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Places

Our Facilities Strategy focused on three key areas:

A strategic facilities Supporting two programmes:
1 lead to support our a. New Places for Target Faces –

facilities development encouraging the opening up of new
archery venues
3 b. Club signage programme – making

clubs more prominent in their local
Update and
2 review our communities in addition to using app
technology to further develop our
facilities research “Club Finder”

The strategic plan committed to develop 50 new places to shoot as well as ensuring that clubs
are accessible and easy to find. Due to changes in Sport England funding and a re-structure of
the Sport Team, some work in the area of facilities has been reconsidered.

We recognise that this is still a We have also progressed other areas
hugely important area of work, including: In the next few months, the following
emphasised by our research which • Planning applications – weekly actions will take place, led by the Clubs &
continually shows lapsed members analysis of planning applications Facilities Manager:
Completion of Range Registration -
•
stating a range of club factors as
We have made important reasons for leaving, with • that could affect our clubs; including minimum standards analysis,
Individual club support –
updating knowledge on the national
the club offer or facilities as main
Where clubs experience issues
picture of the facilities our clubs use;
issues.
such as planning applications,
significant progress in our Despite these challenges, we have • seek facility improvements • A review and update of Archery GB’s
Facilities Strategy;
or funding applications, we
•
Alignment and update of all documents
made significant progress in our
continue to support these;
that refer to facilities – including
understanding of archery facilities
Regular updates to the Handy
understanding of archery around the UK. As part of the range Guide to Funding – promoting • Technical Specifications and Handy
Guide to Setting up a Range;
registration process, 828 clubs have
facility funding opportunities
Continuation of planning application
already registered 1759 ranges,
analysis, and individual club support;
which has given us an accurate
facilities around the UK database of archery facilities in the Our New Places for Target Faces • Identification of funding opportunities
programme is currently being
– internal and external – to enable
UK. We will continue to work with
reviewed, to allow us to analyse
strategy actions to be completed.
the remaining clubs, to encourage
them to register their ranges and the success of the programme and • Developing ontarget Hubs
review the impact the existing nine
once the process is complete, we will venues have had on helping us grow • Refreshing ontarget clubs with stronger
use this information to refresh our and sustain participation. connections to other areas of archery
facilities strategy during 2018. such as coaching and competition.
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