|
Want to find a person or topic on this website? Just type
key word(s) into the box.
More recognition for the Club!
We
are pleased to announce that Steph Gill has won the Sports Coach UK Young Coach of the Year Award.
She received
the prestigious Heather Crouch Award from the Princess Royal at the Carlton Tower, London, last night - only days after winning
the Coach of the Year title in the Gloucestershire Media Awards.
Steph was quick to highlight that this award was very
much as result of team work between the archers, the junior's parents, the coaching team, the club, the County and
Archery GB with the support of Active Gloucestershire and many local schools.
She also emphasised that whilst the club
has many high performing archers that attract the headlines, that the progress of many of those that are just starting the
sport and those members who are happy to be recreational archers is equally rewarding and impressive!
|
|
| Princess Royal & Steph Gill |
Monday 28th November – Club Committee Meeting
A big thank you to all those members who
give up their time to help the club run. In times when we seem to be getting all sorts of awards and recognition, it is easy
to forget the work that our elected committee members carry out to ensure things run smoothly.
On Monday evening there
was a committee meeting at the Golden Heart with a wide ranging agenda and some of this will be reported in the next Club
Newsletter.
|
|
| Deer Park archers Committee Meeting |
Sunday 27th November – GAS AGM
The GAS Coaching AGM held in the morning, was well attended with 21 Coaches present
(7 Deer Park) and there was time to have discussions on areas such as coaching communication, future workshops and training
needs. Steph was re-elected as County Coaching Officer and Andy Cramb was re-elected as Chairman of the Coaching Review Panel.
Following the formal part of the meeting there were short presentations on the current status of the Archery GB
Adapted Equipment Initiative and the current status of the Archery GB Instructors Project, Gloucestershire is hosting pilot
programmes for both of these excellent initiatives.
The County AGM in the afternoon was equally well
attended; all the existing Officers were re-elected. Our thanks must go to Rob Richardson, the County President, who
stepped down after many years of great service and our congratulations go to Denise Bunce who has been elected to the post.
Rob has agreed to take up one of the County Vice-President posts.
His last duty in post was to confer Honorary
Life Membership on Roger Crang in recognition of his many years of service to the County.
|
|
| Honorary Life Memebrship Presented by outgoing County President Rob Richardson |
Great Club Ten Pin Bowling Evening (25th Nov)
50 members enjoyed a great evening which included 2 games plus food. Dan took the trophy with Andy in second
and Lee in third. Christine got the most strikes on the night with 7. Click on the link below for more stats and lots of photos.
For photos, stats and more, click here.
|
|
| Club Representatives at the Gloucestershire Media Awards |
More Success at the Gloucestershire Media
Awards! A glittering event in the Gold Cup Suite at Cheltenham Race Course saw our Club carry off another 2 awards.
Having won the Gloucestershire 2010 Young Club of the Year, we had finalists in 4 categories and archery was further
represented by Archery GB Junior Squad and European Champion Kieran Slater.
We won the Gloucestershire Senior Club
of the Year (well done to all our members) and Steph Gill won Gloucestershire Coach of the Year both against stiff competition.
Lucy Mason and Kieran, nominees for Young Sports Personality of the Year and Roger Crang , nominated for Outstanding Services
to Sport had to settle for runners-up certificates, with the added consolation that the winners were well deserving of their
awards. The evening commenced with a welcoming address from Sir Steve Redgrave, was hosted by BBC and Sky Television Presenter
Jill Douglas, with World and Olympic Rowing Champion Zac Purchase MBE as guest speaker.
Our Equipment Officer and Trainee Coach
Steve Mason, Dan Gill, Head Junior Coach and Lynn Benfield Club Treasurer received the Senior Club of the Year Award on an
evening when Archery in Gloucestershire was again in the spotlight!
Congratulations must go to all the team from
the Gloucestershire Echo and the Race Course for organising such a great evening which certainly provided us all with the
motivation to do even better next year.
|
| Lucy, Katherine and Steph with Jill Douglas |
|
| Lucy, Katherine and Steph with Zac Purchase and John Stevens |
Inter-Schools Competition Updated Results - Click Here
Click Here for full report on the GWAS Regional Championships
|
|
| Arran, Great Performance at the GWAS Championships! |
Arron Breaks National Record at
the GWAS Championships - 13th November
Arron Pearce added to the long list of club juniors who have broken
National Records during 2011 and in a spectacular way smashing the existing Under 18 record by scoring 321 on a FITA18 and
at the same time securing the Regional Championship Title!
It was a great day for the Club as a further 9 members won
Regional Titles with some excellent shooting, well done to our archers and coaches for yet another great performance!
Lots happening over the next 6 weeks! (18th Nov)
The rest of November and December will prove to be busy times but hopefully we will see the fruits of the hard
work we have put in during 2011. Highlights of just some of the things we are looking forward to are;
4 Beginners
Courses finishing and integrating all the new members!
4 fianalists at the Gloucestershire Media Awards!
1 finalist at the Sports Coach UK Awards
British Indoor Championships
Club Bring and Buy Sale
Club Ten Pin Bowling and Buffet Evening
Club Annual Beetle Drive and Awards Evening
Complete the Club
Application for the ontarget Community Specialism
Etc. Etc.
When you factor in all the work required
to support the Level 1 Coaching Courses we are running, the preparation for the County Indoor Junior Championships, the daily
After-School Clubs and Club Practice Sessions, Committee Meetings etc. Etc then it is going to be rather hectic!
2011 National Junior Rankings Announced - 7th Nov
11 of our juniors figure in the National Junior Rankings announced this week. Congratulations go to the following
junior archers who have achieved rankings:
Junior Ladies Compound - Beckie Hutchings ranked 3 in the U16's,
Lucy Mason ranked 1 in the U12's
Junior Ladies Barebow - Katherine Frusher ranked 2nd in U14's
Longbow - Victoria Fraser ranked 1 in U12's & Arron Pearce ranked 1 in U18's
Recurve - Tom Howse
ranked 3rd in U16's
Compound Gents - James Howse ranked 1 in U12's, Callum Fraser 3rd in U16's, Alex
Fraser 7th in U18's, James Lawton 7th in U16's and Will Kurtz 9th in U16's
These have been achieved
through a lot of hard work on the part of the archers, parents and coaches and we know that with continued hard work that
things will get even better in 2012.
Great Performances at the Gwent County Indoor Championships - 6 Nov - Click here for more info
Club Kit can now be bought online!
You can order from an online selection of club wear, customise the kit with your name etc. The kit displays the club logo
and on many items the club logo. There is a selection of casual and performance kit. Get ordering for Christmas!
To visit the shop click here.
Sports
Coach UK Heather Crouch Young Coach of the Year Finalist!
Steph Gill has just been informed that she is a finalist
in the National Sports Coach UK awards in the Young Coach of the Year Category (under 25)! http://www.sportscoachuk.org/node/61074 She
was nominated by Mike Addis Chairman of Gloucestershire Archery Society and endorsed by Archery GB for the coaching work she
does at all levels in the club and county. Not content with being Head Coach for Deer Park Archers, Steph
and her husband Dan work in schools every day of the week, promoting grass roots activity and develop and lead all the County
level initiatives for the development of juniors who are now recognized as some of the best in the UK.
Despite currently being the youngest coach in the county, she is also the County Coaching Officer and a member of the
Archery GB Youth Forum. Steph and Dan also work closely with Active Gloucestershire supporting general community activities
and Active Inclusion events. Steph is also a finalist at the Gloucestershire Echo Sports Media Awards later this month. The awards
ceremony will be held at The Carlton Tower in London on the 29th November. All 3 of the candidates in each
category will be introduced to HRH The Princess Royal before the dinner who will also be making the presentations later in
the evening. The finalists have also been invited to attend a buffet lunch at the Palace of Westminster the following day where
they will be introduced to Peers, MPs and other VIPs as part of the celebration of the essential role will play leading up
to the Olympics.
This is another great honour for the Club and County and reflects the hard work that all our members invest
in our great sport.
Deer Park Firework Night - Thursday 3rd November
The weather, unlike previous years was so kind to us, heavy rain in the afternoon but mostly clear skies in the
evening and very mild and the event was well attended! The main firework display was well received however the big finale
did not happen as our £190 firework did not work, which was a great dissappointment to everyone. The good news is that
we contacted the supplier the following morning and they have kindly agreed to fully reimburse us! The bonfire was excellent
and the team looking after the refreshments were kept busy all night, in truth a bit too busy. A big thank you to everyone
that helped. The good news is that we more than covered our costs.
Social events to be well attended
The
club Tenpin bowling evening is now approaching 50 entries and the Firework and BBQ evening planned for Thursday will
see an attendance of over 200! Great support at practice and social events. Fingers crossed for some decent weather!
Birdlip Coaching Sessions Proving to be a hit
Tuesdays
are one of the days when the club meets in 3 venues, the highly successful after-school club at Kingshill with 48
puplis registered, is followed by sessions at Birdlip and Shurdington. Andy and Janet are running 1-2-1 Coaching Improvers
Sessions at Birdlip and the spaces are all taken. These follow successful events last year. A club session also takes place
at a bigger venue in Shurdington and again is well attended. Both sessions are supported by coaches and likewise use of video
analysis is used at both venues. This level of activity and support is certainly producing some excellent results!
Record Club Entry in the British Junior Inddor Championships!
We have 17 representatives in this Decembers National Junior Indoor Championships in Stafford, this is almost
double the size of last years team which performed so well when finishing as the highest performing club.
Head
Coach Steph Gill feels it is a natural progression based on the Club's innovative recruitment processes and the dedication
of the club's coaches and the committment of the archers and especially the parents that support them. The club now operates
7 days a week in a range of venues and all the sessions are supported by coaches. ''The team is a good mix of well
established archers and some who are competing at this level for the first time and this experience will be essential for
their long term development. The exciting fact is that we have a even larger group of talented juniors already showing
great potential and pushing to compete at this level.''
|
|
| Day 1 of the 4 Day Course - Classroom |
Coaching Programmes are Essential to our Future
The first of a number of Level 1 Coaching Courses started on the 30th October at Balcarras School and as well as
archers from Deer Park there are also representatives from Cheltenham, Tyndale and GL1. Three of those from Deer Park Archers
are School teachers who will help to make after-school clubs more sustainable and the 2 Community Coaches from GL1 will help
to make the sport more accessible to the general public that use the GL1 Recreation Centre. The club will also be hosting
another L1 Coaching Course in March 2012 for 15 - 18 year olds, this course is funded by Sport England and Archery GB and
further courses are being planned.
Course Organiser Roger Crang commented that ' with the growth of the sport
in the County and the anticipated Olympic Effect that creating a well trained coaching resource is essential to properly supporting
all levels of participants.''
|
|
| Day 1 Practical Session - Lead Tutor Kath Fitzpatrick |
Excellent Longbow Shoot at Cheltenham Archers 30th October
Cheltenham Archers hosted an excellent longbow shoot, which saw a good entry in somewhat cool and blustery
conditions, however the level of hospitality and the brilliant company more than compensated. This is an excellent event that
deserves even more support next year, for most it is the last outdoor shoot of the year and an excellent way to finish. Mixed
levels of success for our archers Arron Pearce won the Junior Section and Janet Hudson the Ladies Competition. The gents was
dominated by a number of visitors to the county so Ian and Roger had to settle for a nice warm cup of tea! For longbow archers
this is certainly an event to put in your diary for next year. Well done Cheltenham Archers.
Gloucestershire Echo Media Sports Awards
The Club's success in the Archery GB ontarget
awards came on the same weekend as the finalists for the Echo Sports Awards were announced and we have finalists in 4 of the
categories!
Last year we won the Young Club of the Year Award, this year we have been nominated for the Senior
Club of the Year and join the Cheltenham and County Harriers and the Gloucester City Winget Cricket Club in the final.
Steph Gill has been shortlisted for the Coach of the Year Award and joins the Gloucester City Manager Dave Mehew,
Debbie Casling from Golf and Gloucester Athletics Club’s Lorraine Shaw.
Lucy
Mason is shortlisted for the Gloucestershire Young Sports Personality of the Year and joins amongst others another archer,
Kieran Slater from Bowmen of Minchinhapton in the final!
The other finalist is Roger Crang
in the Outstanding Services to Sport Category and just to be listed with the other 3 finalists is an honor in itself. Peter
Ford from Gloucester Rugby, Chris Germain, Cricket and Lionel Hurst Gloucestershire Warriors.
The awards ceremony will be in the Gold Cup Suite at Cheltenham Race Course
on 23rd November.
These nominations reflect the strength in depth that the club has developed bringing
success on and off the field and is a reflection of the involvement and contribution that all our members make not just to
the club but to the community and to the sport. Not bad for an amateur club with no facilities of its own!
|
|
| Deer Park at the 2010 Gloucestershire Media Awards |
Archery
GB National Ontarget Awards
The weekend of the 22/23 October was the Archery GB Development Conference and on the Saturday
evening they announced the winners of 6 Ontarget Awards.
Ontarget is Archery GB's new exciting and innovative national club development
programme which has significantly contributed to the sport’s 12% growth in participation in just 12 months!.Archery GB recognises the commitment and vital
role that clubs play in growing the sport and a strong and healthy network of clubs is essential if archery is to grow.
The club won the
‘Innovation in archery’ category which is awarded to a club that has devised new ways to encourage
current members to further engage in archery and/or devised new ways that have attracted new people to the sport. Amongst our
many initiatives, is our daily work in schools, recruitment of females into the sport and design and implementation
of numerous coach and archery development programmes across the County.
Roger received the ‘Clubperson of the Year’ award which is awarded
to the member who has made the most significant contribution to a club and the sport over the past 12 months. Roger was quick
to point out that this recognition could have only been achieved by being a member of such a great club and that whilst it
is inevitable that individuals may be highlighted on some occasions, without the team there would be no success.
More information can be found on the Archery GB Website.
Cleve Archers win Sport England Award Our
congratulations go to Cleve Archers who have just been awarded a grant of seven and a half thousand pounds
to help with coach development and running after-schools clubs. Bob Nichols has put a lot of effort in to applying for this
grant which should allow Cleve to develop an after-schools programme similar to ours.
End of Summer Season Handicap and Classifications
The acting Records Officer has pulled together all the seasons scores and a final list has been drawn up. Those
achieving higher level classifications this year will receive their badges at the Club Annual Awards evening (At club's
expense!). This information will also be used to decide the highest junior and senior handicap improvement Archery GB Medal
awards (last year won by James Howse & Jo Chamberlain). A summary of the handicaps will be sent to the County Records
Officer and will be used to determine County Rankings. This year we had 7 Junior Master Bowmen, great effort!
Club Monthly League
The indoor monthly
league has started and all matches that take place at any of the club venues during October will count. This year as numbers
have increased only matches between similar bow types will count and the matches are decided on the best of 5 ends. All match
results to be recorded on the back of the club attendance sheets at each meeting.
