Author: Communications

Fees for 2024/25 are:

Club Member – Junior	£2.67
Club Member – Senior (Aged 18 to 20)	£4.00
Club Member – Senior (Aged 21 to 24)	£4.00
Club Member – Senior (Aged 25 & over)	£8.00
Club Member – Archers with Disabilities	£ Nil
University Club – Undergraduate & Postgraduate Students	£4.00

GWAS fees are pro rated from April 2025 for new members, please see the form for full details.

Those of you who have monitored the AGM for Grand Western will know about the increase of £2 for Seniors at GWAS (with proportionate increases for other categories), maintaining the pro-rating of fees over the second half of the affiliation year; but the regime for Archery GB affiliations has changed radically and has only been announced in the last few weeks, see the Archery GB website for more details.

Archery GB has set up just three affiliation categories: Under 21’s, Over 21’s and Disabled, and removed the pro-rating of fees in favour of an annualised fee based on the date of payment of fees. They have also increased the fees by £10 for over 21’s and by £7 for under 21’s & Disabled and announced increases for the following two years, in advance.

GWAS Council has decided that there is insufficient time to amend our age-groupings and remove our pro-rating (which would require an Extraordinary General meeting to be called) between now and the time that affiliations need to be collected and submitted; instead, for this year, we will merge the existing and new age groups and resolve the situation at our next AGM (some other Constitutional changes will also be required).

I have summarised the fees and continuing pro-rating of Regional fees on the return sheet (it’s not as complicated as it looks!!).

Clubs will need to prepare for this year’s round of affiliations by registering with Archery GB by 28 August 2024 to submit globally on behalf of members and then complete the renewal process by 1 October 2024.

Archery GB is also encouraging members to pay their AGB affiliation fees direct to them, rather than through the Club. I would ask you to strenuously resist this; otherwise I see it as extremely difficult to monitor who is a fully paid up member (Club, County, Region & National) if submission of fees to those bodies is piecemeal.

Please continue to collect the whole of the fee through the Club.

I have redrafted the Affiliation Submission Form to incorporate the new schedule of categories.

• The system of reporting just numbers of archers on the affiliation form remains in place.

• Please submit your Regional affiliation sheet(s) at the same time as you do the Archery GB submission. This makes it easier for me to keep track of submissions. Thanks.

• Each Regional Return should be consecutively numbered, so I can keep track of them. Please ensure that the Return No. box is completed showing the consecutive number of the Regional Return you are making. We’ll start again at No.1 for your first submission relating to 2024/25, then No.2 for your second submission and so on. I cannot access the “PAY….” number that appears on your AGB invoice, so please don’t use that.

• You can still choose how you will submit the payment associated with the Regional Affiliation: either electronically (preferred) direct into the bank account or by cheque to me by surface mail. If you choose the latter, please put the Return No. on the back of the cheque to facilitate me linking the two together more easily. 

• Even if you’re sending me a cheque payment in the post, you must submit the Regional Affiliation Submission Form to me electronically, along with a copy of the electronic invoice from Archery GB for the archers you are affiliating or a list of archers, their AGB Nos. and their membership category (if the AGB invoice is not available). These should all match.

Congratulations to Andrew Scott (Men Compound), Chloe A’Bear (Women Compound) and Ryan Faulkner (Junior Men Compound) who have been selected to represent England for the Indoor Home Nation Match 2023.