Charity number 1193500
4 January 2026
I am pleased to be able to report that we have slightly more members than last year. We now have 76 members, 10 of which are under 21 and 11 are disabled.
The beginners’ courses this year have all been oversubscribed but we have been able to accommodate all candidates by increasing the number of coaches involved. A big thank you is owed to the coaches in helping to push the club forward.
We have been in residence in our new facility for two years and, despite some teething troubles, it is proving a draw for archers from other clubs. It has been hired the Lancashire elite squad for training purposes and by international coaches for one-to-one coaching.
Some of our archers have shot for the county and been successful in local tournaments. In doing so they provided inspiration for our up and coming members.
Apart from some Saturday mornings, Wednesday evenings in summer and Friday evenings, the club is open to members every day and is being used more often during the day as well as at the club nights. We are now into our second indoor season at Clayton Leisure Centre on Friday nights in the indoor season. This provides a bigger venue so that we can hold indoor handicap shoots.
We implement the “252” scheme a year ago to encourage new archers to challenge themselves to reach new heights of achievement. This has proved very successful and many distance badges have been given out to improving archers. The regular handicap shoots allow archers of all abilities to compete on a level playing field.
The coaching evenings, introduced by our head coach last year, for intermediate archers have enabled many archers to learn more about
equipment, drills and skills, more advanced techniques , etc. These have proved successful and thanks to our head coach Josh Green for setting up and running these.
Archery GB changed the way that fees are paid to them last year. This has made more work for the secretary, Amanda Clark, and treasurer, Harlie Mason. Thank you both for guiding us through this difficulty.
Martin Shaw and Eddie Marsden are retiring from their roles as tournament organiser and equipment manager respectively. I would like to thank them for their efforts.
Also a big thanks must go to Harlie for seeing the club through difficulties we have overcome with both utility companies (electricity and water). The latter being caused by a leak underground which, despite being fixed early in the year resulted in a “debate” with the water supplier only resolved last month.
I look forward to another successful year.
I am retiring from the post of chairman this year and hoping to take up other duties within the club. Thank you all for your support over the years.
Geoff Tittensor - Chairman
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CHORLEY BOWMEN Balance Sheet at 30 September 2025
| ASSETS 2023/2024 £ 11011.87 Current Account 17174.40 Building Society 767.21 Cash 28953.48 0.00 Unpresented cheques 28953.48 |
2024/2025 £ 13050.78 17659.01 182.21 |
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| 30892.00 0.00 |
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| 30892.00 |
| INCOME 2023/2024 2024/2025 7356.50 Subscriptions 7232.30 2005.40 Indoor Shooting 1047.00 802.79 Tournaments 1560.26 3445.00 Beginners Courses 3745.00 384.50 Clothing 168.00 569.90 Investments 484.61 472.86 Sundry 0.00 646.21 Pavillion 941.04 680.50 Other 585.00 16363.66 Totals 15763.21 Income comments Pavillion specifies (hiring out of the Pavillion/visitor fees paid by BT and any donations in the honesty box) Other specifes (donations made and or good brought from the club that’s is not clothing) Clothing specifies shirts and Hats, we do not make a profit on shirts, people paid for shirts prior to invoice that falls in 24/25 accounts. |
EXPENDITURE 2023/2024 2024/2025 2667.00 GNAS Fees 0.00 Moved over to archer purchasing AGB individually 359.40 LAA Fees 376.00 2024.00 nnis Centre Hire/clayton gre 2622.61 0.00 Maintenance 1520.52 105.34 Target Faces 180.25 2048.04 Miscellaneous Equipment 2026.31 600.23 Tournaments 253.67 293.47 Clothing 349.56 0.00 Miscellaneous 80.00 2025.78 Pavillion 651.81 602.45 Sundry 0.00 5252.30 Rates/Rent 5178.96 0.00 Coaching 0.00 935.40eposited to bank from previo 585.00 16913.41 Totals 13824.69 |
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Expenditure Comments
Rates/Rent Specifies Eletricity, Water, Internet for Pavillion and council yearly fee and buisness rates Pavillion specifies anything related to the upkept of the building (paint, cleaning products, toilet paper etc) Miscellaneous equipment specifies anything brought by the club not for maintenance or for specific tournament usage
Profit/Loss total:
1938.52 Maintenance specifies anything reagarding upkeep of assets, bosses etc.
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