Senjokai Karate Academy - Ayr

Looking for something new your child can get excited about this term? 🥋

We’ve made starting karate at Senjokai easier than ever!

New members receive:

✅ 4 WEEKS FREE
✅ A KARATE UNIFORM
✅ A SENJOKAI WELCOME PACK

Choose the perfect class for their age:

🥷 Wee Ninjas — ages 4–6
🥋 Junior Karate — ages 7–12
⭐ Beginners Karate

Our classes are fun, friendly and designed to help every child enjoy karate from their very first session.

No experience needed. No pressure. Just four full weeks to come along, meet the team and give karate a proper go!

Founded in Ayrshire in 2011, Senjokai is an award-winning, Karate Scotland accredited club with classes across Ayrshire.

Spaces are limited find your nearest class and register today: senjokaikarate.co.uk

🌍🥇ZACK EWART … JKS International Champion ! 🥇🌍

An incredible performance from Senjokai black belt Zack Ewart, securing two podium finishes at the JKS International Cup in Brazil! 🇧🇷

🥇 GOLD — Team Kumite alongside his brilliant teammates Max and Finley

🥈 SILVER — Individual Kumite

A Team World Championship title and an individual silver medal an outstanding achievement on the international stage! 🔥

We are incredibly proud of you, Zack!

Congratulations to all the JKS Scotland athletes who competed.

Fantastic performances and results across the whole team! 👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🙌❤️ A MASSIVE THANK YOU, TEAM SENJOKAI! ❤️🙌

Well… what a weekend that was 🤣🥋

A huge thank you to EVERYONE who voted, shared, messaged friends, pestered family members, harassed work colleagues and generally threw themselves behind our Fundraising Team’s Aldi Scotland competition push 😂👏

We ended up with WELL OVER 2,300 VOTES 😮🔥

Absolutely incredible.

Now for the slightly ridiculous part…

If voting closed at MIDNIGHT last night…
WE WON 🙌🤣

If it closed at MIDDAY today…
WE LOST 😭🤣

And at the moment…
WE’VE NAE CLUE 😂😂😂

So we’re currently waiting for Aldi Scotland to put us out of our misery 🤣

A massive well done as well to Inverclyde Amateur Swimming Club 👏

That turned into some battle 😂
Back and forward, checking numbers, refreshing Facebook and somehow turning a community sports fund vote into the most exciting sporting contest of the weekend 🤣

And special kudos must go to Troon Lawn Tennis Club 🎾👏

They appear to have taken one look at what was happening and made the very sensible decision to stay completely out of the madness, enjoy their weekend and NOT get blocked by friends and family for repeatedly asking them to vote 😂😂😂

In hindsight…
They may have been the real winners here. 🤣

Whatever the final result, though, the response from our community has been phenomenal.

This whole application and campaign was driven by our Senjokai Fundraising Team, who work incredibly hard behind the scenes to raise additional funds and create opportunities for our members and squad athletes.

And you lot absolutely got behind them. ❤️

Over 2.3K votes 😮
Hundreds of shares.

Members, parents, grandparents, friends, former members, workmates, local supporters and probably quite a few people who still have absolutely no idea what Senjokai is…

But voted anyway 😂🥋
THAT is what community looks like.
So genuinely…

THANK YOU ❤️

And well done to all three clubs for making the final.

Now we wait for Aldi Scotland to tell us whether we’re celebrating… Or demanding a VAR review 🤣🤣🤣

Whatever happens…
WHAT A PUSH! ❤️🥋

🚨 2 HOURS TO GO… 🤪🥋

Right Facebook, this is officially my LAST bit of harassment 😂

Only TWO HOURS left to vote for Senjokai in the Aldi Scottish Sport Fund.

So I’m calling in reinforcements 😂

Just to remind you…

💰 I DON’T GET THE £3,000 🤣

It goes back into supporting our members, young athletes and squad — helping create opportunities for them that otherwise cost families money.

So if you’ve been scrolling past my posts all weekend thinking…

“I’ll vote later…”

⏰ LATER HAS ARRIVED 😂

👇 VOTE SENJOKAI HERE 👇

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1378020657860039&set=pcb.1378020751193363

Already voted?

Legend ❤️

Now find ONE person who hasn’t and send them the link.

Mum. Dad. Gran. Grandad. Workmate. Neighbour. Random cousin you haven’t spoken to since 2017… 😂

TWO HOURS.

Let’s empty the tank and see what can do. ❤️🥋🔥

🚨 FINAL DAY — AND YES… WE CAN SEE YOU 👀😂 🚨🥋

A wee cheeky reminder for …

We can see LOADS of you still haven’t voted yet! 😂

No naming and shaming…

Yet. 👀🤣

Today is the FINAL DAY of voting in the Aldi Scottish Sport Fund and Senjokai is in the FINAL 3 for the West of Scotland 🙌

🏆 £3,000 TOP PRIZE

So if you’ve been meaning to vote and keep saying:

“I’ll do it later…”

Well…

THIS IS LATER 😂

👇 VOTE FOR SENJOKAI HERE 👇

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1378020657860039&set=pcb.1378020751193363

Already voted?

