Season starts with our opening gala on 13 April

Following the winter break from lawn bowls we are very excited at Tetbury Bowls Club to be only a few days away from the Club’s Opening Gala. Thisyear’s season will start on Sunday 13 April and going by last year’s event we can expect over forty members playing their first friendly of the season.

Immediately following the Opening Gala the Club will be hosting a team from Cam who will play us on the afternoon of Thursday the 17th of April and then on Saturday the 19th of April we host an afternoon match against Bishops Cleeve. Spectators are always welcome to come along and take advantage of our raised balcony viewing area with comfortable seating.

We will be proudly wearing our new team colours for the first time on home soil. Amongst our ambitions for the coming year is to attract more playing members and social members. We need to keep a level of playing members as we have various leagues that the men and ladies play in. The ladies play in the Corinium League, made up of two rinks with a total of eight players, and Stoud Valley Ladies Triples, made up of two rinks of three players on each rink.

For the men we have a team in the Third Division and also a team in the Second Division of the South Cotswold Bowls League. Each team has twelve players in groups of four. Maintaining a reasonable number of players available for both the ladies and men is vital for our being able to field enough players.

We also have a men’s team that plays on a Sunday which involves twelve players. These games are played as part of the Gloucestershire Bowls Sunday League and are on a home and away basis.

For those not wanting to play in competitive matches we have numerous friendly matches throughout the season which are played both at home and away. The opposition comes from all surrounding counties and are played in a spirit of friendship and enjoyment of the sport. Our teams are made up of a mixture of ladies, men and juniors.

For those readers that are considering trying bowls we have a number of dates where we will be encouraging members of the public to give lawn bowls a try. Our open days on the 11th of May, 1st of June, 21st of June and the 20th of July. We will also be supporting Bowls England’s national “Big Bowls Weekend” at the end of May.

The after school short mat bowls continues at St. Mary’s Primary School, details of which are circulated by the school. We are fortunate that we have six sets of specially made Junior Bowls which were donated by The Lions and Feoffees when we started the Junior Section.

Our big spring clean takes place this weekend prior to the Opening Gala so expect to see coming and going in preparation to the start of our season.

Tetbury Bowls Club Committee