The Marshes Community Benefit Fund are delighted to award a grant of £1,440 to the City of Chester Archers
The funding will allow City of Chester Archers to purchase a range of equipment and provide additional training to support its popular beginner archery courses. The new equipment will ensure that people of different ages and abilities can access appropriately sized bows and arrows, while additional coaching will help members develop their skills and confidence.
City of Chester Archers provides the opportunity for local people to take part in archery in a welcoming and friendly environment. The club’s beginner courses are regularly over-subscribed, demonstrating the strong demand for archery in our community.
Upon hearing about their successful application a spokesperson for City of Chester Archers said
City of Chester Archers is a growing club based at Frodsham and Helsby with a very popular beginner course that runs several times a year. Because we cater to such a wide range of people, from 12-year-olds to pensioners, we need a range of bows and other equipment to match to allow people to have their best opportunity of succeeding in the sport. We also want members to continue to stay involved long term with a range of development opportunities, and so this grant is hugely helpful to our club to allow us to expand our coaching team to include an Archery GB Development Coach and help members keep progressing after the beginner course.
The club also wants to encourage people to continue with archery beyond their beginner course by providing development coaching and introducing participants to technical skills such as bow maintenance and arrow building.
Emily Edwards, a member of the Marshes Community Benefit Fund, said
The panel are delighted to support this project and help broaden sporting opportunities in our area.
For more information please access this link https://cityofchesterarchers.com/
The Marshes Community Benefit Fund provides funding to local Community groups, charities, schools, businesses and clubs to support not-for-profit projects designed to benefit the local communities. The fund can award up to £170,000 per year across 2 funding cycles by Frodsham Windfarm and Belltown Power (https://belltownpower.com/uk/).
Further details on the Marshes Community Benefit Fund including eligibility details and deadlines for applications can be found here.