What does it mean to become a member of Camden Shorinji Kempo? And why should you become one?
As a Camden Shorinji Kempo Member, you get first access to every event that we put on. You get to vote on our actions at our AGM and benefit from the huge discounts that we offer!
We run around 90 in-person classes a year. We sometimes take a little break over the holidays. All our club instructors volunteer their time and occasionally when they are all away we have an array of amazing guest instructors from across London.
Since starting the club, we’ve: run full-day seminars (where we learned to use long staffs or shakajos), been featured onscreen at Piccadilly Circus, hosted a Halloween Special class (complete with Zombie outfits), visited clubs across Europe including Bristol, Messina Sicily and Lisbon, run first aid classes and organised a gender-neutral tournament (taikai).
A Camden membership also gives you exclusive access to our original literature, videos and the Kempo content that we produce. We also discount the price of our merchandise.
Our members are the reason that Camden Shorinji Kempo keeps going! Your membership fees pay for our exciting events, courses, club administrator and most importantly room hire.
Membership fees
Find the kind of membership that works for you! You can be an annual, half-yearly or quarterly member.
If you are new you can try a taster session – buy a ticket online.
If you are visiting for a single class from another club you can buy a ticket online.
Any questions email camden@bskf.org. We can’t wait for you to be part of our community in 2025.
Yearly – £400
Become the essence of the club
- Pay once
- Feel confident that the club will keep running
- Voting and discounts
- £220 for 6 months
Quarterly £109
Become a regular
- Get to vote on club matters
- Be first inline to get discounts to seminars and travel bursary
- Support the club to keep going
- Discounts
Monthly £60
Enrich our growing community.
- Get to vote on club matters
- Our club administrators is always on on hand to support you
- Under the age of 25? Then you get monthly membership for free.
Everyone will need to get insurance with our Federation the BSKF. BSKF Insurance is £60 per year (£50 discounted) and is bought directly from our Federation – Read more.
Discounted Membership fees
We are the first to understand the financial ups and downs we all experience.
In the past we have supported students, low waged, unemployed and people who have retired with our discounts in previous years.
If you need to access the discounts or spread payments please email with your request, we do not ask for proof or questions.
If you need we can offer you three months training for the price of one. Simply email for more details camden@bskf.org or ask Sensei Kavita or Sensei Ofelia in class.
