About coaching
Aims and objectives
YAA Coaching provides support for archers who wish to become coaches, and supports the continuing professional development of coaches in the county. Organising workshops; Coaches Forums; and signposting to events, resources and updates on coaching information.
The County Coaching Officer for Yorkshire is Thomas Keane. If you are interested in becoming a coach or need help with any aspect of your coaching, please contact him on:
coachingyaa@gmail.com
GNAS mission statement
The goal for Archery GB and YAA is for all archers to have access to positive coaching experiences that help them progress as they want to in archery. Our role is to support coaches to reach their own goals in coaching archery.
Archery GB Coach Licence
Ideally coaching should be delivered by coaches with active licences. To secure a licence, a coach must meet these standards:
Recognised Archery Coaching Qualification
Acceptable DBS/PVG disclosure
Up to date Safeguarding and Protecting Children training
Renewal of your licence every 3 years
Coaches also need to uphold the Code of Conduct and make the commitment to keep their learning up to date.
For details on the renewal process, please visit this page of the AGB website:
Archery GB: renew your Archery GB coaching licence
Session, Development, Level 1 and Level 2 coaches send their renewal forms to the CCO. County Coach renewals go to the Regional Coaching Officer and Senior coach renewals are processed by a national panel.
Coaching structure: coach training courses.
Here is a brief summary of the different levels of Archery GB coach qualification.
These are the new qualifications, which have courses being organised and delivered. The previous qualifications of Level 1, Level 2, County and Senior coach are no longer being delivered but these qualifications are still fully recognised and many of these coaches are still continuing their great work in archery.
Archery GB Instructor Award
This is an entry-level archery instructor course, teaching how to deliver fun and safe introductory archery sessions for beginners. The course is designed for learners with little or no prior experience of archery.
Archery GB: instructor award courses
Session Coach (the first level of archery coaching)
The Session Coach qualification is a starting point for archers who want to deliver training sessions for beginners. Introducing people to the sport of archery in a way that is safe. This course trains individuals to be able to lead archery sessions independently using resources from the course and working with groups of up to 12 people.
Development Coach (the second level of coach qualification)
The Development Coach qualification is aimed at Level 1/Session Coaches who want to design club training programmes and start developing the technical, physical and psychological information a coach needs to work with beginners and improvers in recurve, and/or compound.
Programme Coach (the third level of coach qualification)
A new qualification, designed to train coaches to be able to help archers develop even further. Whether in their participation in the sport or progressing to higher performance levels of archery.
Full information on all the coach training courses is available here:
Archery GB: coaching courses
Safeguarding Training
All Archery GB licensed coaches must complete tutor-led safeguarding training as part of their licence, and this should be renewed every 3 years to ensure safeguarding skills and knowledge are up to date.
This gives confidence to children, young people, adults at risk, and parents and carers that their coaches can deal with any issues sensitively, appropriately and effectively.
Full information on safeguarding courses, and which courses are accepted by Archery GB, is available here:
Archery GB: safeguarding training
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
Archery GB undersees all DBS checks for their staff/volunteers - full information can be found on their website:
Archery GB: vetting and dbs checks