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Location Deer Park Archers is a family orientated club based at the Girlguiding Gloucestershire HQ, Camp Training and Activity
Centre in Cowley which is located a few miles outside of Cheltenham just off the A435 Cirencester Road. We are less than 10
minutes off the 11A Junction of the M5 and 5 minutes away from the A417. During the summer we shoot at Bubbs Hill which is
part of the Guide Centre and in the winter we shoot at Balcarras School Sports Centre, Kingshill School Cirencester, Shurdington,
Hatherly and Reddings Cricket club and Birdlip Village Halls. We also have a Field Course starting at Bubbs
Hill which uses the adjacent wood for exclusive use of Archery GB members (Not NFAS). We also organise a number
of Clout shoots at local farm and school venues.
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Membership In Novemebr 2011 we had well
over 200 Members (shooting and non shooting), this figure does include all those members of after-school clubs
organised by Deer Park Archers. 40% of our members are adults with
66% male, 34% female. The vast majority of members have at least one other family
member shooting in the Club, our youngest shooting member is just 7 and our oldest members have already qualified for
their free bus passes! Indeed on of our latest members to successfully complete the Beginners Course is 72 years young! 60% of archers (excludes beginners) have entered a tournament in the last year. 70% of our members shoot recurve bows (includes barebows), 15% compound and 15% longbow.
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We are members of the Archery GB and operate within all their policies and procedures.
We are 1 of 14 clubs that are based in Gloucestershire (GAS - Gloucestershire Archery Society) and join many of
them at organised events throughout the year. We meet the standards
and criteria that have been set by Sport England to achieve ClubMark, the meeting of these standards will continue
to be one of our main aims for 2010.
Gloucestershire Archery Society
Archery GB
Beginners Programmes Where possible we encourage parent(s) of juniors wanting to do a beginners course
to also complete the programme as we find that they tend to stand a much better chance of developing to their full potential.
We of course also find that many parents then decide to continue shooting! With this in mind we do not charge
a large course fee for the 6 week programme, the fee is just £35 per head.
We are also trialing 8 week
courses. All equipment is available free of charge for the first 3 months (and just £1 for each hire after
that) and instruction is provided by our team of coaches. Those that elect to join the club are charged just £20
for club membership, fees to Archery GB are additional (no addittion for juniors)
To encourage family membership
there are significant concessions on target fees and you only pay when you attend.
Click here for more information
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Winter Practice Sessions - Target Archery |
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6:30 - 7:30pm - Birdlip Village Hall, Coach Development or beginners as required |
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7:45 - 8:45pm - Birdlip Village Hall - Coach Development Workshops or beginners |
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9:30 - 1pm - Bubbs Hill Target and Field Archery - Misc Open Sessions |
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6:30 - 9:00pm - Birdlip Village Hall, Specialist 1-2-1 Coaching as required. |
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6:30 - 9:30pm - Shurdington Centenary Hall - Open Practice |
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7:00 - 9:00pm - Kingshill School - Open session for all members |
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7:00 - 9:00pm - Hatherley & Readings Cricket Club - Improvers & Performance coaching/Practice. |
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6:30 - 9:00pm - Birdlip Village Hall - Beginners Courses as required (Xperience Archery led. |
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7:00 - 9:00pm - Balcarras School Sports Hall - Intermediate plus |
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9:00am - Field Course Misc Dates |
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AM/PM Sessions at Balcarras - Practice Competitions |
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10am - Bubbs Hill Field Course Sessions |
Every school term weekday |
After-school clubs at Kingshill, Balcarras, Archway, Sir William Romney, Bourneside etc Practice and Competitions |
Summer Practice Sessions - Target Archery |
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9:30am - General practice and Field Course. |
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6:30pm til dark - Bubbs Hill, general practice plus beginners courses. |
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Wednesday
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4:30pm til dark - Field Archery, Advanced Squad Workshops, Beginners courses Mornings from 10 -noon.
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6:30pm til dark - Bubbs Hill |
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6:30pm til dark - Bubbs Hill Open Practice. |
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9:30am Field archery sessions. |
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The above programmes represent the core of our activities, we often
arrange additional events, sometimes for extra coaching, other times for Club competitions or special events. These will be
announced on the Club website and through the Club email newsletters. General Fees After completing the 6 week programme archers will be invited to join the Club
and will need to pay the following fees to cover membership of Archery GB and insurance cover etc. Juniors £10
and Seniors £55 (may be more if the Archery GB part of the fee increases) which will cover 1 years membership
to Archery GB and membership to Deer Park Archers. During
the summer anyone attending a Target Archery Practice session will pay £3 (£5 for 2 family members etc), this
entitles them to attend upto 3 sessions in that week (no payment is required if no attendance during a week), attendance at
Field Archery sessions will have to be paid separately at the rate of £3 per person.
During the winter, due to the cost of hiring the venues, a single fee of
£3 (£5 for 2 family members etc) will need to be paid for use of all the mid-week venues (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
this fee covers all sessions used in that mid-week period (you can therefore attend as many times in that week for a single
payment). The same rule is applied to the weekend sessions (usually Saturday and Sunday). Therefore one fee covers both of
the weekend sessions. These attendance fees cover a range
of items including hire of facilities, target faces, loan of some equipment, access to spares box, use of other extensive
Club resources etc
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| Junior logo competition, Georgia's winning design which has been turned into our club flag |
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