Harlequin Bowmen

Welcome

Welcome to the Harlequin Bowmen Web site. Please have a look around and get to know us.

Harlequin Bowmen has a good cross section of members of all ages, all abilities and all archery organisations shooting just about every bow style. Members have access to facilities for Indoor and Outdoor Target Archery, Field Archery and Clout Archery (though not all at the same venue or at the same time of year).

The Club has seen a number of members (both Senior and Junior) achieve great success including shooting for the County (Berkshire) and the Great Britain teams!

Recruitment

if you like what you've seen on the website, why not come along and give the fascinating and rewarding sport of Archery a try?

New members are always welcome (young and old) although beginners are not usually accepted during the winter months. Beginners are given introductory training courses (for a nominal fee) at the end of which they are invited to become full members. All equipment is provided for these courses. The courses are operated by Club members who are GNAS qualified Coaches. Having become members, coaching support continues to be available to everyone.

To find out more, click on the beginners link to the left.

Visitors

If you are an archer from outside our area then please consider entering one of our open competitions (Target or Field). Entry forms and result pages will be regularly added to this site. If you are just visiting the area for a short time, are a GNAS member and would like to train with us, please contact a member of the committee in the first instance.

A little history...

Harlequin Bowmen is based at the Harwell International Business Centre, south of Abingdon in Oxfordshire. The Club was originally founded in the late 1950s as the AERE Archery Club at the then named Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Berkshire. The Club has not moved geographically but it's name, the name of the site owners and the name of the County it's in, have all changed over the years. A few years ago, in recognition of our younger members, Harlequin Junior Bowmen was established.

Until two years ago, Harlequin Bowmen had a fascinating facility for Indoor Shooting. It is believed that we may have been the only Club in the UK to shoot in an inflatable building. The building has since been demolished but its demise was certainly not due to archery activities! Indoor shooting now takes place in Greenmere school in nearby Didcot.