Our first round Ontarget match resulted in a victory over Tockington by 12 -9 wining the overall team round, one of the 2 pairs round (recurve) and 3 of the 4 individual matches. Our team of Andy Clifford, Grace Chappell, Molly Peters and Ed Humphries, saw debuts for all 4. The feedback from both teams […]

Saturday morning sees a home fixture with Tockington Archers in the Annual Ontarget Competition. A parallel longbow competition has also been arranged to take place at the same time. A buffet for our guests will be provided at the end of the competition. In the afternoon 18 of our members are taking part in the […]

On June 9th the club is hosting the Gloucestershire County Field Championships. This is the first county championship that has been held for many years and we are eager to make it a success. Ahead of the event there are several activities we need assistance with and are shouting out to anyone that has some […]

We are proud to announce that we have just received confirmation that following our 3 year review and Archery GB’s decision to review all Ontarget Clubs, we have successfully applied for re-accreditation. The Ontarget Specialisms form a key component of our club development plan, with the criteria giving us an ideal structure to operate within. […]

Guest Coach – Michael Peart We are pleased to announce that former World No 1 Recurve and Compound ranked archer and former very successful Paralympic Coach Michael Peart will be running coaching workshops from 11am to 6:30pm this Sunday! Michael will be working with a number of adult and junior archers and their coaches against […]

We have applied for a grant to provide an engaging supervised play area for under 9’s to use safe adapted archery equipment and enjoy play, allowing parents to also shoot and get some ‘me’ time! We have recently been informed that our application meets the criteria for grant consideration.   Why Needed – Our work […]

Riley Spencer-Nice has been a member of Deer Park Archers since he was allowed to shoot a bow aged 7, from that point he has loved the sport! He attended Archery GB Development National Programme aged 9 – completing expectations set for him, arrows, goals commitments. Aged 10 he was selected to join the National […]

Last week saw the start of the 2018 Gloucestershire School Games which along with Xperience Archery we run on behalf of Active Gloucestershire. More than 130 schools will compete at primary and secondary school level during the year in teams of 9 and 12 respectively. During the year more than 1500 pupils will have had […]

Ground working party Last Saturday saw our major, ‘get the ground fit for the outdoor season’ working party. Despite temperatures being well below zero, we had a massive turn out of over 40 and we did all the jobs possible over a 6 hour period! Importantly we also managed to complete the hedge and tree […]

County Initiatives  Before we cover the County Indoor Championships can we highlight the work our County are undertaking to develop our sport and our county. They have adopted a set of objectives for 2018 and are already working towards them. These include a commitment to fund 2 Level 1 Coaching courses, providing 2 free places […]