Bowmen of Harrow: June 2025 Updates

Hi everybody, Krishna here, Club Secretary, delivering you the below June club updates!

Safeguarding update

Fridge etiquette: Reminder

We are fortunate to have a fridge we can use in our club but we must all be respectful of each other and remove food which is out of date so that we do not cause anybody to fall ill because of germs.

Please let’s all work together and follow the guidance to keep our club clean and safe, a reminder below of correct fridge use, this notice is displayed on the front of our fridge.

League updates or reminders

back with an update on the state of [Competitive/Organised] shooting at Bowmen of Harrow.

This will be a two fold update, where I go over the final results of the indoor season (finally!!) and then I will be announcing (most) dates for all the shooting that will be taking place over the coming months for the club’s outdoor season.

Past Shoots:

Indoor League Results

During the winter / Indoor Season, the club took part in two indoor leagues, the Selby league and the Middlesex Worcester League. The results for the two leagues are as follows.

• Selby Portsmouth/Frostbite League

The Sleby League is made up of two rounds, Portsmouth and Frostbite. For both rounds, we entered as a club two Recurve Teams, a Longbow Team, A Compound Team and a Barebow Team. Each team was organised into a division of 6 teams which vied for the podium. the placements for each of our teams in their respective divisions are as follows:

Portsmouth Recurve:
Portsmouth Longbow:                                  Portsmouth Compound:
Portsmouth Barebow:
Frostbite Recurve:

Frostbite Longbow:                                  Frostbite Compound:

Frostbite Barebow:

*Selby League stats are: Matches shot | Wins | Losses | Aggregate Score | Points

• Middlesex Worcester League

The Worcester League was a Middlesex county only league where we competed against all the other clubs in Middlesex. For this league, we entered one team for each bow style as well as a Junior recurve category.
The results are as follows:

FINAL Recurve League RESULTS

FINAL Junior Recurve League RESULTS

FINAL Longbow League RESULTS

FINAL Barebow League RESULTS

FINAL Compound League RESULTS

Individual Leader Board

(best score shot throughout the league/season)

The Prizegiving Ceremony for the Middlesex Worcester league will be presented on Monday 26^th May at day 2 of the Middlesex County Outdoor Champs.

Indoor Champs Results

Over the Weekend of May 3^rd/4^th, the Club ran its Indoor Club Champs. The results for which are as follows:

After the third session, medals were presented to everyone who secured a podium finish (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd) in their category. If your placed in top 3, and you haven’t yet received a medal, one has been put aside for you to collect so please contact me to collect.

Upcoming Shoots:

Upcoming Middlesex Outdoor League

Over the coming season, we will be taking part in the Middlesex Short Metric League. In the league, we will be competing against London Archers, Pinner Archers, Aquarius Archery Club, Laleham Archery Club and Greenwood Osterley Archers (GOA). We will have 3 home matches and 3 away matches against randomly selected clubs. The match schedule is as follows:

• Away – Laleham – Sunday 8^th June
• Away – London – Saturday 5^th July
• Home – London – Sunday 27^th July
• Away – Aquarius – Sunday 10^th August
• Home – Pinner – Sunday 17^th August
• Home – GOA – Sunday 7^th September

The Teams we have entered into this league are as follows:

• Recurve
• Barebow
• Longbow

Due to our current limitations in outdoor shooting hours at the weekend, our home matches will be shot at Metropolitan Sports Grounds (Pinner’s outdoor range who are gracious enough to host us as they did for the frostbite during winter).

*addresses for venue locations will be available in the bookings for each session.

Upcoming 252

252 is back! Because of limited hours on the weekend for outdoor shooting, we have elected to run two sessions of 252 every month.

The first will be a Friday evening in the 16:00-20:00 time slot (usually limited up to 50 yard). The second will be a weekend morning in the 08:00-11:00 time slot and will be able to support all distances.

• May’s 252 will held on Friday 30^th May and Saturday 31^st May
• June’s 252 will held on Friday 20^th June and Sunday 22^nd
• July’s 252 will held on Friday 11^th July and Sunday 13^th July
• August’s 1^st 252 will held on Friday 1^st August and Sunday 3^rd August
• August’s 2^nd 252 will be held on Friday 29^th August and Sunday 31^st

Unscheduled Shoots in the Future:

Finally, the last remaining shoots to look forward to that are being organised but dates are not yet confirmed we have:

September 252

Middlesex Short Metric League Presentation Shoot

Outdoor Club Champs.

As soon as dates are confirmed, they we added to the booking system and announced to the club.

3D shoot and club champs

Some photos from our two events this month; the Club Champs and the long awaited 3D shoot!
Results for the club champs are below, and thanks to David for capturing the Award presentations!

If anyone is on IG or FB and has not yet followed the @bowmenofharrow page, please do – but even better – please please ‘comment’ on the posts **especially** on IG and share as this boosts our algorythm visibility on IG and we can get a broader audience outside the club!

Compound Men’s:

1. Kienda – 573

Recurve Women’s:

1. Noelle – 460
2. Eva-Maria – 458
3. crystal – 384

– Szabina – 353

Recurve Men’s:

1. Akshay – 561
2. David – 559
3. Ali – 549

– Kit – 530

– John – 487

– Ajay – 487

– Julian – 484

– Nigel – 233

BareBow Women’s:

1. Naheed – 522
2. Imogen – 484
3. Khuzuma – 446

– Ainsleigh – 420

LongBow Women’s:

1. Irene – 344

LongBow Men’s:

1. Suiman – 442
2. Mick – 347
3. Bob – 341

– Kienda – 232

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