Club
Motto As part of our LTAD programme we were advised to agree a club motto. Thank you to all those that
made suggestions and there were lots of them.
At the committee meeting the following motto was endorsed: ‘
Positive Attitude Leads to Positive Performance.’
Our mission continues to be: ‘ To fully support all members to achieve their full potential and to apply
the same principles to all those participating in our sport.’
Winter Practice Sessions
We have agreed
a new venue with Hatherley & Reddings Cricket Club for Thursday Evenings 7 - 9pm. This now means that the club meets in
at least one venue on all 7 days of the week and when you factor in our after-school clubs, more often than not we meet in
2 or more venues on the same day!
Club Newsletter Highlights - 27th September
For
more information click on the following Headlines for more information.
July Nationals - Great Results!
County & Regional Records for Liza, Pb's for Dan & Roger
Social Events added to the callender, Halloween, Firework Night, Ten Pin Bowling, Annual Awards & Beetle Drive, Junior Disco
& Christmas fun shoot.
Club Wear John Whitmarsh has been working with a supplier of technical Sportswear
to agree a range of clothing products with Deer Park Logo etc. The prices are excellent, the specifications
well above our current supplier and very importantly the sizing of garments will be far more consistent.
In the next couple of weeks Academy Sports will have a Deer Park Page on line, where members can order products direct. Equipment Agreed to order 3 more straw bosses to ensure high poundage bows can be accommodated at the indoor venues without
foam bosses. Agreed to purchase an arrow cutter
for club member’s use. This has been possible thanks to the fund raising efforts at the sponsored swim and Swindon Greyhounds
evening. The same funding was used to purchase the bow press! Agreed to purchase an arrow spine measuring jig. Make and model to be decided and will be particularly useful to
those making their own longbow arrows.
Adult 'Boot Camp' at Eaton Manor, 6 session improvers coaching courses.
Austin presented with Outstanding Sportsmanship Award
Austin Whitmarsh has been presented with the Club Sportsmanship Award at the Balcarras Saturday practice
session. This followed his action at the recent County Junior Championships and is well deserved, this discretionary Club
award should be much valued by any member receiving it!
Well done to Austin.
Deer Park get a bonus win at Swindon Greyhounds
An excellent fundraising evening at the Greyhounds ended with yet another trophy for the club! Thanks to the support
of Swindon Greyhounds the cash value of all the tickets sold by the club were donated to the club and is going to be used
to buy an arrow cutter. We had a great social evening, raised lots of money but had a very nice surprise, there were 6 clubs
raising funds, each was given a trap for the night and points awarded for each dogs finishing postion and guess what? Yes
we led throughout the evening and lifted a very nice trophy at the end of the evening, receiving the award on the track at
the finishing post. Another example of our winning mentality!
|
|
| A surprise award at Swindon Greyhounds! |
Gloucestershire Junior Championships
September 10th 2011 – What a Team!
Who said archery was an individual sport?
This was an amazing day made possible by a set of dedicated teams that combined to celebrate the growing success of
junior archers in Gloucestershire!
In no particular order they all deserve a mention, Ken Martin’s team of 5 judges, supportive, efficient
and friendly, assembled to recognize Ken’s final official role before retirement.
|
|
| Judges and Officials Team! |
The field crew, hosted by Cheltenham
Archers and led by Gordon Day, again great standards, hard working and very supportive.
The refreshment team from Deer Park Archers led by Lynn and Janet
but supported by so many others who had donated a great range of cakes and drinks.
|
|
| Lynn, just one of our Refreshments Team. |
The competition team from Deer Park
led by Kate and Sally, efficient with the preparation and results but creative and precise with the Head to Head competition.
The raffle team,
not just those that sold the tickets, but so many who had donated numerous prizes in the first place and
an activity that is so vital to balancing the books.
The team of parents and volunteers that helped with the scoring and got the maths almost perfect!
The competition planning team that added
all those little extras to make this a special event, from running the event as a National to encourage first time archers,
adding the Cotswold Head to Head to make the event unique, the boxes of chocolates on the line, prize money for many of the
winners, having a parents section as part of the parent and child competition always prepared to try something new!
|
|
| Steve & James - Parent & Child Winners! |
And of course there was the archers,
good sized teams from Cleve, Cheltenham and Deer Park but also representatives from some of the smaller clubs, Fast &
Loose and Bowman of the Deans combined to create a fun, friendly atmosphere but still very much competitive!
Because the day was a great celebration of
junior archery in the county, the performance of our archers almost seems overshadowed but it certainly warrants coverage
and the preparation of the team for these championships should not be understated, for example 46 turned up for final practice
on the Thursday in less than perfect weather and much coach supported practice preceded that.
There were 30 County Titles and Awards to
be competed for and with Deer Park winning 26 of those, it was indeed a good day. With such a long list of achievements, perhaps
a summary of just a few of the special ones, that illustrates a number of emerging junior archers in the club.
|
|
| Deer Park Winning Club Team |
But first, on a very windy day
Arron Pearce, under 18 Gents Longbow, managed to smash the existing National Record by over 90 points, Robbie Baker, fresh
from his success at the Inter-Counties last weekend won a very competitive Boy’s under 14 section,
and in an equally competitive girls under 16 section Liza Hadley beat several members of the county junior team to win her
first county title. Riley Spencer-Nice, age just 7, shooting barebow lifted the county under 9 title in
his first competitive competition. Will Kurtz and James Lawton, Boys under 16 compound, shot well in the qualification round
but Will had an amazing run in the Head to Head competition just losing in the final.
There was the usual great performances from our established
recurve, compound and longbow juniors but it seems, on a day when archery in Gloucestershire took another positive step that
it was fitting to highlight some of the emerging talent.
On a personal note, I want to congratulate all those that took part on the day and cannot overstate
the buzz I get from being part of Gloucestershire Archery Society and of course, a great club like Deer Park Archers!
|
|
| Arron, trophy Winner & another National Record! |
|
|
| Will, receiving his medal after a great H2H Performance. |
|
|
| Riley and Sammy being helped by County Candidate Judge Kieth Webb. |
Gloucestershire County
Clout Championships Report - September 11th 2011
|
|
| Liza receiving Trophy on Saturday anotherone followed at the clout! |
Gloucestershire County Clout Championships
– Report
We are pleased to report that the first County Clout Championships for more than 10 years took place at KLB School
on Sunday 11th September. The venue was secured as a direct result of Deer Park Archers /Xperience Archery running
lunch time archery sessions over the past 12 months and starting another after-school club this month. Mavis Reynolds, organized
the event which despite a very challenging wind saw some excellent performances and claims for Tassle Awards and County Records!
Mavis had also kindly run a ‘Clout Training Session’ at Balcarras School in August. It was slightly unfortunate
that Deer Park representation was not greater but it fell the day after the County Junior Championships which also had many
of our parents shooting in the ‘Parent and Child’ Competition and that turned out to be quite a long day.
All those that did attend had a great day and none more so than Lisa Hadley our Girl under 16 recurve who on the
Saturday had won the County title in what turned out to be the most competitive group and she followed that up with the County
Clout Title and 2 County Records and a Black Tassel Award as a bonus! Her score or 134 on a double clout at 100yds in her
first competition was excellent.
Ian secured 3rd place in the Gents Clout (180 yds) and was just 6 points
away from the existing County Record of 10. Janet secured 2nd in the Ladies Clout. Arron Pearce who had broken
the National Record on Saturday won the boys under 18 Title. Roger won the Gents section of the Ladies round with a respectable
score of 37 and had to opt for that non championship round as he could not get the 180 yds against that wind.
This really
is an event we should look to support next year and Mavis Reynolds would be only to pleased to help with training sessions.
Well done to everyone on the day.
A record attendance!
A cold, windy, cloudy, dark
September evening just 2 days before the County Junior Championships brought a remarkable 46 club archers out to practice
and get ready for the competition! And there was some great shooting particuarly from the adults who will be shooting in the
fun Adult National at the junior event!
click here to play video of practice session
A First at Westminster!
The growth of our sport was further demonstrated when
2 days after the Junior Inter-Counties we supported a team running the first archery event held in the Houses of
Parliament!
It took place on Speakers Green with a reception after the event in the Speakers Study and Crimson
Drawing Room. Hue Irranca-Davies Parliamentary Fellow for Archery hosted the event that saw Peers and MP’s get
a chance to show their skills.
The event organised by David Reader and his Development Team was another example
of how Archery GB are trying to promote the sport.
James
Howse, one of the Deer Park Juniors and 4 times National Champion was given the day off school to attend
and in addition to a tour of the facilities got to meet a host of MPs and Peers to promote the sport.
Competitors included
the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and former Cabinet Minister Hillary Benn who all queued up to ‘have a go’ on
Speakers Green. Later at the reception James spent time with the Speaker of the House of Commons Mr John Bercow to tell him
about his involvement in the sport.
This was certainly a special day for all those involved.
|
|
| James with Mr John Bercow, Speaker of the House. |
Great Win for Gloucestershire in the Junior Inter-Counties!
(3rd Sept)
It has been a long wait for Gloucestershire to win the Inter-Counties title but the margin
of victory made it worth the wait! However, congratulations should firstly go to Paul Maines and his team for organising a
great day, venue, food, hospitality and organisation all scored 10/10.
Secondly to all the teams and their supporters
for a great celebration of Junior Archery in the County, there is absolutely no doubt that the standards achieved were excellent
and the approach of all the teams was a credit to our sport.
The Margaret Lewis Trophy match result was as follows;
Gloucestershire 69 points
Somerset 48 points
Dorset & Wiltshire 48 points
Devon & Cornwall
37 points
The scores were tied at lunch time with Gloucestershire and Dorsett & Wiltshire both on 10 points
but 4 wins out of 5 in the first afternoon session saw Gloucestershire open up a gap. The 12 individual matches in the second
afternoon session saw Gloucestershire win 8 of the 12 matches and completed a clean sweep in the Compound matches with all
3 archers scoring perfect scores.
With 10 of the 15 team members being Deer Park Archers we should be very proud
of their achievements, especially as 4 of them got personal bests.
We had National Junior Squad members Kieran Slater
and Ashe Morgan in the team as well as Emily Bryant from Cheltenham Archers, who shot very well and 2 members from Cleve Archers
with Ellis Brine making a brilliant recovery after a difficult start.
The discipline trophies were won by
Gloucestershire for the Recurve and Compound, with Dorset and Wiltshire winning the Longbow and Barebow titles.
Well
done to everyone
|
|
| Gloucestershire County Junior Team |
|
|
| Team Captain Tom Receiving the Junior Inter-Counties Trophy! |
Community
Action Badge
Deer Park Archers are proud to announce the launch of their Community Action Badge.
The
club is looking to provide additional enrichment activities for its junior members aimed at personal and social development.
This programme, available to all junior members that meet the eligibility criteria, supports the
club’s vision for both club and individual member development and offers the following potential benefits;
- Builds key skills in communication
and the social skills necessary for success.
- Helps young archers raise their awareness of both themselves and the world they live in.
- Promotes equality.
- Builds confidence and self esteem.
- Helps archers to become more resilient.
- Develops an understanding
of those less fortunate than them.
- Develops skills and motivation helpful to succeed in life.
- Helps members to become more personally and socially responsible.
- Helps to bring out their full potential.
- Promotes our sport and the club in
new areas of the community.
Benefits
In addition to the above Junior members completing a minimum of 10
hours service in support of the programme (in the Archery GB membership year), will
receive a badge, entry onto our club role of honor list and 50% off their following years Club membership fee!
The individual programmes
will be designed around archery related activities designed to impact on the lives of people in the local community. These can include
supporting the delivery of after-school club sessions, delivery of have-a-go sessions to special needs groups, active inclusion,
supporting have-a-go village fete events, specific beginners course programmes, acting as a buddy for new
members with specific needs and support of charity fundraising events. Where possible, involvement in a combination of activities
is preferred.
All activities will be carried out under the guidance of a coach or suitably qualified committee member.
Some or all of the following eligibility criteria will be applicable depending on the project, if individuals do
not currently meet relevant criteria then where possible support will be given to help them to meet them, or an alternative
appropriate project identified.
·
Parent/guardian’s
consent
· Attained a level of maturity and reliability acceptable to the
coaches they would be working with.
·
Attained a competent
level of archery understanding to be able to communicate the basic technique to support have-a-goes, school clubs, beginners
courses etc
· A track record of adhering to all the range safety requirements.
· Where identified successfully complete appropriate training.
This initiative has the full support of the Club Junior Committee and follows a number of pilot activities to establish
the practicality of the proposal. The junior committee will organize a competition to design the cloth badge.
Wedding
– 27th August
Our congratulations go to Steph and Dan who got married on Saturday. It was a great day
attended by a number of members from the club.
James ‘Awesome’ Howse gave an excellent speech!
The happy couple of
asked me to record their thanks for all the gifts, cards and best wishes they have received, they will now be on honeymoon
for the next 2 weeks so extra support of other club coaches at club practice sessions would be great.
|
|
| Some of the deer Park Members at Dan and Stephs Wedding |
Lucy/Gloucestershire Echo
Well done to Lucy for being nominated for the Gloucestershire
Echo Young Sports Personality of the Year Award. There was an excellent article in Tuesday’s Echo, it can be seen by
visiting the following link and than where it says find, type in Lucy Mason. http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/home
John Craigie
John is having a bit of a rollercoaster season, having recorded
a County Hereford Record, a 3 Gold Longbow End and now shooting a real Robin Hood (with wooden arrows) at practice on Tuesday
evening. Picture on website, the problem was that it was one of his expensive ‘Little John’ arrows that he split!
Twitter and Facebook
All of
you that use this form of communication should note that Deer Park Archers now have Facebook Pages.
You will need to
be a ‘friend’ of Steph to gain access etc.
Please talk to her to arrange as it is no good asking me!
You can email her on sjcrang@aol.com to become a friend.
Club Library is now open!
If you want
to loan books or DVDs Rosemarie can be contacted on rosemarie.mckay@btinternet.com Tel No; 01285 821815
Competitions - For news of some great performances at local competitions, Redruth, County Senior Champs etc. Click Here.
2011 Gloucestershire
County Junior Team for the Regional Inter-Counties 15 places, Deer Park have filled 10 of them! Congratulations to Lucy, Austin, Victoria,
Robbie, Katherine, James H, Beccii, Tom, Callum and Arron. The team also includes European Gold Medal winner Kieran Slater
and GB Archer Ashe Morgan! As Steph will be on honeymoon Steve Mason will be managing the team on the day.
Gold Progress Award! Congratulations to Katherine
Frusher who became the second member to achieve a Gold Progress Award, Beccii was the first. Come on lads who will be the
first male to achieve this award?
