PRB Archery Club BA(G) Achievements

Things that have taken place within or by the club since Jan 09: (in no Particular order).

1. Club is open 3 times a week, Tues, Thurs & Sun

2. Weds afternoon (sports afternoon)

3. Integrated into CO`s Pt most Fridays

4. Have set up an Archery Leaders course for 12 club members take place @ church house, Lubbeke 2-5 Nov 09

5. 3 Bn REME – Bulls Fiesta – 10 June 09 

6. Queens Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, GOC fun day – 01 July 09 – Aldershot.

7. REME corps weekend – 03 & 04 July 09 – Arborfield.

8. Scouts “have a go” 11 July 09

9. 2 LSR sports festival – 15 July 09

10. 5 RMP families day – 18 July 09

11. 24 hour charity shoot took place 11 – 12 July 09, for big salute & help for heroes, raised over €2500, BFBS collected cheque for €1470 – 21 July 09.

12. 5 Rifles Salamanca Day – 25 July 09

13. Club polo shirts & Jackets available for members

14. BA(G) recognised as a county by GNAS

15. Jason McCoubrey (recurve) & Billy Boston (longbow), attended German National competition, achieved 2nd & 4th place, this is a great achievement for the club as for the 2 archers involved it was their 1st ever competition and they both learnt at this club.

16. Affiliations with 2 German clubs, 1 in Gutersloh, the other in Minden. The club is currently joined with a local German club in order for PRB Archery Club BA(G) to learn the German civilian competition rota, and is expected to be let loose on the German archery circuit this Winter.

17. Invited to AFB Ramstein to compete against American Archers. TBC

18. Various Army welfare service, primarily youth. I am Fully CRB checked.

19. Gutersloh garrison HQ also do all PRB Archery Clubs advertising and has even set up a web site for us.

20. Col Harrison Requested a visit for this week (27+ July 09) TBC

21. 1 AAC Families Day – 31 July 09.

22. 1 LSR CO`s Shield, & 1 LSR Families Day,

23. Encroachment for Gymnasium granted, all QMSI` fully support Archery.

24. There have been Numerous events that have taken place throughout the year, mainly “have a go`s” @ families days for various units within BFG (yes we travel too), and has been very receptive.

25. Kings school approached me with the possibility to teach archery at GCSE level, to top up some students GCSE (about 20% was to be included in the overall result), but due to lack of qualifications, was unable to cater for them.

26. Currently undergoing civilian teacher training course, with the view to complete A1/A2 assessor (approx 1 year), of which GNAS have agreed will enable me to teach archers to become instructors, and enable me to assess them too, this will dramatically reduce the cost of archers having to attend civilian course.

27. The club also caters for the younger elements of BFG, from the age of 7+

28. Took the Regional Rehabilitation staff for a team building session using archery.

28. This list is just some of the achievements that I (and the club here in Germany) have achieved in the last 7 months……. With no funding! All equipment has been purchased by me, maintained by me, and will remain with me (wherever or whenever I’m posted). I am currently the only archery leader in BFG (no-one has admitted it yet & club has been up and running for nearly 2 yrs) If I was to be posted tomorrow, then apart from the archers that have their own equipment, I believe that PRB Archery Club would cease to exist.