As part of Sittingbourne Community College Para Festival Kent Archery Association has agreed to support a Para Archery Championship based on the classification scheme for World Archery.
KAA medals being awarded to classified archers with W1, Open Recurve and Open Compound categories.
Please keep an eye out for the entry form
Senior County Championship
The Kent committee has accepted a very kind offer from Gravesend Archers to host this years senior county championship. We have decided to split the championship into 2 event because of the limited number of targets that Gravesend can accommodate.
Junior County Championship
The Junior championship will be held at Vigo on the 27th July as part of the Junior Shoot.
The senior shoot will be held on the 7th September 2025. Entry form available from https://gravesend-archers.co.uk/forms/PocahontasShoot2025Entry.pdf
Junior Entry form available soon
Course codes and registration links (for the practical days)
25-CJ-07 Starting Your Coaching Journey MAR WED 1900-2100 hrs 19-Mar 26-Mar
25-CE-07 Creating Engaging Sessions APR/MAY WED 1900-2100 hrs 30-Apr 07-May
25-IT-07 Introduction to Technique APR WED 1900-2100 hrs 14-May 21-May
The 2 practical days for any session coaches waiting for the practical days to complete their training or for the above to register NOW if they wish to become session coaches .
25-UY-17 – Using Your Coaching Skills – May 31st 2025
https://agb.sport80.com/public/wizard/e/42404
https://agb.sport80.com/public/wizard/e/42402
25-SP-17 – Supported Practice & Coach Presentation – June 7th 2025 https://agb.sport80.com/public/wizard/e/42405
Later in the year : another Session coach course starting September
25-CJ-19 Starting Your Coaching Journey SEP WED 1900-2100 hrs 03-Sep 10-Sep
25-IT-19 Introduction to Technique OCT WED 1900-2100 hrs 01-Oct 08-Oct
25-CE-19 Creating Engaging Sessions OCT WED 1900-2100 hrs 15-Oct 22-Oct
Practical days being registered now. Codes to follow
November 22nd Using your coaching Skill and Drills
December 13th Supported practice days.
Development Coach ON-LINE that I am delivering Starting July 2025
25-DC-07
Role of the Development Coach JUL WED 1900-2000 hrs 02-Jul-25
25-DA-07 Developing the Archer in Front You JUL WED 1900-2100 hrs 09-Jul-25 16-Jul-25
September 20th 2025 Coaching Techniques Drill and Skill
November 15th 2025 Coaching Techniques 2
November 29th 2025 Recurve set up
January 24th 2026 Presentation Day
The following are the dates for the Kent Archery Field days at Gorewood. See the KAF page https://kentarcheryassociation.co.uk/kaf/ for more details
Calendar
KAF-1 March 2 nd WA 12 T U/M
KAF-2 April 6 th WA 12 T Marked
KAF-3 May 4 th National Animal
KAF-4 July 6 th WA 24T Mixed
KAF-5 August 17 th WA 12T U/M
KAF-6 September 7 th WA 24T Mixed
Ashford Archers have a Monthly field shoot open to all AGB members, ever wanted to try Field Archery but dont know where to go? then Ashfords open days at the Priory is just for you. All inexperienced field archers will be paired with someone who knows what they are doing to guide you through the day.
for more information email us at enquiries@ashfordarchers.org.uk. Hope to see you soon at the Priory
This years event will be kindly hosted by Allington Castle Archers at their indoor venue of Lockmead in Maidstone. The event date is Sunday 16th February 2025. Closing date for this event if the 9th of February 2025.
Following the announcement from AGB the Fee Calculator and Direct membership forms are now available on the members page of the website.
This past weekend, 29th and 30th June 2024 270 archers travelled to Archery GB headquarters, at the National Sports Centre, Lillieshall, near Telford, Shropshire.
On the Saturday all archers shot a double 720 ranking round, ranking them for the individual Head to Head matches on the Sunday.
The Sunday introduced a new concept to the H2H matches, something known as Repechage. This format meant that if you lost your match you got a new score sheet and carried on shooting until you lost again when you repeated the process. There were a few teething issues but the format has great promise, in the view of the author, for keeping archers involved all day. This format also means that you end up with a full set of individual rankings from 1 to 64.
At the end of the day 2, two Kent archers found themselves in the Gold medal matches.
Cliff Gadd (Longbow) faced Brian Rosenberg in the mens longbow final. Cliff was victorious taking the match 6 – 2. Congratulation Cliff on yet another UK Masters win.
Ajay Scott faced Kia Thomas-Prause in the mens compound match with Kia taking the match 146 – 147. Ajay continues to go from strength to strength having recently taken part in the last World Cup stage in Antalya. Ajay is one to watch. Well done Ajay.
ArcheryGB may be publishing some highlights of the matches on YouTube. If these appear I will update the post.
Allington Castle archers are hosting a UK Record status with Rose Awards York/Hereford and Bristol tournament on Sunday 25th August at their ground at:
Westborough Primary School, Greenway, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 8TL
Further information and and entry can be obtained as a Word Document or as a PDF
KAA hope to be able to submit a team of junior archers for a county match to be held on the 8th June. Archers wishing to be considered for a place should submit their scores no later than the end of May 12th 2024.
Scores, with attached, signed score cards or results sheets, should be submitted via Golden Records. If you would like a Golden records account you can contact the county records officer via records@archerykent.org.uk.