Formed in 1984 when a group of like-minded enthusiasts attended a beginners course at the local college, Grantham Archery Club has grown into one of the foremost archery clubs in Lincolnshire. Through the intervening years the club has gone from strength to strength and now has a permanent archery field complete with its own clubhouse.
Formed primarily as a recurve archery club we now cater for recurve, compound, barebow and longbow archers. With one qualified coache and access to national coaches we are able to offer a wide range of people the chance to try the sport of archery and to this end have had both wheelchair and blind archers as members. The club has a muti-age range of members from 8 years upwards and beginners have the full use of the clubs equipment.
Over the years we have had considerable success in competitions with both senior and junior members representing both the county and the region. We actively encourage our members to take part in internal and external competitions that are run throughout the year.

Shooting Venues

Arnoldfield Sports Field, Gonerby Hill Foot, Grantham.
Situated on the north side of Grantham on the A1174 opposite Padleys factory. This is our outdoor shooting field which we can use 7 days a week 52 weeks of the year. Permanently marked out and equipped with modern new style foam bosses.
Click HERE for map.

The Central Technology College, Rushcliffe Road Grantham.
We have use of the schools central heated 25 mtr long hall most Mondays during the winter months. We use this venue to shoot all our internal and postal league competitions, on non competition days this would be used for practice sessions.Equiped with the smaller new type foam bosses.
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Club Equipment
Over the last four years the club has progressively been replacing most of its old stock of equipment. This was greatly helped in May 2005 when the club was awarded a grant of £2200 from Sport Relief run by Lincolnshire Community Foundation. This enabled us to finally complete the purchase of new style foam bosses for both indoor and outdoor use along with an additional 12 new beginner's bows bringing our stock of `new` bows to well over 20. These bows are now use by beginner's of all ages until they feel ready to purchase there own equipment

3 Week Have a go Course.
We now run three week `Have a go course` courses during which time you will be shown the basics of shooting.
For more information on this course please contact Paul Durham on 01476 401865 or e-mail paul.durham2@ntlworld.com.

Monday Night Training/Coaching group night
We now have a new shooting format on a Monday night. The club is now split into 4 groups.

GROUP 1 : 3 week `Have a go `course dedicated to people wishing to try archery.

GROUP 2 : Beginners who have completed the 3 week `have a go course` and wish to join the club as full members. This group will be shown the basics of shooting the three types of bow we use along with all the relevant safety codes we use. Once members in this group have reached a certain standard they are then moved upwards into the 250 award group.

GROUP 3 : Members in this group are encouraged to participate in our `250` award scheme which consists of shooting and scoring 36 arrows at set distances starting at 10 yards and progressing up to 60 yards.

GROUP 4 : Advanced group archers are coached on a more one to one basis with a coaching plan tailored to each individual.

The training/coaching in all the above groups will not be based just on shooting and will include, at different levels, safety,equipment maintenance, scoring, setting out the shooting field , shooting etiquette,etc etc, this will be done either in individual groups or all 4 groups together.

Our internal competitions include the following.

Outdoor Club Championship: Held in September at Arnoldfield Sports Ground, Grantham.

Indoor Club Championship: Held March/April at The Central Technology College, Grantham.

Alan Dowsett Memorial Trophy: American round shot early summertime.

Peter Harwood Memorial Trophy: St George round shot mid summer.

Indoor Rosebowl: A PAA round shot once a month from November until March Indoors at The Central Technology College, Grantham.The winner of each months competition keeping the Rose Bowl trophy until the next month. After all five rounds have been shot an average of all the archers best three rounds are taken with the winner keeping the Trophy until the next season.

Indoor Portsmouth Postal League: Shot once a month Indoors on a Monday night from November until March at the Central Technology College, Grantham.

Outdoor Frostbite Postal League: Shot once a month Outdoors on a Sunday morning from November until March at Arnoldfield Sports Ground, Gonerby Hill Foot, Grantham.

We also run one off handicapped competitions throughout both the Indoor and Outdoor season.

CLUB FEES

A - Individual membership subscription @ £39.00 Target fees payable per session @ £2 per time outdoors. Indoor Central School nights are £3.00 per session.

D - Visiting Archers £3.00 per session.(This is for archers who are existing members of another archery club and wish to shoot at GAC venues for a short period of time)

Payable 1st April

G.N.A.S AND ASSOCIATED FEES

G.N.A.S Senior £39.00..Junior £21.50

Payable Sept 30th

SHOOTING TIMES

Summer outdoor shooting at our venue situated at

Arnoldfield Sports Field, Gonerby Hill Foot, Grantham, Lincs.

Tuesday nights are now dedicated to coaching and training with all members split into different groups..Start times are now 7.00 prompt until Dusk, dedicated to beginners and coaching.

Thursday nights and Sundays mornings times to be arranged between members..

Winter indoor shooting held at the
CENTRAL TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE, RUSHCLIFFE ROAD, GRANTHAM
from 6.30pm until 9.30pm every Monday night throughout the winter season. Please check the Competition Dates page for details. .

Sunday outdoor winter shooting is held from 10.00 am until ?? at our outdoor shooting venue at Arnolfield.