Merry Christmas/Hanukkah to all our bowlers and their families! This year has been another fantastic one for our club, and we’re so grateful for the wonderful community we have. This newsletter is a chance to celebrate our shared successes, reminisce about the good times, and look forward to another year of friendship and bowls. We hope you enjoy reading it and wish you a joyous Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Read more...We’re excited to bring you the latest news, updates, and highlights from our vibrant club. In this issue, you’ll
find information about upcoming matches, social events, club achievements, and more.
Whether you’re a seasoned bowler or just starting out, we hope you’ll find something of interest here.
Let’s celebrate the camaraderie, sportsmanship, and friendly competition that make our club so special.
We hope you are having a fantastic summer despite the less than seasonal weather. For those of you who bowl outdoors, it’s been heavy going but hopefully you are progressing through the various competitions.
So the school has now finished their exam season and handed the keys back to us. This is the time of year when we take the opportunity to carry out essential high level maintenance works whilst the boards are down and we can access the equipment via a tower. This should all be finished by the end of the month, after which we will be asking for volunteers to help lift the boards, ready for the new season which starts on the 16th September.
Read more...Where does all the time go? It seems like only yesterday we were preparing the club for opening and here we are, already in April and with the summer ahead of us. For those of you who play outdoors, we hope you enjoy your season and have a safe and healthy spring and summer in the sun (wind and rain). At least indoors you don’t have to worry about the weather.
Read more...The 2024 club finals were played over three afternoon and evenings at the end of last week and produced some tight matches, including a few early leads that turned into close comebacks.
Read more...The club has presented a cheque for £1416.70 to the The Tracy Nieman Goldman Trust, known as Tracy’s Trust. Tracy’s Trust raises money for research into Lymphoma and Leukaemia 100% of all donations go towards this research.
Read more...The club ran our third annual Newbie Competition this week. The competition is open to all members that joined (or rejoined) in the 2023/24 season, with 32 participants, and takes place within a single afternoon.
Read more...There have been mixed results for Ilford in the Essex County League this season, but there was nothing mixed about the result of the last fixture with Ilford only picking up half a point total from all six rinks, as a result of one draw and five losses.
Read more...Well done to Janet Doe, Jeanette Edmunds, Melanie Nathan and Sally Garlick who came 3rd out of 24 in the Tye Green Ladies Gala beating some renowned opposition. Well done girls. If we can compete at this level, then why is it so difficult to recruit our ladies to play in the County League? We have a one off opportunity to add ladies to the County Roll and this result proves that there are many ladies in the Club who are good enough to play at this level.
Read more...The team from Ilford and District Indoor Bowling Club finished in a fantastic third place in this week’s Tye Green Ladies Gala Day.
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