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News03/02/2008 - Website redevelopment As many will have noticed, the Island Archers website has been sadly neglected for nearly a year, due to real-life events hampering the efforts of its webmaster; the most notable being the birth of his daughter in July of 2007, and also some technical issues with broken networks and computers. However, since things have now settled down, the website is to be given a thorough overhaul and redesign, and a content management system will be added in order that non-technically-minded members of the club can add articles and items to the website without the intervention of the webmaster. 
14/03/2007 - Sports Festival Archery Individual Competition Congratulations to everyone who took part in the hotly-contested Lewis and Harris Sports Festival archery Individual competition last night. The evening kicked off with the Junior Gents Competition, and many of the early-arriving seniors were incredibly impressed with the standard of competition, especially since most of the competitors hadn't had much archery experience, if any at all. The Seniors Competition was as keenly contested as ever, with the top two Senior Gents only separated by three or four points for most of the evening, whilst the winner of the Ladies showed the rest of the field a clean pair of heels, racking up a Senior Ladies club record of 441 for a Portsmouth round on her way to overall victory.
08/03/2007 - Sports Festival Archery come-and-try Island Archers would like to thank everyone who turned out to take part in the Lewis and Harris Sports Festival archery come-and-try event last night. We hope that you all had fun, as we had a great time, and we hope that we won't have to wait until the next come-and-try event before we see you again! Whilst we would like to apologise to all the junior archers who have been inspired to take archery further for our continued lack of a junior section, we hope that those of you who are at, or shortly due to go to the Nicolson Institute to seek out Mr Oakley or Mr McCafferty to enquire about the after-school archery club. That said, any 'Seniors' (over 18) who would like to have a bit more of a go at the sport would be very welcome to come along to our weekly Wednesday evening session (7pm-8:30pm) in the Nicolson Assembly Hall, where the club's instructors will be able to devote a little more time to teaching them the finer points of archery than they would during the average come-and-try!
07/03/2007 - Sports Festival Archery safety advice Would all participants in the Lewis and Harris Sports Festival archery come-and-try event and the two archery competitions please be advised that in order for complete safety to be maintained, a mandatory safety briefing will take place before each event, and that latecomers may be refused participation on safety grounds if they have not attended the briefing, so it is advisable to turn up early...! (For dates and times, see below.) In addition, it is advisable that participants:
09/02/2007 - Lewis & Harris Sports Festival - Archery Island Archers is, once again, hosting the archery events for Lewis & Harris Sports Council's Sports Festival, with three events spread over three weeks in March. Events will be held in the Nicolson Institute Assembly Hall to the following schedule.
Official entries may be made at Sportsworld, Frances Street, Stornoway, or at the Lewis Sports Centre, Springfield Road, Stornoway. Entries for Island Archers members may be made via the Club's , or .
07/02/2007 - GNAS launches consultation
GNAS's consultation takes the form of an online survey that, whilst aimed primarily at its members, is also open to others interested in the sport, and questions range from whether it should issue a 'welcome pack' to new members, to how better communicate with its members, to how it should raise the profile of archery in the British public's consciousness. Those who take part can register their opinions anonymously, although those who complete the survey and leave their contact details before 2nd April 2007 will be entered into a draw for a place on one of GNAS's highly sought-after Archery Performance weekend courses at GNAS headquarters in the Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire. Those wishing to make their views known can access the online questionnaire via GNAS's home page, or by clicking here.
08/12/2006 - Island Archers announces Winter Series Island Archers is proud to announce that it is introducing an open Winter Series, which will run (this year) from this Wednesday (13th December) until the end of March, and will consist of a number of Portsmouth rounds, with the best Portsmouth score shot by each competitor each month going towards an overall points total. For those interested, the rules (as will be the results, when they happen!) are here.
The competition is open to anyone (subject to UK archery governing body GNAS's insurance stipulations), and at its conclusion, the top three plus the highest placed novice (ie with less than six months experience at the start of the competition), shall be eligible for prizes. |
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Archery's national governing body in the UK, the Grand National Archery Society (GNAS), has launched a consultation exercise to garner opinion as to how to best take archery forward in the United Kingdom, following criticism of its running of the sport in recent years.