COMPETITION TIME!!

TO FURTHER CELEBRATE THE CLUB’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY IT HAS BEEN DECIDED TO COMMEMERATE THE OCCASION BY PRODUCING BADGES AND MEDALS FOR ALL TOURNAMENTS ORGANISED BY THE CLUB (TOURNAMENTS AND CLUB SHOOTS).
TO THIS END THE COMMITTEE IS RUNNING A COMPETITION, OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS, FOR THE DESIGN OF THE BADGES AND MEDAL CENTRES.
PLEASE SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO EITHER CHRIS GRIFFITHS OR DAVID ROGERS OR HAND THEM TO ANY MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE (SEE ATTACHED COMMITTEE MEMBERS LIST) TO REACH THEM NO LATER THAN 1ST MARCH.
WINNING DESIGN WILL BE DECIDED AT THE NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING ON 9TH MARCH – PRIZE WILL BE AWARDED AT THE FUN SHOOT 15TH MAY.

INDOOR SHOOTING
Indoor Shooting has been booked for Wellsway School, Chandag Road, Keynsham BS31 1PH (for those using Sat Nav !)
Friday evenings 6.30pm - 8.30pm from 6th Nov until 18th Dec then 8th Jan until 5th Feb and 26th Feb until 12th March.
All winter season will cost £50 per person or £5 for a one off rate
Saturday mornings for Juniors 10am - 12 noon from 7th Nov until 19th Dec then 9th Jan until 6th Feb and 27th Feb until 13th March.
All winter season for Juniors on Saturday mornings will cost £30 per person or £3 for a one off rate
Cheques for Indoor Shooting can be sent to Denise Bunce (address below) payable to 'Cleve Archers'
Denise Bunce, 30 Burley Grove, Downend, Bristol BS16 5QA - cheques payable to 'Cleve Archers'

OUTDOOR SHOOTING
Outdoor shooting commences at Up Yonder on Saturday 20th March (Juniors).
Seniors can shoot outdoors whenever they like,but when juniors commence on 20th March will not be allowed to shoot on Saturday mornings 9.30 – 12.00

BEGINNERS COURSES
Junior beginners course begins 27th March.
Senior beginners course begins 26th April to 7th June – help with instruction will be required, please contact Richard Jones if you can help with seniors and Richard Jones or Bob Nicholls if you can help with juniors.

HAVE-A-GO – HELP REQUIRED
Richard Jones will be running a Have a go session at Kingswood on 19th February – if you can assist for a couple of hours please contact him.

Indoor Tournament dates
14th February – GWAS Indoor Championships, Hutton Moor – Fita 18
Details of all these and others (if you fancy shooting different rounds) can be found in the diary pages of Archery UK magazine or online.

Outdoor Tournaments
Cheltenham Easter Bunny shoot – 5th April
Cleve Spring Tournament -Sunday 25th April 2010
Black & Gold Archers spring shoot – 16th May
Bowmen of Minchinhampton – 6th June
Dunster Week – 13th to 20th June
Cleve Junior Tournament -Saturday 12th June 2010
Cheltenham Archers – 4th July
Tockington Archers – 11th July
Cleve FITA Weekend -Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th July 2010
Black & Gold Archers  - 1st August
Entry forms can be found on most of the clubs websites (be patient, some take longer to be posted than others). For those of you who do not have access to the web then Archery UK magazine also list contact names for tournaments in the Diary pages.

Club shoots
Cleve Easter Fun Shoot – 3rd April
Cleve Anniversary Shoot – 15th May
Lacey Trophy shoot (club postal shoot – Long National / National rounds) – 7th July
End of Season Longbow shoot – 12th September
End of Season shoot – 16th October
Halloween shoot – date TBC

Cleve Longbow League
The ever popular Longbow league starts again in April – if you have a longbow or can borrow one, here
are the dates will be meeting:
18th April – 23rd May – 27th June – 25th July – 8th August
Round to be shot is a Western – if you can’t make these dates don’t worry, as long as you get your score
signed by another archer you can shoot the round on another day. Score sheets will be in the usual container.
Winners of the league will be awarded at the end of season longbow shoot 12th September.

JUNIORS – IMPORTANT NOTICE

Two important notices for juniors and parents of juniors.

1. Club rules state that junior archers are the responsibility of their parents on Saturday mornings, parents are not to leave their children unattended. If you do need to leave please make sure you have left you child in the care of another adult (not the archery staff / coaches).

     2.  Club rules state that no junior archer is allowed to shoot on their own unless there is           another shooting /affiliated archer present .   

Cleve Archers on TV?
It was announced at committee meeting that the Country File TV program have been in touch as they may wish to do a piece on archery (and other sports) for future episodes – watch this space……

NEXT “ALL HANDS ON DECKS” JOB   

It was decided at the AGM that the club will be purchasing new foam targets to replace the straw ones for tournaments. Sometime after Christmas the H frames will need to made (40+)  so hands will be needed – mainly to assemble and paint. Possibly at short notice.
As soon as I know where and when people will be needed I will send out an email.

 JOYCE HARDING WINNER!
Congratulations to our new Membership Secretary Sue Palmer who was awarded the Joyce Harding Memorial Salver for greatest handicap reduction (Lady) in the County.