Coronavirus/COVID-19 Mitigation

In order to continue to operate the club safely, everyone attending needs to be aware of and comply with the following guidance and procedures. Please be aware that this page may be updated as the situation changes. Please check this page before every session that you attend.

In order for us to keep the club a safe environment, all attendees must observe the following:

1. You must not attend a session if you are exhibiting any symptoms associated with Covid-19. If you are experiencing symptoms, please let us know as soon as possible, ideally with more than 24 hours notice, and we will try our best to move your booking to another suitable date. Please note however that this is at our discretion and we are unable to repeatedly move sessions - it is very disruptive for the club.
   
2. Please arrive at your session in good time - at least 10 minutes before the start time so that we can stagger entry to the hall. We have additional procedures to do now and we cannot allow late entrants as it will disrupt the session. The doors to the hall will be closed at the start of the session and any latecomers will unfortunately forfeit the session. Therefore please allow time for traffic and parking.
3. Bring a facemask or other face covering if you wish. After reviewing the general Covid risk situation - especially now that improving weather means that more doors can be kept open - we have decided that face coverings can now be personal choice at all sessions. We still recommend that face coverings are used when not shooting so that everybody at the session feels comfortable and safe.  Please be aware that this may be subject to change at fairly short notice. You'll also be asked to sanitise your hands upon entry to the hall.
4. Participants will be paired up and assigned to a lane and target. Please stay in that lane and do not move around the range. We have spaced out the targets and may stagger arrow collection so that there is maximum space at the targets whilst collecting.
5. Do not bring anyone with you to the session unless strictly necessary. Due to the obvious need to limit numbers inside the hall we ask that you avoid bringing additional spectators with your group. If you need to bring additional people to support the participant (i.e. a parent or guardian for children or support for anyone with additional needs), please let us know when you book.
6. When you arrive at the hall you will notice a one-way system for entry (including queuing) and exit. This is especially important at changeover times to avoid people congregating in hallways and to allow us to stagger entry into the hall. Please follow all of the signage, even if the way looks clear.
7. Please maintain social distance as you would in any indoor space. Please be sensible and wait back if you see a queue forming.
8. If you are using club equipment, you will be given it at the start of the session. It is essential that you use ONLY the equipment that you have been given and do not touch anyone else's equipment. This is central to our ability to minimise touching/contamination. Equipment is labelled to help with this. At the end of the session, please return it to an instructor for sanitising (please don't return it directly to storage).
9. Sadly we are no longer able to provide any one-to-one tuition for children as it requires close proximity. Therefore, for any participants under about the age of 8 we need the parent/guardian (within the child's group) to be hands-on and assist with the tuition process. We will explain what needs to be done.
10. At the end of the session, to minimise cross-contamination, it is important that each archer carries their own target back to storage. Please help us with this in order to avoid members or instructors touching more  equipment than is necessary. Parents/guardians are responsible for their child's target, but if this is not possible let us know and the instructors will assist in that case.

Thank you for reading and following this guidance. Please contact us at [email protected] for any further information or suggestions.

 

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