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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!

I 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.

Green open

The green is open for practice and informal roll-ups. Do come along to enjoy our wonderful facilities. As usual the green will be closed for maintenance each Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning from 9.00am until no later than 11.30am and during league and friendly matches but there's lots of spare time to come along for a roll-up.

The first bowl was delivered by Mike Slade on 7th April and the Armstrong Cup was played on four rinks with another rink being used to train a brand new member.