Indoor Club Championships
We held our Indoor Club Championships on Sunday, 29 March, 2026 at Linfield Rifle club. This was a handicap shoot to give everyone a level playing field.
Mens Recurve: 1st Neil Maclean, 2nd Ben Green, 3rd Alex Dunford.
Womens Recurve: 1st Julia Johnson
Barebow: 1st Robert Smith, 2nd Simon Mitchell, 3rd Dave Wright
Womens Barebow: 1st Mel Woolgar
Compound: 1st Vince Rudland
Many thanks to our Lady Paramount, Suzanne Green, who kept the coffee and cakes topped up all morning! Plus we all enjoyed a trip to the pub afterwards!
Winter League Results
We had some amazing Barebow results in our Winter League 2025/26 and our team – most of whom were beginners in 2025 – have made excellent progress since their courses. Congratulations to all!
Sussex County Indoor Championships
A number of club members entered the Sussex County Indoor Championships on 24th and 25th January, 2026 at Longhill School, Brighton. It was a UK Record Status Tournament over a single Portsmouth round.
Congratulations Ditchling Archers – Sussex results
Congratulations to our club chairman, Ben Green, who won the Recurve 50+ open category, Julia Johnson, who tied 1st place in the Recurve Ladies 50+ category and Vince Rudland who came 3rd in the Mens Compound 50+ Open.
- Congratulations to our beginners
We’d like to congratulate all our beginners who attended 3 afternoons of instruction at Ditchling, on our 2024 Beginners Course.
Barebow and recurve training
A beginners course commences with the basics of bare bow and on the second session we introduce sights to the bows. On the third session, we also introduce scoring and give demos with a long bow and a recurve by experienced members of the club.
Longbow demo with arrow in flight 
Top archer, Ben with full draw demo We enjoyed everyone’s company and presented them with certificates to show they have completed a course and can officially join any Archery GB club. We hope to see them again soon at Ditchling.
- 2024 Winter League successes
Ditchling recurve teams did very well in the Selby Winter Postal League winning both Division 12 Portsmouth and Division 9 Frostbite, and our longbow archers came a close second in their division.
In the BA Postal League, recurve outshone their rivals in Division 6 with another first and made 3rd in Division 5.
Sussex County Indoor Championships – 28th January – Portsmouth round
Congratulations to all archers – we had some fantastic results!
Barebow Women:
2nd Mel Woolgar
Recurve Men:
2nd Ben Green
10th Josh Wild
Recurve Women:
7th Julia Johnson
Asiatic Bow:
1st Toby Cronshaw
Recurve under 14s :
2nd Shivaansh Garg
Recurve under 12s:
2nd Soham Garg
- Spring individual competitions
Ben and Jodie – Vince, Mel, Juli and Josh Congratulations to father and daughter Ben and Jodie Green for two gold medals at Forest of Bere Bowmen for York/Herefords.
Congratulations to Vince, Mel, Juli and Josh who all returned with medals from Newhaven’s Western shoot in May.
At a friendly handicapped shoot in Worthing against Blind Veterans UK – our team came a respectable second. This was due to Phil, one of our new members, who entered for the first time and did extremely well!
- Congratulations
Alex’s first 252 badge – well done! We look forward to seeing to get many more!
Welcome to new member Anna, and Venus and Nitin who completed their beginners course.
- Beginners Course at Ditchling
Fourteen beginners signed on for our beginners course this September. We offer this to people interested in the sport usually twice a year with qualified archery coaches.
Our coaches explained to the group about understanding the archery range, the layout and safety aspects. How to hold a bow and shoot safely using the barebow technique to start.
During the 3 sessions on different days, they learned freestyle shooting, refining their skills and transitioning to using a sign to aim. They learned how to perfect their stance and hands, became familiar with archery range commands and how to collect arrows. We also included developing their draw, aim and release, scoring and some fun balloon shooting.
Over the course of the sessions, we reinforced range and equipment safety, showed them how to set up and take-down their bow, talked about general equipment and club membership.
Many thanks to our coaches and club volunteers who gave up hours of their time in order to introduce and instruct our beginners. We look forward to welcoming those that are keen as club members when they are ready and wish others, who go on to other clubs, the very best of luck with their archery.
Please use our contact page if you wish to get in touch re our next beginners course or to join the club.