Ledbury Archery Club

The Royal Oak at Much Marcle hosted another fine evening of food, drink, chat and most importantly – award giving.

Much well reward bling was handed out.

Dan Callender – Recurve archer of the year.

Rachel Cecil – Longbow archer of the year.

Toby Mills – Junior archer of the year.

Mark Parker – Novice archer of the year.

Sarah Callender – Clout archer of the year

George Hancock – Rove archer of the year.

Dan Callender – Tarrington League winner – Recurve

Philip Kirkland – Tarrington League – Longbow

Mark Parker – Tarrington League winner – Barebow

Complete list of winners and classifications below – well done to everyone and best of luck for the coming year!

Stephanie Barton	Outdoor Bowman 1st class
Mark Beaumont	Indoor archer 1st class, Outdoor Bowman 2nd class
Pat Beaumont	Indoor Bowman 2nd Class, Bronze clout medal, Outdoor Bowman 2nd class
Pete Bennett	Indoor Archer 1st class, Outdoor Bowman 1st class
Rachel Boughen	Indoor Archer 1st class
Dan Callender	Recurve archer of the year, Winner of Tarrington League (Recurve), Indoor Bowman 2nd Class, Outdoor Bowman 2nd class
Sarah Callender	Clout archer of the year, Indoor Bowman 3rd Class, Silver clout medal, Outdoor Archer 1st class
Rachel Cecil	Longbow archer of the year, Silver clout medal, Outdoor Bowman 1st class
Martyn Cowley	Silver clout medal
Philip Creasey	Bronze clout medal
Jack Davies	Barebow archer of the year, most improved handicap, Indoor archer 1st class
Sean Debond	Bronze clout medal
George Hancock	Rove archer of the year, Bronze clout medal
Philip Kirkland	Winner of Tarrington League (Longbow), Indoor Bowman 1st Class
Julie Lascelles	Bronze clout medal
Richard Lee-Buxton	Bronze clout medal
Toby Mills	Junior archer of the year, Outdoor Bowman 2nd class
Wesley Mills	Outdoor Archer 2nd class
Mark Parker	Novice of the year, winner of Tarrington League (Barebow), Indoor Bowman 2nd Class, Outdoor Archer 1st class
Christopher Parr	Indoor Archer 1st class
Carrie-Ann Philpott	Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
Steve Powell	Indoor archer 1st class
Gordon Relf	Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
Caroline Shaw	Indoor archer 1st class, Outdoor Archer 2nd class
Graham Shaw	Outdoor Archer 1st class
Ian Staines	Bronze clout medal
Colin Symonds	Indoor Bowman 1st Class
Stephen Symonds	Indoor Bowman 2nd Class, Outdoor Bowman 2nd class
Daniel Vesma	Outdoor Bowman 3rd class
Rebecca Wilkinson	Indoor Archer 1st class
Dale Williams	Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
Ian Woodman	Bronze clout medal, Outdoor Bowman 2nd class
Gordon Woolley	Bronze clout medal

A gorgeous misty morning at Putley heralded perfect conditions for our annual Don’t Shoot Santa Shoot this year. A motley crew of happy and hatted archers tackled the clout shoot where we shot at printed sheets rather than the usual flags, giving us the opportunity to shoot the gremlins stealing Santa’s gifts. Thankfully (and probably luckily), Santa himself escaped unscathed.

George shot magnificently and won the Junior prize. Pat outshone everyone and won the Senior prize.

The clout was followed by a few ends at the novelty targets, together with the chance to shoot the dastardly Feathers. All of this fun followed by a roaring BBQ tended to by Graham.

Many thanks to all who attended and made this such a fun event!

Steve Powell has a pair of Hoyt ZR330 limbs (38lb) for sale. Please see the sale section on the website for more details.

Members only – Equipment For Sale

Our second remembrance shoot continued it’s tradition of being very well supported by our own archers and those from neighbouring clubs. We raised a very generous donation of £200 for the Royal British Legion, thank you for all of your contributions!

We held a clout at both long and less long distances and awarded appropriate trophies for both wooden and metal arrows for each distance that were won by Ian, Vicky, Hillary and Gordon.

A thank you goes to Rachel for creating and supplying the trophies, and to all participants for their generous contributions.

The annual clout competition in honour of Geoff took place at Putley Farm in September.

Overall winner and barebow gold was won by Phill Creasey with 197.

Martyn Cowley was longbow gold with 187.

Dan Callender was silver with 181.

We have issued details of our member and visitor fees for the coming year (2025-2026), details can be found here:

Visitors and Agrees Fees 2025

Julie got the perfect clout, damaging the flagpole!

11th April, we headed to the Royal Oak for the annual dinner and bling handouts.

A good meal was consumed then we handed out awards for extreme cleverness in the art of Archery.

Another “bling full” day at the county championships. Well done to all archers and massive thanks to every who did their bit to make it run smoothly. You are all fabulous. Go Ledbury ! 

The Worcester Bowmeet happens twice a year. The members shoot at 60 yards and the scores for the two occasions are added together. The winner receives a lovely silver trophy.

Malcolm was defending champion and retained his title. Malcolm is typically sanguine about it however this is the fifth successive year he has won the trophy. If it was the footie World Cup they’d let him keep it!

Well done Malcolm!