached by Alfred Wong Chris Chen Chris Zhu Frennie Mayorga Glen Price Jason Hsu Jeremiah Manickam Jo Christie Juhee Park Kate Duffield Megan Heaney DIVISION 3 – WHITE TEAM Coached by Alex Zhao Anna Ritchie Arnie Ferreras Bibek G C Daniel Loh Lin-En Chen Rebecca Yang Ribu Dhakal Rishav Dhakal Ryan Wong Sarah Le Page DIVISION ..read more

UPCOMING SHUTTLE TIME COURSES – COACH, TEACHERS COURSE AND YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD Badminton Canterbury is hosting this on Sunday 10th September 2023, 9am – 1pm Badminton Hall, 220 Pages Road, Christchurch Shuttle Time resources are currently available in 24 languages  Allows teachers with limited experience, to introduce badminton related skills, movements and tactics to pupils through a variety of fun games and activities. Shuttle Time lessons are suitable for children aged 5-15 years old and have been designed to ensure that pupils are physically active throughout the du ..read more

As you are aware we held our AGM in April.  At this time our financial statements were only in a draft form, awaiting sign off from the accountant.  This has now been completed, accordingly, we would like to have a Special General Meeting to pass these statements with our members (clubs).  This should only take 15-20 minutes (depending on questions). DATE: Tuesday 1st August TIME: 7pm VENUE: 220 Pages Road (upstairs in lounge), ONLINE OPTION Teams link available – email office (at) badmintoncanterbury.com to be sent it. We will be starting promptly to allow doubles 2 ..read more