OPEN TO ALL

Anyone over the age of 8 years can apply for membership or take a beginners course with us, although under 16s must be accompanied by an adult at all times. If you would like to take a beginners course and feel that you may have to adjust the way you shoot due to a disability, please feel free to discuss this with our coaches at any time; archery is a very inclusive sport and our coaches have had training from the Head Coach for Paralympic Archery at London 2012 to help adapt the standard shooting style for a range of disabilities, including visual impairments and spinal injuries.

In terms of the styles of archery we take part in, our members use a wide range of bows (including Olympic-style recurve bows, longbows, compound bows and more) for target archery during practice sessions and in competitions, and attend field archery, clout and flight competitions in addition. Our competition achievements are all recorded on our Twitter feed – as you can see, we’re having a great year with archers of all ages and experience levels winning competitions and setting records!

We are affiliated to ArcheryGB, Durham & Northumberland Archery Association (DNAA) and Northern Counties Archery Society (NCAS). We are also part of ArcheryGB’s club development programme, OnTarget, with a Community Specialism within the ontarget programme, and are proud to have supported the Start Archery Week  and Join In Olympic/Paralympic legacy programme by holding have-a-go days since 2012. We’re already looking forward to next year’s event so please check back nearer the time for information on how to get your own introduction to the sport with one of our qualified coaches – but just a warning: you’ll definitely get the archery bug!

We have taken part in the Evening Gazette Wish Sport Token Appeal twice over the last few years; click here for the article featuring us as one of the participating clubs in 2013, and thank you to everyone who collected tokens for us!