County and Clubs
Membership Fees 2012-2013 (Sunday, 13 May 2012)
Membership Fees for 2012-2013 are now available from the main menu in the "Development / Membership / Fees" section of this website.
Although these don't come into effect until the membership renewal process during the summer, all the figures are now available for clubs who want to plan ahead.
Theft of Archery Equipment (Sunday, 29 April 2012)
Falcon Archers have reported the recent theft of training equipment from their ground.
The damage has been repaired, the locks and an alarm fitted. Additionally they intend to use SmartWater to mark all equipment in future - this should greatly help in identifying equipment and perhaps the intruder (although it would appear that significant evidence was left at the scene this time).
If any archer of club is offered (or notices) archery equipment being sold at suspiciously low prices, please contact Falcon Archers for further information about what remains missing.
KCC Staff Games (Sunday, 29 April 2012)
In the year of the London Olympics KCC's Staff Club want to organise a special event to encourage employees to get involved with a range of activities across the County. After consulting with staff members, they decided to arrange a week of activities ranging from boggle to badminton. This event is called the KCC Staff Games 2012.
The aims of the event are fourfold:
- Improve KCC staff awareness of the amazing facilities on their doorstep & engage with Kent businesses.
- Link staff with similar interests in sports who may then continue to meet on a regular basis.
- Raise money for Kent based charities and help to raise their profile.
- Improve general health and wellbeing of employees within KCC.
The event will run for seven days during the evenings and weekend of the week commencing 11th June 2012. The staff games has attracted the support of the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet who have offered to host the final day of the games, where they are looking to hold track events and activities. This will also give the various charities a chance to further promote their messages and collect money.
They are now looking for venues to hold certain events and in particular a venue to hold Archery in East Kent on Tuesday 12 June for around 20 people, who have shown an interest in taking part. If any club is interested in hosting this or is able to provide assistance, they are asked to contact Emily Smith at the KCC as soon as possible.
Adam Kenyon Receives the GNAS President's Medal from SCAS (Sunday, 22 April 2012)
Last year GNAS celebrated its 150th anniversary and one of the ways in which it did so, was to have 150 medals made - The President's Medals. All clubs, county associations and regional associations were able to apply for a medal and decide just what they would award it for - for example for a fantastic shooting result or for an outstanding volunteer.
SCAS applied for and received a medal; the winner was announced at yesterday's council meeting and the medal went to Adam Kenyon of Crown Archers.
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Target Stands (Sunday, 22 April 2012)
The Association has now taken delivery of 40 new 4-legged target stands and they were used in anger for the first time today at the County Invitation tournament. The new stands mean that there is now no woodwork behind the gold/red/blue area of the target and if today's experience is anything to go by, this has dramatically reduced the problems of arrow penetration and breakage, even with straw bosses.
It also means that the Association now has a number of used, traditional, 3-legged stands that are surplus to requirements and will be given free-of-charge to clubs, schools, etc., who are looking to develop their facilities. (Please note that commercial providers of archery will only be considered after all non-commercial requests have been dealt with.)
If you are interested, please contact our Equipment Officer to discuss what is available and their condition. Please note that we cannot deliver stands to your club, but we plan to make them available for collection on the day of the county Longbow Championship - Sunday, 20 May 2012. If the requests exceed the number available, it will be necessary to limit the number we can give to individual applicants.
Kent County Bowman (Sunday, 18 March 2012)
ArcheryGB announced changes to many of the classification levels in the Spring 2012 edition of ArcheryUK; in particular this sorts out anomalies in the classification requirements for juniors of all ages shooting Recurve Barebow or Longbow. These changes are effective for all rounds shot on or after 01 March 2012.
As a direct consequence of these changes, the Association has changed the score levels required for the Kent County Bowman classification with effect from the same date. The new score levels can be found in the appendix at the end of the KAA Policy - Kent County Bowman.
Please remember that the Kent County Bowman classification is used to determine:
- the cut-off level for some score returns to the county Records Officer, which are then used as the basis of County Team selection;
- qualification for invitation to the annual County Invitation Tournament.
County Records for Archers with a Disability (Sunday, 18 March 2012)
After a much longer delay than we had originally hoped, records are now maintained for Indoor and Outdoor Target Archery for archers with disabilities. The first record books published, contain the accepted claims going back to when we first invited claims - if more than one claim has been received for the same record, then the highest has been included.
For all future claims, please use the standard County Record Claim Form, but make sure that you mark the form clearly with the appropriate IPC category (i.e. ARST, ARW1, ARW2, or ARVI), but please do not supply any details or evidence of your disability with your claim.
