Archery Hire

Archery hire - sometimes called have-a-go archery or mobile archery - brings a traditional recurve range to your event, set up and run by our instructors from start to finish.

We bring the targets, bows, arrows and the safety backstop. The standard option is two targets with one instructor, or four targets with two instructors if you have the numbers for it. Up to four people shoot at a time. The setup takes a 40ft by 60ft area with clear ground behind the targets - no footpaths, no thoroughfares downrange. If your site can't accommodate that, it's worth checking with us before you book rather than on the day.

Our minimum age is 8. There's no upper limit. First-timers pick it up without much difficulty. The instructor gives a short briefing on stance, safety and how to draw a recurve bow, then participants work through their turns at their own pace. Games and scoring competitions can be added if you want a bit more structure to the session.

The instructors we send have all passed the RPII operators and supervisors examinations, hold current first-aid certificates and are enhanced DBS registered. Risk assessments and method statements are available for venues, schools and councils that need them. We carry £10 million public liability insurance, with the certificate available on request.

Tim Smith, who booked us for an event at Havant Family Church, said: "The two lads you sent down to set-up and break down were excellent and both had brilliant attitudes, a really good advert for your company."

It tends to work well at school fêtes, birthday parties, corporate fun days, village fairs and private outdoor events. It also goes down well at weddings, particularly in the gap between the ceremony and the meal when guests need something to do.

If you want a faster, more physical version of the same idea, we also hire Combat Tag Archery - a team-based game using foam-tipped arrows - and Laser Clay Pigeon Shooting, which uses infrared shotgun replicas and an auto-launching clay launcher, up to five players at once. The full range is on our shooting and archery hire page.

We run from Havant, PO9, and cover Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex and parts of London. We've been doing this since 2002.

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