Our Solar Project gains grant support from 2 organisations!
Thanks to a Target 2030 carbon saving grant funded through the European Regional Development Fund and a Gloucestershire County Council Build Back Better – Councillors Scheme we have been able to confirm our commitment to our Green Project.
Following an advert inviting tenders we have selected an organisation to install panels across our entire covered shooting area. This will incorporate a display area for members to see what electric is being used and how much we generate. As part of the project we will also replace all non LED lighting in the buildings.
We are also working with the adjacent nursery to transfer rain water from our buildings, carpark and area in-front of the covered shooting area into their water storage facility.
Well done to Ella at the Hyundai Archery World Cup in Paris
Ella was just amazing winning individual gold, team silver and mixed pairs bronze, this continued a string of recent successes! Read more at:
These achievements have propelled Ella to be World Ranked 2nd, another amazing achievement!
GB selection for our archers.
Congratulations to Grace Chappell and Chloe A’Bear for being selected to represent GB in the European Youth Cup in Romania.
Congratulations to Phoebe Patterson Pine Being selected for the European Para-Archery Championships 2022 which will see 10 athletes from Great Britain compete in Rome in August. The same team will also attend the Para-Archery World Ranking Tournament and European Cup in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic in July.
Amazing achievements and we have so much emerging talent, great facilities, superb coaches, supportive parents and fellow archers that the list will grow to become even more impressive!
Massive success for our archers at last weekend’s Junior Championships !
Stunning performances over the weekend at the British Junior champs!
Congratulations to our British Champs Lily P, Sam B and Grace C. Silvers for Ryan, Emily and Louise. Bronze for Harriet and Hattie!
Well done to everyone who represented DPAL!
Open Community Have-a-goes return!
After a long Covid enforced break our open community have-a-go sessions returned on Saturday. Booking was online only, the first session was fully booked but we hope to increase capacity for future sessions.
We are also delivering a number of half day and whole day sessions in local schools and hosting some community groups over the summer holidays, volunteer help is always appreciated.
Beginners courses in full swing as we relax membership restrictions.
We currently have 2 Monday evening full beginners courses running and 4 further courses running during the week and a lengthy waiting list for courses planned in August. We are also working chronologically through delayed applications for membership, we will soon be into the 300+ membership.
Another big thank you to our commercial supporters
Elliott’s Cheltenham Sand & Gravel are continuing to do us proud and will shortly be installing an overspill carpark which will also serve as a French Boule area and Clout shooting line!
Spirax Sarco are sending a team of volunteers for a day in July to carry out a range of tasks, primarily on the field course and we will of course organise a thank you ‘have-a-go’ session.
Our social activities almost back to full speed!
15th July, 5.15pm – Club funded Junior Only ‘Fish and Chips’ evening. Combined with our popular Friday evening ‘Junior Only’ practice session offering a meal with friends.
31st July, 1pm – Social Boules and Picnic
A friendly Boule competition and other lawn games. A picnic with the whole family as we celebrate the Summer holidays.
21st August, 6pm – Adventure Golf
18 holes of Adventure Golf at Sherdon’s Golf Centre, near Tewkesbury.
This event is open to all members, family and friends of Deer Park Archers.
Upcoming Club Shoots (full details on our website).
10th July, 1pm – American Club Target Day.
30 arrows at each of three distances from 60y/50y/40y down to 20y/15y/10y
Lots of club records available for this round which we don’t shoot very often.
29th August, 1pm – Club Championships Attrition Day including:
3 dozen arrows using your own bow on the range
6 targets of field archery
2 dozen arrows using a Genesis bow
Trophies for Male and female champions in each bow type.
Upcoming Record Status shoots
23rd July, WA720 with Head to Heads
70m rounds for recurve and Longbow
50m rounds for barebow and compound
7th August, WA1440 and Metric 1-5 rounds
25th September, Early Portsmouth at Balcarras
All of these are available to book now on our booking system
Laser Tag Report
We had 24 archers taking part in our 3rd Laser-Tag event. Vanessa won games 1 & 2 before Kieran M won the final match.
Junior Only and their Parents Warwick
After shooting a Warwick round for qualifying, the archers entered three rounds of Head to Heads. They were each given a handicap based on their qualification score to even up the field and we split the competition into family and individual categories. Lily W beat Sam B in a tense 1 arrow shoot off to claim the individual crown while Rob & Isaac defeated Ged & Laura in the team event.
Astronomy Club
We now have a local Astronomy Club meeting at the ground on a regular basis with a number of our members taking part.
Field Course
Lots going on including the development of a new shot onto the island. Most of the benches have been installed. We are looking to replace a number of the bosses over the next few months, ready for the winter league. Volunteers are helping maintain the course in this peak growing period.
We continue to book out the courses to visiting clubs and individual archers.
