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TreeTops fund raiser

General Posted by Andy HarrisonPosted on Sun, September 11, 2016 19:38

Thanks to the Magnificent 7 (Meg, Mo, Dave, Andy, Wendy, Chris and Harry) who gave up their entire Sunday (including missing the league shoot) to run 5 hours of have a go sessions at Elvaston Castle today.

The weather was abnormally perfect, warm enough for shirt sleeves without dehydration.

Traffic was slow but steady through the afternoon and we managed to get 58 people the chance to shoot. Not as many as we had hoped for but a surprisingly large number were very interested in moving onto a beginners course and had not been aware of the club before today.

We raised £121 for TreeTops which contributes to the near £20,000 they believe they raised today (mostly from the entries for the colour rush itself).

Anyway thanks again team, you deserve the glass of wine tonight (except Harry of course as alcohol is a terrible old persons habit you should avoid at all cost).



Hurray – we have been awarded a Sport England Grant

Equipment Posted by Andy HarrisonPosted on Thu, June 16, 2016 14:11


I am very please to say that our grant application has been successful. We will shortly be investing around £14,000 in grant funds, our club funds and individual club members donations (time and spare equipment) into delivering an increasing engagement in Archery.

The key elements of our bid were to establish our ability to be mobile enabling us to run archery events away from our normal summer and winter bases. Additionally we have a significant investment in equipment to help our beginners transition to equipment of their own in a better informed and safer way. Finally we are investing in coaching skills and resources to help all our archers continue to develop throughout their archery career.



A guide to secureing bosses

Documents/Guides, Equipment Posted by Andy HarrisonPosted on Sat, August 01, 2015 17:10

After witnessing a boss collapse and the destruction of a couple of half sets of arrows at a tournament the other week I tried in vain to locate any good guidance on how to secure a boss. In particular Archery GB stated that they did not have any guidance material available.

I have had a first attempt to create a guidance document that we can offer to Archery GB as the basis for standard guidance.

Please have a look and let me know what you think.


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I went for the highly illustrated approach.

Andy Harrison – Equipment Officer



Useful documents from Belvoir Archers

Documents/Guides, General Posted by Andy HarrisonPosted on Sat, August 01, 2015 17:01

Belvoir Archers (Nottinghamshire) have kindly provided permission for us to ‘borrow’ the following documents for our use.

Firstly a document that describes the rounds, handicaps and various award schemes that are available to us. Note that some of these (Rose and FITA star awards etc) require you to shoot the qualifying score in recognized tournaments.


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The second document is a very well put together guide to what to expect when you go to your first ‘away’ tournament. This would have been really useful before I attended my first event!!


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Have a read and I hope you find it informative.

Andy Harrison – Equipment Officer



Beginners equipment buying guide

Documents/Guides, Equipment Posted by Andy HarrisonPosted on Wed, October 08, 2014 00:02

In preparation for the latest batch of beginners approaching the end of their 10 week course I have been working on a beginners guide to buying archery equipment that I wish I could have had access to a couple of years ago.

The attached draft has been updated after review by a few people in the club (thanks for your constructive comments). Its now close enough to right to be ready for an initial issue. Please feel free to use it if you find it of value or ignore it if not.


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New club tool box

Equipment Posted by Andy HarrisonPosted on Sat, October 04, 2014 08:03

Over the last couple of weeks I have put together an equipment officers toolbox. It is stocked with screw drivers, allen keys, pliers, nocking pliers, fletching jig(s), fletching glue, nocking and serving thread, limb guages, bracing guage, gaffer tape and even a micro blow torch and lighter amongst other items. Hopefully we have everything we need for tuning and field repairs of bows and arrows (including refixing glue in points) all in one place. Its there for the use of all club members so please feel free to make use of it. Look out for the orange and black tool case.

During the summer season it will remain in the containers. During the indoor season or while we are running indoor courses (as now) it will spend a lot more time in my car boot. Please just ask if you need it, or if you need any help using it.



equipment swap shop

Equipment Posted by Andy HarrisonPosted on Fri, October 03, 2014 06:56

Over the last few weeks a couple of club members have donated old unused items of equipment to the club. If anyone else has any items they don’t need or want anymore please feel free to let me have them and I will set up a ‘loan’ service. Hopefully we can save new archers some initial expense as they decide what items they really want to buy. Pat has already donated a number of chest guards and tabs (he must have been shooting even longer than he claims to have acquired this many!).

Andy Harrison, equipment officer.



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