Much of the material was was sourced from Aikido Yuishinkai Guidelines 2005, M. Williams, Griffith Aikido Policies and Procedures 2007 and the publicly available Isshinkai UK policies and procedures. Whilst drafted principally by a single author it had input from the following in addition

Contributors D. James, J. Nicholls, J. Gam, D. Shields, G.Vella, A.Sunter, M. Loader

Drafted Dec 2008, accepted Jan 18 2009  association committee, updated 18/2/2008 with member feedback, revised 21 Oct 2009 following risk management input from national workshop