Club to launch new Junior Coaching Assistant Programme
Following the continued success of the Teacher and Parent Coaching Assistants initiative and the excellent
support some of our experienced junior archers have provided at this summers fetes, have-a-goes and on club practice evenings
we have decided to 'formalise' the role. We are getting some High Viz bibs made up with the words 'Junior Coaching
Assistant' embroidered on them, provide the right training and supported practice and hopefully this will lead to a number
of juniors taking the Level 1 Coaching Course in the future!
Big membership, improving standards and lots of venues means
bigger investment in equipment!
At the club committee meeting on the 29th July, John Craigie, one of our
equipment Officers summarised the level of investment in equipment the club has made this year. It reflects the number of
practice sessions we hold, the number of after-school clubs we support the number of beginners courses we run and the members
services we support.
This years investment to date can be summarised as follows;
33 foam and 3 straw
bosses
22 bows, including compound, recurve and longbows.
6 dozen arrows, backstop netting and 36 bracers.
£300 of books for the club library
£1500 on new 3D targets
£1600 on miscellaneous
equipment (including release aids, tuning equipment, string making materials, sights, launchers, arrow rests, vanes et)
We have also purchased a bow press and engraving machine!
Hillview Primary School win Summer Inter-School
Title!
First time winners of the trophy and a well deserved team victory. 11 Schools competed and over
200 pupils participated.
Click here for more details
All Female Beginners Courses
- Starting September 2011
Following publicity for these programmes we had over 50 applications from age 6
– 65. By Wednesday 20th July, 4 have-a-go talent identification sessions will have been run and there will be at least 4
all female beginners courses starting at Birdlip in September!
Update; Great sessions, lots of potential on display.
We will be offering a number of free places on these beginners courses and to support the Sport England initiative to get
more females into archery, the rest of the places will be offered at just 24 pounds for the 7 week programme!
Initial
feedback suggests that we will need to run 4 all female beginners courses to meet demand.
Club Library Opens!
The new Club
Library is now open for business, members should contact Rosemarie to arrange loans, the book and DVD service is free.
Click here to see some of the books and DVD's available.
Another National Record for Lucy - 17th July
Lucy continues to re-write the National Records adding the Metric 5 to her list with an excellent display at the
Cheltenham Archers FITA. This was achieved despite very gusty winds and heavy rain! A big thank you to Cheltenham for another
well run tournament.
Regional Inter-Counties Championships
Another
great day at a championship event, with 10 of our 12 entries winning titles and the remaining 2 winning silver! So well done
to our Regional Champions, Alex Fraser, Aaron Pearce, Tom Howse, Callum Fraser, Beckie Hutchings, James Howse, Austin Whitmarsh,
Lucy Mason, Victoria Fraser and Sammy Howse.
As another bonus we also won the overall team trophy with a score of 3,067 with another Gloucestershire
club in second with Cleve Archers on 2,352. Quite a margin! Well done to GWAS for organising the event.
|
|
| Victoria receiving her award from Barbara Weller |
Great Performance at the National Junior Championships! We are pleased to announce that our team of junior archers were the
highest performing club at this years National Junior Archery Championships held at Lilleshall the National Sports Center. The team of 10 juniors finished
with an array of titles, medals and trophies but most importantly 2 of our juniors secured a place in the archery history
records. On the
Saturday James Howse became the first British junior of any age or category to break the 1400 points barrier with a fantastic
score of 1406 to win the Junior Gentleman’s Compound competition, in doing this he also secured 2
National Records. The following day he secured his 4th National title, again with another National record on a
Bristol 4 round.
Not
to be outdone Lucy Mason became the first British Junior to record a perfect Bristol round at any age and distance, shooting
144 golds from 144 arrows in the Compound under 12 round and secured her first National Title.
The 3rd National Championship Title was
secured by Victoria Fraser shooting Junior Ladies under 12 title and also shooting 2 National records on the Saturday.
3 members
won silver medals with Katherine Frusher, Beckie Hutchings and Callum Fraser all recording great scores in perfect conditions.
James Lawton won bronze in his first competition at this level.
There were also personal best scores for Alex Fraser who
was in a very difficult group and for Will Kurtz. Tom Howse finished 6th in a strong field of 40 archers.
Congratulations also go to Ashe Morgan from Cheltenham Archers won silver and Kieran
Slater from Minchinhampton bronze, in a very difficult category, they were the only other archers from the county to win medals. Gloucestershire also won the best compound team trophy (James, Lucy and Beckie) with all the archers
representing Deer Park and the GWAS Region finished second with this team.
|
|
| Lucy, yet another perfect end! |
|
|
| James, a look of delight and relief on beating 1400 |
County
Record for John!
On the same day as the National Junior Championships John Craigie broke a long standing County Record when
recording a very respectable score of 488 on the Longbow Hereford round, however he also topped that when he recorded a 3
Gold end (equivalent of a six gold end for recurves) at 80yds, the first longbow archer in the club to do this! Well done
John.
Kingham School Fete
7 of us were at the
Kingham School (Top private school) doing have a go archery all day , 5 teacher members , who will be doing the L1 course
in Nov and will be running their after-school clubs. It was the most upmarket event we have ever attended, sponsored by Bentley
Cars and Laurent-Perrier Champagne! All the money we collected (£160) will go to supporting
Teacher Coach development Fees. It was an excellently run event and we had a chance to promote archery to many different nationalities,
hard work but very rewarding. We will be supporting 3 other fetes during the summer all proceeds from those will be going
to their respective charities.
Beckie
Earns 'Gold' Progress Award
Beckie, who is shooting very well at the moment backed up an excellent
performance in mid week at Dunster by achieving a Gold Progress award on her first attempt. Head Junior Coach Dan Gill who
also runs the Progress Award Programme was delighted that Beckie had achieved Gold, she is the first Junior in the Club to
do so and this should inspire other juniors to try to improve on their Red Award but the standards for achieving Gold are
really testing. Well done to Beckie.
Short video of club activities
We have
added a short video extract from the filming that took place for our Club of the Year Award. It can be found on the 'What
the Papers Say' page.
Make it 6 National records in 4 weeks!
10 year old Lucy Mason added another National Record to her list of achievements
when recording 958 on a Short Junior Windsor at the Cleve Archers junior event.
5 National Records in 3 weeks!!!
Lucy Mason (Compound) became our 4th junior member breaking a 5th National record in less
than a month. Lucy shot 142 golds and 2 reds on a Bristol 5 (Minchinhampton)and she still has another 2 years at that distance!
James Howse (Compound) shot a perfect round at Cheltenham Archers, Victoria has broken 2 Longbow records and Katherine a
barebow record. We are confident that with reasonable weather conditions that there will be a lot more National records to
follow.
Female Only Beginners Courses!
As part of our initiative to increase female membership we advertised in local papers and newsletters the opportuntity
to participate in a free 'have-a-go' session with an outcome of electing to do a full beginners course. All those
that demonstate potential will be able to do the 6 week beginners course for free! We have had an excellent response with
nearly 30 names so far! 2 dates have now been arranged for the 'have-a-go' sessions.
After-School Clubs
From 16th June we
will be supporting 9 after-school clubs, with weekly sessions running in, Archway, Ann Edwards, Bourton, Kingshill, Arthur
Dye, KLB, St Matthews, Balcarras and Greatfield Schools! As usual we will be running an inter-school tournament during the
term and last years record of 170 participants will be broken.
Beginners Courses
We completed another
2 beginners courses on the 8th June with a 90% plus take up to join the club. Thank you to Janet, Mark, Andy and Ed for running
the course. With the exception of the 'Female' Beginners Courses there are no vacancies
until the October Courses and they are now almost fully booked! Private courses can still be booked with Steph and Dan.
Extra Coaching Sessions and Training
Workshops
The following workshops have been planned (full details in Club Newsletter);
Compound
Bow Press Training
Engraving Machine Training
The following additional coaching sessions have been planned;
12th June - Club Juniors only coaching and target session (including Warwicks and Progress Awards options).
Barebow/Longbow Training Workshop – 10am-1pm Sunday 26th
June We are pleased to announce
that we have booked Andrew and Jane Rees (Coaches, National Field Squad, National Barebow Champions etc) to run a workshop
on Bubbs Hill.
Extra Adults Only Coaching SessionsWhilst coaching is available at every session, we are pleased to offer 2 Adult
only coaching sessions on Monday 20thand Friday 24th June from 6:30pm at Bubbs Hill. Interested members
should let Steph know if they will be attending sjcrang@aol.com and they can elect to attend
either a single session or both sessions. Adults of any age/ability/experience/bow type etc are invited. Club
Coaches able to support these sessions should email Steph. The sessions will identify areas for development and action plans
and a range of coaching equipment will be available.
8
Day Programme – Personal CoachingThe second day of
the 8 day Junior Squad Coaching Programme takes place on Sunday 26th June at Balcarras and 8 of our juniors are
involved.Kath Fitzpatrick (Senior Coach) will be travelling
down from Yorkshire the previous day, whilst she already has 2 one hour bookings, if any member would like to book time for
personal coaching with her then please let me know.
BBC Documentary
We have been asked to
get involved in a BBC 2 documentary about the visit of Queen Elizabeth 1st to Gloucestershire and Oxford, of course we have
said yes! The programme retraces her steps and activities and looks at how things have changed, she hunted at a place called
'Deer Park', we will be providing longbow archers and the modern version of hunting 3D's. Watch this space.
New Committee Appointments - 6th June
The
following new appointments have been confirmed at the recent Committee Meeting; As a result of more venues, practice sessions
etc John Whitmarsh will job share with Karl Schneider. As a result of increased workload Steve Mason is appointed Equipment
Officer and will work with John Craigie and Ed Paddy who are already performing the role. Rosemarie Mckay is appointed Club
Librarian and will look after/loan out etc our ever increasing book and dvd collection,
Bosses
We have
now taken delivery of 26 layered foam bosses and a further 3 foam bosses are on order for use this winter. Thank you to the
volunteers who are helping to repack the worn bosses at Bubbs Hill, some of these will be redeployed to the field course!
We will be taking delivery of a set of 3D targets for the field course mid June.
National
Sports Club of the Year Award
On Tuesday night, we won the coveted Sports Club of the Year Award at the Sport
and Recreation Alliance’s national awards ceremony. Awarded by the Alliance to sports clubs which
have made an outstanding contribution to their community, our representatives received a trophy and a £5,000
cheque from cricketing legend and Strictly Come Dancing star Mark Ramprakash.Tim Lamb, chief executive of the
Alliance said:“The Sports Club of the Year Award is something that we have hosted for many years to congratulate
and celebrate our community sports clubs. The nominees and winners just keep getting better and better,
and it is inspiring to see, in these straitened economic times, clubs run by volunteers going from strength to strength. We
hear a lot about the Big Society, you need to look no further that Deer Park Archers to see the very definition of it.
“As Archery GB put it, if there was a club on which to base the perfect club
template on, then Deer Park Archers is that club. What really stands out about the club is the fact that
it is driving the county and associated clubs forward. It could rest on its laurels but instead it is sharing its experiences
and promoting best practice to enable other clubs to progress.”
This recognition is as a result of a great
team effort with our partners, Active Gloucestershire, Girlguiding Gloucestershire, Archery GB, Wales Archery. Gloucestershire
Schools, Gloucestershire Archery Society, the Green Dragon and our own members and volunteers!
The night
was made even more special as we were joined by Lynne Evans MBE & GWAS Chairman, Archery GB Chief Executive David Sherratt
and Archery GB Chairman Dave Harrison, we thank them for their support.
|
|
| Receiving the Award on behalf of the Deer Park Team! |
Cheltenham Easter Bunny Shoot - 2 National Records for
Deer Park!
Well done to Victoria Fraser (Longbow) and Katherine Frusher (Barebow) who recorded National
Records (To be Ratified)by some distance at the Easter Monday Record Status Nationals. Victoria is already National Champion
and Katherine is the first of our After-School Club (Archway - Stroud)pupil to break a National Record!
Also well done
to Lucy Mason & James Lawton for recording 6 Gold Ends.
Full details to follow as soon as we get the results.
Also well done to our hosts, Cheltenham Archers for organising an excellent event in aid of 'Help the Heroes'.
|
|
| Katherine collecting her medal |
|
|
| Victoria receiving her medal. |
Sport
& Recreation Alliance - 2011 Sports Club of the Year Award
We are proud to announce that we have been
short listed for the Sports Club of the Year Award! These awards are open to all sports clubs and it will be a great
honour to join 5 other shortlisted clubs at an Awards Dinner in London on the 3rd May.
Can we offer our congratulations
to the following Clubs:
Ashbourne Golf Club
City of Sheffield Basketball Club
Deer Park Archers
Knebworth Sports Club
New
Earswick and District Indoor Bowls Club
University of Birmingham Volleyball Club
See our Headline on the Archery GB Website
This is great
recognition not just for Deer Park Archers but for our key partners and our thanks must go to Active Gloucestershire, Girlguiding
Gloucestershire, the Development Team at Archery GB and the many schools we work with.
Promoting Archery in the Community!
We
are developing a number of posters (with Archery GB's help as part of the ontarget programme) to promote our sport in
the local community and schools. Watch this space. One idea we have is to promote the 7 - 80+ age range. Shown in the photo
is Austin who is 7, Vanessa & Lynne (2 generations, ages available on request!) and Mr Rothnie 75 years young, who completed
a beginners course just last year! We have taken lots of exciting photos of junior archers for posters in local schools. We
will publish asap.
AGM & Quiz Night - 19th April
Well
done to all the competing teams. The winning team of John Craigie, Janet Hudson, Ed Paddy and Ian Pearce were narrow but worthy
winners. Excellent time, plenty of food, thankyou to all those that helped.
Active Gloucestershire A number of us went to this annual event at the University of Gloucestershire,
Chloe, one of our new compound archers and talented at a number of other sports was a guest speaker! There was a Sport Unlimited
DVD shown at the end of proceedings, again archery figured prominently and we will be getting a copy.
Swimarathon - March 2011 - Raising money for
Charity & the Club. What a fantastic
job our swimmers did. The Senior team finished 5th out of 45 teams and the juniors 38th. When looking
at money raised (£850), the seniors finished 4th highest and the juniors 14th, combined we were
the second highest club! The news
gets even better, the junior team comprising, James Howse, Lucy Mason, James Lawton, Rebecca Loveridge, Sammy Howse, Rebecca
May and Victoria Fraser have won ‘The Chairmans Award’ with a comment ‘Some very young swimmers putting
in a huge effort to complete their lengths’. They are to be invited to an awards ceremony in late May. Please note that all sponsorship must be in by
the end of April. Also thanks to Steph for organizing it and thanks to those who took a sponsorship form despite not swimming
and raised money, especially Will Kurtz.
The Club will use its share of the sponsorship money to purchase a Bow
Press as part of our 'Members Services', this will save many hours of travel and Bridge Toll costs to Wales Archery.
