Wow! 3 years! I have no idea where this time has gone at all.
I loved being an ambassador for AGB and I stand by the validity of the group and the value of the roles, but the sheer amount of projects I was doing was somewhat overwhelming for people overseeing the ambassadors. The things that happened in 2022 made me believe that there was no place in this sport for me, as an archer or anything else. What I have learned in the long term is that the coach who said those things, (my coach) was the wrong coach, a bad coach! Instead 3 others coaches who know me and my story, sat me down and said own yourself, the good, the bad and the ugly, and get out there and do what you do well. Their voices made it to places that the friends who were supporting me didn’t quite get and I will forever be grateful but never more so than the advice given to me by pirate Dan! Thank you my friend for believing in me when I needed it and for being real.
I am also grateful to the few people who woke up 3 years go to find themselves in a chat group helping me choose the name of my new little business, my Community Interest Company that would allow me to do what I wanted, not for profit, providing access to sport for those who think they cannot access it for any reason. never once did any of them say what the heck are you thinking! They woke up, embraced the fact that I hadn’t slept, had been up all night and was on a serious caffeine high! 😜
I started off writing blogs twice a week for the first 2 years, then I have gradually moved to once a week and now once a month unless I have something to share, this I see suggests I am processing the loss of my dad in January 2022, the blocs were to replace this weekly calls we had that I could no longer have so I think this is a good sign for my recovery from the loss of my dad. 🤗 I do post stats at the quarter marks and I was very proud at 2 years and 9 months –
so now 3 months later – I can add
that there are another
16 primary schools
37 secondary schools
12 colleges
31 residential care homes
6 children in csre
5 people in refuges
32 people in community groups
which makes a total of 142
added to the existing 4691 = 4833
year 1 = 2061
year 2 = 1873
year 3 = 899
I love this as I said I would be doing less, focusing on what I wanted, that I think is important and I think it shows that in part I am doing that, 1 person which uses other’s support when they need to.
it doesn’t take into account the issues with a group that cost me the range which has seen what I can do reduce, but it doesn’t take into account the joy of choosing what I want to focus on. There is nothing that I will not consider but I will be focusing on preventing groups from creating issues to the wider purposes of the aims of Integr8archery CIC, lessons learnt in 2024/2025.
I also still support some groups who continue to run without us and I have other roles within my sport and my day job.i am very happy with these numbers 🤗🥰
so there we have it, I have lots planned for the summer of 2025 so fingers crossed we get them met 🤞🏻🥰
shout me if you need me, whenever 🤗
eat cake and raise to Helen, I a trying my hardest to be the best me for my children 😘
