I often compare archery to golf or 10 pin bowling.
Where I live, archery is an amateur sport, played on rented grounds or sportshalls, with probably no more than 100 players across 3 clubs.
Golf and 10 pin bowling are far more professional, with "proper" clubs with their own grounds and facilities that welcome anyone and everyone. Once you've paid your green fees there are no "you have to complete a beginners course" type of restrictions to participation. There are clubs where you can just turn up and "pay and play" at virtually any time of day.
Archery is, as you describe Geoff, run very much for the benefit of the current membership who see growth as a potential for "crowded shooting lines" rather than potential for expansion and extension; where beginners courses are a mandatory restriction to participation, but those same beginners courses are the monopoly of the clubs who only run courses to suit themselves.
If we as an archery community really want more participation, we have to find ways to make our sport more available to people who dont want to "dedicate" themselves to our sport, with pay to play facilities - and that starts with the governing body making that possible, as well as having clubs and volunteers who want to offer the hand of participation to folk who just want to have a go, but when THEY want to, not once a year at the local fete.
And before you ask, yes, my club offers single beginners lessons, every week, to anyone who wants to come and play. An arrangement almost unheard of in archery circles.