County Junior Squads
Congratulations
to our 8 juniors who have been selected for the 8 day Programme with Kath Fitzpatrick. (8/13). We also have 3 archers on Customised
Programmes and 5/10 juniors joining the 3 day Development Programme. Well done to everyone.
|
|
| Members of the County 8 Day Junior Squad |
Archery GB Support In recognition of the work we do in the community and in schools
and our membership of 'ontarget', we have been offered support to produce some ‘professional’ posters
(A3+) to display in schools, youth clubs, community centres etc. These posters will also be available as a resource on the
Archery GB Website! Design and printing costs will be funded. We need to take photos of our top archers, get some basic info on each (Year born, school attended,
bow type, how long doing archery, achievements summary, perhaps a quote, etc). We will be approaching about 10 or so members to take part.
Engraving Machine
We now have our own
Engraving Machine! A big thank you to the Howse Family for their donation, especially Steve for successfully bidding on Ebay
and then travelling to Doncaster to collect it. We will be looking to train some members to use it. This will save many members
a considerable amount as the trophies flood in!
Bridle Path Clearance - 19th March Bubbs
Hill A big thank you to all members
that helped with this massive challenge. What a great job we did for Girlguiding Gloucestershire. We have had excellent
feedback from Cotswold DC & Highways.
County Junior Development Squad
Selection Event - Sunday 27th March
27 junior archers from across the county (16 from Deer Park) attended
a selection event, they had already submitted completed questionnaires, including their own coaches comments.
Graham
Williams and Steph Crang formed the selection panel and were looking for at least 12 to join the 8 day course which will be
run by Kath Fitzpatrick. Archers were individually assessed which included analysis of video footage taken from 3 angles.
They also had the opportunity to complete a 3 dozen round to try to achieve Archery GB Progress Awards.
This selection
event was focused on identifying at least 12 archers who have the potential to benefit most from the development programme,
those not included will be offered the chance to attend a 3 day programme run during the winter of 1011/12.
Results
will be announced over the weekend of the 2/3rd of April.
Swimathon - Saturday 26th
March
A big thankyou to the 16 members who swam at the Round Table Charity Swim and to all those who sponsored
our swimmers!
As well as making a donation to charity, teams competing could use some of the money raised to spend
on their club. We spent more than £700 on a compound bow press, which will save many hours of travelling and Severn Bridge Tolls!
Last week we were able to secure some sponsorship to help towards the costs of purchasing our own engraving machine!
With many members doing well at competitions, engraving costs were starting to mount up.
We are arranging training
courses to ensure a number of members can operate botht he bow press and the engraving machine.
After-School Archery
The club supports more than
10 local schools to run archery sessions, click below to see recent results, session content, contacts etc.
Latest Schools Archery Newsletter
Club Target Day - Vegas
27 archers attended the
session on Sunday, many having a go at a Vegas round. As usual archers were not allowed to record their own scores etc. 4
records were broken, the best was that by Martin Hutchings, shooting a longbow score of 244, which was a handicap score 10
points lower than Martin has previously achieved!
Callum smashed the existing record by over 20 points, recording
a score for Gents U16 Compound of 552.
Lucy Mason also broke the u10, u12, u14 etc records for junior ladies compound
with 423.
Katherine Frusher shooting Barebow recorded a Pb by a massive ammount, recording409.
Well
done to all that took part, this is not an easy round.
Bridle Path Clearance
Thank you to all the members
that helped for 3 hours on Saturday morning. We achieved a lot and it looks fantastic!
Welcome to some new members! The Monday Beginners Courses have just completed,
welcome to all those that have now joined the club. Members, if you see a new face, please feel free to introduce yourself!
We are pleased that 95% of those that attended the 8 session programme have joined the Club. Prior to particpants starting
a course, we arrange a have-a-go to ensure that archery is for them. Week 8 is a workshop covering basic bow maitenance and
set up. Thank you to steph and dan for running the courses.
Bow Press
Sponsorship from our two teams
entering the Swimathon next week should hopefully meet our target of raising enough money to bu a bow press. This will save
a lot of money/time traveling to Wales Archery, all part of our members services!
Engraving Machine
Thank you for the donations,
also following some stirling work by Steve on ebay, we now have a machine. Once we work out how to collect it from Doncaster
we will get engraving!
Engraving Machine Many members are running up lots of engraving costs (due to our
success!) and we have had a couple of potential offers of donations towards purchasing one for the club.
If anyone else
may like to make a donation (or already has a machine) please let me know. This is a difficult situation as the savings and
value of investment is related to the number of trophies won, for some (me included) the number of future trophies may be
minimal.
However the proposal if we had a machine, we would then charge a nominal amount for its use, therefore potentially
generate an income for the club. A final decision will be made at a club committee meeting so any offers of sponsorship/donations
could strengthen the case!
County Records
At the County Meeting last Wednesday a list of new County records was circulated, there were 47 new records
of which our members claimed 41 of them!
We have just applied for a further 21.
This achievement recognises not
just the archers but the coaches and the club ethos of encouraging competition. During this period, many more archers entered
competitions, many got personal bests, others of us just enjoyed the opportunity to compete!
Bridle path date – Saturday Morning
19th March As discussed
before, the bridle path at Bubbs Hill needs widening/clearing to meet local Highways Regulations. As an archery club we currently
benefit from using Girlguiding Gloucestershire land to shoot. We need to recognize this by at least making ‘inkind’
payments for their hospitality. Will
members who are prepared to help from 9am till midday with clearing the bridle path please let Roger know asap. Could members
with chainsaws please let Roger know.
Those who are volunteering to help should ensure that they have substantial gloves.
The main role will be to pull the branches etc to designated areas.
We also need a few volunteers to make refreshments. Your help will be much appreciated.
Quiz and AGM-Tuesday 19th
April @ Shurdington Village Hall.
Notice is given that the Club AGM will take place on the above date. It will be combined with a quiz evening which will not be an amateur affair in
the way it will be presented. It will be suitable for all ages and will be a team competition.
Further details
to follow.
Junior Reps Currently Rosie & Beckie are the club Junior Representatives
and they sit on the committee. Rosie will be going off to University so we need to identify at least one replacement, anyone
who would like to know more about the role and may consider taking up the post should talk to any of the management committee.
PESSYP grant We are waiting for confirmation on the amount we have been awarded
(part 2 of a 3 year award), this money will be used to support the after-schools programmes with the purchase of additional
equipment , including bosses and 4 Compound Bows, with release aids etc to support the further development of pupils currently
using Genesis bows who elect to progress to compound rather than recurve.
Ontarget grant We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in being
award a total of £1500 and this money will be used to support the 8 day Junior Squad Development programmes where
the money will be used for the hire of a Senior Coach, venues, equipment hire and training aids.
We have also secured
funding from other sources to support this initiative, open to all clubs in the County as the total cost of the programme
will be in the region of £4500. Selection to be part of the programme will be done by an independant assessment panel.
CCPR Sports Club of the Year (All Sports Clubs)
We
have just been informed by Archery GB that we have progressed to the next stage and will be one of three Clubs representing
our Sport.
We will not know the results of the next stage for at least a month, we are now in with the elite
clubs from all other sports from across the Country!
We have made an excellent submission and should be proud of what
we have achieved in the last 12 months, and to be representing Archery GB is again something we should be proud of!
Can
we win? Well, we have a chance, however reality is that despite us doing our best there be others that have done even better.
If there is, then that is great for sport!
Brixham Clipper Tournament 6th
February …….What a day!
Full
report on the competitions page, to say it was a great day was an understatement! We have been supporting this excellent tournament
for many years and Brixham Archers always make us welcome.
This year we took a big team, most put in great performances
both in the qualifying rounds and in the Head to Head Elimination Rounds. With the exception of the ladies recurve we had
archers in all the finals and we won most of them!
Members also broke another 6 County Records.
Steph was also invited to be the Lady Paramount, which
again was typical of the welcome offered by Brixham Archers.
We will travel down again in May to support their next
competition.
Ontarget Funding – Archery GB
We have submitted our funding application and have endorsements from, Archery
GB Coaching, Active Gloucestershire, Community Coaching Manager, Balcarras Partnership and Gloucestershire Archery Society.
This funding will be used to support an 8 day coaching programme, taking place over a 12 month period and run by Kath
Fitzpatrick, very successful Senior Coach and will target the Counties top 12 juniors.
This will be the next best
thing to being part of the National Squad!
Applications to join this £4.5K programme will be opened on confirmation
of the funding. Again watch this space.
Bring and Buy
Wow, what an evening! This was our first attempt at holding such an event and it was a resounding
success.
More than £1500 changed hands and most of the items sold were less than half the market price. From bows,
arrows, quivers, sights, club clothing to bow stands, complete archery kits and customized bracers all at fantastic prices.
We will do this again.
Thank you to everyone that helped on the evening, especially to all those who helped with refreshments.
Thank you also to those that also donated kit to the Club.We
still have individuals looking for specific items that could not get to the event, so could members who still have significant
items such as bows, arrows, bags and sights please let me know the details of what you have and I will circulate the information
in the next newsletter.
Annual Awards
Full report on 2010 Awards
Page. Highlights, John Craigie wins 2 awards including 'Clubman of the Year'. Jo and James win Archery GB Handicap
Improvement Medals. New venue a great success as were the slide and movie shows!
|
|
| John Receiving the Jos Benfield Clubman of the Year Award. |
Gloucestershire County Indoor Champs
A
great day for the County and an even better one for Deer Park!
Despite some late challenges to running the event and
with a great group of volunteers from clubs across the County who pulled together to ensure the event took
place. A special thanks to the Judges who helped at short notice and mucked in throughout the day.
As a club we had an
excellent entry of 46 members and we had a great return of medals and trophies, achieveing 6 new County Records and another
7 Progress Awards in the process. Full report on the competitions page.
|
|
| Some of our successful team at the County Indoor Championships |
Progress Awards
More than 30 junior
members have achieved awards, some of these will be presented at the Annual Awards. Well done to eveyone and thank you to
Dan for organising it. This is an ongoing award so why not have a go. We now have juniors that started with a white and then
with practice qualified for higher awards however we also have quite a few that have gone directly to red!
|
|
| Some of our 'Red' Progress Award Achievers. |
November Challenge – Archery GB
Well done to all junior members that entered. Highlights were James and Victoria
winning their groups, Arron, Lucy and Callum also won medals.
Annual Awards Evening - Further details published.
Click here to see more information on the Annual Awards Evening.
Christmas Practice Sessions
Every
day from 24th to 2nd January (including Christmas Day)
(24th and 25th Sessions well attended!)
Shurdington 21st Dec - Bring and Buy/fun
Shoot
Sorry but this event has had to be cancelled (new date TBA), not only are there weather/travel issues
but the contractors have not completed the under-floor heating in the hall!
Dates/times for Balcarras over the
christmas period will appear here on the 21st.
Club Annual Awards Evening - 18th January
Beetle Drive, buffett, club videos, fun competitions etc!
We are now over subscribed! Any
members who still want to attend should email Steph. You will then be placed on a reserve list. Members receiving awards but
who have not secured tickets will be presented their awards at a club practice session after the event.
Balcarras 18th(Sat) and 19th(Sun) December
Following Police advice we made the decision to cancel this weekends archery.
Hoping that things
will improve and we will see you on Tuesday at the Bring and Buy/Competition and Christmas Refreshments at Shurdington.
Progress Awards
This
Archery GB system is excellent and we have been using it within the club and in schools, 35 juniors have achieved a range
of badges from white to red in the last 4 weeks! The awards will be funded by the club in the majority of cases but also by
the county if they were achieved during the county junior squad training day!
Well done to Archery GB for running this
key stage related programme.
Junior Members Team Building and Integration Morning
at Balcarras – 12th December
24 juniors spent the morning taking part in a range of activities aimed at easing newer members into the club.
A selection of fun ‘ice breakers’ and team challenges took place throughout the morning as well as a chance
to earn a ‘Progress award’ with a 3 Dozen round appropriate to age, a handicap competition and finally a H2H elimination
competition!21 of the 24 members shooting
qualified for Progress Awards ranging from white to red, these will be purchased by the club. These will be presented at the
Club Awards Evening in January.
This
session and the previous evening had been declared club target sessions and no less than 5 County Records were achieved!
Well done to Lucy (2 records), James, Callum, and Austin for breaking the records. Lucy has now broken 4 County Records
in a month!
Top 3 archers in
the handicap competition were Robbie, Belle and Lucy.
Top 3 archers in the H2H were 1st Kieran, 2nd Callum & 3rd
Lucy.
Feedback was excellent,
we now need to consider a senior session!
|
|
| Junior Team Building/Integration Session |
|
|
| Junior Team Building/Integration Session |
|
|
| Paper Airoplane Challenge |
Deer Park Archers took 8 juniors to the National Indoor Championships at Stafford
| Our Successful Team at the National Indoor Champs |
|
|
| With Comonwealth Gold Medal Winners Nikki and Duncan |
|
|
| Victoria - British Junior Champion! |
|
|
| James - Trebble British Junior Champion! |
Deer Park Archers took 8 juniors to the National Indoor Championships at Stafford.
With more than than 800 archers competing
over the 2 day event all 8 performed well leaving the Club with the second best return of medals in the UK!
Victoria Fraser, just 10 and shooting longbow in her first National Championships won the Under 12's
and James House, just 10 became a TRIPLE British Compound Champion when easily winning the junior
gentleman under 12's. Recording another county record, James is now ranked 12th in the under 18's, a real achievement.
Lucy Mason (10) again shooting her first National Championships was just beaten into second place in the under 12's junior ladies compound but smashing the
county record by 60 points!
Beckie Hutchings finished 3rd in her category being beaten by 2 of the Archery GB National Junior Squad who she had beaten at the
National outdoor championships earlier this year.
Perhaps the best performance of the day was by Tom Howse (14), shooting
in the under
16 recurve division, recording a personal best and securing a bronze medal in a highly competitive group.
Rosie Benfield
finished 15th and Alex and Callum Fraser 11th and 6th respectively.
The event was attended by all the recent
Commonwealth Medal winners, who were very impressed with the performance of young Deer Park Archers and 2 of the Gold Medal
winners posed for photos with the club team.
Photos to be iploaded in next couple of days.
County Record for Lucy!
Lucy
is just 10 and she broke the under 13 county record for compound Portsmouth. Thios will be her first of many, County, Regional
and National records! Well done!
A BIG thank you to Shell UK!
Dan
and Roger travelled to London to receive the bosses so kindly donated to the club by no less than Shell UK. A search
of clubs on the internet had identified Deer Park Archers as a club that played an active role with the community!
We
collected 5 High Durability Foam Bosses (it took 2 of us to lift each one) which had built in 122cm faces and 8 Egertec Straw
Bosses and some stands.
We would like to record our thanks for such a donation.
|
|
| Some of our new bosses donated by Shell UK |
Tuesday 30th November 2010
Birdlip
& Shurdington are off. Despite only a couple of cms of snow, our lane has not been treated, has now been compacted
and as it freezes will become impassable for the equipment van.
