Bannockburn fundraiser success

Bannockburn Bowmen held their Open Nationals tournament on Friday 16th July in Stirling. The tournament was one of the junior sections fundraising evenings - this time to raise money for Rachel House Children’s Hospice in Kinross.

The evening went very well, and the juniors worked their usual magic getting the adults to part with their cash ! There were cakes (courtesy of Connor's Gran, Andrea, who stepped in at the last minute and baked under Connor's expert eye !!) and coffee after the shoot along with a raffle.

The evening raised £169.95 for Rachel House. Many thanks to everyone who helped, competed, or just turned up for the cakes and, of course, to Asda Distribution in Falkirk for sponsoring the baking ingredients.

1st July - Euronations Team ready for the off

Congratulations to the following archers who are going off to represent Scotland at the Euronations Tournament hosted this year by Ireland in Dublin on 3rd & 4th July

Gents Recurve James Laing,Mark Forrester,Matt Nowicki and David Lange
Gents Compound Alistair Whittingham ,Tim Keppie,Kyle Dods and David Herd
Ladies Recurve Emma Downie,Kysheia Steele and Kate Murray
Ladies Compound Susan Maitland, Elayne McLean,Claudine Jennings and Tracy McGowan

England are sending their full Commonwealth team, so it is sure to be a testing experience for our archers.

13th May - Bannockburn Cake Bake a fundraising sucess

The Bannockburn Open Warwick held on 30th April in aid of the MS Society "Cake Break" has raised a total of £510.50 for the charity.

Senior members of the Bowmen helped with the heavy work, while the Juniors worked on getting everyone's loose change into the collection pots!

14 yr old Bannockburn Junior, Connor Thomson, did most of the baking and ended up catering for almost 40 people - we had 27 of the available 30 shooting spaces booked and lots of other supporters turned up to try the cakes and coffee!

Depsite very heavy rain during setting up, the skies soon cleared and we were treated to good shooting conditions for the competition.

The Juniors not only served tea/coffee/juice and cakes after the shoot, but they also held a raffle, a "guess the weight of the cake" competition and they got sponsor maney for taking part in the shoot.

This brings the total raised for charity in this membership year to £1060.92. We have another 2 charity shoots being run during the summer on 16th July and 20th August.

Pics from left to right 1-the shooting line, 2- a happy chappy, 3-Connor with his guess the weight cake, 4-Dave keeping dry

10th May - CGS magazine has a feature on our archers in India

Commonwealth Games Scotland's magazine has a feature on the Scottish team out in India.