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All Lead Articles - 2010

Invicta Coaching Group AGM (Monday, 31 August 2010)

Members of the Invicta Coaching Group are reminded that their AGM will be held on Friday 24 September 2010.

This meeting is only open to members of the KAA with a current coach license (any level, but excluding Leaders) and all should by now have received their official notification. Any Kent coach who has not received notification and wishes to attend, is asked to contact the Invicta Coaching Group secretary.

The AGM will be followed by an opportunity for coaches to gain CPD points for their next license renewal - Hilary Essex will be giving a short talk on the "Principles of Training".

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, or to the AfPE.

Kent Target Archery Championship (Monday, 23 August 2010)

A report on the county Target Archery Championship will follow in the next few days, but for those who want to get record claims in quickly, the tournament results are now available for download.

Congratulations to everyone who achieved the performance that they set for, and especially all of our winners. The list of county champions has also been updated.

Kent Target Championship (Thursday, 12 August 2010)

The Kent Target Championship and Open Tournament takes place on Sunday 22 August 2010 at Vigo and after a final flurry of entries in the last two weeks, the numbers are just very slightly up on last year with 115 archers taking part.

The target list can be downloaded now.

Please check that your entry is correct; if you spot an error, please contact the tournament organiser urgently so that we can correct it before the event - there is no guarantee that changes can be made on the morning of the tournament.

County Match v. Surrey (Sunday, 08 August 2010)

After the disappointment of having earlier matches this year cancelled, Kent took on Surrey at Vigo on Sunday 01 August 2010 on a day on sun and rain that threatened every so often, but didn't actually materialise.

Surrey won the Compound match by a short head and the "Mixed Junior" match by a comfortable margin, but Kent made it 3-2 with wins in the Recurve Freestyle, Recurve Barebow and Longbow matches. Many congratulations to all of our team for a very creditable result.

The match results are now available for download.

Kent Disability Tournament (Saturday, 31 July 2010)

John Cavanagh, a British Paralympic archer, was the special guest at this year's KAA Disability Tournament at Sittingbourne Community College last Saturday.

Our thanks go to College for its enthusiastic support of the event, to the local branch of the MS Society for helping to raise the profile of the event and to the many helpers led by Bob Beaney (Tournament Organiser). The event was blessed with fine weather - the breeze might have made shooting a bit more difficult, but it certainly helped to take the edge off the heat!

The tournament results are now available for download.

Invicta Springboard Tournament (Tuesday, 20 July 2010)

This year's Springboard Tournament took place on Sunday at Sennocke Archers' ground at Wildernesse School, Sevenoaks. Around 50 competitors enjoyed a wonderfully sunny, if rather breezy day of shooting. Thanks are due to the coaches from the Invicta Coaching Group who organised the event and to those coaches together with members of Sennocke Archers, who helped before, during and after the event.

The tournament results are now available for download.

Membership Renewals (Sunday, 18 July 2010)

Changes have been made to the ArcheryGB membership renewal process for the start of the 2010-2011 membership year and club secretaries should by now have received information from ArcheryGB on how the new system will work for this year. The KAA Club Guide to the affiliation and membership process has therefore been withdrawn with immediate effect, as the sections dealing with membership renewal are now out of date.

Any club that is unsure about how to process new applications or transfers or renewals of membership, should follow the instructions given by ArcheryGB; if you are still unsure about how to proceed, then please contact the county Treasurer for further advice.

Clubs are reminded that KAA membership fees have increased since last year and the new fees are shown in the current edition of the KAA Membership policy.

The increase was effective as follows:

Kent Target Championship (Sunday, 18 July 2010)

Members are reminded that this year's Kent Target Archery Championship and Open Tournament will take place at Vigo RFC on Sunday 22 August 2010. Details and entry form can be downloaded now.

Please remember that this is a substantial tournament that involves a lot of planning and preparation work, so we regret that we cannot accept entries/substitutions after the closing date, Sunday 08 August 2010. There are just three weeks remaining to get your entry in.

For further information please contact the tournament organiser.

County Match v. Surrey (Monday, 12 July 2010)

The next county match of the year will be against Surrey at Vigo RFC on Sunday, 01 August 2010. The match will include a senior barebow team for the first time.

The following teams have been selected to compete for Kent:

Congratulations to all of our team members and good shooting.

