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Welcome to the new ontarget newsletter.
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A Week in the Life of the
News Bowmen of Ardleigh recently had 40 beginners registered for a come & try event. The vast majority signed up for the next beginner’s course and the club retained 15 new members. The club also hosted a reporter from a local newspaper at a special come and try session. This allowed the reporter to try archery so that they could understand the sport they reported on.
Development Team
Arran Coggan National Club Development Co-ordinator
We hope that you like this newsletter and that it brings you inspiration as you develop your club. The newsletter will be sent out every 6 months as another way of getting information to you and bringing some of the guidance and support to life.
Rochdale Company of Archers received 7 (yes SEVEN!) nominations in the recent Rochdale Borough Community Sports Awards for 2010/11. The category’s included - Sports Club of the Year, Volunteer in Sports (2 nominations); Coach of the Year; Unsung Hero (2 nominations) and Young Performer of the Year. They came away with the Club of the Year award and it shows that they are living up to being ontarget!
Silver Spoon Bowmen have been getting involved with Lincolnshire Sports Partnership’s Quest for Gold an opportunity for individuals aged 16 years or over to volunteer or take part in all Olympic and Paralympic sports across Lincolnshire. The club have been running archery sessions for the 50 plus age group. The first sessions went really well and a further two sessions across the summer has been arranged.
The last 9 months have been hectic since we launched ontarget at the Development Conference. It has been great to visit clubs around the country and see the enthusiasm of volunteers to develop their club and the sport. These developments will help us grow the numbers taking part in the sport. ontarget is about your club deciding what your main aims and objectives are and
for us to support you on that road. It means that you need to take as much ownership on the programme as we do. We want you to contact us, visit you and find out how we can help. At present we only hear from a handful, so does that mean the rest are all ok? We are here to help, use us! In between the work we’ve managed to pick up a bow! This is me gaining my White FITA arrow.
Deer Park – onwards and upwards! Following their success at the Sport & Recreation Alliance Sports Club of the Year awards Deer Park Archers have got back to business. At the National Junior Outdoors, the juniors recorded 6 National records (to add to the 6 they broke in the previous 4 weeks). 3 members became National champions, 3 getting silver and one bronze medal. Gloucestershire won the County Compound Title
and the team were all from Deer Park! One member became the first junior in the UK at any distance to record a score of over 1400 on a metric round (1406) on the Saturday and another member became the first junior to record a perfect score (1296 144 golds) on any Bristol round in the UK. All these performers are coached by Steph Crang – well done to her and the archers!
On the same day senior members of Deer Park Archers were winning and breaking county records the Cheltenham Record Status event and the club was also running a corporate all day Have a Go AND running have a go sessions back at the Guide Centre were the club are based at the same time!
Being one of the smallest development teams across all the other sports, we certainly have a lot going on! Follow our week to see the type of activities we get up to. Monday Arran & Kate visit Wolf Archers (Wolverhampton) as they are run a schools competition during National School Sports Week thanks to funding from Archery GB distributed by the County Sports Partnerships.
Tuesday David & Arran meet to discuss the specialism strands of ontarget. Plus put the finishing touches to the Club & Volunteer Awards.
Wednesday Whilst the rest of the team meet at Lilleshall, Arran is in London learning about the new developments for the Community Amateur Sports Club scheme – which has now 6000 clubs, saving £100 million in relief rates and gift aid.
Meet the Development Team
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Saturday
Kate & Alex meet with Youth Sport Trust representatives to discuss the new modified equipment to attract the 73% of young children that currently have no experience of archery within schools.
Friday Arran & Kate team up again to visit Lichfield Archers to see the fantastic work that they are doing with disabled archers.
David Reader
National Development Manager
Arran Coggan
Kate Moss
The week doesn’t stop for all of us. Kate visited the National Junior Outdoor at Lilleshall to talk to archers, parents and coaches.
Sunday Arran made a visit to see Leicester Archery Academy, an ontarget club hosting a Level 1 course, following a small grant to train up 4 new coaches for the club.
National Club National Schools and Young Development Co-ordinator People Co-ordinator
Submit an article or your general feedback about ontarget for our next issue Contact Arran Coggan, National Club Development Coordinator, Tel: 07525 233 592 or Email: arran.coggan@archerygb.org ontarget Members Newsletter > Issue 1 2011
Hannah Bussey
Coach Education Lead Officer
Alex Smith
Schools and Young People Development Officer