The club has a large and active junior section. The junior club (open to all members under 25) meets at 17:30 on a Tuesday during the summer months. Activities at the Tuesday sessions include:
- Coaching
- Shooting for awards and classifications
- Practice for forthcoming competitions
- Clout or Wand shoots
- Fun evenings
As well as 252 awards and Archery GB classifications / progress awards, juniors can try to achieve the FITA arrow awards – more details on the website soon.
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
Some of our juniors participate in the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, where archery can count as a skill or a physical activity – more details on the website soon.
BERKSHIRE JUNIOR CLUB OF THE YEAR
Our club has been awarded Junior Club of the year by Berkshire Archery Association multiple times. We feel this shows our commitment to develop and build our juniors,
Southern Counties Archery Youth Tour (SCAYT)
Our club is part of the Southern Counties Archery Youth Tour, one of more than 20 events taking place around the region over the outdoor archery season.
This is a brilliant initiative where young archers shoot in as many tournaments for the summer season within the region as possible and collect points with the final event of the season marked as a special event.
All of our young archers are welcome to participate to our annual Junior Short Metric tournament which is one of the 20 tournaments participating in SCAYT! For more information about SCAYT see https://scayt.scasarchery.org.uk/.
It’s not all serious…
Sometimes we shoot at things other than round target faces. All the photos below show things which were safely shot, but which didn’t score much. The poor old pumpkin was shot during our popular Halloween Shoot. The other two were unintentional.
