Dear All

On the back of a successful County Sports Awards event last year we are looking to hold our 2008 event sometime in October and we just wanted to gauge when local authority and NGB events are taking place this year.

We are aware that not all local authorities / NGBs hold events, that is fine, but I want to see how many events will be taking place and be able to fit into the county event in October.  As yet we do not have a fixed date and venue but we will be releasing this shortly, we are hoping it will be mid October at the Royal Holloway University, Egham.

Can I ask that you please let me know if you have dates, provisional or confirmed so we can have an understanding of what is being delivered?  If at all possible it would be nice to see your catergory list and criteria if you have any also.

The structure of the county event will not change but the criteria for some of the awards will be tighter than last year so we can make sure we have more than 2 nominations to regional and national events.

With regards to the award categories, the following will still be included:

• Sports Personality of the Year
• Young Sports Personality of the Year
• Sports Club of the Year
• Coach Of the Year
• Young Coach of the Year
• Sports team of the Year
• Young Sports Team of the Year
• Disability Sports Award
• Outstanding Service to Sports Award
• Volunteer of the Year
• Young Volunteer of the Year

And this year we will hopefully be included a new award Community Sports Coach of the Year which will only be open to those coaches that have been employed and deployed through the government funding scheme Community Sports Coach Scheme.

If you have any queries regarding this years event then please do not hesitate to get in touch on the number below.

Many Thanks

Surrey Sports Awards Committee

Dear presidents and maîtres,

Dear clubs of fencing and friends

Only one month lacks to the 2º international epee open tournament "City of Lugano" and to the junior epee tournament valid for the Swiss national junior circuit open to all the nationalities for the categories Juniors, Cadets and Minimes.

The minimum age for participating to the open tournament is 15 years (born in 1992). The junior categories are:

Juniors: born from 1988 to 1990

Cadets: born from 1991 to 1992

Minimes: born from 1993 to 1995

Attached to the email you will find all information regarding the tournament contests and the registration forms.

The first edition of the open tournament in February 2007 has seen the victories of Claudio Garosci of the Mangiarotti Epee team of Milan and of Isabella Tarchini of the Fencing Circle Lugano Fencing.

The tournament will take place in a very modern structure, the Palamondo (www.palamondo.ch).

If you want to discover our beautiful city of Lugano before coming to visit to us and to participate to the tournament, I’ll invite to you to visit the websites of the city www.lugano.ch and of the Canton Ticino tourism office www.ticino.ch.

For hotel reservations we have organized a reservation service of reservations for you through Amiconi Consulting (www.amiconiconsulting.ch), please indicate that you will participate to the city of lugano tournament.

We will wait for you on 12 and 13 april in Lugano.

A presto

Paolo Bassanini

Membro organizzatore

CIRCOLO SCHERMA LUGANO

Via al Chioso 7

CH-6900 Lugano

T  +41 79 730 7001

F  +41 91 600 1432

www.schermalugano.ch