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Moving indoors and 2024 beginner’s course dates

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Archers on shooting line, young lady in foreground with auburn hair, sunglasses on has just released and arrow caught in flight after just leaving bow.
Shades on, bow aimed, arrow launched. Credit: Kevin Adams, Towcester and District Photographic Society

Lots to mention – the main outdoor season drew to a close on Tuesday with a gorgeous evening’s shooting amongst the lengthening shadows. We were fortunate to have the Towcester & District Photographic Society on hand to share the late summer light.

From Monday 11th Sept. we’ll be back at our winter quarters of Akeley Wood Senior School between 19:00 and 21:00 on a Monday and Tuesday (some hardy souls may still shoot on a Sunday afternoon at Wicken though).

Lots of dates to note regarding beginner’s courses. Each is of 2 consecutive Sundays 13:30 to 16:30. We have two courses remaining in 2023 with seven (!) coming up in 2024.

  • October – 1st and 8th [Update 15/09 – course now full]
  • October – 22nd and 29th [Update 14/10 – course now full]

2024

  • March 17th and 24th
  • April 14th and 21st
  • May 12th and 19th
  • June 2nd and 9th
  • Sept 8th and 15th
  • Sept 29th and Oct 6th
  • Oct 20th and 27th

We provide all the equipment required for the course, which are all outdoors at Wicken Sports Ground. Juniors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian throughout the course.

If interested please drop us a line via the Beginners’ Course page.

New term, new sport?

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After the summer break it’s back to a new academic year. Wicken Archers will soon be migrating indoors on Monday and Tuesday evenings, but there are still a couple of beginners’ courses available in the autumn before the chill really sets in. Each is of 2 consecutive Sundays 13:30 to 16:30:

  • September – 17th and 24th [Course full]
  • October – 1st and 8th
  • October – 22nd and 29th

We provide all the equipment required for the course, which are all outdoors at Wicken Sports Ground. Juniors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian throughout the course.

If interested please drop us a line via the Beginners’ Course page.

Start as you mean to go on …

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We like to have a bit of fun on our beginner’s courses and a frequent exercise is to shoot small balloons. Here’s one of our newer members showing us how it’s done (taken during beginner’s course earlier in the year … although it’s obviously not recent as the skies are blue and there’s no rain!):

Surgical strike!