KAA Club Guide - Affiliation and Membership Process (Monday, 12 July 2010)

Changes are being made to the ArcheryGB membership renewal process for the start of the 2010-2011 membership year and club secretaries should shortly receive information from ArcheryGB on how the new system will work. The KAA Club Guide to the affiliation and membership process has therefore been withdrawn with immediate effect, as the sections dealing with membership renewal are now out of date.

Any club that is unsure about how to process new applications or transfers or renewals of membership, should follow the instructions given by ArcheryGB; if you are still unsure about how to proceed, then please contact the county Treasurer for further advice.

It is planned to issue a fully revised version of the guide later in the year.

KAA Policy Changes (Monday, 12 July 2010)

The following revised policy has been adopted with immediate effect, following the end of the 12-week consultation period.

• Kent County Bowman

Copies will be circulated to clubs with the minutes of yesterday's Operational Committee meeting.

Kent Target Championship (Sunday, 27 June 2010)

Members are reminded that this year's Kent Target Archery Championship and Open Tournament will take place at Vigo RFC on Sunday 22 August 2010. Details and entry form can be downloaded now.

Please remember that this is a substantial tournament that involves a lot of planning and preparation work, so we regret that we cannot accept entries/substitutions after the closing date, 08 August 2010.

For further information please contact the tournament organiser.

Fox Archers' Tony Bates Open Junior Tournament (Sunday, 13 June 2010)

Tony Bates had been a member of Fox Archers for nearly 20 years, when he fell ill in 2006. The illness led to paralysis from the neck down and a long-term reliance on a ventilator.

Four years on and one of his mouth paintings is due to be exhibited at the Mayor of London's office, he organises Have-a-Go sessions at his hospital and his club, Fox Archers, are organising a tournament in his honour.
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National Archery Development Conference (Sunday, 13 June 2010)

This year's National Archery Development Conference will be held on 23-24 October 2010 at Lilleshall National Sport Centre. Details of the conference and the Archery Development Plan for England are now available from the ArcheryGB web site.

Please note that the deadline for booking places is 01 October 2010, but places are limited and provided on a strictly 'first come, first served' basis.

Kent Longbow Championship (Tuesday, 18 May 2010)

This year's Longbow Championship on Sunday 16 May 2010 was the first to take place at Vigo RFC and was blessed with better weather than recent years. A mild and reasonably calm day included no more than a few spots of rain - the torrential downpour held off until after the ground was cleared and most competitors had got home and unpacked!

The full results and awards list can now be downloaded and copies will be sent in the next few days to those who requested them.

Congratulations go to all of our longbow champions:

• Clinton Hill, who retains his title once again,
• Christine Bearman, our new lady champion and
• Robyn-Marie Kenyon, our new junior champion.

This championship has grown in recent years and we are now also getting more entries from "out of county", so the tournament organiser and county committee will be looking at obtaining additional trophies.

Many thanks to everyone who helped make this such a successful event; everyone involved in setting up and running the tournament and especially to all those competitors who made it so enjoyable.

County Records (Tuesday, 18 May 2010)

All of the county record booklets have now been updated to show the new ArcheryGB junior age groups. It has been possible to move each individual record to the correct new age group, based on age on the date that the respective record was achieved. Because no claims for junior records in affected categories were received for ratification at yesterday's Operational Committee meeting, it has only been necessary to publish one version of each booklet.

The following are available:

• a full list of all records ratified so far this year;
• current and previous records booklets.

If you believe that a record has been allocated to the wrong new age group, please contact the county Records Officer with as much detail as possible; we will then check it and make any corrections that are needed.

KAA Membership Fees (Tuesday, 18 May 2010)

Clubs are reminded that a small increase in KAA membership fees of £0.50 per person was agreed at the Annual General Meeting last November - this was the first increase in about 15 years and was primarily to provide team clothing and better support for the county team.

This increase takes effect as follows:

The Membership policy has been updated to include the new fees and a copies will be circulated to clubs with the minutes of yesterday's Operational Committee meeting.

KAA Policy Changes (Tuesday, 18 May 2010)

The following revised policies have been adopted with immediate effect, following the end of the 12-week consultation period.

