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If you’re ready to take your first step into coaching, our upcoming Archery GB Session Coach course is a great place to start. Whether you want to support beginners at your club, help grow the sport, or develop your own coaching skills, this qualification will give you the knowledge and confidence to coach safely and effectively.

The Session Coach qualification is made up of six modules, each building on the previous one. To complete the qualification, you’ll need to attend each module in order.

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Starting Your Coaching Journey

Course Code: 26-CJ-39

Register here:

https://agb.sport80.com/wizard/event/44198/home

Empowering Archery (Part 1)

Course Code: 26-EA-28

Register here:

https://agb.sport80.com/wizard/event/43978/home

Introduction to Technique

Course Code: 26-IT-39

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https://agb.sport80.com/wizard/event/44199/home

Creating Engaging Sessions

Course Code: 26-CE-39

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https://agb.sport80.com/wizard/event/44200/home

Using Your Coaching Skills

Course Code: 26-UY-29

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https://agb.sport80.com/wizard/event/44201/home

Supported Practice & Coach Presentation

Course Code: 26-SP-29

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https://agb.sport80.com/wizard/event/44202/home

We’d love to welcome you onto the course and support you as you begin your coaching journey. If you have any questions before booking, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Archery Northern Ireland – Youth Festival Team Announcement! ✨

The NI Archery Working Group is delighted to announce the archers selected to represent Northern Ireland at the Archery GB Youth Festival 2026, taking place at Lilleshall National Sports Centre.

Congratulations to every archer selected. Representing Northern Ireland is a fantastic achievement and reflects the commitment, determination and performances you’ve shown throughout the selection process.

The Youth Festival is one of the highlights of the junior archery calendar, bringing together talented young archers from across the UK. We know our team will embrace the challenge, enjoy the experience and represent Northern Ireland with pride.

🏆 Event: Archery GB Youth Festival 2026

🗓️Date: 4th–7th August 2026

📍 Venue: Lilleshall National Sports Centre

We’re also delighted to have Marty McCullough supporting the team as Compound Coach, Carl Bryer as Recurve Coach, and Damien Lennon as Team Manager.

Please join us in congratulating our Youth Festival team and wishing them every success as they prepare to compete against the best young archers from across the UK. We know you’ll wear the Northern Ireland colours with pride, enjoy every moment of the experience, and make memories that will last a lifetime.

Good luck, Team NI! 💚💙🏹

#GOTEAMNI #SmallButMighty #YouthFestival #ArcheryGB #NorthernIreland #FutureChampions

Applications are now open for up to £5,000 in match funding to support projects from sports clubs, charities, PTAs and community organisations.

🔗 Register for the webinar:

https://agb.sport80.com/wizard/event/44084/home

Archery Northern Ireland – Home Nations Cup 2026 Team Announcement! 

The NI Archery Working Group is delighted to announce the archers selected to represent Northern Ireland at the 2026 Home Nations Cup in Stirling.

A huge congratulations to everyone who has earned their place on the team. Selection to represent Northern Ireland is a fantastic achievement and reflects the hard work, dedication and commitment each archer has shown throughout the season. We have no doubt you’ll wear the Northern Ireland colours with pride and represent us brilliantly on the shooting line.

🏆 Event: Home Nations Cup 2026
📅 Date: 15th–16th August 2026
📍 Location: Stirling, Scotland

We’re also looking to complete our Recurve Women and Compound Women teams. It would be fantastic to travel to Stirling with full teams representing Northern Ireland.

If you’re interested in representing Northern Ireland, or would like more information, please email lisa.wheeler@archerygb.org or coaches@niarchery.org.uk. We’d love to hear from you.

Join us in congratulating our selected archers and wishing them the very best of luck as they prepare to take on England, Scotland and Wales. Let’s get behind Team Northern Ireland and cheer them on all the way! 💚💙🏹

This FREE training course will be run over three evenings via a webinar (7-9pm), please attend all three: https://agb.sport80.com/public/wizard/e/44144

The course covers:

1st evening – Setting up a basic shoot

2nd evening. – running more complex events such as  head to head events 

3rd evening – any topics still needed, and any in depth questions

Used by World Archery, clubs or TOs can plan to use Ianseo as a comprehensive management of archery competition results: from accreditation of the athletes and officers to every kind of printouts, and utilities from network and online integration to Field Of Play design and live leaderboards.

Archery GB uses IANSEO for its national competitions results and encourages clubs and Tournament Organisers to do the same. The training will cover:

Setting up IANSEO (delegates use own computer that they would use at competitions) Setting up WA18/1440 and Archery GB rules based competitions Running more complex events (e.g. Head to Heads) Working with the Judging team at a competition Post-Shoot activities – such as filing of results & web publishing

Delivered by Rob Potts. 

If you have specific questions on using the software, please email in advance to robert.potts@archerygb.org