Archery GB is proud to announce Kinetic, Core, and Avalon Archery as premium partners for Start Archery Week 2025.
Since 2012, Start Archery Week has supported clubs to give thousands of people their first experience of archery. Last year, Archery GB partnered with SSA Archery who own the Kinetic and Avalon Archery brands to enhance the support we could offer to clubs and activity centres.
For 2025, we are adding to our offer by including SSA’s beginner archery brand Core to our most important grassroots event. As well as enabling us to offer free merchandise and resources to clubs, there will be 11 incredible prizes on offer for clubs, members, volunteers and participants worth more than £1,100.
Walter Staelens, Sales and Marketing Director at SSA Archery, said: "I am happy to announce our continued partnership with Archery GB for the upcoming Start Archery Week - a great initiative that’s all about getting more people to experience the thrill of archery!
“This year, alongside our trusted Kinetic and Avalon brands, we’re proud to introduce Core Archery, also in our line-up and designed to make archery even more accessible for beginners and clubs. High-quality, affordable, and built to inspire confidence from that very first shot.
“At SSA, we’re passionate about growing the sport and making sure everyone gets the chance to feel the excitement, focus, and fun that archery brings. Whether it’s your first arrow or your hundredth, the archery community has a place for you and we’re happy to support every step of the way! We can’t wait to see new faces join the sport during Start Archery Week!”
Emma Kasprzak, Head of Communications and Marketing at Archery GB, said: “Core, Avalon and Kinetic will all be familiar brands to archers whether they’ve been shooting for one year or 50. They’ve given so many people their first experience of the sport as has Start Archery Week.
"The theme for this year’s Start Archery Week is community, a theme that comes out when you visit archery clubs up and down the country. It’s the people that make our sport so special and the communities they build at clubs, activity centres, universities and schools - everyone is welcome on the line and off.
“This year we’ll have a revamped club toolkit, expanded merchandise line, and have some incredible competitions aimed at new archers, existing members, clubs, and volunteers, to help us say a big thank you to our community.”
To help make your event standout, Archery GB are offering clubs and AAPs a £25 voucher to buy branded Start Archery merchandise from our dedicated club shop. Avalon, Core, and Kinetic are also giving clubs free shipping on orders in the Archery GB Club Shop when they use their club voucher to purchase Start Archery Week merch. If you’ve signed up your event but haven’t received your voucher yet, please speak to a Regional Development Officer.
In addition, Avalon, Core, and Kinetic have kindly offered a wealth of prizes as part of a giveaway to say thanks to all the incredible volunteering hours put in during Start Archery Week 2025.
We’ll also be supplying clubs with Avalon, Core, and Kinetic marketing materials to enhance your event. Plus, as an extra incentive, every club and activity partner who signs up for Start Archery Week will be entered into a prize draw to win a pack of 24 Core jet arrows, perfect for any beginner's course or have-a-go.
We want to see photos from events up and down the country. The best photos will feature in Archery UK magazine while one lucky winner will be chosen to win a POWR Trolley Recurve Case, worth £175.
Send your photos to magazine@archerygb.org by 5 June using the subject line PHOTO COMPETITION to enter.
Volunteers are essential to Start Archery Week and more broadly, our whole sport. Archery GB, with SSA, have put together a range of prizes to be won by volunteers to say thanks.
To be in with a chance of winning one of the following prizes, you’ll need to volunteer at your club’s Start Archery Week event. As part of the event feedback, your club will complete a form which will let us know who the volunteers at their events were, and five volunteers will be selected at random to win.
Volunteer prizes:
We want to make sure that everyone who comes to your event has everything they need to get into our sport. So, we are offering four prizes to those who fill out the Participant Form and opt-in to receive information from Archery GB, via our Start Archery newsletter. So, make sure to let your participants know to complete the form as they could win one of these four prizes:
Competition terms and conditions can be found here.
Whether you're a club, school or Archery Activity Partner, you can take part in Start Archery Week. Find out more by clicking the button below:
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