Please note that:
- you must have shot in full compliance with any IPC restrictions (e.g. ARVI must qualify as visually impaired and shoot with full blackout blindfold), but it is not necessary for you to have been formally classified - we only need your assurance of the classification you would qualify for.
- the normal 6-month time limit now applies to all new record claims.
Archery "Big Weekend" (Sunday, 12 February 2012)
ArcheryGB is celebrating London hosting the Games by organising Archery's Big Weekend on August 25 and 26. The "Archery Big Weekend" will see clubs and other archery providers from all over the country come together and open up their doors to host an archery open day for their local community. As part of a nation-wide campaign to mark the Games, the event will enable members of the public to come along to their local venue and give archery a go. This is set to be a big weekend for archery lovers everywhere, with something for everyone to enjoy, from the Big Weekend to the National Series final, which it coincides with.
Clubs are invited to hold their open day on one or both days over the advertised weekend. The sign up process will start in March and end in June. This will allow ArcheryGB time to promote all of the participating venues to the public and give clubs plenty of time to prepare. Each club that signs up will receive an organiser pack to help them set up their open day; they will be promoted as a part of a national event, and they will also be entered into a free prize draw. All that is asked, is that in the spirit of the Games, it will be free for members of the public to shoot some arrows!
More information will be available within the next month.
KAA Tournaments
Important Note: Tournaments and events advertised on this web site are normally only available to current members of GNAS/ArcheryGB or another national archery association affiliated to World Archery. Some longbow tournaments might also be open to BLBS members. Tournament Organisers are entitled to place additional restrictions on entries, so it is important to check any terms and conditions on the individual tournament entry form.
KAA Longbow Championship 2012 (Sunday, 13 May 2012)
The target list for the Longbow Championship on 20 May 2012 at Vigo is now available.
Rochford Archery's mobile shop will be at the tournament during the day and Vigo Rugby Football Club will be running their barbeque during the lunch-time period.
KAA Disabled Archery Tournament (Sunday, 29 April 2012)
The KAA Disabled Archery Tournament will be held on 21 July 2012 and again this year it is hosted by Sittingbourne Community College.
Details and entry form are now available for download - copies will also be circulated to clubs and archers that have previously taken part.
Regional and National
GNAS AGM (Sunday, 29 January 2012)
At last year's GNAS AGM the suggestion was made that it should be held in different parts of the country, perhaps in a different region each year; the intention behind this was to make it more accessible to members who do not normally attend, because of the difficulty in getting to Lilleshall.
This year it will be held on Saturday 28 April (a week later then usual) at the University of East London, Stratford, London, starting at 11:00 a.m..
As an added incentive to attend, there will be an opportunity afterwards for up to 90 members to tour the Olympic Park - please note that this tour will only be available to those who attend the AGM!
Full details together with the agenda, reports and voting forms will be circulated to club secretaries and GNAS Direct/Honorary Life Members during March.
Selection for England Teams (Tuesday, 18 May 2010)
The EAF is responsible for selecting teams to represent England at events where separate teams compete for each of the UK home nations (for example Commonwealth Games, Euronations tournaments and home nations teams at certain major domestic events).
We have been asked to remind members, who wish to be considered for selection, that:
- details of the selection criteria are available from the EAF web site;
- it is the archer's responsibility to seek selection and to supply the required information - the EAF will not actively search for potential candidates.
International
World Archery Federation(Sunday, 03 July 2011)
On Friday, 01 July 2011 FITA Congress (meeting in Turin, Italy) decided to change the organisation's name from Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (FITA) to World Archery Federation (WA).
Important note: this change of name is limited to the organisation - there is no change to the names of the various FITA rounds.
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Development
Opening up School Facilities for Community Use (Sunday, 04 March 2012)
This week Sport England published guidance which will help thousands of schools across the country open up their sporting facilities to the local community.
At the moment, 76 per cent of sports halls, 73 per cent of artificial grass pitches, 29 per cent of swimming pools and 52 per cent of grass pitches in England are located within the education sector.
This means that a lot of the country’s sports facilities sit redundant in the evening at weekends and during the school holidays, despite many sports clubs desperately crying out for somewhere to play.
If your club is looking for outdoor or indoor facilities, it is possible that this latest initiative by Sport England as part of their Places People Play programme could help you to persuade a school in your area to make its facilities available.
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Sport Makers (Sunday, 22 January 2012)
Three months after Sport England launched its search for 40,000 Sport Makers, who will make sport happen for their friends, neighbours or colleagues, the number who have signed up has passed the 10,000 mark.
