Archers of Raunds runs regular Beginners Courses at Manor School Sports College, Mountbatten Way, Raunds, Northamptonshire, NN9 6PA. These courses are run over four consecutive Fridays during the indoor season or three weekends either on a Saturday or Sunday in our outdoor season and provide archers with between 8 and 12 hours of tuition using beginners recurve bows.

The sole purpose of the course is to teach the student archer the basics of safe shooting as defined by Archery GB. As a student archer, you will learn about the parts of a recurve bow, how to safely assemble the bow and then take it down again, how to undertake a full warm up and then how to safely nock, aim and loose the arrow. As the course progresses, you will also learn about etiquette on the shooting line and how to score a shooting end. On the final week, you will then be introduced to a selection of different types of bows (flatbows, horsebows etc) and the techniques used in shooting them.