• Championships and Tournaments
• County Records
• Score Returns and Team Selection

Copies of each will be circulated to clubs with the minutes of yesterday's Operational Committee meeting.

County Invitation Tournament (Tuesday, 18 May 2010)

This year's County Invitation Tournament was scheduled to take place on Sunday 02 May 2010 at Vigo RFC. 116 archers from all around the county accepted the invitation to attend, but on the day weather conditions were so bad, that only about 40 actually attended - and even that was short lived, as the tournament was abandoned without an arrow being shot.

We will try to stage the event at a later date in the season, but conflicts with other events make this unlikely.

Kent Longbow Championship (Sunday, 09 May 2010)

This year the Kent Longbow Championship will be held at Vigo RFC on Sunday 16 May and the target list is now available to download.

We wish good weather and good shooting to everyone taking part.

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.

Awards and Grants (Sunday, 09 May 2010)

Clubs that are interested in applying for development grants can get a wide range of information from the KCC web site:

• subscribe to the fortnightly newsletter Inside Track, or view recent editions;
• search the KCC funding opportunities database

While both of these links include funding information for a wide range of activities other than sport, it is relatively easy to identify those opportunities that do relate to community sports clubs.

Information is also available about Kent and Medway Funding Fairs that are held throughout the year at various locations around the county

ArcheryGB Coaching Conference (Sunday, 09 May 2010)

Details of the National Coaching Conference have now been published and can be downloaded. Further information will also be available from the ArcheryGB web site in due course.

Please note that this conference is only available to licensed ArcheryGB coaches, but coaches of any grade may attend.

Field Championship Test Event (Sunday 02 May 2010)

Unfortunately the test event hosted by Bowmen of Woodstock on 18 April 2010 was only attended by 6 archers, so Hannah Brown from the host club is looking for feedback from our archers.

If you would have liked to attend, but didn't or were not able to, please let her know why that was; please take the opportunity to let us know what would encourage you to compete at your county's Field Archery Championship.

Appeal for Volunteers to Train as Judges (Sunday, 02 May 2010)

We have received an appeal from Katy Lipscombe, the SCAS Judges' Liaison Officer, for more members to volunteer to train as Judges.

The SCAS region covers the south-eastern corner of England, its border forming a long, ragged arc that runs from The Wash to the Solent (and a little beyond). It takes in 14 county archery associations, with over 250 clubs and more than 10,000 members.

There are literally hundreds of tournaments in the region each year - target, indoor, field and clout; from local club shoots to county championships to world record status FITA Stars. Although a tournament strictly only has to have qualified judges present if it has national record status or above, many other tournaments choose to have a judge - someone has to keep us under control (and sort out those difficult technical questions about rules, that would otherwise have you worrying through sleepless nights).

Currently the region has only 44 judges to deal with all of that (6 of them here in Kent) and some end up judging somewhere or another most weekends of the year - there is an urgent and growing need for more judges to 'lighten the load'. If you are interested in training to become a judge, please contact Katy Lipscombe, or speak to any of our judges, next time you go to a tournament.

GNAS Annual General Meeting (Tuesday, 20 April 2010)

Our congratulations go to Trish Lovell (Bowmen of Woodstock, Kent) who succeeds Tom Williamson as President of the Society and will serve for a period of 3 years.

There are significant changes to the Board of Directors, as a number of directors retired at the end of their maximum permitted term of office. There were also further set-backs for the "Governance Review".
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KAA Field Championship (Sunday, 11 April 2010)

The KAA Field Championship was held first at Penshurst and more recently at Bowmen of Woodstock's ground near Sittingbourne. Unfortunately during all of this period it has been rare that more than a dozen archers from Kent have competed - across all bow-styles, genders and age groups! It would appear that the current format is not popular among local archers, even though (or perhaps because?) it attracts top archers from all over the country.

However, the recent Field Archery "taster" sessions run by Bowmen of Woodstock have been very successful, with many archers who took part in the first, returning for the second one in January.

Bowmen of Woodstock will therefore be trying out a different format this year to see if we can attract more Kent archers to the event. The date for this has been set for 18 April 2010 and will replace the county championship for this year - if the new format is successful, then it will be adopted for the county championship from 2011.

Details can be downloaded.

