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Club news and notices

The club championships 2010 were held on Sunday the 15th of August:

A gallery of photos has been added to the site:
Club championships 2010

An archery golf tournament has been organised in Porthcawl, Wales, to raise funds for The James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer. The notorious radio presenter is an avid archer. He fought kidney cancer in 2000, and set up the fund in 2005 to raise awareness of the disease and its treatment.
Full details are available from the Yorkshire Archery Association website:

YAA site: Archery golf fund raiser for kidney cancer

Meg's created the August 2010 edition of the club's newsletter, which is now online:
August 2010 newsletter

The full set of newsletters can be viewed on the newsletters page.

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 also shoot metric rounds. Our main shoot is on Sunday afternoons from noon. We also shoot outdoors on Saturday mornings from 10:30 AM. We are now shooting outdoors on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 PM.

All practising, prospective and returning archers 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. We have run many sessions for schools, scout groups, Boys Brigades and community groups. We often 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 course (September 2010) is now full and a waiting list applies. The next course after that will be in spring 2011.

Please contact the secretary to register your interest.

Our neighbours Bronte Archers of Bradford will be running a beginners course at Rawdon Meadows, Apperley Bridge. The course will start on Monday the 4th of October and will run for six weeks. For more details and to apply, please see the Bronte Archers website:
Bronte Archers: getting started

Local tournaments

The list of upcoming local tournaments has been moved to a separate page:
Local tournaments

Community

	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.
	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.
	Calderdale has an auspiciously-named radio station - Phoenix FM. Hear them in the Calderdale area on 96.7 MHz FM.

Looking for the other Phoenix Bowmen?

A club in Maghull, Liverpool, Merseyside (formerly of Southport) is also called the Phoenix Bowmen.

There is (or was) a South African organisation called the Phoenix Bowmen. Their site expired long ago.

Nos amis Les Archers du Phenix are in Chatenay-Malabry, France.

Phoenix Archers is a new club in Clacton, Essex.

Phoenix Archery Club is a target archery club in the south-east of Melbourne, Australia.

The Phoenix Field Archers of Sale are in Sale, Victoria, Australia.

The Golden Phoenix Archers are in Bristol, England.

Arzergrande in Italy has the Phoenix Archers.

The Phoenix Archers of Georgia are in Morrow, Georgia, USA.

There's also a Scottish club called the Phoenix Archers, and a field archery club in Woodall Spa, Lincolnshire, called the Phoenix Archers.