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Shooting Calendar

Click here for the Club Calendar including shooting dates for target practice, clout practice Have-A-Go sessions, induction courses, competitions and club meetings.
(on Windows, right click and select Save Link As to download the PDF)

Annual Tournaments

2025 Mayday Weekend
This will be held again in 2025 on Sun 4th May (Longbow 2way Western) & Mon 5th May (2x Nationals). Head over to the Mayday page a bit nearer the date for more info and booking. Previous results are there too.

2025 WA Summer Tournament 
Probably not this year.

2025 NAA County Outdoor Championships
This is being hosted by Wymondham in 2025, in August or September, more info nearer that time on their and the NAA websites.

2025 Clout Weekend
This will be held again in 2025 on Sat 4th October (metric) & Sun 5th October (imperial). It will follow the usual format and hopefully include the NAA County Clout on the Sunday.

2025 Indoor Tournament
We’re planning on holding another UK Record Status Portsmouth (yay!) in November 2025, just like we did last year on 17th November 2024. Date tbd much nearer.

Fun Shoot

We hosted our very first fun shoot on Sunday 14th July 2024, and it was jolly good fun. We’re planning on repeating it with a few improvements in July 2025 date TBD. Come along and join in, open to all clubs, everyone is welcome.

And don’t forget the Hingham Fun Shoot this summer, it was September in 2024, check their website for this and other events including a Portsmouth on Feb 2025, click here .

Club Championships

We’re hoping to re-instate our traditional Club Championships this year, outdoor and indoor with head-to-heads. Watch this space and the shooting calendar.

Club Target Days

We’ve re-introduced Club Target Days to encourage ArcheryGB Classifications and the associated bling that goes with them, and for those who want to try shooting some different rounds. For Bowman classifications the shoot needs to be a formal event, hence the target days, while for Archer classifications a normal club practice day is fine.  Click here for more details about Target Days.

All Sunday afternoons in the Indoor Season 2024-25 are designated Target Days, since most people are shooting the same round and scoring formally. So, Bowman Classifications here we come.

Have-A-Go Sessions

Do you want to try archery? See if you like it?
We’re running Have-A-Go sessions at Fakenham Racecourse on:

21st August 2025 Thursday 2-4pm
25th August 2025 Monday 2-4pm

Induction Courses

Ok, you’ve had a go at archery, you like it, do you want to carry it a bit further?
We’re running two Induction Courses this year at Fakenham Racecourse.
All lessons are on Thursdays from 6-8pm:

May 2025, five lessons, one per week starting 1st May, on 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th May

August-Sept 2025, five lessons, one per week starting 28th Aug, on 28th Aug, 4th Sep, 11th, 18th, 25th Sept.

Shooting Places and Times

Outdoor Shooting 2025

At the Fakenham Racecourse NR21 7NY, entrance off Hempton Road. Park at The Gallow social centre car park, walk across the racetrack and turn right. You’ll find us by the wooden pavilion.

Click here for a map

Shooting Times Outdoors

We have set start times, but finish when everyone has had their fill, or it gets too dark.

Sundays in summer: 2pm till ~8pm. In winter 2pm-dusk.
Note that on some Sundays we shoot clout rather than targets, see the Shooting Calendar.

Thursdays in summer: 2pm till ~8pm. In winter 2pm-dusk.

Tuesday mornings: 9:30am – 11:30am, weather dependent.

If the weather’s very bad, contact one of the Field Captains just to check shooting is still on. There will be a list with mobile numbers on the members pages shortly and a link here.

Indoor Shooting Winter 2024-25

At the Sports & Fitness Centre, Trap Lane, NR21 9HL. Next door to Fakenham Academy.

Click here for a map

Shooting Times Indoors

Sundays 2pm – 4pm.

The indoor season starts on Sunday 13th October 2024. Check the Club Calendar for full dates for the season.

The hall is expensive to book so we ask visiting archers for a modest £5 shooting fee to cover part of the cost.

 

Links

Norfolk Archery Association


Fakenham Bowmen are proud to be part of
Norfolk Archery Association.

Click here to go to their website

 

Finally

Well, if you’ve read this far, you should be rewarded in some small way. So here’s one of a series of randomly changed and trivially captioned pictures. Come back another time for a different one.

unlucky clout

 

 

Web page last updated: 05 Jan 2025