Membership of Bournemouth Archery Club

Application Process:

Beginners
Most members join the Club after successfully completing one of our ‘Introduction to Archery’ courses which we run three times a year in April, May and September.  In fact it is a pre-requisite for joining that applicants have completed such a course of tuition (or similar).  Details of how to join an ‘Introduction’ course can be found on the relevant page of this website.

Transferring from other Archery Clubs
If you wish to transfer your membership from another archery club please note that we will want to take references from your existing club.  In addition, all applications are subject to consideration by the Club’s Committee, and therefore, there may be a delay of about 4-6 weeks before an applicant receives a response to their application.  Applications received immediately from those successfully completing an ‘Introduction to Archery’ course are exempt from this requirement.

Probationary Period
All new members, including beginners and those transferring from other archery clubs, are subject to a three months probationary period.  This period is to allow new members the opportunity to decide if membership of Bournemouth Archer Club is right for them.  It also allows the Club the opportunity to ask members to leave if there are strong grounds for doing so.  This is expected to be a very rare occurrence, and there would have to be a very good reason for the Committee to take such action.  The safety of other archers is a specific example which may require intervention by the Committee.

It should be noted that members leaving during the probationary period would only receive a refund of their subscription payable to the archery club; fees paid to Bournemouth Sports Club and to GNAS/GWAS/DWAA would not be refundable.

Membership Subscriptions 2009/2010 
The membership fee is paid to cover membership from 1st May to 30th April annually.  The subscription rates for the 2009/2010 membership year for the various categories are shown in the table below. The fees are subject to part-year reductions depending when you join during the membership year.   Please note that your membership fee entitles you to membership of GNAS/GWAS/DWAA and Bournemouth Sports Club – you will see that the archery club itself only receives a very modest amount of the total membership fee

Family membership rates for Juniors apply where two adults from the same family are existing members.

Application Forms
Application forms can be obtained by contacting the Membership Secretary, Mrs Carole Tidd via the Club’s Enquiries Email Address as shown in the contact section of this site.