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Who are we?
Learning, or having a go
Local tournaments
Community
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LATEST: The website now has a page giving details of businesses run by our members:
Businesses
Any club members who want to have their businesses listed on the page should contact the secretary, Tim Mason.

More nice shooting going on at Phoenix:

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Who are we?

We are the Phoenix Bowmen, a target archery club based at Illingworth in Halifax, Yorkshire. We are a well-established club with a growing and active membership.

We are affiliated to the Grand National Archery Society, the Northern Counties Archery Society and the Yorkshire Archery Association.

Our location is at Halifax RUFC's ground on Keighley Road (the A629). We shoot both indoors and outdoors, depending on the season and the weather. We shoot recurves, compounds and English longbows. All shooting at the club is target shooting, but our members also take part in field archery and clout archery shoots.

We usually shoot imperial rounds, but are happy to accommodate metric rounds. Our main shoot is on Sunday afternoons from noon. We also shoot outdoors on Saturday mornings from 10:30 AM.

All practising, prospective and returning archers are welcome. Day members are welcome. We can lend club equipment to people wanting to give archery a try. The facilities are safe for children.

Please note that we do not have suitable facilities for crossbows (and our constitution excludes the use of crossbows at the club) and we may not be able to handle large groups.

Learning, or having a go

We run have-a-go sessions regularly, on request. We have run many sessions for schools, scout groups, Boys Brigades and community groups. We're happy to provide have-a-go sessions for individuals and groups during our regular shooting sessions.
We run beginners courses during the outdoor season - see the Beginners page for more details. Our next set of courses will start on the 13th of May 2009, running on Wednesday evenings. Please note that the next set of beginners courses after that will be in September. A page of notes has been created for people participating in the course:
Notes for participants in the May 2009 beginners course

Local tournaments

We don't currently run tournaments ourselves, but there are plenty of other tournaments locally. Here are some that are coming up soon, with a link to the entry form where it is available online.

You can find more details of tournaments on the upcoming tournaments page and calendar of the Yorkshire Archery Association, the NCAS calendar and the Lancashire Archery Association's page.

You can also get information about upcoming tournaments in Yorkshire and neighbouring counties from the Downloadable Tournament Forms page of the Wakefield Archers.

Date	Organisation	Location	Round
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July 2009	NCAS/Yorkshire Archery Association	Grange Park Sports Club, Wetherby	World Record Status double FITA Star.	Entry form (PDF)
Saturday 4th July 2009	Chantry Bowmen	Sheffield Hallam University Ground, Bawtry Road, Sheffield	The Chantry Sword. Two-way Stafford for longbows.	Entry form (XLS)
Saturday 11th July 2009 and Sunday 12th July 2009	Bronte Archers	Rawdon Meadows, Apperley Bridge, Bradford	World Record Status Double FITA Star, junior Metric rounds, the Burntwood rounds and VI International rounds. Incorporates the 3rd leg of the Archery GB National Series.	Entry form (PDF)
Sunday 12th July 2009	Abbeydale Archers	De La Salle Grounds, Beauchief, Sheffield	Special shoot to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of Abbeydale Archers. 70 arrows at 70 yards for seniors, 70 arrows at 35 yards for juniors and novices (if preferred).	Entry form (PDF)
Sunday 19th July 2009	The Company of Scorton Archers	Brompton-on-Swale Sports Field, Richmond	60th Scorton Gold Tournament. An Albion round for seniors and Windsor rounds for juniors.	Entry form (PDF)
Sunday 19th July 2009	Panda Bowmen	West Park Leeds RUFC ground in Bramhope, Leeds	Pandamonium - Panda Bowmen's 19th Longbow Tournament. Western round for longbows.	Details
Sunday 26th July 2009	Savile Bowmen	Thornhill Cricket & Bowls Club, Thornhill, Dewsbury	Savile Bowmen 5th Outdoor Tournament. World Record Status 70m round followed by Olympic head-to-head.	Details
Sunday 2nd August 2009	Doncaster & District Archery Association	Castle Park Rugby Ground, Armthorpe Road, Doncaster	50th Top Town Tournament. An Albion round for seniors and Windsor rounds for juniors, for the honour of being the top archery town in Yorkshire. To be hosted by Danum Archers.	Entry form (PDF)
Sunday 8th August 2009	Yorkshire Archery Association	South Craven School, Cross Hills, Keighley	23rd Longbow Championships & Open Meeting. York and Double National rounds. Hosted by Aire Valley Archers.	Entry form (PDF)
Saturday 5th September 2009	The Wakefield Archers	Pontefract Castle	The Pomfret 60 longbow tournament. Two rounds of 60 arrows at 60 yards.	Entry form (PDF) About the Pomfret 60
Sunday 6th September 2009	Northern Counties Archery Society	St John Fisher School, Harrogate	Record Status and Tassel Award Status GNAS double one-way clout for the NCAS Clout Championships. Incorporates the NCAS Inter County Team Clout Championships. To be hosted by St George's Archery Club.	Entry form (PDF)
Sunday 6th September 2009	Bowmen of Adel	Adel War Memorial Association's ground, Church Lane, Leeds 16	Adel's End of Season Open Tournament. Long Western for seniors and shorter distances for juniors.	Entry form (PDF)
Saturday 12th September 2009	The Ascham Society	Shaw Lane, Barnsley	The Ascham Society cordially invites ladies to compete for the Ascham Silver Arrow and other trophies at Barnsley Archery Club's ground. Open to Ladies shooting longbow, recurve or barebow.	Entry form (PDF)

Check the Mayflower Archers tournament calendar and Archery Calendar UK for tournaments across the UK.

Community

	Visit Archery Interchange UK, the UK's largest online archery community! Lively discussion with a very large range of perspectives, and a very useful directory of archery resources on the Web.
	Want to know more about archery in Yorkshire? Then visit the website of the Yorkshire Archery Association. This is packed with useful information about archery, clubs, coaching and tournaments.
	Calderdale has an auspiciously-named radio station - Phoenix FM. Hear them in the Calderdale area on 96.7 MHz FM.