8 Juniors at the National Junior Championships in December
2010
We have 8 juniors at the National Championships this year. The majority of them will be the youngest
in their age groups but this will be ideal preparation for next year when they be the oldest. Dan and Steph will be providing
the coaching support. Report to follow after event.
Winners of the 2010 Gloucestershire Citizen/Echo 'Young
Club of the Year' Award.
A special night for the club at the Gold Cup Suite, Cheltenham Race Course
saw us win the Trophy recognising Committment, Dedication and Achievement. Congratulations should also go to the other finalists,
Oxstalls Tennis Centre and Gloucester Swimming Club at GL1. A fantastic evening saw 10 of us represent the Club on what has
been a great team effort. We should also say a big thank you to the Echo/Citizen for organising a great event in difficult
financial times.
We will add a copy of the report in the paper over the weekend.
|
|
| A great evening at the awards! |
|
|
| Our Junior Representitives. |
Club Record for Winter Attendance!
Last week saw the club break our record for provision of archery indoors, in a single
7 days we had 138 recorded attendances at our 7 Club practice sessions. Our activities with schools and youth groups gave the opportunity for 156 pupils (most
as part of after-school club 8 week programmes) to experience archery, which were delivered in 9 sessions!
Balcarras School Improvers
Win Autumn Term Inter-Schools
Congratulations to Balcarras School who won the Autumn Inter-Schools
Team Competition with a score of 144. Vale of Berkeley finished second on 138 and KLB and Shurdington Primary tied in 3rd
place on 128. Ten teams competed for the Autumn Team Trophy, well done to all of them! See the schools Archery page for full
details.
Individual honours (121 Competing) went to Gents - 1st Robbie (Shurdington), 2nd Ben K (Balcarras) & 3rd
Jake (SWR). Ladies title was also won by a Shurdington Archer Becky, 2nd Tamsin (SWR) & 3rd Chloe (Shurdington).
Schools Page Click Here
Firework Event Postponed
Sorry
the Club Firework Night Jinx has struck again! The forcasted high winds and potential rain has meant that we have had to postpone
our November 4th evening. We will freeze the 300 sausages etc and announce another date as soon as possible.
Deer Park Archers News – November 1st
ClubMark
We have just received a letter from Mr Doug Human, the Regional assessor for
ClubMark congratulating the Club on a very well put together submission, the application now needs to be ratified by an Archery
GB specialist in this area before formal confirmation!
Junior Club of the Year
Awards
Many of you may have seen the Echo last Thursday,
we have now been invited to attend a gala dinner at the race course on November 24th when the final results will
be announced, the other finalists are Oxstalls Tennis Centre and Gloucester Swimming Club at GL1. Congratulations
to them, they are both much bigger clubs so we are delighted that our sport is represented in the final, as a club we do punch
above our weight so fingers crossed!
OnTarget
We have become one of the first Clubs in the Country to become members of the latest Archery GB initiative
aimed at supporting the Development of Archery in the UK. Further details can be seen on the Archery GB website, in phase
2 of the programme we will be able to apply for specific specialisms, Community, Young People and Performance. We are working
towards being capable of applying to be recognized in all 3 areas! Achieving these areas will give us access
to all sorts of resources both physical and financial and an opportunity to continue promoting our sport.
Busy 30th and 31st October
A
very busy weekend saw members competing in the Cheltenham Archers St Leonards Shoot, full results as soon
as I have them.
Saturday evening saw an excellent turn out of nearly 40 members at our Club Halloween Shoot. Thanks
to everyone that helped organize an excellent evening, the food was excellent and the targets great. Despite it starting to
rain, almost at the moment we started to shoot a few showers were not enough to stop an excellent time, a few pictures on
the website.
Sunday saw 4 more activities that members
were involved in;
Field shoot at Bubbs Hill which saw John and Austin shoot field for the first time, John was using
his new longbow for the first time.
There was also a first in that we completed the morning with 2 more arrows than
we started with, one already claimed, the other is a junior arrow, let me know if you are missing one!
Dan took a have a go for guides, Martin and Beckie were at the Welsh National
Indoor Championships and Beckie won scoring 562 on a Portsmouth! Well done Beckie.
There was also an excellent turn out at Balcarras School on the Sunday morning
for practice and coaching.
Firework Night
Thursday 4th November at Deer Park, please park at the Green Dragon and walk up. Starts
at 6:30pm, BBQ, Mulled Wine, Chestnuts, bonfire and firework display. Just £2 per head. This is an
excellent evening.
Club Photographers wanted
We are looking to appoint a couple of Official Club Photographers as we want to create a
data bank of action photos etc. We also know that there will be an Archery GB competition and we want to be ahead of the game.
Please let Roger know if you are interested. We would like both seniors and juniors to apply.
Photographic Policy
The Club will assume that unless any members specifically
request NOT to be photographed that they have no objection to be included in photographs taken at club practice sessions and
competitions.The Club undertakes NOT to include any names
etc of those photographed in any photos released to a third party (Archery GB, Newspapers etc) unless we have authority from
the individuals concerned.
Tuesday Individual Coaching Evenings at BirdlipStarting 9th November
In addition to running the standard sessions at Shurdington on Tuesdays we are
offering individual/small group coaching at Birdlip, 2 sessions, 6:30 and 7:45pm.No more than 4 individuals per session with 2 coaches (Andy and Roger) to provide focused sessions. These sessions
are generally targeted at those that have completed a beginners programme over the last 18 months to provide support over
a block 4 weeks or so. Contact Roger if you would like to enroll, 4 of the potential 8 places already reserved.
Membership
Many of us have received our new Archery GB membership
cards but we understand that some of you have not. If that is the case can you please email our Club Secretary Janet
taylorjanet454@googlemail.com to let her know. This may well not be a problem as Archery GB agreed to issue cards immediately for
all those received by a certain date and indicated that there would be a delay for those received by them after the 1st
September. I understand that if you have a receipt for your payment that this can be used as a temporary membership confirmation
should you be entering competitions.
County Junior Development Squad
Congratulations to the following Juniors who have been selected to attend the
all day 22 man Development Squad Training session next week. Alex, Victoria & Callum Fraser, Beckie, Lucy, Joe, Austin,
Rosie Benfield and Rosie Andrews, Arron Pearce, Tom & James Howse.
National
Rankings
Congratulations to James who has been
ranked Number 1 for under 12’s in GB (and 12th in the under 18’s, James is just aged 11), Tom ranked 11th
for under 16’s. There are at least another 4 junior members who would have been ranked Nationally but failed to submit
their scores in time.
Free Advertising for Club Members Offer!
There are many members that have skills, services etc that other members may
be interested in, so we would welcome the opportunity to help communicate this. So if anyone would like a free mention on
our website, newsletter etc then please let me know.
Monthly League October
Final Result (Only top 10 listed)
There were 87 matches
involving 44 competitors. Well done to all that took part.
| Points | Played | Wins | Draws | Loses | Win
% | | Tom H | 77 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 100 | | Beccii H | 74 | 22 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 82 | | Steve M | 28 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 67 | | Callum F | 16 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 29 | | Steve H | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 80 | | Martin H | 13 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 22 | | Alex F | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 40 | | Lucy M | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 33 | | Steph W | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75 | | Rosie B | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 50 |
Beginners Programmes
Due to an
ever increasing list of people wanting to do a beginners course Xperience Archery have agreed to run an
extra course starting January 2011.
Club Clothes
Anyone wanting to
order Polo Shirts, Fleeces, Hoodies etc for Christmas or the County Indoor Champs should place their order with Steph
sjcrang@aol.com by no later than 10th November.
Nominated for Gloucestershire Junior Club of the Year!
We have just been informed that we have been nominated for and become finalists for the above award. Well
done to all our members. more information to follow.
ClubMark
Following our submission
last month we are hoping to hear that we have been successful in the next week or so. This has been a target for the Club
over the past 2 years, this is not a paperwork trail it is the culture, the way we behave and the way we manage trhe Club.
Success will be a pat on the back for all our club members. Watch this space!
Deer Park Present at the Archery GB Development
Conference
Three members of the Club (Dan, Steph and Roger) presented the work we are doing with juniors,
particulary with schools at the Conference! The weekend was excellent and the Archery GB Development Team should take a lot
of credit not just for the weekend but for all the work they are doing to help the sport of Archery achieve its potential.
To find out more about the weekend, visit the Archery GB website. During the next week we will make copies of the slides used
avaqilable on this website.
Club applies for OnTarget Registration
As of the 25th October
the Club has applied for membership of this recently launched Archery GB initiative. As the programme develops we hope to
apply for all 3 specialisms.
Bosses donated to the Club
We
are pleased, that is an understatement delighted , to announce that we have been contacted by a well known petrol company
who wish to donate a significant number of Straw and foam bosses to the club. We cannot be more specific at this stage until
we have received clearance on what we are able to say, We would like to record our thanks.
Club AGM - Tuesday 21st September 2010
Birdlip Village Hall - Please make the effort to attend or talk to a committee member and make your views known.
7pm - Open Committee Meeting
8pm - AGM
Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and Develoment
Officer's reports.
Election of Officers (Chairman and Secretary).
Adoption of revised constitution
and formal adoption of our existing policies wrt Child Protection, Equity, Codes of conduct for club officials, juniors and
parents in line with best practice.
See attached documents for further information.
Revised Constitution Proposal
Child Protection
Code of Conduct for Club Officials
Code of Conduct for Juniors
Code of Conduct for Parents and Carers
Equity Policy
2010 Gloucestershire County Junior Archery Championships
Cheltenham Archers hosted the annual junior archery
championships on their excellent racecourse ground which saw 60 of the county’s top juniors competing for honors.
Mrs Lynne Evans M.B.E. a member of the British Olympic Committee and Munich Olympian was the Lady Paramount for the day.
Gloucestershire is enjoying a surge in interest by juniors in the sport and this is being matched by success in competition
with a number of archers winning National titles, representing GB and breaking their fair share of British records!
The results were dominated by just 2 of the 13 clubs in the county with Deer
Park Archers based between Cheltenham and Cirencester, winning 13 and Cheltenham Archers winning 4 of the
county titles.
Amongst the highlights were wins for top recurve archer Ashe Morgan of Cheltenham, a member of the National
squad who continues to support his club and local events. James Howse, Compound Archer, who broke a British record last week
whilst shooting in the Inter-Counties Championships won his category. There were also successes for a number
of novice archers who have started in the sport during the last 12 months through beginners programmes started in local schools,
Rosie Andrews recorded an outstanding score, which was a new County record, in the Junior Ladies Barebow category, Rosie made
her debut last week for the County Team having been recruited from the Cirencester Kingshill after-school
club.
Lucy Mason just 10 years old from Deer Park Archers won her Compound category and then took the Cotswold Head
to Head Title when competing against the top compound archers from all the other age groups. The Recurve H2H Cotswold title
was taken by Ashe Morgan with Rosie Andrews in second and Rosie Benfield in third.
The top club award went to Deer Park
Archers with a team comprising Beckie Hutchings (who also recorded the top score of the day), Tom Howse and Rosie Benfield.
Further details can be seen on the competitions page.
Importantant
Notice to all Members (Especially users of the Field course).
We have been informed by Cotswold DC that there has
been a significant rise in the incidence of TICK bites. A sheet detailing action to be taken is posted on the Bubbs Hill Notice
Board. Anyone doing the field course are strongly advised not to wear shorts etc and where possible stick to the cut grass
areas and pathways.
Notice of AGM and General Meeting (Emailed to
all members 7th August)
A
meeting has been arranged for Tuesday 21st September at Birdlip Village Hall starting at 7pm all members are welcome.There will be an open committee meeting, agenda to be issued
later, a presentation on our submission for ClubMark status (will be complete by then).
At 8pm the AGM will begin, when
the positions of Chairman and Club Secretary will be up for election. The current job holders are willing to be re-elected
but would welcome members seeking to bring fresh ideas to the roles.
There will also be proposals to amend the Club Constitution
in line with ClubMark requirements and recommendations to formally adopt other Archery GB policy recommendations including
the latest Equity Policy, codes of conduct for club officials and volunteers etc.
Please make every effort to attend or at least share your views with a committee
member, further details to follow.
Club Annual Membership Fees
You should have received a reminder
from Janet to pay your annual Archery GB and club membership, if you have not then please speak to Janet. Those
that have joined in the last 3 months or so, will not need to pay again. Fees should be paid before end of August if you want
your membership card quickly. Renewal payments made between end of August and end of September will have to wait in the queue
for their cards. Those not paying by the end of September will not be able to shoot. If in doubt speak to Janet.
Management
Committee VacanciesVolunteers/nominations are sought for
the following vacancies; Club Records Officer (Marnie is stepping down at the end of the summer Season).Club Field Captain
Volunteers to work to support the following events.
Gloucestershire
Junior Championships – Saturday 11th September – Field Crew, catering, tent pitching and also help
on the Friday to work with Cheltenham Archers to set the field up. Group of volunteers to help organize the County Field Archery Championships which
we will be running on Bubbs Hill. (Catering, field crew). Group of volunteers to help organize a County Clout Competition, date to be decided,
help on day to lay field etc.
Important Dates
Club
practice sessions as usual EXCEPT for THURSDAY 12th AUGUST, evening session moved to Field 4 (Top gate –
no parking in Green Dragon). Please note that we will be doing the field course, those that loan equipment are welcome to
participate but MUST let me know beforehand so I can bring equipment.
Sunday 29th August – Club evening
shoot, members are welcome to camp over night (club sleepover) on Bubbs Hill. Please let us know by 25th. BBQ,
late night shoot.
Get your entries in for the County Junior Championships! Adults as well.
This
competition is organized by ourselves and will take place at Cheltenham Archers Ground (Race Course) on Saturday 11th
September. ALL our juniors should enter. Get forms from the Gloucestershire Archery Society Website or at any of our practice
sessions. Talk to a coach for advice on which round etc. They are short distances and only 72 arrows so please give it a go. Parents/Adults
can do a Record Status National round in the afternoon so please support this event.
We have been awarded another £1000 !
We have just received
confirmation from our CSP (Community Sports Partnership) that Archery GB/Sport England have awarded us a further thousand
pound for our work with schools and in particular Balcarras School. Well done to Steph, Dan, Simon, Jim and Kate for their
support.
Steph and Dan at National Development Conference!
Archery GB have asked Steph and
Dan to run a workshop on teaching archery in schools as part of the conference.
Roger has been invited to be part of the Archery GB working party redesigning the Archery Leaders
Course (and teacher training modules) which is planned to be relaunched by March 2011.
Ed passes Level
1 Coaching Course internal assessment
Well done to Ed, who was assessed on week 1 of the new 7 participants beginners
course which started last week. Also thanks to Andy and Roger for supporting Ed.
