NAC is one of Northamptonshire’s longest running clubs
Round two of the new Inter Club Challenge, a field shoot at Daventry on Saturday 11th June, hosted by Long Buckby Archery Club was another great success with a full team taking part from NAC. This new event is proving to be a popular and fantastic idea. The next round is a Clout hosted by Kettering Archers on Sunday 24th July, with the final round on 30th July, being a Pope Young. NAC will be the hosts. The results so far are being kept top secret.
David Quemby (Competitions Organiser – NAC)
Notice is given of the Annual General Meeting of Northampton Archery Club to be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 25th May 2016 at Carlsberg Sports and Social Club, Old Towcester Road, Northampton. The agenda and documents for the meeting will be found on our web-site AGM 2016 page under the Members Section when they are available.
In the absence of a secretary – correspondence, completed Nomination Forms and additional items for the agenda should be submitted to David Major (web master) by no later than Wednesday 11th May 2016
Our quiz night on Tuesday 15th March at Carlsberg was a great success with a total of just over £200 being raised towards the funding of an AED (defibrillator) for NAC. Entries to the quiz, along with a raffle raised just over £120, whilst a donation of a fantastic £50 was received from Victoria and Lynette on behalf of Emily – Angel on our Shoulders fundraisers. A big thank you for this; and also a big thank you to our quizmaster for the night, Peter Bond, who made the evening great fun – whilst managing to really tax our brains. Also thanks to David Quemby and Pam Joseph for organising this great worthwhile event. Subsequent to the quiz a further anonymous donation of £30 was received – thanks again. Vaughan Tucker was a valued member of NAC who collapsed and died of a cardiac arrest on 15th March 2015 at Cosgrove. He was a quiet witty man with a very laid back attitude to shooting with his familiar horsebow. He is sadly missed. More about him can be found here.
Our congratulations to NAC Compound Shooter, Susan Corless for setting a new UK National record for the Vegas Round. Susan shot a score of 570 at the Clophill Archery Club’s Second indoor triple Round Shoot on the 17th January this year, beating the old record of 562. An increase of 8 points at that level is no mean feat. Well done Susan.
Archers came from far and wide to take part in NAC’s 2016 Open Portsmouth held at John Ashby Sports Hall on Sunday 28th February 2016. Shooters from 12 clubs took part in the tournament, which was NAC’s fourth open event at Moulton. In addition to Northamptonshire – Staffordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and the West Midlands were all represented by 48 archers. Despite a heating failure in the hall on a cold day, a good day was had by all. Some fantastic shooting at a great (but cold) venue. The results can be found here.