Volunteer's Needed

We will be participating in Archery GB’s “Start Archery Week” initiative. Our event on Saturday 13th May will, like the majority of clubs across the Country, see us open our doors to the general public and provide them with an opportunity to experience our sport. In addition to trying archery we are
hoping that club members will be available to demonstrate their bow styles and encourage some to take the next step of a taster session or booking a beginners course.

On 28th May, we will be hosting our first tournament for a number of years. This will be for Northamptonshire County Archery Society and we will be hosting Stage 1 of the Caswell Series.

Prior to both these events we will need a “field party” to tidy up the Shooting ground and make essential repairs to our facilities and equipment. A date in April will be published shortly.

Whilst our outdoor shooting range is available to club members 24/7 we would encourage as many as possible to attend our “Club Nights”. These will be on Tuesday and Friday evenings and on Sunday mornings. Tuesday evenings are used generally for practice, socialising and coaching. The Friday and
Sunday meetings can be whatever you want them to be with the exception of a coaching opportunities. They can be used as for practice or used as a social experience or for competitive
archery. There will be, for those who are interested, rounds shot each week where individual handicaps and classifications can be secured along with club awards.

We very much hope that the “West Lodge Challenge” can be resurrected this year. This is a very friendly challenge between ourselves and our close neighbours Kettering Archers. The normal format is to meet once at their facility to shoot a short round and twice at ours with the third culminating in
tea and cakes. Whilst there is an element of competition its very low key and is really an opportunity, especially for our newer members, to meet other like minded people. You only shoot at distances that you feel comfortable with and results are based on handicaps rather than pure scores. In this
way no one has either an advantage or a disadvantage.

Over the summer we also hope to stage a shoot in the memory of Miles Goodman who we sadly lost in 2022. This will be a “fun shoot” to celebrate Miles and his time with our club. Miles came to our sport later in life but embraced it fully taking on the role of coach and Vice Chair. He with a number
of like-minded club members established a regular Thursday afternoon shoot together with a visit to a pub!

We are also hoping to stage other social shooting events at West Lodge, perhaps themed around Halloween or similar. If you have any ideas for such, please let us know.