Tavistock Company of Archers (TCA) is a thriving club having currently some 60 members. It has been in existence for nearly 20 years, and in that time has trained many new archers. The Club encourages male, female, junior and disabled people to take up this engrossing and healthy sport. We  support all main forms of archery.

When formed, the Club was predominantly concerned with conventional target archery, and was affiliated only to the Grand National Archery Society (GNAS) and its regional representative bodies. It has subsequently followed the popularity towards field archery and all members now belong to the National Field Archery Society (NFAS), to which the Club is also affiliated. Target archery is however still carried out at the club venues and is the vehicle for training new archers.
Several members also belong to the GNAS and attend their target tournaments, with considerable success. TCA has become a significant contender in the field archery world and has achieved some considerable standing by putting on open field shoots on its own facilities.

We have hosted part of the Devon Challenge, an annual 8 day event held at four venues in July/August by four different Devon clubs. It is also set up the field longbow course for the prestigious NFAS National Championships Tournament in September which, in 2003, was set in Devon.

Tavistock is twinned with the town of Pontivy in France. This has led to an annual international competition, which alternates between Tavistock and Pontivy.

This year (2007) the competition was hosted by Archers de Pontivy in France. After a number of successful years, this year proved not so successful, with the TCA narrowly losing! Members of the committee have offered the excuse that the poor performance was due to the quantity of food and drink that was supplied by our hosts!