Finding Funding

Information on funding opportunities specifically for Scottish clubs and also Sport Scotland’s sources of income document (this is dated 2010 so some funding opportunities may have closed – please check with individual organisations). See also - Sportscotland Funding Page. The Archery GB website also has funding advice and also a Guide to Funding is available on the Handy Guides for Archery Clubs page.

Development meeting with Archery GB Team

As news that Balbardie Archers has secured a £1500 grant from Archery GB as part of the ontarget Club Development Program. The development team took the opportunity to hold a meeting with the Scottish CDCs and you can read the minutes here

County Development Co-ordinators

Each Area in Scotland has its own County Development Coordinator. They will be able to guide and help you with any queries that you have. They are: EAST - Kevin Young; WEST - Eddie Barret; NORTH - Peter Carrie

New Level 1 Coaches

A clutch of new Level 1 Coaches recently qualified in the Eastern Area - so congratulations to - Mark Book, Iain Hogg, Gilbert Jamieson and Kevin Young - all Balbardie; Tom Lithgow and Bernhard Trace - Duns Archers, Michael Murray - Border Bowman; Michelle Phillip and Robert Walber - Cupar Bowman; Maxine Dodds - ArcheryGB; Graeme Mitchell - Penicuik; Ray Thomson - Lanark ATC and Tom Whalley and Ralph Gillingham - Grange Archers

At an earlier course in the Northern Area - Bryan Bream, Brian Regan, Mike Voyzey, Paul MacGregor, Mike Alexander, Morag Reid, Dave Dunkley and Derek Samson all passed their Level 1 course as reported earlier.

Further courses in the West and another in the North are ongoing with another planned for the Eastern Area later in the year- and a wee birdie tells me that the Marketing & Development Director of ArcheryGB and from Pentland Archers has also achieved Level 1 through a course run at Lilleshall.

The East and the West courses have benefitted from a £500 grant from ArcheryGB Development towards the cost of the course.

on target

Archery GB has launched it Club Development Scheme on target. Details are available on the website

Clubs joining ontarget - Archery GB’s new Club Development Programme- are making a public pledge to be open and friendly, to advance archery and to proactively work with Archery GB and in return clubs will be recognised, rewarded and given support, guidance and advice to develop and improve.

The development team at ArcheryGB are working with runningsports to start work on a couple of generic guides for sports clubs – Governance (Volunteers & The Law, Club Structures -incorporation, tax, CASC v Charity & pros and cons) and Business Planning (succession planning, maximising income) – if you have any thoughts on the type of information you would want to know or if you have been through some of these processes and wished someone had told a specific piece of information before you started, then please drop me a line. We have some information but would like to be able to put forward real life scenarios so that the information produced is club orientated.
Scottish & Welsh clubs can still sign up to runningsports but obviously there won’t be any courses near you. Scottish clubs can take advantage of Help For Clubs - I note that help for clubs refers to the runningsports website booklets in its quick links!

Funding for Clubs

The ArcheryGB website has a document available on funding for clubs. Not all the grants are applicable to Scotland. This document was last updated in January 2011.

Scottish Initiatives

sportscotland - Help for Clubs

Don't forget the sportscotland resources at Help for Clubs