The Speak Trophy

(or to give its full name “The Robin Hood of Wakefield Trophy Presented by Harold Speak & Jean Forrester 1971”)

This is an annual competition between The Wakefield Archers and the Sherwood Archers to determine the birthplace of Robin Hood (Wakefield or Nottingham) and was revived on September 14th 2003.

The trophy was first shot for in 1971, no record of the meeting can be found; but meetings took place every year up to 1982. At that shoot The Wakefield Archers won the trophy, and as no further meetings took place, they held it up to 2003. By reintroducing this competition between the two clubs a broken link was rejoined.

The cup was given to The Wakefield Archers by a local newspaper on the request that an archery tournament should take place every year between The Wakefield Archers and the Sherwood Archers, Wakefield and Nottingham being the two towns associated with Robin Hood.

This is a team competition shot over an Albion Round with the top two scores from each club in the Compound, Recurve and Longbow sections being added together to give an overall score which determines the winning club and the accepted birthplace of Robin Hood for the next year.

The event was not staged in 2007
Winners 17th September 2006 – Sherwood Archers Results 2006
Winners 18th September 2005 – Sherwood Archers Results 2005 and Newspaper Article
Winners 19th September 2004 – Sherwood Archers Results 2004
Winners 14th September 2003 – Sherwood Archers

Above: The Holy Grail 2005 (Speak Trophy) Above: The Wakefield Archers 2005 Above: Sherwood Archers - Winners 2005 Above: The Individual Recurve and Longbow Winners 2004: George Calvert (The Wakefield Archers) and Chris Key (The Wakefield Archers) Above: The Wakefield Archers Team 2004 Above: The Speak Trophy Above: Richard Coates and George Brown - Chairman and President of The Sherwood Archers - Winners of the Speak Trophy 2004