Above is Alex, Jeyda, Christine and Chris attending the Town Archery Club Open Jeyda continued her winning streak with a first place in her category, and a personal best. Christine also managed a personal best, and both Chris and Christine came in 8th in their categories. Which is quite the achievement considering Chris had only […]

Welcome back. Above is our shy and retiring club secretary   Hopefully by this point everyone is recovered from Christmas and starting to enjoy the slightly longer days. January was a busy month for the club, with beginners courses and our annual indoor championship thrown in on top of the usual number of events. Our latest beginners course was very

Welcome to the new Bowmen of Ardleigh monthly newsletter!  Above is an image from our Christmas Fun Shoot on the 15th December. it was very well attended, with members and their families enjoying the chance to shoot unlimited arrows at Santa,one of his elves, and a mix of Christmas themed target faces. Big thanks to everyone who helped to

It’s with much regret, I have to report the death of the President of the Bowmen of Ardleigh, Tom Hall, on 26th November 2023, at the age of 98 Tom was our last remaining Founder Member from the first days of our Club in the early 1950s.  Together with his brother Jack and others, Tom had been looking

Our Annual Field Championships took place on Sunday 22nd October 2023.  The day was, again, very pleasant with lots of sunshine.  We really have been lucky with the weather on all of our Championship days this year and the photographs below show this quite well.  The results sheet for the shoot is on a separate

Chris Phillips, assisted by other members, put on a “Zombie Shoot” using some display mannequins he happened upon in his travels.  Suitably dressed and with applied gore and ultra-violet lighting, those present shot arrows at them with some degree of glee.  Definitely something different.  Food was available, together with various prizes and our thanks go