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Yorkshire & Humberside Judo

We represent the Yorkshire & Humberside region of the British Judo Association and our aim is to provide the opportunity and encouragement to people within Yorkshire & Humberside to participate and reach their potential in Judo.

We provide equally for those who want to partake in Judo recreationally as those that want to compete to the highest level.

There is provision for competitions, Gradings and organised Judo sessions where club members throughout the Area can take part, with the added experience for some team members to compete abroad, gaining further experience.

The BJA Yorkshire & Humberside area will endeavour to support players who wish to become coaches, referees or technical officials at events.

If you'd like to get involved with volunteering at events in an official capacity or more casually you'll be very welcome, just get in touch to find out about volunteering opportunities.

Although many members, both female and male, from this Area have achieved National and even Olympic level status, we try to provide a sport that not only brings participants a specific sports skill but also a disciplined mind and body to take forward into the community for the rest of their lives.

Cameron steps down as Y & H referee rep

Cameron McDowall has been the Y&H referee rep for the last 5 years.

If you've been to an area event in the last few years there's a good chance Cameron was the Referee in Charge keeping the referee teams under control!

Cameron has decided now is time to step down as the area referee rep while focusses on his development while working towards his referee A grade.

Anyone involved in refereeing understands the commitment required to achieve this goal, preparation, travel and attendance at national events, and we fully support Cameron in pursuing this ambition.

We wish Cameron all the best in his efforts working towards the National A referee badge and look forward to seeing more of him on the mats.

Cameron MacDowall refereeing a Judo match

Read more: Cameron steps down as Y & H referee rep

National teams 2026

The Yorkshire & Humberside area entered 4 teams to the 2026 national teams event. There were no medals this year, the Cadet/Junior boys team were unlucky to lose out by 10 points on going through to the semi finals. 

Here is the report from team manage, Caroline Brayson....

Read more: National teams 2026

North Yorkshire Festival 2026

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The ever popular North Yorkshire Festival on the 28th June was once again held at York.An event that year on year proves to be very popular with players of all ages from 8 years  old.

In the region of 200 competitors took part in the event across 3 mats, doing their best to show off their judo skills.

We also saw presentions for young player of the year for 2025 & Mike Leng recognised for decades of voluntary service to area judo. 

There were also referee assessments for a few of the volunteers in ties. Also happy to have a couple of people volunteer to work the scoreboards at an event for the first time.

Read more: North Yorkshire Festival 2026