Every Sport Maker who has signed up is invited to an informal and interactive workshop, where they’ll gain the skills and opportunities to get involved in sport in their area. Backed by the British Olympic Association and £4 million of National Lottery funding, Sport Makers is part of the Places People Play legacy programme that is bringing the magic of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games into communities across the country.
To find out more about Sport Makers, which is open to anyone aged 16 and over, and to sign up, visit the Sport Makers website.
£1bn of Funding for Sports Clubs(Tuesday, 10 January 2012)
Sport England and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt today gave details of a new five-year youth and community sport strategy that will deliver on Lord Coe’s 2012 Games bid promise to inspire a generation to get involved in sport.
Between 2012 and 2017 over £1 billion of National Lottery and Exchequer funding will be invested to create a meaningful and lasting community sport legacy by growing sports participation at the grassroots level.
Under the new strategy, every secondary school in England is set to host a community sports club, and £10 million will be made available to open up school sport facilities for wider public use.
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The Games+Beyond (Sunday, 18 December 2011)
The Games and Beyond is part of Sport England’s London 2012 legacy programme which aims to build on the excitement of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games to increase sporting participation across the country.
The new website provides information about each of the sports that are included in the Games, including archery. It is possible that prospective members may have been inspired to take up archery after visiting that website, so clubs might wish to be prepared, by taking a look themselves.
Coaching
For news about coaching and coach development, please visit the Invicta Coaching Group website.
London 2012
More Olympic and Paralympic Ticket Sales(Sunday, 13 May 2012)
London2012 have announced that they will soon be offering further tickets for sale. This will start with a presale of Olympic Games tickets for people who have applied unsuccessfully for tickets in previous rounds.
Once this is complete, you will be able to purchase any remaining Olympic Games tickets, including tickets to the Olympic Football Tournament, from 11am on Wednesday 23 May 2012. They will announce closer to the date a full list of the sports that still have availability.
They will also be offering some tickets to the Olympic Games for the first time. All of these will go on general sale from 11am on Tuesday 29 May on a first come, first served basis. In addition, any remaining Paralympic Games tickets will go on sale from 11am on Monday 21 May 2012.
For more information, please visit the London2012 Ticketing website.
Olympic Torch Relay (Sunday, 25 March 2012)
Details of the Olympic Torch Relay were announced some of months ago and in November more of the detail of the route was published, showing many of the towns that the relay will pass through. Now street-level detail of the itinerary is available.
The relay will start at Landsend on Saturday, 19 May 2012 and end at the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony on 27 July 2012, passing within 10 miles of 95 per cent of the population of the UK.
The evening celebration events will be staged by the London 2012 Organising Committee and the Olympic Torch Relay Presenting Partners with the support of the host local authority. Each event will differ, with locally-programmed content on the stage adding to the celebratory atmosphere.
The main points on the route in the Kent area are:
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| 16 July 2012: | | Brighton |
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| 17 July 2012: | Crawley, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, Eastbourne and Bexhill | Hastings |
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| 18 July 2012: | Rye, Ashford and Folkestone | Dover |
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| 19 July 2012: | Ramsgate, Canterbury and Whitstable | Maidstone |
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| 20 July 2012: | Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend and Sevenoaks | Guildford |
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| 21 July 2012: | Greenwich | Waltham Forest |
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| 22 July 2012: | Havering | Bexley |
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| 23 July 2012: | Lewisham, Bromley and Croydon onwards around London | |
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Paralympic Torch Relay (Sunday, 18 March 2012)
The Paralympic Torch Relay will take place from 24–29 August. Four separate flames will be lit at Flame Lighting events in London, Greater Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff. Each nation will also host a Flame Festival.
The flames will then be united at Stoke Mandeville to create the Paralympic Flame, before a 24-hour Torch Relay starting on the 28 August to journey the Flame to the Olympic Stadium.
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London 2012 Ticket Resale Programme (Sunday, 18 December 2011)
The London 2012 Ticket Resale Programme will launch on 6 January 2012. The resale programme is a safe and secure way for ticketholders to sell any Olympic or Paralympic Games tickets that they are unable to use, for the face value of the ticket. Tickets may be released for purchase at any time during the ticket resale period (6 January to 3 February 2012) and all tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis. Please note that tickets will only be released if put up for resale by another ticketholder.
More information on the ticket resale programme will be available on the London2012 ticketing website no later than 6 January 2012.
Remember that it is an offence to sell or offer for sale tickets at more than face value - this automatically excludes selling by auction (for example on eBay), if the seller cannot set a maximum limit on the final price.