The 2026 AGM will take place in the Village Hall from 10am on October 31st.
Lists are on display in the captains office of all the committee posts to be filled so that members can get themselves nominated for a committee post for the next season. Some of the existing committee members would like to step down and allow other members to help to run the club.
Details of what is involved in the posts advertised can be found on the "Who does what" page in the Members Only Area of this website.
A tour has been booked to celebrate the Club's 40th Anniversary next year. A lot of work has gone into planning a tour and we would like members to commit themselves to supporting this tour now, so we can finalise the booking.
Club tours are great fun, with a few days of bowling and socialising with your friends with a coach transporting you about from place to place, all your meals cooked for you, and no washing up! Marldon has toured often in past years with people still telling tales of things they did.
Next year, the proposed tour will take place from Sunday May 16th to Thursday May 20th 2027 inclusive, in Worcester, staying at the Worcester Whitehouse Hotel, with 4 games of Bowls to be arranged.
The cost is £549 pp sharing a twin or double en-suite room, with an £80 supplement for single room, based on a minimum take up of 30 with full coach travel to and from Marldon and transport to the games.
A Deposit of £50 is required now, payable to MBC with the narrative 'Tour 27'. Deposit will be returned if we have insufficient interest by the AGM on 31st October when we have to pay Tour Company, after that date deposits cannot be returned.
The sheets for entering the 2027 County Competitions are now up in the changing rooms. If you wish to enter you names need to be on the forms by the end of September 2026 (I think). Members did well last season, lets see if we can get even further this year.
We have a Members only area of this web site which is password protected. Members should contact Bob Tame for the password or to advise of any content they would like to see in there.
The Short Mat Bowls Season will re-commence on October 7th 2026 in the Village Hall.
Anyone is welcome to join in for a friendly social afternoon. These are friendly games open to all members, the cost is £2:50 a session.
If you need to know more, speak to Gordon or Carole Page.
The Shortmat league in the club starts at around the same time of year for the selected players.
click here for more details.
We have introduced a page to the web site called Coaching Corner, which we intend to update with useful tips which may improve your game, why not visit it now?
The Sunday morning coaching sessions went well this season, with a number of new bowlers trying out the game and joining our club.
Exciting news, we are being given a lot of support by Devon Bowls and other local clubs to enable us to
start a JUNIOR SECTION - hopefully next season.
Although we would still like more members to train as coaches we do now have enough Bowls England trained coaches for the time being. Please let Gillian Burchell know if you would like to take on this essential role and all will be arranged.
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Former Member, Pat Walton, on Saturday 19th September 2026. Pat was a member of this club for a number of years before moving away from the area. R.I.P Pat.Our condolences to Pat's family and his partner Val.
We have once again been invited to send teams to play against Guests at the TLH Hotel group on their indoor green (Which has been re-surfaced this year) . if you are interested in playing in these Games please advise Bob Tame as he has taken over organising our teams for these games.
The games will be added to Rink Diary.
Logan won the Devon section of the under 17 National tournament and also beat the Cornwall Representitive to reach the last 16 of this national competition. Unfortunately he lost his next game, and was not at Leamington for the final stages.
The good news however is that he qualified for the All England Finals at Leamington Spa in the Junior Pairs Event and played his first game on August 12th, Unfortunately he lost, but enjoyed the experience. His Partner was James Kennedy from Kings BC.
Logan is our club's first ever player to reach Leamington All England Finals, Well done Logan. He is also now our youngest ever Club Champion.
Mixed fortunes for our two men's Mid Devon League teams this season as our 'A' team are now League 2 Champions and should be promoted to Division One, after just missing out in last two seasons. Our 'B' team, promoted last year, will be relegated back to division 4.
Just a polite reminder that should you make yourself tea or coffee in the clubhouse, your payment should be put in the honesty box in the clubhouse
Congratulations to Mandi, who won section 6 of the unbadged singles and also won her next game against a Section 7 player, taking her to the County Semi Finals stage. We wish her luck in her final games!
All but one of the the Club Competition Finals have now been played and the results and some photos from the weekend are available on the Competitions page and in Members group on Facebook.
The Marldon 4's was played on August 9th 2026, a hot sunny day. The Winner's, from Torquay, were Ian Bristow's Rink. There are pictures from the day on our Gallery page
The committee have agreed that the Minutes of Committee meetings will be available on the website as well as at the club.
To keep them confidential they will be located in an area of the website, which will require a username and a password.
Members are reminded that it is against the rules to give this password to non members.
Password can be obtained from Bob Tame (Comms Manager) or by looking in the Members Area of this site.
The 2026 Committee meeting minutes are here Meeting minutes
Our President for 2026 Season, Les Clarke, announced that his charity would be
"Rowcroft at Home".
At the coffee morning on 17th Jan we raised £157. (Total £388.00 so far).
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The summer season is still under way so there are no 'Winter' social events planned until the outdoor season ends in September apart from the Christmas Party for which payment is now due. A meeting before the closing day game will decide on what socials we will run this winter, come along at 1pm if you wish to help or have any ideas for social events. The Events Page will list social events once they are arranged.
Payment is now due, before the AGM, either by BACS to club account or cash to Keith Hollings, who is at club on a Tuesday morning.
Thank you to all the members who came on the day and also to those that donated generously with cash, prizes, not forgetting all the helpers on and off the green.
I am please to tell you we raised a total of £335.87 to add to this years charity Rowcroft at Home fund. 👏👏👏
We need a new greensweeper who can sweep on a Wednesday morning please, let Tony Walker know if you can do it. It only takes a short time and you don't need to do it if the green is being cut that morning, or if it is raining.
Helpers are required on October 16th for major green maintenance work
Maintenance sessions continue on Tuesday mornings even after season has ended. If you are free that morning, why not volunteer for one of the maintenance jobs.
We have a small team of volunteers to assist in keeping the grass cut regularly.
Unfortunately some of them are no longer available, so if you can spare a morning a week, or if we get enough volunteers, one morning a fortnight, to cut the grass on the bowling green, please ring Tony Walker to let him know when you can come.
Many Thanks,
Management Committee.
Les has also issued an appeal for more volunteers to attend to lighten the workload of the current Tuesday Maintenance session attendees. So please go down and see what you can do to help. Les Clarke (Site Manager) would be very grateful! We will also need a new Site Manager, for when Les steps down at the AGM in October.
Volunteers continue to sweep the green daily as this should be done every morning, if weather permits, throughout the year. More volunteers are needed, please contact Tony to Volunteer.
Rink Diary is now populated with indoor friendly games at TLH (Derwent Hotel) this winter. Look in the TEAMS section for the games now available and get your names down early, please.
Many thanks to Craig Ayres for sourcing club caps, these are £12.50 each and can be ordered from the club.
There are two choices, the cloth one modelled by Craig and the mesh one modelled by Pam.
The band at the back is elastic so sizing isn’t a problem. Please let Theresa Cornelius know if you would like to order one or more.
Please indicate - Cloth or Mesh.
Page updated 21st September 2026.