Junior Age Groups (Sunday, 11 April 2010)

Revised Change Over

ArcheryGB first circulated a proposal during last year to make changes to the junior age groups in target and clout archery (field archery is unaffected). Their adoption was confirmed in the Spring 2010 edition of the ArcheryUK magazine and Individual Members of ArcheryGB and club secretaries should by now have received replacement pages for the Rules of Shooting, Shooting Administrative Procedures and Handicap Tables; please note that these changes came into effect as at 01 March 2010, even though the replacement pages are dated “April 2010”.

We have introduced a revised claim form for use with rounds shot on or after 01 March 2010 and in May we will convert our existing junior records to the new age groups.
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KAA Policy Changes (Sunday, 11 April 2010)

The KAA Operational Committee have agreed changes to the published KCB policy. As detailed in our “Policy Review and Amendments” document, there is now a 12 week consultation period for members to comment on the changes. The Operational Committee will then take into account those comments, when making a final decision on the changes at their meeting in July 2010.

• The table of maximum distances has been revised to reflect the new ArcheryGB junior age groups;
• Qualifying levels have been revised to reflect the new ArcheryGB junior age groups;
• The classification has been extended to include Recurve Barebow.

It is intended to introduce the changes retroactively to 01 March 2010, the date that the new ArcheryGB age groups take effect; this is to ensure that the classification is available for the 2010 outdoor season for the new age groups.

The changes are also being circulated to all club secretaries, but are available here for download in ".pdf" format. Please send any comments or queries about the above changes to the county secretary.

Junior Age Groups (Sunday, 04 April 2010)

ArcheryGB first circulated a proposal during last year to make changes to the junior age groups in target and clout archery (field archery is unaffected). Their adoption was confirmed in the Spring 2010 edition of the ArcheryUK magazine and Individual Members of ArcheryGB and club secretaries should by now have received replacement pages for the Rules of Shooting, Shooting Administrative Procedures and Handicap Tables; please note that these changes came into effect as at 01 March 2010, even though the replacement pages are dated “April 2010”.

Last week we published details of the changes that the KAA would be making to county records. However, we have since received more details of how the changes will be dealt with nationally and these might enable us to simplify what we do locally. We will let you know within the next week or so how we plan to manage the changes to the age groups, but in the mean time please do not delay sending in claims for county records, especially for rounds shot before 01 March 2010.

Junior Age Groups (Sunday, 28 March 2010)

ArcheryGB first circulated a proposal during last year to make changes to the junior age groups in target and clout archery (field archery is unaffected). Their adoption was confirmed in the Spring 2010 edition of the ArcheryUK magazine and Individual Members of ArcheryGB and club secretaries should by now have received replacement pages for the Rules of Shooting, Shooting Administrative Procedures and Handicap Tables; please note that these changes came into effect as at 01 March 2010, even though the replacement pages are dated “April 2010”.

These changes will have a significant impact on the administration of county records during the remainder of this year, so it has been necessary to introduce a revised claim form and make some temporary changes to the ratification process. There is minimal change to the way that you claim for a county record.
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Updates to Rules of Shooting (Sunday, 28 March 2010)

All Individual Members of ArcheryGB and club secretaries should now have received their copy of the updated pages for the GNAS Rules of Shooting, Shooting Administrative Procedures (SAPs) (including Classification scores)and Handicap Tables.

The updated Rules of Shooting and SAPs can now be downloaded from the "Documents" section of the ArcheryGB web site, as can the specific updates only, so that you can more easily see what has been changed.

Printed copies of the updated pages, so that you can update your existing book, will also be available, but there is likely to be a delay because a printer's collation error in some sets of pages.

It is strongly recommended that every member should have or have ready access to an up-to-date copy of the Rules of Shooting, but please note that complete copies currently available are unlikely to include the latest updates.

London2012 Tickets (Sunday, 28 March 2010)

You may have heard in the media in the last week or so that information is now available about ticket sales for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London2012 organising committee (LOCOG) has announced in its recent newsletter that tickets will go on sale during the spring of 2011; more information will be available later this year and you can register now to receive this information direct when it is published.

To sign up for their general newsletter, please visit the London2012 web site;
To register for news about tickets, please visit the London2012 ticketing web site, or phone 0844 847 2012.

Please also note that LOCOG is currently stating that payment will be possible by cash, cheque or VISA credit/debit card - it will not be possible to pay using other credit/debit cards!