Please take
Care
3 pilot holes have been dug at Bubbs Hill to determine
the specification for the foundation of the new Centenary Hall, unfortunately one of them hit a water pipe so could not be
filled in until Roger blanks it off. So please take care, all members are precious!
Other
Diary Dates Halloween Shoot – 30th October at Bubbs HillClub Award Evening and Beetle Drive – 20th December. Hessian Field Targets Thank
you to all those that responded to paint some faces. John has now ordered extra Hessian and will be in touch. Roger has produced
a prototype using left over, emulsion, gloss and enamel paints. Looks ok (although a survey suggested members are not sure
what it actually is!) and it is being left out to weather to ensure it lasts.
Club Junior Longbow
Any juniors that want to give it a try, should talk to Dan/Roger.
The poundage is just 28lbs at 27 inches.
Bosses
Due to a national shortage
of straw (bad harvest last year) the club will have to wait until January 2011 for the delivery of new bosses (indoor use).
John, Vanessa and Roger spent 2 evenings cutting foam strips
and have made 2 new large bosses for the target range, enough material to repair the centre of the boss on wheels and make
a further 2 or 3 for the field course. If there are any more volunteers to help cut foam then please let us know (no juniors).
Club
Clothing
Steph is about to place another order, members wanting to purchase, polo shirts, T-Shirts, fleeces,
hoodies etc should talk to Steph asap sjcrang@aol.com).
Club Attrition Day
We had an excellent day on Sunday with over 40 members enjoying a range of events. The catering
for lunch and tea was fantastic, the fresh cream scones and chocolate sponge excellent! Thanks to all that helped throughout
the day.
Full results will appear on the Club Website
in the next few days.
Some highlights were: Longbow,
John winning the Field Shoot, Martin H winning the Skills, Nikki winning the clout and Mavis the Warwick.
Martin H and Roger tied for 1st overall.
Compound,
Alex won the clout, skills and field, James H the Warwick. Alex was the overall winner.
Recurve, Lawrence took the Warwick and Clout titles, Ed the field and Andrew
the skills. Overall winner was Tom.
Well done to everyone,
Steve (and James) took lots of excellent photos, will post them on the web in next few days. We are already planning a similar
event next year.
Regional Champions
Congratulations to Callum, Alex, Sammy, James and Beckie who all became Regional Champions (Devon,
Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire) last weekend.
Cowley Village Fete
Karl, Ed and Roger ran a have-a-go stall at the
Cowley Village Fete last Saturday, it proved to be the most popular activity! All the proceeds went to the local church.
Calling
All Artists (or those aspiring to be).
Ed and
John are working on producing our own hessian target faces for the field course. We need members who have skills to make a
reasonable effort at painting the faces onto the hessian. We would like to create a special ‘Vegetarian Round’
to go with the normal animal rounds, so if you can paint a pumpkin, bunch of grapes, marrow etc please let us know.
LOCAL PAPER HEADLINES
National Archery Titles for
James and Beckie
Cheltenham based Deer Park Archers sent 5 Juniors to this year’s
National Championships at Lilleshall and once again had great success.
10 year old James Howse competing in the
Under 12 Compound category ,
is a pupil at Shurdington Primary School, followed up his Indoor
National
Title won late last year, recording the highest score of any
competitor in all categories, this was achieved in
appalling conditions
with a strong gusty wind and yet his score was just 2 points off the
National Record.
Steph Crang, his coach was full of praise for his
achievement “James has worked extremely hard to earn this,
both
mentally and physically. It is a product of team work with his parents
and 2 brothers, who are
all good archers, supporting him. This,
together with the support of all the club members makes it truly a team
effort.”
Beckie Hutchings, 14, and a pupil at Bournside School had strong
competition
in her category but managed to record victory by just 2
points, finishing ahead of a GB squad archer. Again Beckie
has had the
support from her family, her dad Martin is the Club Child Welfare
Officer and an emerging
Longbow archer.
Alex Fraser, a previous National Champion from Kingshill School
finished 4th in his
category. In addition to the normal club practice
sessions, all 3 of these juniors support their respective after
school
clubs, helping pupils who are trying the sport for the first time.
Deer Park Archers
are currently running archery programmes in 10 local
schools and doing activity days at many others. As a result
of their
efforts Gloucestershire has just been selected as a lead County by the
National Governing Body
(Archery GB) and Sport England to introduce
this Olympic Sport to many more schools.
The club organizes
a County Schools Championships each term,
Bourton-on-the-Water Primary School, are the current holders, recent
winners have been Balcarras and Kingshill. Deer Park Archers are
working with Archery GB to put a structure in
place that can provide
coaching qualifications for interested teachers so that they can set up
sustainable
archery clubs in their schools. These school clubs will
then feed the senior clubs and universities with well trained
juniors.
Deer Park Archers, with a membership of over 200, are committed to
supporting both
recreational and performance archers but they do want
to expand their elite squad and will shortly be commencing
a selection
process to identify juniors with archery potential. Those selected will
be offered a FREE
8 week beginners course working with excellent
coaching staff, for further details anyone interested should visit
the
website www.deerparkarchers.com. It is hoped that this initiative will
add to their growing list of junior National Champions!
Arron grabs more longbow records
Arron had a great week at Dunster breaking 9 County records
including Metric 1 distance records, Albion, Western and Bristol 1 records. He followed this up with a 2 way Western record
at coastal Archers. Arron has now broken more than 15 County Records, this year alone!
Social Evening – Club Jungle Rumble
Crazy Golf
20 of us had
a great evening in Bristol. Best scores were Martin
– 42, Val – 43, Roger – 44, Dan – 46, Ness – 47, John – 49, Ed – 50
Whilst the Golf was excellent the meal was less
so, with this standard of service and quality of food, Frankie and Bennies is clearly a place to avoid!
Full results
and photos will be posted on the website.
Bourton on the Water Primary School
win Summer Term Trophy
Bourton pipped Archway school by the narrowest of margins to take the Summer Term
Trophy competed for by 10 teams and 116 archers. Go to the Archery in Schools page for further information and for full
details.
Club Committee Meeting
28th
June at 8pm in the Deer House.
If members would like to attend then please let us know, you are more than welcome
and your views/contributions will be welcome.
Newsletter Survey
Again thank you to all those that responded, 85% response within 1 week, excellent. Will continue to use it as the
main communications method.
Club Newsletter Survey
Thank you to the
over 60% of you that responded to the club newsletter survey within 4 days. It is proving to be a good communication medium.
However the Notice boards at Bubbs Hill are also useful and John has been wouking on those. The website is our other main
way of communicating and the website is getting a lot of hits on a daily basis, when I have the time we do have the tools
to analyse the usage, so will report on that at a later date.
Archery GB
New Web Site is now working.
Thanks to the work we do
in schools Gloucestershire has been selected to be a lead County for the National Schools Initiative. Members of Archery GB,
the Community Sports Partnership, representatives from other clubs and teachers will be meeting at Deer Park on the 21st.
As a lead County we will be able to attract additional support and funding to build on the work we are already
doing.
Club Firework, BBQ and Target Evening ETC
The weather is again not making life easy for us, so the following arrangements will apply;
We will go ahead with the fireworks tonight providing it is dry, if it rains anytime after 5:30 then it will be off (they
are due to start at 9pm).
We will call the BBQ off anyway as we do not want to be left with the food.
The archery remains on, both Saturday evening as usual and the field course Sunday morning regardless of the
weather, although again if wet will leave the fita faces up on the field course as the 2D Animal faces are plain paper and
would fall apart.
Sunday 25th April (This Sunday!) Field Course –
Starts at 10am so get there before!
Club members
shoot, £3 per head. Course laid out (Fita faces) for seniors and juniors. 4 New targets. Club beginners welcome if they
require the loan of equipment they MUST let me know in advance.
Saturday 1st May –
Club Shoot and Firework Night
Having had 2 postponements for our firework night we are hoping for better weather
this time!For those that want to shoot the evening will begin
from 6:30, we will be organize a club target day (eligible for County Records!)Warwick Round (2 doz at 60y and 2doz at 50y
for adults, Short, Junior and Short Junior rounds will also be available (50/40, 40/30, 30/20 and 20/10).Please note that to help cover the costs of BBQ and fireworks a payment of £3
per head will be made.The competition will be followed by
a firework display on Bubbs Hill starting at 9pm. You are welcome to bring family etc.
Sunday
2nd May – 2D Animal Face Field Course Round – STARTS at 9:45am so get there for 9:30
24 target round, archers from Minchinhampton and Cheltenham will be joining us.
Course laid out for seniors and juniors. Club beginners welcome if they require the loan of equipment they MUST let me know
in advance.
Club Safety Officer
Following last Fridays Committee Meeting Karl Schneider is confirmed in the post.
Child
Welfare Officers
In line with Club Standards
Regulations, which requires both genders to be represented, Martin Hutchings is confirmed in post and in addition to her current
role as Club Treasurer Lynn Benfield is appointed as Assistant Child Welfare Officer.
Thanks
and Congratulations
At a reception hosted by
Lord and Lady Vestey the Chairman of Cotswold District Council Ben Jeffrey asked that their thanks be passed on to all club
members for the clubs support in working with juniors, especially with the work being carried out with local schools.
Archery GB Development Club
The
newly appointed Archery GB Club Development Officer Aaron Coggan visited the club on Monday, we will be used as a model for
other clubs to aspire to! Archery GB will be appointing a Club Development Officer in each County, clubs identified as ‘Develop
Clubs’ will be eligible for additional funding to support coach and archer development, facility improvement etc.
Records Officer
Marnie
now has software to help with recording scores, calculating handicaps etc. Can we please insure that when we do competitions
we forward the results sheets to Marnie asap. It is helpful if all the results from a competition can be forwarded as that
may also include results of other club members.
Competitions
Martin is continuing to develop the competitions folder and also to produce a
completion schedule which will also be published on the club website. We are also looking to encourage members who have entered
competitions to write their names on the schedule (Bubbs Hill Notice Board) so that others may be encouraged to also enter.
Club
Shooting Times
All members should note the
following; ·
Archery GB Insurance is not valid if an archer shoots
on their own, if they are accompanied by another person who is not shooting then that is acceptable.·
As we are guests of Girlguiding Gloucestershire (and
therefore the area can be used for a host of other activities) archery members may ONLY use the facilities within the prescribed
times or if outside of those times with the prior approval of the Guider in Charge (Mary). Unauthorised use of the grounds
will be deemed a club disciplinary matter and appropriate action will be taken.
Carbon Arrows
There seems to be some confusion on the use of
carbon arrows for outdoor shooting, pure carbon arrows are NOT acceptable, combinations of metals and carbons are fine, so
for example ACC’s and ACE’s are ok.
Club Equipment hire
This statement does not affect members who use club equipment which is provided
on the night and not taken away. Following last weeks committee meeting notice is given that a charge of
£5 per month will be charged from 1st May for those that borrow a bow and arrows, those borrowing one or
other item will be charged £3 per month.
County team Selection
Members should note that the criteria and processes for selection to both the
senior and Junior teams have changed, they can get more information by visiting the county website or talking to Steph.
Club
Accounts
Members should note that the fully
audited accounts are available for inspection, copies of the accounts are available from Lynn Benfield. Thank you to Lynn
for her time and excellent work in keeping our accounts in order..
Equipment for Sale
Could all members please review their own equipment and let me know if they have
any items they would like to sell, please provide details, price etc and we will publish the info to members.
Socials
Following last Fridays Committee Meeting, at last
we will get on and organize some of the socials! Indoor Crazy Golf TournamentSteph will announce details in next week. Further information on the venue can be found at Junglerumble.co.uk.
Date will be either 11th, 18th or 25th June with the later being the preferred date. Greyhound
RacingWill be at the Swindon Track on 21st May
a Friday Evening. Roger to circulate information. For those that want to share transport we will meet at Deer Park, details
to follow.
Coaching
Please
remember that only those wearing arm bands to be approached for assistance during practice sessions. Thank you to Rosie Benfield
for producing the bands.
Equipment MOT
Bow set up and tuning; over the next few weeks we will set up a target on Bubbs Hill which will be supported
by a coach(s) who will help members to check that their bows are correctly set up and also advise on tuning processes etc.
Good
Friday BBQ, Firework Display and Shoot - POSTPONED
Bad news I am afraid, we have consulted on the local weather predictions for Friday evening and it
has been decided to postpone the event. We will announce an alternative asap.
The AGM will also need to be rescheduled.
I know many want to get their
sight marks for the Easter Bunny on Monday, so you can still turn up and shoot on Friday evening (Only those with own equipment
though). You will also be able to shoot on Saturday evening (let me know if you need to loan equipment)
and there will also be shooting from 10 -12noon on Sunday morning (own equipment only).
New Committee Appointment to be made - Club Safety Officer - Vacancy
OTHER NEWS
Junior County Team make up for the Inter-Counties
The proposal is to expand the existing squad size from 8 to 12, adding an extra compound and recurve
but most importantly a longbow and a Barebow archer. The details will be confirmed following a meeting in April.
Archery
Leaders
Roger will be attending a consultancy
group meeting in April at Lilleshall National Sports Centre to make recommendations about the future format of the Archery
Leaders Training Programme.
Grand Western
Indoor Championships
A belated well done to
Alex and Callum Fraser and Aaron Pearce for all becoming Regional Indoor Champions earlier this year!
Club Practice Session Information - Indoor to Outdoor Programme.
Over 60's Mid Week Club Proposal
We already have a Monday morning club where members working flexible time, part time, school teachers, retired
or just taking a day off can shoot! Strictly junior free!
Likewise there is no coaching available on these sessions.
We are looking at starting an over 60's club on a separate morning, starting with a beginners course and then
providing follow up coaching. Watch this space.
3 more Level 2's complete their External assessments
Mothers Day Field Shoot
Club Registers 12 County Records between
15 Oct and end February!
The following members have had County records ratified, well done to everyone!
A. Pearce, C Fraser, A Fraser, S. Howse, T. Howse, J. Howse, R. Crang, S. Crang, R. Hutchings and J. Wilmott.
Thanks to Marnie our Records Officer for registering them.
Match agaist Cheltenham Archers - Report and Results
Monthly League Update - 7th March
Directions to Shurdington (Tuesday evenings until end of March).
Results 28th February Club Target day
Notice of Club AGM
GOOD FRIDAY 2nd APRIL
@ Bubbs Hill
Fun shoot, BBQ, Fireworks and the Club AGM (no more than 15mins) starting from
6pm.
AGM will start 7pm.
Everyone welcome, why not bring the whole family and enjoy the firework display
and good food?
Inter Club Friendly Match with Cheltenham Archers
Next Club Target Day - Feb 28 Portsmouth
New Field Course Proving a hit
Coaching News - Level 2 Progress
New Indoor Venue
We are pleased to announce that we have secured an additional Tuesday Evening venue at Bishop
Road, SHURDINGTON, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire,
GL51 4TB.
http://www.shurdington.org/SocCtr/SocialCtr.htm
We will continue to use Birdlip for individual and
specialist coaching on Tuesday evenings however the popularity of Tuesday evening sessions means until now we have not been
able to comfortably accommodate all the members that want to attend.
