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!

It’s been a busy season for Ledbury Archers – so busy we’ve forgotten to publish all the successes we’ve had!
There are several archers who are new to competition who have earned medals, it’s brilliant that folks have taken that step and our club continues to perform at a high level within the county.
Amongst these results there are also a plethora of county records which will appear on the county website in due course.

Herefordshire Archery Association competitions:

Full results appear on the County website

April: Long Metric series

LM I Golds for Mark B (longbow) and Rachel C (lb)

LM II Golds for Dan C (recurve), Stephanie B (barebow) and Pat B (lb)

LM III Gold for Graeme G (bb)

LM IV Gold for Ian W (bb)

Short Metric Gold for Justin (compound)

May: American/ St Nicolas rounds

American Golds for Graeme (bb) and Rachel (lb)

St Nicolas Gold for Ian (bb)

U14 National 30 Gold for Toby (bb)

June: WA70/50 series

WA70 Golds for Mark (lb) and Dan C (rec)

WA60 Gold for Pat (lb)

Metric 122-50 Gold for Phil (lb)

July: Albion/Windsor rounds

Windsor Gold for Dan C (rec), Graeme (bb) and Pete (lb)

Windsor40 U14 gold for Toby

Open competitions

Bromyard WA900

Gold for Toby in the U14 barebow

Bronze for Graeme in Gents Barebow.
Graeme also won the rather lovely trophy for Best Handicap Adjusted score

West Midlands Championships

Silver for Justin in Gents Compound behind a GB archer!

Gold and WMAS champion: Rachel in Ladies Longbow

Rachel and Justin were also at Cleve Archers for a Double 720 where Rachel won the Ladies Longbow in their Spring tournament. Rachel has also won several competitions around the region including a gold medal as part of a scratch team in the Welsh and \Western Counties Mixed Pairs championship.