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Improve Your Game is back for a second year and we will be bringing you different topics to Improve Your Game! Naomi Folkard explains how to stay warm despite it being cold outside.

The winter months can be difficult at the best of times. With Covid thrown in, it's harder still, and while Archery GB lobbied the government during England's second lockdown for the continuation of our socially-distanced sport, we recognise the pressure the more virulent Covid strain puts on the NHS and we support the latest restrictions.

The results are available for Archery GB's National Winter Outdoor Postal League competition for December, with some fantastic scores for club teams across recurve, compound, barebow, and longbow.

Are you going to boxset binge your way through the latest lockdown?

Alexander Goodwin is an extraordinary young boy who brings hope, joy and helps others fight their battles, much like he is fighting his own battle with cancer. Along with this, Alexander is an archer, a falconer and avid historian.

Performance Communications has teamed up with jockey and GB Olympic Cycling champion, Victoria Pendleton CBE, to help semi-pro/elite female athletes improve their commercial and sporting profile.

Our huge congratulations to the Valley Bowmen of Huddersfield, who have won the easyfundraising Christmas Challenge, with a fantastic £323.30 raised in free donations between 2 November and 31 December.

The NSPCC's new Board for Change will comprise 15 young people who will be integral to advising and sharing ideas with the NSPCC.

With much of the UK in some form of lockdown, many people will be looking for alternative ways to develop in their sport.

If you haven't yet thought of any New Year's resolutions, here's a good one: commit to doing your favourite fitness activity every day in January, set yourself a goal for the month, and be part of the supportive #REDJanuary2021 community every step, splash and pedal of the way!

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) recently launched the Protect Your Sport campaign to encourage more people to share their concerns about doping in sport.

Here's how the Olympic archery squad's Tom Barber will be clocking up the training hours this Christmas.

Christmas will be about finding time to relax and unwind after the battle that 2020 has been, says Para squad archer, Phoebe Pine: "My restricted festivities will include watching the movie Elf repeatedly and eating. A lot! So how do I fit in training?"

Bayley Sargeant, from the University of Kent AC, has won the second stage of the Indoor World Series Online.

2020...what a year. It was different, it was difficult, but there were also many positives and progressions that were made. Have a read, below, of a few of the things Archery GB has done this year.