About Us
Wellingborough Open Archery Club (WOAC) is an archery club based at Wellingborough Old Grammarians Sports ground and have our own dedicated shooting range.
Offering all year round shooting venues with our dedicated fields at Old Grammarians and during the winter season we shoot indoors at Wollaston School, Irchester Road, Wollaston.
We run beginners courses that provide a safe environment to practice this rewarding and challenging sport with our experienced coaches on hand.
Our ranges are universally accessible and wheelchair friendly with good access from the car park. We cater for all abilities, genders, disabilities and ages. We have all the equipment required for you to take part, contact us for the next available course dates.
What we offer
Dedicated Field
Beginners Courses
Equipment Assistance
Hire Bows
Foam Bosses
Our Services
A sport for all ages and abilities.
Competitions
WOAC has held an annual outdoor competition since 1956, which has, on occasions, attracted up to 100 archers from novices to national champions. Since 1989 an annual indoor competition has been held and from 2008 an additional indoor competition has been added in remembrance of former club members. Each year we can host anywhere from 8 to 15 competitions and scored rounds.
Open
The word Open has appeared in the club name since the early years. Our club is family orientated and caters for archers of all ages and abilities. We actively welcome archers with disabilities and both our ranges are fully accessible. We also have a thriving junior mini-club, the WOAC Colts.
Progression
There are currently 7 qualified level 1 coaches with more in training, three level 2 coaches and a county level coach in training. We have dedicated coaching sessions each week and we are coaching principles from the ArcheryGB technical framework. Several club members represent the Northamptonshire County squad in competitions. So if you are a social archer, interested in competing, want to improve your classification or want to take it more seriously with formal competitions we can help.
Beginner Course
We are affiliated with ArcheryGB, the governing body for Archery in the UK and our Beginners Course follows ArcheryGB principles & guidelines. Successful completion of our course will confirm your proficiency to shoot safely and will enable you to join any UK Archery Club.
Our Team
These are the current committee members who help to run the club and organise events.
Chairperson
Mark Radway
Secretary
Sue Halsall
Treasurer
Niall and Lindsay Guiver
Membership Secretaries
Pat Jones
Records and Classifications officer
Safeguarding Officer
John Marshall
Junior Representative
Danny Thomas
Web Manager
Karen Iveson
Committee Member
Coaching Officer
Coaches
Amy Halsall
2 years experiance
Bow of choice: Recurve
Chris Leech
6 years experience
Bow of choice: Recurve
Danny Thomas
10 years experiance
Bow of choice: Recurve
Duncan Riding
2 years experiance
Bow of choice: Undecided
Seth Tsang
12 years experiance
Bow of choice: Compund
Paul Sharpe
5 years experiance
Bow of choice: Recurve
Jack Sharpe
1 year experiance
Bow of choice: Recurve
John Marshall
12 year experiance
Bow of choice: "anything with a string"