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Location
Deer Park Archers is a family orientated club based at the Gloucestershire
Guide 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
and Birdlip Village Hall. Throughout the year we also shoot on our Field Course which is called High Cross, we also have an
NFAS section as part of our club. We also do a number of Clout shoots at our High Cross site.
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Membership
In
October 2008 we had over 100 Members (shooting and non shooting), and we have a further 32 beginners currently
on the course.
60% of our members are adults and 40% juniors 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!
60% of archers (excludes beginners) have entered a tournament
in the last year. 70% of our members shoot recurve
bows, 15% compound and 15% longbow.
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We are members of the GNAS (Grand National Archery
Society) 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 are seeking to 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 2009.
Gloucestershire Archery Society
Grand National Archery Society
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 £3 per session for the first family member,
£5 for 2 family members and £7:50 if there are 3 family members. All equipment is available free of charge and instruction
is provided by our team of coaches.
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