News & Information

Latest magazine – out now!

With thanks to our editor Ken Symon and his team, Issue 73 of our magazine is out now. The magazine includes An excellent interview with one of our founder members, Gary Wragg, a senior disciple of Grandmaster Wu Kwong Yu; Head of the Wu Family and Gatekeeper of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan. This is first in our planned series…

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New Board Director

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Senior Instructor, Roy Williams, as Operations Director for the Union responsible for the Union systems and processes. Roy is an experienced IT professional currently working as Senior Product Specialist in the NHS managing multiple critical services. The appointment of Roy completes the Board’s transition to having directors with clear responsibilities and…

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2024 Annual Review

Welcome to our first Annual Review! Link to 2024 Annual Review The review reflects on the past year’s achievements, considers what has yet to be done and outlines the new plans for 2025. One of the things we are excited about is our marketing plans for next year.  This has given us the chance to work with professionals and consider…

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Latest magazine now out!

We’ve another great edition for our members and the first by the new team with Ken Symon as editor and Betty Sutherland the director responsible. Thank you to both of them, but particularly Ken, for all their hard work. There is plenty to read including an update on our plans for the future as well as progress on our 2024…

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New Board Director

It’s great to be able to welcome back Ben Morris to the Board in the role of Health and Research Director. Ben is an outstanding martial artist and a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Trinity University. Areas of research interest include: health and social psychology, specifically in the area of attitude measurement and behaviour change as well as diet…

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Board Vacancy – Health & Research Director

We are looking to add another member to our Board to take on the role of Health & Research Director. In response to the Members’ Survey feedback, earlier this year the Board set out the directors’ roles and Support Team structure needed to support the strategy and plans which would deliver the services our members said were most important to…

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Support Team Vacancy – Communications Manager(s)

We are looking for highly experienced individual(s) to join our team to support our PR and Marketing Director with promoting the Union both externally to the public and internally to our members. This is an exciting chance to influence the Union’s approach to becoming the “go to” place for people wanting classes and information on Tai Chi Internal Arts in…

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Support Team Vacancy – Courses and Events Manager

We’ve been looking at training opportunities to support our members and are now seeking a Courses and Events Manager to take forward and build on those opportunities identified. In summary we are looking for someone who is experienced in providing and developing training courses as well as working with third party specialists in training areas such as data protection, safeguarding…

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Magazine update – new editor and change of publication dates

We are delighted to announce that Ken Symon has agreed to be the editor for the Union magazine.  Ken is a writer and editor who brings a wealth of experience from his career at various mainstream publications.  He has a keen interest in Tai Chi Internal Arts and been a tai chi teacher for many years. Your director Betty Sutherland…

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Magazine Issue 71 – now out!

Our latest magazine is out now and will be in the post to members any day. It’s another great edition, filled with all the usual informative articles you expect. Click here to read a sample of the articles Read about both the martial and health benefits of the Tai Chi Chuan internal arts which include Baguazhang, Xing Yi Chuan and…

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