Following the election of Officers at the AGM, the group met tonight to discuss organisation for the year ahead and appoint Coordinators:

Senior County Coordinator - Kelvin Koon

Junior Section Coordinator - Alan Adkins

Masters Coordinator - Trevor Rogers

 Essex League Secretary - Matt Lawrence

Tournaments Coordinator - Nisha Jacob (Junior events) 

Redbridge are recruiting a new Performance Coach to join their team.

Anyone that's interested can talk to Anthony McDonald  (020 8498 1041 / badminton@rslonline.co.uk)

• Experience of successfully coaching and overseeing Performance programmes and County / National level players.
• Have a minimum of a Badminton England level 2 Coaching qualification.
• Be working towards or gain the Badminton England level 3 qualification
• Attended a Badminton England recognised child protection course (within the last 3 years)
• Have a current membership of the Badminton England Coaching Register
• Successfully completed and hold a current DBS check from Badminton England 

Huge congratulations to Nikhil Pulikkottil, who took all three titles at the U15 National Championships just before Christmas. Winning any National title is an amazing performance so to get the Grand Slam of titles is quite amazing.

Tournament Details 

 The teams selected for the second round of matches in the Senior County Championship 2025/26 are;

First Team

Alicia Chu, Emily Giles, Xinran Wei, Caroline Westley, Yoongeun Kwon

Philip Pahatouridis Mohammed Adnaan Osmaan, Sam Pulikkottil Kelvin Koon, Alan Tu, James Wong, Oliver Wu

Second Team

Third Team

Fourth Team

There is a "Coaches in Badminton at Level 2 – Club Specialism Module" available at Deanes School starting in February 2026.

Please see BE Event Bookings for details.

Congratulations to all the medal winners at the Masters National Championships this weekend;

• OD40 - Mark Law
• OD45 - Mohammed Munim & Nadeem Shokat
• WS50 & WD50 - Tracy Hutchinson
• OD50 - Ian Pearson & James Anderson
• WD50 - Lynne Swan
• OS55, OD55 and XD55 - Simon Gilhooly
• WS60, WD60 and XD60 - Allison Pearson
• WD60 - Sue Crompton & Viv Gillard
• XD60 - Sue Crompton

Our very own Roger Baldwin was crowned World Champion in the Over 80 Singles event on Sunday.

He played Kim Swee Leong from Malaysia in the final, winning 21-15, 21-15.

Other Essex medallists were Lynne Swan in WD50 and Peter Emptage XD70.

The England team overall returned with two gold medals, Caroline Hale being the other winner in the WS55.

The tournament was graced by the participation of recently retired ex-professionals Hendra Setiawan (Indonesia), who picked up gold medals in Over 40 MD and XD and Brice Leverdez (France) who took home silver in MD35 and Bronze in XD35. 

Tournament details: https://bwfbadminton.com/tournament/5264/amazing-thailand-pattaya-bwf-world-senior-championships-2025

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/hBhlqnqCxZM?si=tu07LN50Ej1JTpdR&t=5314

PS: there's a piece on the BBC Sport website about Roger - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20z3913llwo

Fixtures for this years Shires League (junior matches) are starting to appear on Tournament Software

https://be.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/clubmatches.aspx?id=62EDE6EE-795F-4FFB-B3B4-98B3F6E609B0&cid=6