The Cheshire County Bowling Association exists to promote, organise and govern Crown Green Bowls in its area. It operates in conjunction with the British Crown Green Bowling Association.
We run several competitions for Cheshire bowlers:
- Team knockouts
- Brunner Cup - the premier competition
- De-Knoop Cup - for reserve teams
- Norman Cup - for early losers in the Brunner Cup
- Individual competitions
- Inter-league competition
We also enter senior and junior teams in the BCGBA county competition.
The dates of these competitions (and other events) for the 2010 season are now available.
Cheshire County Bowling Association celebrates its centenary this year. The celebrations include an Open Individual Merit, the final day to be played on Sunday 19 September at Rudheath Sports and Social Club. The final day draw is now available.
Gerald Merry has qualified to represent Chshire in the Jack & Jean Isherwood Veterans’ Championship. The final day is on Wednesday 7 July at Prees Cricket & Recreation Club.
Chris Raddy retired as secretary of the asociation at the AGM on 24 October 2009. He successfully steered the association through a difficult time to the present healthy state. We thank him for his service and wish him well in retirement.
Steve Cook (of the Altrincham LV League) was elected to the post of secretary at the AGM. He can be contacted via the contacts page.
Tony Bryning is the county’s Chief Development Officer. He presented his report for 2009 to the council meeting on 13 October.
Congratulations to Helsby Community Sports Club on achieving Clubmark status—the first bowling club in Cheshire to do so.
Clubmark is the national cross sports quality accreditation scheme for clubs with junior sections. It is built around a set of core criteria which ensure that accredited clubs operate to a set of consistent, accepted and adopted minimum operating standards.
The Helsby club learnt a lot in gaining this status, and they are willing to help other bowling clubs travelling the same path. You can contact them via their website.