Steve Burton and his wife Lesley Burton-Brown first joined the club around 1996 and were taught to shoot by the then Captain of Archers Dave Arnold. Both shoot Hunting  Tackle and attended Shoots regularly. Steve served a term as a course officer while Lesley was a dab-hand with the bacon butties at Open Shoots.  They left the club in 1997 when they had their second child and found it hard to find babysitters willing to mind two small boys for the entire day while they went off to the woods!

However, they never lost their love of archery and eight years later they dug out the re-curves from the attic and re-joined the club, accompanied by their sons Jake and Joshua.  The boys are now aged 12 and nine and both boys also shoot HT.  They are making good progress with their Field skills, having learned the basics of Target Archery at their youth club.  Jake (12) has a very good eye and is often the only member of the family to get the kill on a tricky shot.   Josh (9) has just got his own bow, having started with a borrowed club bow which he’s now outgrown.  At the Club’s May Championships, he completed his first full course of 36 targets with his one-day-old bow and managed a respectable score of 232, beating his embarrassed mother by 10 points!  Lesley blames her lack of success on having to mind the dog and the children and being generally useless at archery. 

On re-joining the club, Steve, who once taught web skills for the Open University, was quickly roped in to produce the club’s website which he redesigned and expanded in conjunction with Nev Wilson.