[Murray]

I'm with whitehart on this - forge a relationship with them and see what you can do to gain mutual benefit.

That's what we have done with our local country park who run courses throughout the year. We've even run courses for their tutors, giving them an appreciation of competitive, modern archery.

We've discussed them providing an assessment certificate on their novices for us to be able to assess whether the novices are indeed ready, or need another few weeks tuition before joining the club full time.

As said above, the problem could be bows, but you could actually instigate a bow hire scheme, whereby you could fund additional kit, or existing kit refreshes every couple of years.

Just some thoughts.