County and Clubs
Hannah Brown promoted to International Judge (Sunday, 15 January 2012)
Our congratulations go to Hannah Brown of Bowmen of Woodstock for her recent appointment by World Archery
(formerly FITA) as an International Judge.
Hannah has also been appointed as one of the NTOs at the Olympic Games archery event
at Lords Cricket Ground later this year and as a judge at the World Indoor Championship in Las Vegas.
The county of Kent continues its tradition of numbering International Judges among its membership -
we also have 2 Emeritus International Judges (Derrick Lovell and Neil Dimmock).
County Records for Archers with a Disability (Sunday, 15 January 2012)
The KAA is still planning to maintain county records for archers with a disability and
is currently finalising exactly which records will be maintained going forward.
In the mean time any archers who fall into any of the IPC-recognised disability categories
are asked to continue to submit claims for rounds shot.
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 shoot with full blackout blindfold.
County Records for Flight Archery (Sunday, 15 January 2012)
Following a recent enquiry, the KAA
is currently investigating the possibility of maintaining county records for flight archery.
Any archer who has a particular interest in flight archery is asked to:
- contact the county Records Officer
with details of their normal flight bow category, flight classification and
the flight tournaments that they have previously attended or have entered this year;
(When writing, please ensure that you include your name and club.)
- submit claims for rounds shot on or after 01 January 2012, using the standard
County Record Claim Form, clearly marked "Flight Archery".
If there is sufficient active interest in this discipline, the KAA will consider maintaining records,
commencing toward the end of this year with the highest accepted claims received at that point.
County Records for American Flatbow (Sunday, 15 January 2012)
An article in the Winter 2011 edition of the ArcheryUK magazine outlines a proposal for including the American Flatbow as an additional bowstyle
for outdoor & indoor target archery, clout, field and flight archery.
This announcement has already resulted in an enquiry as to whether the KAA will
maintain records
for the new bowstyle.
It is important to note that this is only a proposal at present and is subject to change, or even (in theory at least) cancellation;
the KAA has decided to wait until the consultation period is ended and
it is clear what changes will in fact be made to the Rules of Shooting (and when they will come into effect) before including the American Flatbow
in county records.
In the mean time it would be helpful to know to what extent the American Flatbow is used within the county,
so we invite any member who regularly uses this type of bow to provide some basic information
(e.g. what discipline do you use it for and how often) to the county Records Officer.
(When writing, please ensure that you include your name and club.)
KAA Development Officer (Sunday, 01 January 2012)
The KAA is looking for an existing member who is prepared to take on the role of Development Officer.
This is a volunteer post on the county Executive and Operational Committees (not to be confused with the salaried role with the
KCC Sport, Leisure and Olympics Department that recently came to an end).
The main responsibility is to provide help and advice to clubs in the county that wish to develop, so you may wish/need to:
- develop contacts with the ArcheryGB Development team and the County Sports Partnerships that fall within our county area,
- keep up to date with club development opportunities, for example by attending the annual ArcheryGB Development Conference and/or
subscribing to newsletters from a variety of sport-related organisations (e.g. SportEngland, RunningSports, Kent Sport)
- help organise occasional club development meetings (no more often than annually),
- pay occasional visits to clubs, although most contact is likely to be by phone or email.
A considerable amount of help and experience is available from other committee members and the contacts that they already have at ArcheryGB and Kent Sport,
so you are not going to be left to just get on with it on your own.
Obviously you will also need to provide a short report to the KAA Operational Committee
and attend its meetings, but this is only for a couple of hours, seven times a year.
If you are interested in finding out more, please contact any member of the current committee for more information.
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 (Saturday, 31 December 2011)
Dates for our 2012 championships and tournaments are now included in the 2012 diary
and most of these are now confirmed.
The first one to issue details and entry forms
is the Longbow Championship on 20 May 2012 at Vigo.
Kent Indoor Championship 2011 (Sunday, 11 December 2011)
The results of the Kent Indoor Championship are now available
and the list of Indoor Champions has now been updated to include this year's results.
However, as is always the case with a tournament that runs over several sessions, a number of medal winners were no longer at the venue,
when the presentation was made at the end of the day.
We believe that all medal winners should now have received their medals, but if you
believe that you should have won an award and have not yet received it,
please contact the county Treasurer as soon as possible.
Please note that medals are awarded in the bow-styles currently recognised for championship purposes,
i.e. Compound, Recurve (combining Recurve Freestyle and Recurve Barebow) and Longbow.
The age/gender categories that are awarded within each bow-style are now Senior Ladies, Junior Ladies, Senior Gentlemen and Junior Gentlemen.
The number of places for which medals are awarded follows the old ArcheryGB guidelines, according to the number of participants in the category:
| Number of Participants |
Number of Medals Awarded |
| 1 - 2: |
1 |
| 3 - 5: |
2 |
| 6 or more: |
3 |
Kent Clout Championship(Sunday, 25 September 2011)
The 2011 Annual Clout Championship was held at Ramsgate last Sunday and was once more hosted by Thanet Archery Club.
The weather remained good for most of the day, except for a brief shower toward the end of the tournament.
Entries were up on last year,
but the numbers from Kent remain disappointingly low in spite of the very successful instructional/practice days that the club ran during the summer.
The results
are now available for download and congratulations especially to our new Clout Champions.
Regional and National
ArcheryGB January Challenge (Tuesday, 10 January 2012)
This year once again, Archery GB is running a postal shoot for individual archers based on the Junior November Challenge.