Field Course
This is to confirm that we will be holding our first Field course shoot at Bubbs
Hill this Sunday (14th February).
Everyone with their own equipment is welcome (However NO Senior Compounds
for this event), please arrive 10am for 10:15 start.
Course designed to minimize arrow loss, pegs for all ages and abilities,
so why not give it a shot. Mixture of animal, Fita and cardboard 3D’s.
Cost just £3 per head.
18 targets taking about 2 hours. For those that want to, a swift drink in the Green Dragon to finish!
PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE COMING, however if you make
a late decision that is fine.
Sport Unlimited Contracts
Great news, our club has just been awarded 18 Sport Unlimited Contracts to run from March 2010
to March 2011.
The 8 week programmes will operate across a range of new and existing schools and different venues. Well
done to our Schools Archery team.
Beginners Courses
2 Courses both fully subscribed will start at Birdlip Village Hall on the 8th February.
Simon will lead the programme and be supported by Karl, Ed and Mark.
Club Trailer
It has recently been refurbished and last week we had the club details/logo professionally
added to the sides, pictures on website in next few days.
Longbow making course
In the past some of our members have attended
a longbow making course and have been very pleased with the result. The same organization is planning a further 2 courses
to be held locally in Nailsworth. Options and therefore costs range from a basic longbow (2 laminates) to the more exciting
3 laminate bows of bamboo and/or rosewood etc with prices for the course and materials ranging from £135 to about £165. The 2 course dates are February 26th to 27th and March 19th to 20th. If any members are interested then you need to let me know by no later than Tuesday
2nd February.
Gloucestershire Archery Society Meeting
It was announced that Archery GB are withdrawing their proposal to
introduce a 50% of adult membership fee for juniors, we sent a detailed response as to why this should not happen, we were
the only club in the county to do so! Introduction of County Rankings, it was agreed
at the meeting to introduce and publish a County Ranking List for all disciplines, this information will be used to help select
the adult Inter-Counties Team. There will be a new venue for the County Outdoor
Championships this year, it will probably be held at Maiden Hill School in Stonehouse. It
was agreed to remind all clubs of the rules/format that should apply for club target days, we already comply and therefore
any County records achieved are valid.
County Indoor Championships Sunday 17th
Jan 2010
A day to remember!
What a fantastic day for the club, 28 entries, winning
13 of the 17 County titles awarded and 4 other members winning silver or bronze medals! The club won the team Trophy, 5 members
broke County Records (Becky, Joe Wilmott, Callum, Rosemarie and Aaron and 2 broke Regional Records (Joe, Callum). This was
an outstanding club performance, pictures and a full report will appear on the website shortly.Our Indoor County Champions for 2010 are; Nick, Vanessa, Steph, Rosie, Tom, Aaron, Matt, James,
Callum, Alex, Beckie, Alex & Joe. Well done to all these and to all the other Club members who represented us so well.
The winning team comprised Ed, Tom and Steph.
|
|
| Most of our successful team at the Indoor County Championships |
|
|
| Our County Indoor Champions - 2010 |
James gets his first Robin Hood!
James not only won his County Title to add to the National title but recorded his first 'Robin Hood'.
Well done keep up the good work.
Kingshill Practice Session Wednesday January 13th - OFF
Sorry to say the session is off! At Deer Park we had a further 6 inches of snow overnight (still snowing
this morning) and that is on top of roads that have not improved over the last few days and were/still are only just passable
with 4 wheel drive.
Unfortunately we cannot get the Transit or the trailer out of the car park so we cannot transport
the equipment to Kingshill.
Hope to see you all for final practice on Saturday at Balcarras.
Club Coaching Survey Results January 2010
Members
were surveyed by questionnaire on what their views were on current coaching activity, format of practice sessions and preferences
for workshops. The summarised results can be viewed via the link. The club coaches will meet to discuss the results further
and make recommendations to the full committee.
click here to download file
Guide for Archers and Parents buying a
first bow
Please see the link on the coaching page to download the guide. Remember to ask club coaches
for further help and advice.
Deer Park Archers Register response to
Latest ArcheryGB Consultation Paper on Annual Fees
Members of
the Club Committee have registered our views on the proposal to significantly increase junior membership fees and give a 50%
concession to the over 65's.
Click on the link below to read the details and also visit the GNAS Website for
further details of the proposal.
click here to download file
Club Firework Night Postponed until the NEW
Year!!
Deer Park Archers Junior match with Cheltenham
Archers
Sunday 13th Dec.
Eleven
Junior archers from Cheltenham and 18 from Deer Park had an excellent competition. Shooting a 3 dozen Portsmouth round with
the MEDIAN score being counted as the team score. This resulted in a narrow 6 point victory for our visitors who became the
first winners of a perpetual trophy!
Head 2 Head Competition
The bottom 16 ranked archers were put in group 2 and the top ranked archers into group 1.
Group 1 Results
Gold = Ashe Silver = Alex Bronze = Tom & Callum
Group 2 Results
Gold = Lauren Silver = Harry Bronze
= George & Luke
Well done to all those that competed.
Full results on the competition page.
|
|
| Cheltenham Archers Juniors - Winners Team Challenge trophy |
Practice Sessions
We had a record turn out last Saturday evening at Balcarras,
this very much impressed the visiting coaches from Meriden Archery Club!
15th December – Birdlip open coaching sessions.
16th December- Kingshill School.
Saturday 19th December – Balcarras Christmas
Shoot.
Monday 21st
December – Club Family Firework Night and BBQ. At Deer Park 6:30 start.
New Club Committee Appointments
Congratulations go to Martin Hutchings on being appointed
Club Child Protection Officer and to John Craigie and Edward Paddy on being appointed to club Equipment Officers.
NEWS FLASH
!
We have been awarded £3,609 by Archery GB and Sport England to pursue our work with schools archery!
Following the work we do in
schools and the Sport England drive to encourage more juniors into sport, as part of the Archery GB Sport Development Group
we were invited to submit an application for funding to help us make archery more sustainable in schools and the club, with
the objective of retaining more juniors in the sport. Roger submitted a 7 page proposal and the result
was that we were awarded the £3,609 to buy more equipment to allow us continue our Nationally recognized work in schools.
Having already secured funding to run programmes until the end of this academic year, we have also applied for significant
funding to support us running beginners courses and after-school clubs in the 2010/11 academic year. If you visit the
club website www.deerparkarchers.com and look on the schools archery page and the link displayed
on that page you will see some of the activities we are supporting. The long term benefits to the club are significant with
improved shooting venues, lower costs and a constant supply of new junior members. We are also applying for funding to train
teachers/parents in the schools we are working in to gain qualifications to enable them to support the after-school clubs
to ensure they are sustainable.
Club Firework Night & Family BBQ
As you already know this event has now been re-scheduled for the Monday 21st December, it will now
have a Christmas Theme. As well as a nice BBQ, we will have hot chestnuts, non alcoholic mulled wine, an excellent firework
display and Bonfire. The firework display will start at 7 o’clock. All members and their families are welcome, £3
per head or £6 for a family! Let us hope that the weather improves.
Club Equipment Officer
Vacancy(s)
Thank you to all those that enquired,
we will be making an announcement after the next committee meeting.
Bubbs Hill Tree Planting - Guiness World record attempt – More volunteers needed!
Thank you to all of those that have contacted me to confirm their support, however
we still need more volunteers. From 11 -12 Noon on Saturday 5th December we are taking part in a World
record attempt organized by the BBC to plant a million trees in one hour across the country! We will be attempting to plant
2000, Adam Henson from Country File will be on site filming the event for the programme and conducting interviews with those
involved. Radio Gloucestershire will also be on-site. Would any members and their families who would like to be involved please
let me know asap, those taking part will need to bring a spade and be here from about 10 til 1:00. It will
be assumed that all those involved have given permission to be filmed/photographed. We will also need a site team to distribute trees, stakes, guards etc, a car parking group, refreshment
team, first Aid etc
Calling ALL junior members
We have arranged a friendly match with Cheltenham Archers Juniors on Sunday 13th December
from 9:45until 1.00 at Balcarras School Recreation Centre. This is an ideal opportunity for all junior members to represent
the club and enjoy a bit of competition! The entry requirements
are;·
You will do your best and enjoy the morning!·
That you will have shot at least twice at either Balcarras
or Kingshill prior to the competition to ensure you have sight marks.If
you need to borrow a bow that is fine. There will be no dress requirements, wear what you want.Shooting distance will be 20yds or 15yds on various size faces
according to ability.Please let Roger know if you are available.
Club Annual Awards and Beetle Drive – Monday 14th December
This annual family event, with beetle drive action, plenty of food a raffle for
a Christmas Hamper and the annual awards (see website for previous winners) will take place at Birdlip Village Hall. Entry
is free and it is a family event and starts from 6:30. Everyone is welcome.
Records
Officer
Congratulations to all those who gained classifications during the Summer/Outdoor
season 2009, enamel pins will be awarded at the Club Annual Awards.And to those who broke County Records : Ian Pearce - 6 County RecordsStephanie Crang - 2 County RecordsAlex Fraser - 2 County RecordsCallum Fraser - 2 County RecordsArron
Pearce - 8 County Records AND had a 13 point Handicap Improvement! PLEASE
ensure you keep Marnie informed of all your indoor scores.
Sunday 29th November – County Coaching Group Meeting & GAS AGM.
All coaches invited (CPD points towards your renewal process), report from the National Coaching
Conference etc. 11 am for 2 hours at the Civil Service Ground (Black and Gold).Gloucestershire Archery Society AGM, same venue from 2pm.
Good Luck at the
National Junior Indoor Championships!
On Saturday
5th and Sunday 6th December the National Junior Indoor championships take place at Lilleshall. All our
best wishes go to Alex, Tom, Callum and James.
Coaching Questionnaire
At the Club Coaching Group Meeting last Monday it was agreed to circulate a questionnaire aimed
at identifying our coaching priorities within the club. Members will be asked to prioritise their coaching requirements so
that we can best organize ourselves. When you get a copy would you please take the time to respond, nil response will be taken
as nil requirement.
Club Firework Display and BBQ
Postponed
Due to an unpredictable weather forecast with heavy showers and a strong gusty wind, we have decided
to postpone the event until Monday December 21st. Apologies for any convenience caused.
Calling ALL junior members
We have arranged a
friendly match with Cheltenham Archers Juniors on Sunday 13th December from 9:45until 1.00 at Balcarras School
Recreation Centre. This is an ideal opportunity for all junior members to represent the club and enjoy a bit of competition!
The entry requirements are;· You will do your best and enjoy the morning!· That you will have shot at least twice at either Balcarras or Kingshill prior to the competition to ensure you have
sight marks.If you need to borrow a bow that is fine. There will be
no dress requirements, wear what you want.Shooting distance will be 20yds on various
size faces according to ability.Please let Roger know if you are available.
Club Firework and BBQ evening
Thursday 5th November from 6 o'clock
Club Firework Night & BBQ on the Deer Park Main Site, again open to everyone! Further details
in next newsletter for this family event.
Club Annual Awards and Beetle
Drive – Monday 14th December
Further details to be issued in November Newsletter but get the date in your diaries
for this fun family event.
Gloucestershire Indoor County Championships
Just a reminder to get your entries
in asap.
Kingshill and Balcarras After-School Clubs
Just a reminder that members who attend these
schools can attend their after school clubs. Talk to Steph/Dan or your school to arrange.
Halloween Shoot at Bubbs Hill
Thursay 29th October
Try to get there for 6:30, usual rate for subs, included will be the shoot and
a BBQ. Please try to bring a carved Pumpkin (prize for best one). Also would juniors (or seniors) please feel free to make
appropriate target faces (bats, broom sticks, ghosts etc), luminous if possible. This is a family event,
so immediate family more than welcome.
Level 1
Good luck to Ed who has just started a Level
1 coaching course, out of Region.
Congratulations to Deer Park
Well done to GirlGuiding Gloucestershire for achieving Planning
Permission for their Multi-Sports Barn on Bubbs Hill. Some significant funds need to raised to support the project which will
now cost around 1/3 of a million pounds! ANY members who have any ideas for sponsorship, access to funding grants, fund raising
events etc then please let Roger or Mary know your ideas.
Club Trailer
Is
currently being refurbished by Honeyfield Trailers, it will also have a ‘professional’ quality club logo added
to the sides!
Summary of Winter Practice Days upto Christmas (Check
below or latest Club Newsletters for specifics).
Mondays - Birdlip Village Hall - Coach Development
Workshops (not 1st Mondays of month). Agenda issued for each session.
Tuesdays - Birdlip Village
Hall - Improvers sessions, 1 to 1 coaching. Members need to arrange with coaches before attanding.
Wednesdays
- Birdlip - Beginners courses (all full) & Kingshill School - open shooting from 7-9pm.
Fridays
- Birdlip Village Hall - Beginners Courses (all full).
Saturdays - Mornings at Bubbs
Hill for individual coaching & Balcarras School - open shooting from 7-9pm.
Sundays - Adhoc
bookings (1/2 and whole day) for club competitions at Balcarras School & Field shoots at Deer Park.
National Record
Congratulations to Aaron
Pearce who achieved a National record at 40m, shooting longbow at the Cleve Archers Fita star event.
Cheltenham FITA
Well done to Joe, Becky,
Alex and Callum for all completing the event in difficult blustery and wet conditions last Sunday and for all winning! Congratulations
also go to Cheltenham Archers for organizing the event.
Grand Master Bowman
Congratulations to Steph
who recorded her 3rd consecutive GMB score to earn that status for the next 12 months. She also got a new 70m County
record with a score of 339/360 as part of her 1362 in the Ladies FITA at Andover.
Bows for Sale
The club is selling off
some higher poundage recurve bows (Junior and Senior) for prices between £10 and £35’s. Of the 12 for sale, 4 were sold
on Monday (and one has been reserved).
Free to good home
If anyone would like an
Epson 2480 Perfection Scanner, as new condition with software, cables etc for free, then contact Roger.
Competition Scores
Please make sure that all
competition scores or those achieved at Deer Park are sent to Marnie our Club Records Officer.
Visit of David Reader the newly appointed GNAS National Development Manager
David will be spending
much of the day on Monday 3rd of August at Deer Park reviewing how the club is run as part of a review of best
practice.
Sport Unlimited Funding Bid
The application for funding
to run archery programmes in 6 local schools over the winter has now been submitted and we should get an answer in the next
2 weeks.
Black and Gold Tournament this Sunday
Takes place this Sunday
2nd August, still not to late to enter.
Venue. Cheltenham area Civil Service Club Assoc
Tewkesbury
Road, Cheltenham.
