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You're being a bit snooty, aren't you? I'm Secretary of our Club and also instruct at a community sports centre. I'm a Club Coach but started as a Leader with the Scouts. So I can see both sides of this.
There are good Leaders and there are poor Leaders - much like Coaches there, then! A good Leader is going to do a far better job of the beginners course than a poor Level 1. The 'shooting discipline' at the centre is just as likely to be tighter than at your Club than the other way around.
If the beginners can shoot reasonably well with a Barnett then they'll have no problem transferring to a recurve - at our centre we start with Barnetts. When they transfer to a recurve, usually when they buy their own trainer bow, it takes, ooh, maybe 5 minutes to convert!
The only two ways you are going to find out whether the centre is doing a good job or not is a) wait until people start to apply to your Club and trial them, or, much more sensibly, b) go along to the centre and watch. They may even let you have 10 minutes to introduce your Club.
John
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