Amazing ❤️

Now we need you to:

🔴 Share the Aldi post

🔴 Send it to friends and family

🔴 Ask your workmates to vote

🔴 Help us squeeze out every last vote today

It takes seconds and could bring £3,000 back into supporting our members and squad athletes.

Come on Team Senjokai…

Don’t make us start checking names 😂👀🥋

ONE CLUB.
ONE TEAM.
ONE FINAL PUSH.

❤️🥋

Congratulations to Senjokai Karate Academy Chief Instructor and Scottish National Kata Coach Liam Gallagher on passing the World Karate Federation (WKF) Kata Coach exam.

Liam will now join the Scottish Karate Governing Body (SKGB) coaching team at the upcoming World Championships in Poland 🇵🇱

A fantastic achievement well done, Liam!
👏👏👏

The Scottish Karate Governing Body (SKGB)

🚨🥋 TEAM SENJOKAI — WE NEED EVERYONE! 🥋🚨

We have some absolutely brilliant news…

SENJOKAI HAS MADE THE FINAL 3 for the West of Scotland in the Aldi Scottish Sport Fund! 🙌

Now it comes down to a PUBLIC VOTE.

🏆 1st place — £3,000
🥈 Runners-up — £1,250

And we have just THREE DAYS to get behind it.

This is where the strength of really matters.

🔴 Our members
🔴 Parents and grandparents
🔴 Former members
🔴 Friends and family
🔴 Our competition families
🔴 Supporters
🔴 Local businesses
🔴 Anyone who has ever been part of Senjokai

WE NEED YOU.

This application has been made and driven by the Senjokai Fundraising Committee — our volunteer fundraising team who work to raise additional money for the benefit of our members and our squad athletes across Senjokai.

This is not a coaching initiative.

Our coaches' job is to teach, develop and support our students.

Our Fundraising Committee has its own role — finding opportunities, fundraising and bringing additional support into Senjokai so that money can be put back into opportunities for our members and athletes.

And they have got us all the way into the FINAL THREE. 👏

Now we need the wider Senjokai family to finish the job.

🥋 Ayr
🥋 Stewarton
🥋 Troon
🥋 Maybole
🥋 Symington
🥋 Tarbolton
🥋 Beith
🥋 Cumnock
🥋 Kilmarnock
🥋 Our squad
🥋 Our families
🥋 Our friends and supporters

ONE CLUB. ONE TEAM. ONE BIG PUSH.

👇 PLEASE DO THESE 3 THINGS

✅ VOTE for SENJOKAI on the official Aldi Scotland post:
✅ SHARE the Aldi post to your own page.
✅ SEND IT to your friends, family and work colleagues and ask them to vote too.

Don't think “someone else will do it.”

If every Senjokai family gets just a few extra people behind us, those votes very quickly become hundreds and then thousands.

It costs nothing.

It takes a few seconds.

And it could bring £3,000 straight back into supporting the Senjokai community.

We are incredibly proud that the Fundraising Committee's application has already been chosen as one of the top three in the whole West of Scotland.

Now let's show Aldi exactly how strong this community is.

PLEASE VOTE. PLEASE SHARE. PLEASE ASK OTHERS.

Three days.
Let's absolutely go for it. ❤️🥋

🎒✏️ THE SCHOOLS ARE BACK! ✏️🎒

Parents… you made it! 😂☕
The uniforms are labelled, the bags are packed hopefully and the morning routine has officially returned! (Although probably not 🤣)

More importantly, we want to wish all our Senjokai children the very best of luck as they begin their new school year. ❤️

Whether you’re starting school for the first time, moving into a new class or taking the big step into secondary school, walk through those doors with confidence and believe in yourself.

Be brave. Be kind. Try your best!
Have a brilliant year, everyone!

🌐 senjokaikarate.co.uk

🇧🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SENJOKAI REPRESENT JKS SCOTLAND IN BRAZIL! 🥋

A huge moment for as FOUR of our athletes represent the JKS Scotland National Team at the 7th JKS Karate-Do International & Para Cup 2026 in Brazil next week!

🥋 Hazel Paterson
🥋 Aiden Wyllie
🥋 Zack Ewart
🥋 Kade Hearns

Pulling on the Scotland badge and stepping onto the international stage is something to be incredibly proud of and now they get the opportunity to represent Scotland on an amazing adventure to the other side of the world.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 JKS Scotland National Team
🇧🇷 7th JKS Karate-Do International & Para Cup 2026 日本空手松涛連盟 - Japan Karate Shoto Federation

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