Ho ho ho what a jolly morning at the club, our annual Xmas Fayre was a great success with lots of stalls run by volunteer members including Tombola’s, Bric-a-Brac, Cakes & Preserve’s, Jewellery, Usborne Books, Raffles, Guess the Weight of the Cake and a ‘Surprise Bottle Tombola’ run by volunteers from our Charity of the Year, Children With Cancer Fund – Polegate, monies raised on that stall go direct to the charity.
A HUGE thank you to Chris & her team of Elves who once again gave their time and energy to make it all happen, thank you to Michelle and her team Shannon & Amy who kept the restaurant running and also thanks to Pia & Robyn behind the bar. Great to see the club buzzing, Happy Christmas everyone
Category: General News
Memory Lane Eastbourne
Memory Lane Eastbourne
Social Activities for People with Dementia & their Carers
We recently welcomed Members and their Carers from ‘Memory Lane’ to have their first try at bowls. We started the session by having a go at delivering the bowls, followed by scoring points using the floor target and ‘goal’. A cuppa and cake finished off a fun afternoon and we look forward to their next visit. Visits are planned for the 4th Friday in the month.
Memory Lane contact details: Carol 07800874361
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‘What’s On In November’
On Wednesday 13th we have a Vintage Afternoon Tea at 3pm, come along bring a friend and enjoy a relaxing vintage style tea with games and a raffle. Only £6.50 per person, remember to purchase your tickets from the bar in advance (for catering purposes).
Two days later on Friday 15th we have another very popular Race Night at 7pm for 7:30pm start only £3 per person, tickets must be purchased from the bar BEFORE the evening. Come on down and place your bets, can you find the winners?
Our Xmas Fayre this year will be on Saturday 23rd starting at 9:30am and once again Children With Cancer Fund – Polegate will be joining us along with many more stalls, details to follow – see club notice board for more information and volunteers list.
Finally, as the festive season approaches we have Steve’s Xmas Quiz Night on Friday 29th, be sure to buy your tickets as soon as they are available at the bar as the last two quiz nights have been extremely popular.
Coming up next month . . .
| Fri | 04 Oct | Quiz Night | 7:30 pm |
| Sat | 19 Oct | The Likely Lads | 7:30 pm |
| Tue | 22 Oct | Potters Resort Presentation | 10:30 am |
For a full list of social events please see our social page
The Roast Returns . . .
OCTOBER 6TH
LET’S START THE SEASON WITH A 2 COURSE SUNDAY ROAST AND A MUFTI ROLL UP ALL FOR £12
NON-BOWLERS £10
MUFTI ROLL UP STARTS AT 10am -12pm
BAR WILL BE OPEN TO ENJOY YOUR FAVOURITE TIPPLE
SUNDAY ROAST SERVED AT 12.30PM SO GET IN QUICK AND BOOK YOUR PLACE* PLUS GRANDKIDS EAT FREE (under 12’s only)
MENU
MAIN
Roast of the day
“BEEF”
Roast Potatoes
Yorkshire Puddings
Selection of veg
Gravy
VEGGIE OPTION
Vegetarian Lasagne
DESSERT
Rhubarb Crumble
(served with custard, cream or ice cream)
Cheesecake
Jelly & Ice Cream
*Please contact the club 01323 506009 and speak to Naomi or Michelle alternatively email email hidden; JavaScript is required or email hidden; JavaScript is required
Every Sunday from 13th October (until end of April) Michelle will be doing a Sunday roast, please see the notice board in the club for details of “The Roast of The Day” and to reserve your table.
Welcome to our new website
I would personally like to thank Julie Benge and Liz Parks, along with website designer Ian Thomas of www.bowlsclub.info for four months of hard work and dedication to create the clubs’ new website.
We hope you like it and that it is informative for all members and visitors. We would be pleased to hear your comments and any suggestions you may like to make, please use our contact form.
Dave Parks
Chairman
L-R Liz, Dave, Julie
Founder Members Coffee Morning
2019 is the 40th anniversary of our club opening and whilst working on our new website we found some old newspaper cuttings and memorabilia and thought it would be a nice idea to invite all our founder members, life members and those who had joined the club in that first year to a coffee morning to talk about their memories. Some members brought in their own photos and cuttings and having displayed everything on tables in our restaurant it proved an interesting morning with current members having a look and asking questions during their “Roll-up” tea break.
President’s Message
Eastbourne and District Indoor Bowls Club has undergone several improvements over the past couple of years that has seen the club membership grow significantly.
During the summer, the club website has been fully redesigned and modernised to better reflect our club status as one of the leading indoor bowls clubs in the South East of England. Our new web pages will allow everyone to see inside our wonderful bowls club.
May I take this opportunity to welcome each and every member in to the club and wish you all a pleasurable and successful year.
Phil Garrett
President
BDA praise for our Development Plan
Bowls Development Alliance Ltd
A message from John Hart, Development Manager
“Eastbourne and District Indoor Bowls club took up the Club Development Programme in May 2018, The Management Committee set about restructuring and bringing about a new lease of life to the club with support and guidance from the Club Development Programme. To date huge amounts of work and time has gone into securing a new long term lease, forming a new management committee, updating all policies and procedures, employing a new Centre Manager, recruitment drives and gaining further sponsorship which will only benefit the club. This has all been achieved in less than a year.
The management committee has clear outcomes and objectives from their regular meetings to ensure the club continues to drive forward.
The club has recruited well over 100 new members since we started working with them back in May 2018 and I can only see them going from strength to strength. Well done and good luck for the future.”
Pat Bain Wins National Championship
Eastbourne & District Indoor Bowls Club Member, Pat Bain, has won the EIBA Ladies Over 60 Singles Championship 2018/2019 held at Nottingham on 13th April.
Pat started playing bowls at Eastbourne Indoor Bowls Club in 1985. She has won numerous titles including British Isles Pairs 2003, England National Pairs 2003, England National Triples 2007 and now now the Ladies Over 60 National Singles 2019. Pat is also a former International.
Her latest achievement was against four very good players, all past Internationals. Pat beat A Jacobs 21 – 17 in the first round, T B Broderick 21 – 16 in the second round, B Bellamy 21 – 17 in the semi final and C Crafer 21 – 14 to win the final and be crowned National Champion.
This year Pat also played for Sussex who were runners up in the Atherley Trophy National Championships.
Everyone at EDIBC send many congratulations to Pat for her latest achievement.
Pat Bain
