New Award for New Bowlers

A fabulous sunny afternoon to celebrate our new members with our new competition “ The Jean Allen Award”.  This is a newly introduced single day competition for new members who have no prior bowls experience.   Alas many of our regular new members were on holiday this week so we will look to move it into August next year to avoid the holiday period. 

We had 6 players in a round robin with some fabulous bowls being played.  The final was held between Sandie and Adel, all square going into the last end, the drama built as the jack was trailed 3 times in the final end alone with Adel finally securing the award much to the enjoyment of the “not so quiet” spectators!   A very fitting, fun end to the season showing just how far the new players have progressed. 

A huge thank you to Shelagh, Mike, Fiona, Suzanne and Christina for marking games and a big shout out to Mike and Fiona who have given us endless hours across the season to help our new members find their feet. 

We look forward to welcoming you all back next year!

Chrysalis visit Elvaston

We could not have arranged a more perfect morning to welcome members of the Chrysalis group with their helpers, friends and family to the club to give bowls a try. It was a really enjoyable morning for both our visitors and our club members who came to support. 

Middle School Visit

We had a fabulous couple of days welcoming four year groups of children from Hexham Middle School.  Each session ran for roughly two hours with around twenty children in each. 

The sessions consisted of soft bowls buddies and targets for the first part to get them used to the delivery and then they moved into games with the new junior ace bowls.  

The energy, enthusiasm and visible improvement over such a short period of time was great to see… especially since a good few of them thought they were signing up for ten pin bowling! By the end of the session a few of them could have quite easily stepped into one of our friendly matches! 

We must say a huge thanks to our coaches Mike, Susan and John and our eager helpers Fiona, Shelagh and Phil and last, but definitely not least, our two young volunteers. Haylie and Anna have only just joined the club themselves but helped at all four sessions and also did a grand job at serving up juice and biscuits and helping to clear up. 

BOWLS' BIG WEEKEND

We joined over 800 clubs around the country by hosting a BOWLS' BIG WEEKEND. We were not overwhelmed by visitors but those who came had great fun and we think we recruited two new members under 19 years of age who soon picked up some of the points of the game and show great promise. More photos on the Home Page.

Our Bowls Taster Days

We are, ahem, bowled over by the excellent numbers of people from near and far who came along to try out bowls at our four sessions. Many new members have signed up and they are very welcome to join us. We are impressed by how well everyone is doing. It's not easy to begin with, but all are showing a discernible improvement from the beginning of the sessions. Many stayed for tea and cake and a good chat, an essential part of bowling! Here is a photo from one of the days, lots more photos on the home page.

Fashion Show

Over £1700 raised for Club funds! A great event and many thanks go to

all who organised or supported it in any way.

Funds will be used for important work required on our clubhouse.

President's Charity

Christina Auld, our President and Ladies' Captain for 2025 has chosen Macmillan Cancer Support as her charity.