News and Events for 2017

The New Zealand Disability Karate Association is now a registered charity. This means we now open a bank account and get insurance, which means we are on track to open the dojo doors in the New Year.

Our Registration number is CC55053.

To ensure that everyone can easily understand what we say on the website. We have just had the whole website checked for readability. All pages have score an A!

The quarterly Newsletter subscription feature has been added to the Make a Donation page of the website.

The first newsletter will be out on the 1st January.

A new page has been added to the website. It details the key areas of our karate along with a breakdown of what is expected of you at your first grading.

If a student has entered their date of birth on the account page their birthday will appear on the journey page. This so that that it can be celebrated at the dojo.

At NZ-DKA we believe that every aspect of a student's life is important and should be acknowledged.

Buttons and menus are now removed and the background images are cleared so that printing can work regardless of the browser you use.

Had a small problem with date entry in that you could end up with 00/mm/yyyy if letters were used. If that occurs now the system will use todays date.

All of the functionality of the website has been delivered. The last part was to create the administration capability including the bulk account update options.

The karate journey pages have been completed. Students can now see their attendance, grades and awards on line.

The bulk update and administration options for Sensei will be added to the site over the next couple of days.

The Our Mission page has been updated to make the club objectives clearer. A new section has been added explaining our grade structure and the meaning behind the belt colours.

The website has been going through a major review. This has been to enable you to access the site from mobile devices and to improve the accessibility of the site.

The next phase is review the readability of pages such as the Mission Statement page.

The design for the new lifetime membership cards has been approved and sent to the printers for production. The first batch should arrive in the next 10 days.

The new gi badges arrived in the post this morning. We are extremely happy with their quality and I am sure all club members will be very proud to sport them on their gi.

The New Zealand Disability Karate Association now has a Twitter handle. It is @karatedojonz.

The Management Team has submitted an application to the New Zealand Charities Services to register the New Zealand Disablity Karate Association as a charity.

The proof for the new Gi badge has approved for printing and should be arriving in the next couple of weeks!

The New Zealand Disability Karate Association has made a small change to their logo the gi now fastens on the correct side.

Join us to mark the sixth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.

It is New Zealand Sign Language Week and there are many events happening to celebrate the Deaf Community.
You can download the image of the finger spelling chart and strike up a conversation!