Rounds. York, Hereford & Bristol Assemble 9.45am
National
Assemble 1.45pm
Entry Fee. York,
Hereford & Bristols £7.50
National
£5.00
Entries To. Mrs C. Williams
19 Springbank
Grove
Cheltenham
GL51 0PQ
Tel. No. (01242) 582356
Coaching Help
Thank you to Mike Addis
(Cheltenham) and Barbara Webb (B & G) who have been coming along to some of the recent training sessions to help with
coaching.
County Junior Championships – Saturday 12th September
As you all know Deer Park
Archers are running this competition at Cheltenham Archers ground. As well as help on the day we are hoping for ALL members
support by entering the competition. Adults and developing archers by entering the afternoon section at the shorter distances
and for the more experienced juniors the all day competition.
Ask any of the coaches
for help on which rounds etc.
Archery GB Progress Awards
Would all those juniors
wanting to complete one of these Nationally recognized awards please contact
Dan at dgill_im@hotmail.com to arrange a date and give Dan a chance to prepare the paperwork, assessment
etc.
Noticeboards
Thank you to Brian and
Marnie for updating the Noticeboard system at Bubbs Hill, make sure you check it out.
Lost Items
Found at Bubbs Hill, blue
ground quiver, 2 coates, umbrella. Collect from Roger.
County Records
Following our pressure
on the Gloucestershire Archery Society (thanks to Ian etc) they have now updated the records and made the system easier for
the WebMaster to maintain. We have been asked to check the newly published records and let the County Records Officer know
of any inaccuracies / omissions, so if you think you hold a record then check it out and let me know if they need updating.
They can be found at http://www.glosarchery.co.uk/pages/records.htm
Bad Weather
Has not been kind to us
at Bubbs Hill, let us hope for an improvement next week!
July 16th Newsletter
Competition – Why not enter???
Sunday 26th
July at Cheltenham Archers – FITA Competition. Suitable for adults and juniors and you can do whole or ½ day. Adults
must be able to shoot 50m and 30m for afternoon competition, juniors shoot distances appropriate to their age. IF YOU WOULD
LIKE TO ENTER THEN LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (no later than Wednesday) and I will do the entry forms for you!
Extra Winter Club Training Venue
Thanks to the work we have
been doing with Kingshill School (Cirencester) we are pleased to announce that we have secured Wednesday evenings from 7 to
9pm throughout the winter. The hall is 34m by 17m. The usual Wednesday evenings
at Birdlip may still continue depending on demand.
Kingshill School Archery Club
A number of our members
attend/will be attending Kingshill School. We will be running an after school club on Tuesday evenings. 3:15 to 4:15 for beginners
and 4:15 to 5:15 for improvers. Talk to Roger for further information on how to enroll. One of the School teachers will be
joining Deer Park Archers to consolidate the link between the club and the school.
Balcarras School
A similar arrangement is
being made with Balcarras School and the after school club will meet at 3:30 on a Wednesday evening for 1 hour.
Training
Congratulations to Vanessa
who has been selected to attend a fully funded weekend course at Lilleshall with the theme of Disability Awareness and Best
Practice. Four coaches have been selected from each region. Coaches from the Archery GB Performance Unit and the Paralympic
Squad will be attending.
Andy, Steph, Dan and myself
will be attending an afternoon workshop (today) at the University of Gloucestershire on Positive Behaviour Mangement in Sports
Coaching. Again the attendance is funded as we take part in a number of schools
programmes.
Clothes Orders
Another order going in
this week, talk to Steph or email her at sjcrang@aol.com Anyone who has not collected/paid
for their kit previously ordered should note that they have until the end of the week to do so or it will go on general sale.
Bows for Sale
We will have sorted all
the equipment for sale by the end of this week, there are likely to be 7 adult bows and 5 junior bows for sale from £20 -
£45. We can also help with arrow purchase.
Birthday Parties/B-B-Q’s/Business Corporate events etc.
Steph and Dan have now
set up their own company www.xperiencearchery.co.uk so if members would like to book, talk
to them for a good rate as members of Deer Park Archers!
Arrow Wrap
As many of you will have
found, it is difficult to rely on vanes sticking to aluminium shafts, buying arrow wrap from archery shops is very expensive.
We have been experimenting with using ‘Fablon’and the initial results are excellent! The vanes stick really well,
the arrows have been soaked in water for 24 hours and then dried, left out overnight in damp grass etc. We will now fletch
a couple of dozen club arrows for further trials, if it works, the cost of fablon is around 100 times cheaper and there is
a good choice of colours!
Sustainable Archery
The latest members to benefit
from our Club policy of recycling bows/limbs etc are Michael, Louise Dan, Molly, James and Amy. Lets keep up the good work,
if you are not using something, upgrading etc then please let Dan know so we can find a buyer.
Thank you to Nick for donating
3 sets of Junior Aluminium Arrows to the club.
Cleve Archers Premier Event
Congratulation to Alex
who completed his second Premier 720 event and to Steph who won Bronze at the same event, defeating Andrea Gales ranked 33
in the world in the Bronze Medal match, she also beat Lucy O’Sullivan and Sheila Harris in earlier round, this was Steph’s
first victories over both archers. Her score was a Commonwealth Games Qualification score.
Club Practice Sessions
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Saturday evenings from 6:30 at Bubbs Hill. Remember with the exception of Beginners who have just completed the
Beginners courses all other members who borrow bows need to let me know that they are attending to ensure the appropriate
bow is brought along for them.
July 1st Newsletter
Alex & Callum Triumph at Regional Junior Championships
Saturday
27th June was a great day for Alex & Callum at the Regional Junior Championships, both not just winning but
recording outstanding scores!
Alex,
shooting a Bristol 2 (60yds) recorded 1280 with 136 Golds and 8 reds to break the existing County & Regional records held
our own Rob Gruar which was 1248 recorded in 2002.
Callum
recorded 1274 on a Bristol 3, with 133 golds and 11 reds, fantastic shooting and hopefully a good sign for this weekends National
Championships at Lilleshall.
Becky
shooting in the Bristol Jnr Ladies Recurve, finished second with a solid mid 900 score. Good luck to all of them for the Nationals.
Club Kit has been delivered!
All the
ordered club kit has been delivered, whilst the club has settled the bill it represents a large amount of money, so all those
that have ordered, should collect and pay for their clothing as soon as possible please.
Anyone
who has not ordered and now wants something should let Roger know by the end of the week as we are going to place another
order in the next few days.
Appropriate Footwear and Clothing
Following
a concern registered at the last committee meeting, would ALL members please note that for H&S reasons you are requested
to wear appropriate footwear (no sandals, open shoes, high heels etc), if you choose to ignore this advice you do so at your
own risk. You should also note that we have adders in the area and the recent hot weather has encouraged them to bask in the
cut grass areas, so please wear appropriate footwear! It is also advised that you tie back long hair and remove jewelry etc.
and that appropriate clothing is worn.
Steph gets another County Record and second Grand Master Score
At the
team event at Lilleshall last weekend, Steph recorded 339 for 3 dozen arrows at 70m to break her own County record and then
followed that up on the Sunday with her second Grand Master Score 1344 on a Ladies FITA.
County Junior Championships – Why not enter?
The entry
forms will be out this weekend for the County Junior Championships (which we
are organizing) which will take place on Saturday 12th September. We are hoping that most members in the club (both
senior and Junior) will enter this competition, which will take place on Cheltenham RaceCourse.
Coaching News- Congratulations to our successful Level 1 Coaches.
Karl,
Simon, Mark, Steph and Dan have all successfully completed their second and final Level 1 external assessments, so Dan and
Steph have completed the requirements and with Karl, Simon and Mark attending a Child Protection Course next week so will
they. Well done to all of them. Sharon will be externally assessed over the Summer break.
Vanessa has completed the 9 classroom days towards her Level 2 and awaits internal and external assessments. Steph
and Dan have been accepted onto a Level 2 Coaching Programme starting in September and run by East Midlands archery association.
3 week Club National Challenge Begins NOW!
ALL club
members are encouraged to record National scores on club practice sessions throughout July.
A National is a 6 dozen round, 4 dozen at the longer distance and 2 dozen at the shorter distance. Experienced adult
archers (and juniors that want to) shoot at 60yds and 50yds. In –experienced adults at 50yds and 40yds. Juniors shoot
50/40 or 30/20 or 20/15 depending on age. Record as many scores as you want during July and let Roger/Marnie(new club records
officer) have them.
This is
a great chance to establish an outdoor benchmark for yourself. National scores shot at formal competitions are also eligible
as are those shot earlier in the month.
Alex & Roger on Corinium Radio this week
A pre-recorded
interview with Alex and Roger on Archery will be broadcast on Corinium Radio Cirencester this Saturday between 5 and 6pm.
They broadcast on 87.7FM and it can also be heard on www.coriniumradio.co.uk
Club Committee reorganization
Following
a committee meeting, it has been agreed that Sharon will move to the position of Club Child Protection Officer and Lynne will
swop positions with Sharon and take up the post of Club Treasurer. We would like to take the opportunity to thank them for
their contribution in their current roles and wish them luck in their new ones!
Any members
who would like to join the committee should talk to Mary/Janet to register their interest.
Marnie
will be taking over the Club Records Officer from Andrea with immediate effect and again may we thank Andrea for all her efforts
and support over many years in this position. All scores should now be emailed etc to Marnie .
Archery in Schools
As you
will be aware we are currently completing 8 week courses in a number of schools including, Kingshill, Archway, Birdlip, Coberley
and shorter programmes in Balcarras, Sir William Romney, Whitminster Centre etc. We have made a small number of offers of
club memberships to pupils who have demonstrated the right attitude, enthusiasm and aptitude. We are now receiving requests
for Autumn and Winter programmes in many of these senior schools with a view to them setting up their own archery clubs. This
can only be an excellent development for the sport
Club Training Courses
Some of
us will be attending a course to allow us to teach GCSE Archery (PE Module) and to become external assessors for GCSE.
Four of the coaches will be attending a ‘Positive Behaviour Management in Sport’ workshop funded
by Active Gloucestershire for clubs that take part in the Sport Unlimited Programme.
As already mentioned some members will be attending the child Protection course in the next week.
We are organizing some more equipment maintenance courses and these will take place over the next couple of months.
Anyone else interested should let Roger /Andy know.
Beginners Courses
The four programmes currently running will complete next week. Indications are that the majority of participants
will join the club! We have decided that the Mondays and Wednesdays will then continue as open sessions, starting FROM 6:30
and continuing to 8:30. The coaches currently taking the beginners courses will provide the leadership for those evenings
which will become a single session, so everyone can attend at anytime during the evening and shoot for the full 2 hours if
they want to. New members can attend either/both sessions on the Mondays and Wednesdays. As the sessions are open, existing
club members can attend on those evenings and this will help with new members’ integration. Roger will continue to bring
the equipment on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
October Beginners Courses
We have decided to only run 2 programmes on a single evening at Birdlip, towards the end of October. The other
evening planned for Beginners will now be used for coach training and equipment workshops.
June 5th Newsletter
Members Field Course at BUBBS HILL – Thursday 11th June
We are
putting a mini-field course together at Bubbs Hill for this Thursday. We know a number of you would like to try field archery
but are worried about losing your arrows at High Cross. The course will be made up of 2D and 3D targets at markers suitable
for everyone and there will be cut grass/banks behind each target. Every thing else will be explained on the evening and groups
of 4/5 will make their way around from 6:00pm (last starting time will be 7:30). This
is a great chance to try field archery, so why not give it a go!
(Anyone
wanting to shoot as usual will still be able to).
Club Kit
Has been
ordered, will let you know as soon as we have a delivery date. The good news is that prices are the same or in some cases
lower than the last time we ordered!
Broken Bones
They say
things go in 3’s, well Victoria(arm), Phil (hand) and Tom (collar bone) have all had accidents in the last few weeks
(not at archery), so we hope they all get well soon.
Club Web Site
We are
making good progress, and it should be re-launched in next few days. The revised site will include links/information on competitions
and also links to archery shop web sites selling offering low cost equipment etc.
Club Instant Gazebo!
We tested
the clubs new instant gazebo, excellent once we got it up, however we will need a few more practice sessions if it is to become
‘instant’.
Introduction to Compound bow shooting – Coaching
Vanessa
and Mike Addis (Cheltenham Archers Coach) will start next Thursday. The club has purchased some excellent equipment to support
this activity.
Archery in Schools
We currently
have 6 programmes(72 participants) running in senior and junior schools, on completion of the 8 week programmes, unfortunately
we will only be able to offer membership to a small number of the participants.
Club Beginners Programmes
4 programmes
started last week, we limited the participants to less than 30, and we can accommodate all of these should they want to join.
Working with the Level 1 trainee coaches they all made excellent progress.
Club Equipment
Most members
have now bought their own equipment since completion of the last beginners courses, please note that whilst equipment will
still be available in a months time, priority will be given to those who complete the current beginners programmes and who
join the club.
Donations
Thank
you to Nick for donating 20 new ‘pigs tail’ metal fencing rods and to Lynn for the donation of a new light weight
gazebo. Also to Mavis Reynolds for donating some equipment for the field course (targets, signs, faces etc) and to Brian for
distance marker boards for bubbs Hill.
Old/outgrown
bows/arrows/quivers etc are always welcome for the club to use/members to loan, so if you have anything please do not hesitate
to donate it!
Wanted – Someone to make some more ground quivers.
We need
some more ground quivers, please ask Roger for current designs, the club will pay for materials if anyone has the skill/equipment
to make them.
Field Course – High Cross
Thanks
to Paul for laying out the 3D course last week, it was great fun.
Competitions
Good luck
to all our members that are shooting this weekend at Minchinhampton (a number in their first competition) and to Steph at
the UK Masters.
The Gloucestershire
County Junior Championships in September (we are organizing it) will in addition to offering a National Round (for adults
shooting 60/50 yds) will also offer a short National Round (for Adults) shooting 40/30 yds. This will give an end of season
chance for those that are not yet confident at 60/50 the chance to experience a competition shooting at 40/30 yds. We will
be circulating the entry forms next week.
More Equipment Left at Bubbs Hill.
This week
the following equipment has been left;
Red Bow
Stand
Black
Finger sling
Black
bow stringer
Black/Red
longbow arrow.
Monday Morning Practice session at Bubbs Hill
This session
continues to increase in popularity, 9:30 to 1:00 if you would like to join us!
Just a reminder
The club
has a range of equipment to help archers to develop their own technique/try different shooting aids, for example low poundage
(20 – 30lb) universal fitting limbs, long rods, bow/finger slings, arrow rests etc, talk to any of the coaches if you
want to try something. Low poundage, variable draw length compound bow, various release aids etc.
Click Here for Directions to: Balcarras School Sports Centre. Charlton Kings, East End Road, Cheltenham GL53 8QF
|
