At the April Meeting, the Board supported the decision by Performance to make selection shoots open with appropriate qualifying scores to provide more opportunities for members to compete and display their talent. It also understood the need to make these shoots financially viable and supported the business rationale to levy an entry fee.

The Board discussed fully the Strategic Plan for 2013-2017 and approved it. The plan will be available in the Documents section (look in Governance and then General Documents) and will be summarised in Archery UK. The plan was also presented at the AGM and the presentations for that are also available in the Documents section of the web site (look in Governance and then AGM 2013).

Archery GB are pleased to announce the recruitment of nine Regional Performance Academy Coaches to join our Talent Team. The coaches will support archers' development across the Performance Academy Network with the remit of improving the quality and quantity of archers within the World Class Performance Programme.

Archery GB is always looking for ways to help our clubs and shape the services and support we offer.

National Tournaments have published the entry forms for the National County Team Tournament, the Grand National Archery Meeting, National Junior Outdoor Championships and British Target Championships on the website.

Archery GB would like to work with a small number of clubs to investigate ways to increase regular participation of archers at club level.

Join in the 2013 Summer of Sport! Following the success of last year's event, the Archery Big Weekend is back on 24, 25 and 26 August 2013!

Applications are now being accepted for the next Archery GB Talent Selection.