2026 Club Summer Picnic
This year's picnic took place after morning shooting on Sunday 5th July. Members, their family and friends were all welcome and contributed to its success. Many thanks to Chris P. for providing meats and a vegan dish and everyone else for their food contributions.
Hertfordshire Archery Society Records
A number of our archers have achieved HAS records:
Neil B. Outdoor shooting a Compound York round on 27th July 2025 – score 1230.
David W. Indoor shooting a Compound WA18M round on 23rd November 2025 – score 565
Chris R. Indoor shooting a Recurve Double Bray round on 7th March 2026 – score 494
David Wh. Indoor shooting a Recurve Worcester round on 7th March 2026 – score 263
Neil B. Indoor shooting a Compound Portsmouth round on 8th March 2026 – score 591
Well done all!
2026 Annual General Meeting
The Club's AGM was held on Tuesday 31st March from 7:30pm in Hinxworth Village Hall.
David O. stood down as Chairman and was thanked for his many years’ service and presented with an engraved pen. David will continue in his role as Membership Secretary. Jerry, who had been a founder member of the Club was also thanked for his many years’ service as a Committee member.
Rob has taken over as Chairman and Christopher B. has joined the Committee.
The Chairman’s Cup was awarded to Marianne for her dedication and efficiency in keeping the Club’s finances in order particularly when the Club became a dual Club (AGB and non-AGB).
The GNAS Handicap Improvement medal was awarded this year to Christopher Bennet for his 4-point handicap improvement.
Hertfordshire Archery Society Tournaments March 2026
Well done all our archers who took part in the tournaments on the weekend of 7th/8th March and congratulations to those below who achieved top places.
HAS Pot Luck Recurve
David Wi., 1st Worcester
Chris R. , 1st Double Bray
Bob B., 2nd Double Bray
Clare, 2nd WA-18
HAS Indoor County Open Championships
Neil, 1st Compound Portsmouth
Steve, 2nd Longbow Portsmouth
Chris R., 3rd Recurve Portsmouth
Hertfordshire Archery Society Winter Leagues 2025/26
Hinxworth archers are doing well in the HAS Winter leagues up to the end of January 2026. The Club was in 1st position in the Frostbite league in Compound, Longbow and Recurve. Our positions in the Portsmouth competition were 1st Compound, 2nd in both Recurve and Longbow and 4th Barebow.
The Christmas Party
24 members attended the Club's Christmas Party held in the Village Hall on the evening of Saturday 6th December 2025. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped in any way with making the party a success.
Congratulations, Neil
The ArcheryGB National Indoor Championships took place over the weekend of 5-7 December 2025 at Stoneleigh Park.
Hinxworth Archery Club member Neil took 1st place in the Compound 50+ Open
competition scoring 582 shooting 60 arrows. Well done , Neil, your Club is very proud of you. It was a family event for Neil as daughter Evie was also competing in the women's compound competition representing her RAF club.
Spooky goings on
Ghostly happenings on the Rec. on Sunday 2nd November 2025 at the Club's Halloween Fun Shoot. Over thirty archers stood on the shooting line on a fine autumn morning.
The Senior trophy was won by David Wh. with David Wi. in 2nd place and Kath in 3rd. The Junior trophy was won by Emilia with Annabel in 2nd place.
So good to see so many of our new members attending as well as some old friends of the Club visiting to shoot with us.
Club Tournament 2025
An informal Club Tournament was held for our members on the morning of Sunday 5th October which was followed by a Bring & Share lunch in the village Hall.
Our archers shot one of three ‘National’ rounds, winners as follows:
Long National Compound – Neil
National Gent Recurve – Alan
National Gent Longbow – Steve
National Lady – Sally
National30 Gent Recurve – Bob B.
National30 Gent Longbow - Phil
National30 Gent Barebow – Thomas B.
National30 Lady Recurve – Clare
National30 Lady Barebow - Catriona
Derek Bridgewater
The Club was sorry to hear of the death of Derek, an honorary member of the Club and a very skilled and talented longbowman. He was not only a brilliant shot but also made longbows and target stands serving as our equipment officer for some years.
He was much respected and always willing to help and advise his fellow archers over many years. Our condolences to Derek's family at this sad time for them.
