Our aim is to promote and encourage the sport of archery within Oxfordshire , to provide help in the maintenace of archery clubs within the county and to ensure that the views of county archers are heard at regional and national level.

The COAS also holds annual indoor and outdoor county championships for county archers and visitors, selects and trains teams to represent the county in inter-county and regional events and maintains records of the highest scores shot by county archers in each branch of archery as defined by the GNAS Rules of Shooting.

For those of you with an interest in trying archery as a sport you can find a list of archery clubs in Oxfordshire here. We recommend that you attend an archery beginner's course run by a local club. This is, in most cases, a prerequisite to joining an archery club.

Archery for anyone - beginner, novice, intermediate or International - begins at club level. The County of Oxford Archery Society (COAS) is the next stage up. We represent, guide and coach all GNAS/Archery GB affiliated clubs based in the county of Oxfordshire.

A step up in the hierachy is the Southern Counties Archery Society (SCAS), a regional body representing the Counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, County of London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex.

The SCAS is affiliated to the national governing body of archery in the UK - the Grand National Archery Society (GNAS, or Archery GB as it is being rebranded).

The GNAS (or Archery GB) is, in turn, afffiliated to FITA (Federation International de Tir a l'Arc), the  international governing body of archery as sport.