After-School Olympic Sports Clubs (Sunday, 28 March 2010)

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced on 17 March 2010 that £6M of government and lottery money would be made available to create a network of new after school clubs in secondary schools and colleges across England. Although the initial list of sports does not include archery, the DCMS hopes that in time this will spread to all Olympic and Paralympic Sports.

This is just one part of the work that is being done to increase the participation in sport and includes incentives to national governing bodies of sports to get involved.

The Government aims to offer all young people aged 5-16 five hours of sport a week (inside and outside of school) and for all aged 16 – 19 year olds to be offered three hours a week by 2012-13.

The complete media release is available on the DCMS web site.

County Colours (Sunday, 21 March 2010)

The county now has an impressive new sweatshirt and polo-shirt design, featuring the white horse of Kent and the Association's name.

It is expected to be available in time for the 4-way Indoor County Match on Sunday, 11 April 2010 and a version will also shortly be available for all members to purchase.
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ArcheryGB Membership Cards (Sunday, 14 March 2010)

As part of the membership system project ArcheryGB have started to look at the design of membership cards. Three mock-ups of possible designs can be downloaded from the ArcheryGB home page and members can also record their feedback on these designs in a very brief survey.

Club Details (Sunday, 14 March 2010)

The redevelopment of the ArcheryGB web site will include a facility for prospective members to search for a local club based on the postcode. If your club would like to be included in that search facility, please ensure that your club details are up to date by completing the club details survey.

Please note that the facility on the main ArcheryGB web site has been suspended temporarily. If you require further information, please contact the ArcheryGB office.

Indoor County Match (Sunday, 14 March 2010)

The following team has been selected to compete in the 4-way Indoor County Match on Sunday, 11 April 2010:

Congratulations to all of our team members and good shooting.

Kent Target Championship (Sunday, 14 March 2010)

The Kent Target Archery Championship and Open Tournament will take place at Vigo RFC on Sunday 22 August 2010. Details and entry form can be downloaded now. Although copies of the entry form will not be sent to club secretaries as a matter of routine, if you are aware of anyone who does not have internet access, please advise them to contact the tournament organiser by phone and we will be happy to send a copy by post.

Important Note: the entry form assumes that the expected changes to ArcheryGB junior age groups and to the Bristol 5 round will go ahead as planned - in the unlikely event that this does not happen, it might be necessary to revise the age groupings and rounds offered.

Please remember that this is a substantial tournament that involves a lot of planning and preparation work, so we regret that we cannot accept entries/substitutions after the closing date.

For further information please contact the tournament organiser.

Kent Archery Development Officer (Sunday, 14 March 2010)

The Kent Archery Development Officer (KADO) is a part-time post, employed by the KCC Kent Sport, Leisure & Olympics Department and currently funded jointly by the KCC, Dover Town Council, Sport England and ArcheryGB. The post was created for a 3-year term, starting in October 2007 to help develop the sport of archery within the Kent area (unfortunately this is restricted to the KCC area and so the help available to clubs situated in the London Boroughs is limited). The project started as a legacy for the FITA World Cup event at Dover and as a prototype for possible use by ArcheryGB throughout the rest of the country.

The first two years were largely occupied with setting up archery in schools, colleges and community centres, especially in the three key areas of Dartford, Sheppey and Dover; this also resulted in the creation of a new club in Queenborough, Sheppey. This work coincided with a substantial increase in the number of schools that offer archery as an alternative to traditional team sports and the KADO has been instrumental in helping set up the sport at many such schools throughout Kent. To date help has been provided to set up archery in 17 schools and 9 community groups, thereby introducing over 1300 juniors and over 350 adults to archery!

In the third year the emphasis is moving toward support and encouragement for clubs that want to develop, for example by qualifying for ClubMark, forming a partnership with local schools or finding resources for training members to become coaches.

We are now looking for the views of members as to whether there is a continuing need for this post beyond October 2010, subject of course to the availability of adequate funding. Please note that this must relate to the development of archery as a sport and the organisations and people that deliver and administer it - this project cannot provide archery coaching. If there are longer term issues with which your club needs help, please let us know, because they could be the kind of problems that the Kent Archery Development Officer can help with.

Please send your suggestions and requests to the county secretary.

