Author: Dawn Slaughter

Message from the Board re Indoor Green Fees from 1st March

Indoor Carpet Replacement

After 20 years, the indoor carpet has reached the end of its life and needs to be replaced this year, probably in early September (after the wall repairs have been completed).

The cost of this, including remedial work to level the floor in several areas and new underlay, will be in the region of £35,000 plus VAT. While this cost will be amortised over 20 years or so (the expected life of the carpet), we do need to increase our income to pay for it; therefore the board has decided to increase the indoor rink fee, as this is directly linked to use of the indoor green.

The increase will be from £3.50 per 2 hour session to £4, effective 1 March 2025. 1 hour sessions will increase pro-rata to £2.

 

Membership News

Membership News courtesy of Sarah H …

Thank you to all the members who have returned their membership renewal forms. This has been really helpful in sorting out the share register.

For combined, social and outdoor only members, if you have not already returned your form please do so by Friday 26th April to allow me time to collate the data to prepare the invoices.

If you are an indoor only member and would like your information added to the Club database so we can email you out Newsletters and other information please return your renewal form. Your renewal form will need to be returned to the Club by 22nd September to prepare invoices for the 24/25 season.

Invoices for the coming season will be emailed out in the first week of May or placed in your pigeon hole if you have requested a printed version.

GDPR Policy

For those of you who have collected your envelope with details of subs etc, it refers to our GDPR policy.  This has now been uploaded to the Updated Policies tab on the website.  You need to have read this to be able to tick the box on the Membership Form.

Other policies will go up over the weekend when I have a bit more time!

What a Time for Brian N to do a Wrong Bias …..

Greg Harlow was greeted at the Club this morning by Brian delivering a wrong bias with the new set of bowls he’d bought from Greg at Potters last month!

Brian asked who had ‘sneaked’ on him and Greg said it was him!  Not every Wrong Bias Club bowler can claim to have a certificate signed and awarded by the World No.1!  That one will be getting framed!


Greg had made his way down to Twickenham following discussions with Ange and the ABC Clinic whilst she was at Potters.