You should simply submit your best score for the Portsmouth round that you have shot in January.
For various reasons the launch of the January Challenge for individual archers was delayed,
but it is on again this year and the closing date for entries is 09 February 2012.
Information and entry form:
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.
Read more:
Development
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.
Read more:
ontarget - Community Specialism & Small Grants(Sunday, 08 January 2012)
There are now 165 clubs registered nationally for ontarget.
The Community Specialism is open for applications and so is Round 2 of the Small Grants Scheme –
up to £1500 available for projects that increase the opportunities for potential new members to join clubs,
projects that look to retain members by increasing the number of opportunities available
(including additional shooting time, coaching sessions, competitions etc.).
Clubs that are working towards the Community Specialism are encouraged to apply.
Further information and how to apply can be found on the
ontarget website.
ArcheryGB's Handy Guide to Funding has been updated with new funding opportunities and includes a new section on ‘Sponsorship’ -
the guide is available from the ArcheryGB website.
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.
Introduction to Judging (Sunday, 20 November 2011)
Most clubs that run tournaments use the services of Judges and unless they book them way in advance,
it can be very difficult to find enough who are available on the right day - whether we like it or not, we need more Judges.
In particular we need more Judges who know the rules, know how to apply them wisely and don't scare babies!
The Development section now includes an Introduction to Judging, put together with the help of
Katy Lipscombe, the SCAS Judges Liaison Officer.
While this is intended primarily to provide information to anyone who is thinking of taking up Judging,
it also contains advice that we believe will be useful to clubs and tournament organisers.
Oh, and yes, it is also an advertisement!
Read more:
Sport England - Inspired Facilities(Sunday, 14 August 2011)
On 18 July Sport England launched 'Inspired Facilities' -
a key part of the Places People Play programme which will deliver a mass participation sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Through Inspired Facilities, Sport England will invest National Lottery funding in up to 1,000 community sports clubs.
Further information can be found from
ArcheryGB
and Sport England.
Coaching
Subsidy for Coach Training (Sunday, 19 December 2010)
The Lord Mayor's Skill Legacy Fund was set up to encourage increased participation in sport within the London boroughs
after the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
One way in which it intends to do this, is to provide funding for Level-1 and Level-2 coach training.
Funding is available to coach trainees of up to 75% of the course fees in return for carrying out voluntary coaching hours -
the more hours you put in, the more funding you will get.
To qualify for funding you must apply by the end of March 2012, the course must take place within the London boroughs and
so too must the voluntary coaching hours;
however, there is no restriction on where the trainee lives, just provided they go into the London area to train and coach.
The discount is as follows:
| 15 hours of voluntary coaching: |
25% discount |
| 20 hours of voluntary coaching: |
50% discount |
| 25 hours of voluntary coaching: |
75% discount |
The Invicta Coaching Group has been planning to run a Level-2 course,
but is waiting until the new process and syllabus has settled down, following a recent trial.
They therefore plan to run a course during next year.
If any member is interested in training to UKCC
Level-2 (whether or not they wish to take advantage of the Legacy Fund),
please contact the County Coaching Organiser
for more information and to add your name to the waiting list.
Similarly, if any club in the London Boroughs would like to take advantage of the voluntary coaching hours, or is able to host the course,
please contact the County Coaching Organiser.
Please note that each course can accept a maximum of 12 candidates and will only be possible
if there are sufficient candidates to make it financially viable.
Candidates for archery Level-2 training must hold a current archery Level-1 license to be accepted for enrollment.
Coaches Working in Schools (Monday, 31 August 2010)
The Association for Physical Education (AfPE) has issued new guidance to schools for the employment of sports coaches and
this is likely to affect Leaders and Coaches providing archery lessons, whether as a part of the formal curriculum, or as an extra-curricular activity.
Details
are available from the AfPE web site.
Queries should be directed to the Kent School Sport Manager Nathan Hazeldene.
London 2012
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.
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.
London2012 Merchandise (Sunday, 20 November 2011)
A huge range of Olympic and Paralympic branded items are available from the London2012 Shop;
they range from clothing, badges, bags, mascots and toys right through to household items and
Christmas Decorations.
Last year the Royal Mint released a number of new 50p coins to commemorate the London Olympic and Paralympic Games;
the 29 different designs each feature the London2012 logo and one of the Olympic/Paralympic sports on the reverse.
All of the designs were submitted by members of the general public and were selected from more than 30,000 entries.
87 million coins will be released into general circulation during 2010 and 2011 and are therefore very likely to turn up in your change at some stage.
They will also be available as uncirculated, polished coins in presentation folders direct from the
Royal Mint either individually or in sets.
Olympic Torch Relay (Sunday, 13 November 2011)
The first details of the
Olympic Torch Relay
were announced some of months ago and this week
more of the detail of the route has been published,
showing many of the towns that the relay will pass through.
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:
|
Via |
Overnight at |
| 16 July 2012: |
|
Brighton |
| 17 July 2012: |
Crawley, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, Eastbourne and Bexhill |
Hastings |
| 18 July 2012: |
Rye, Ashford and Folkestone |
Dover |
| 19 July 2012: |
Ramsgate, Canterbury and Whitstable |
Maidstone |
| 20 July 2012: |
Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend and Sevenoaks |
Guildford |
| 21 July 2012: |
Greenwich |
Waltham Forest |
| 22 July 2012: |
Havering |
Bexley |
| 23 July 2012: |
Lewisham, Bromley and Croydon onwards around London |
|
The street-by-street detail will be available next year.