If you have any questions about current and planned activity for the remainder of this year, please contact the Kent Archery Development Officer.

Requests for Link Exchanges (Sunday, 14 March 2010)

From time to time the KAA receives e-mail requests for us to add links from our site to a third party in exchange for that organisation adding a link to our site. Such exchanges of links can help to boost internet search engine "page rankings" and so can appear to have value.

However a number of requests we have received recently have thrown up some very strange results, so if your club receives similar requests, you are advised to treat them with care and not just add them to your web site until you have done a little research. For example:

• Do you know where the request came from?
• Check to find out who registered the domain - remember that a .uk suffix does not prove they are based in the UK. A "WHOIS" search can be done through Network Solutions or GoDaddy - other registrars also provide a similar free service.
• Does the web site provide verifiable contact details? This is particularly important if the web site is selling anything.
• Is it likely to provide actual value to your members (quite apart from the promised inward link)?
• Does the request and the site "feel" genuine - many requests are simply spam, but many are genuine and might actually benefit the members of a relatively small sport. A little bit of "gut feel" can be valuable.

But remember above all, if you have doubts don't reply to the request, don't visit the web site yourself and don't add the link to your club web site.

Kent Tournament for Archers with a Disability (Sunday, 07 March 2010)

This year the Kent Tournament for Archers with a Disability will be held at Sittingbourne Community College on Saturday 24 July. Able bodied archers are also welcome to enter and act as helpers for the more disabled archers competing.

Full details and entry form can now be downloaded.

Sport:ed Training Courses (Sunday, 07 March 2010)

Kent Sport (KCC Kent Sport, Leisure & Olympics Department) run a year-round program of workshops aimed at sports coaches and anyone involved in the running or administration of sports clubs. They take place on week-day evenings and at weekends at a variety of locations around the county, so most members should be in reasonable striking distance of at least some of them.

A full and regularly updated list can be found on the Kent Sport web site.

Enquiries and bookings relating to all workshops should be made by contacting Jennifer Taylor at Kent Sport, either by e-mail, or by telephone on 01622 605055.

KAA Policy Changes (Sunday, 21 February 2010)

The KAA Operational Committee have agreed a number of changes to some of our published policies. As detailed in our “Policy Review and Amendments” document, there is now a 12 week consultation period for members to comment on the changes. The Operational Committee will then take into account those comments, when making a final decision on the changes at their meeting in May 2010.

The changes are also being circulated to all club secretaries, but are available here for download in ".pdf" format.

Some of the changes are intended only to add more detail, or to make future changes easier to accommodate. The main changes are summarised as follows:

Championships and Tournaments:

• The County Invitation Tournament has been moved into this document, to keep all of the tournaments together in one place.
• References to the “Invitation Letter” have been replaced by an “Entry Form”, which will be used in future for this tournament.
• County Matches used always to be held on the first Sunday of May – August; however, it has become impossible in recent years to do this consistently, so the existing tear-off availability slip on the invitation letter is no longer useful. The County Invitation entry form will contain a revised section, which is described.

County Records:

• We have added an explicit statement about who is responsible for what in the claims process.
• The claim process is explained in more detail.
• New sections have been added describing the approval process, what happens if a record is refused and how disputes will be handled.

Score Returns and Team Selection:

• The County Invitation Tournament has been moved from this document to the Championships and Tournaments policy (the document has been renamed accordingly).
• A new section has been added explicitly explaining the significance of certain tournaments in the selection process.

Please send any comments or queries about the above changes to the county Secretary.

ArcheryGB Membership Fee Structure (Sunday, 14 February 2010)

We would like to thank all of those clubs who responded with their views about the proposed changes to the ArcheryGB membership fee structure.

A short analysis of all the responses received is now available from the ArcheryGB home page; we understand that further consultation with Regional Associations will occur in the near future. If you have any further feedback, please contact ArcheryGB as before, but please keep us informed by copying your responses to the county Secretary, so that we can represent you at future Regional meetings via our SCAS Representatives.

KAA Field Championship (Sunday, 14 February 2010)

The KAA Field Championship was held first at Penshurst and more recently at Bowmen of Woodstock's ground near Sittingbourne. Unfortunately during all of this period it has been rare that more than a dozen archers from Kent have competed - across all bow-styles, genders and age groups! It would appear that the current format is not popular among local archers, even though (or perhaps because?) it attracts top archers from all over the country.

