{"id":5709,"date":"2022-01-24T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2022-01-24T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:01:46","slug":"akr-fee-membership-free-year-for-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=5709","title":{"rendered":"AKR Fee membership free year for 2022-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members,<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting of AKR National Council, held on 16 January 2022, a decision was made to provide both re-joining and new members with a fee amnesty for the membership year which commences on 1 July 2022 and concludes on 30 June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the reasons behind the recent AKR decision for the fee amnesty, were to acknowledge \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The major difficulties faced by members in pursuing their training goals during the pandemic;<\/li>\n<li>The 18th World Kendo Championships were cancelled and therefore an amount of AKR members funds budgetted for that event were not spent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also mention that in the financial year 2020-21, an amount of $11,865 of AKR members funds was distributed as a subsidy to dojo\/clubs, to support them during the first year of the Covid19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>This means that while the 2022-23 membership renewal process will still continue, as in the past, to be managed by clubs\/dojo and the respective state associations, there will be no AKR fee payable.\u00a0 Clubs\/dojo and state associations may have fees as usual, but the AKR decision means that the overall cost to members will be lower than expected.<\/p>\n<p>More details are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/notice-fee-amnesty.pdf\">letter<\/a> to state associations.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<br \/>\nRichard Ward<br \/>\nTreasurer<br \/>\n24 January 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members, At the meeting of AKR National Council, held on 16 January 2022, a decision was made to provide both re-joining and new members with a fee amnesty for &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,36,28,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iaido","category-jodo","category-kendo","category-news","category-policies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}