However, the recent Field Archery "taster" sessions run by Bowmen of Woodstock have been very successful, with many archers who took part in the first, returning for the second one in January.

Trish Lovell (T/O for the Field Championship and member of Bowmen of Woodstock) is therefore proposing to try out a different format this year to see if we can attract more Kent archers to the event. The date for this has been provisionally set for 18 April 2010 and will replace the county championship for this year - if the new format is successful, then it will be adopted for the county championship from 2011.

More details will be available shortly.

Kent Longbow Championship (Sunday, 07 February 2010)

This year the Kent Longbow Championship will be held at Vigo RFC on Sunday 16 May. As usual it will consist of a Double National shot in one direction only, so only ArcheryGB members are eligible to take part.

Full details and entry form can now be downloaded.

ArcheryGB Membership Fee Structure (Sunday, 07 February 2010)

We would like to thank all of those clubs who responded with their views about the proposed changes to the ArcheryGB membership fee structure.

Invicta Springboard Tournament (Sunday, 31 January 2010)

The annual Invicta Coaching Group "Springboard Tournament" is exclusively for those archers, who have not yet reached "Bowman" classification in any age group or discipline; it is therefore the ideal starting point for any Kent archer who wants to gain competition experience without being overwhelmed! This year it will be held at Sennocke Archers' ground on 18 July 2010 and details & entry form are now available to download.

Qualified coaches who are interested in helping are asked to contact the Invicta Coaching Group.

Kent Longbow Championship (Sunday, 07 February 2010)

This year the Kent Longbow Championship will be held at Vigo RFC on Sunday 16 May. As usual it will consist of a Double National shot in one direction only, so only ArcheryGB members are eligible to take part.

Full details and entry form can now be downloaded.

Invicta Springboard Tournament (Sunday, 31 January 2010)

The annual Invicta Coaching Group "Springboard Tournament" is exclusively for those archers, who have not yet reached "Bowman" classification in any age group or discipline; it is therefore the ideal starting point for any Kent archer who wants to gain competition experience without being overwhelmed! This year it will be held at Sennocke Archers' ground on 18 July 2010 and details & entry form are now available to download.

Qualified coaches who are interested in helping are asked to contact the Invicta Coaching Group.

Coaching News (Sunday, 31 January 2010)

Coaching Workshops:

The second shooting workshop of this year will be held at Medway Archers' ground on 21 March 2010. Any archer who would like to attend for help with any aspect of their equipment or shooting form, is asked to complete and send in the application form.

Qualified coaches who are interested in working at this workshop are asked to contact the Invicta Coaching Group.

Coaching for Your Club:

If you need some extra coaching in your club, then please contact the Invicta Coaching Group with details of numbers of people and a selection of dates. They will then try to arrange for a group of coaches to visit you for a coaching clinic.

ArcheryGB Membership Fee Structure (Sunday, 31 January 2010)

We would like to thank all of those clubs who responded with their views about the proposed changes to the ArcheryGB membership fee structure.

Swan Archers' Beginners Course (Monday, 18 January 2010)

Swan Archers will be holding a "Beginners' Course" at their club ground, The Glebe, Swanley Village, starting on 13 March 2010 at 10:00 a.m. and running for 4 consecutive Saturdays.

This course is open to members of the public and is ideal for anyone who wants to take up the sport, or just wants to try it out to see if it is for them. Anyone who wishes to take part should contact the organisers first - further information and contact details can be downloaded here.

Remember, don't go out and buy a bow first, because all the equipment you need will be provided for the duration of the course and is included in the course fee.

KAA Operational Committee Meeting (Saturday, 09 January 2010)

The KAA Operational Committee Meeting scheduled for Monday, 11 January 2010 has been cancelled due to weather conditions. It is intended to reschedule the meeting for Monday, 25 January 2010.

London2012 Pin Badges (Saturday, 09 January 2010)

The Organising Committee of the London Olympic Games have recently revealed the pictograms for each of the sports that are included in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. You can see the Olympic pictograms and the Paralympic pictograms on the London2012 web site.

They are also available as pin-badges, which can be purchased from the Museum of London shop.

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