A tour has been booked to celebrate the Club's 40th Anniversary next year.
It 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 room, with an £80 supplement for single room, based on a minimum take up of 30 with full coach travel to and from Marldon.
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 early November when we have to pay Tour Company, after that date deposits cannot be returned.
Logan won the Devon section of the under 17 National tournament and has now also beaten the Cornwall Representitive to reach the last 16 of this national competition. Unfortunately he lost his next game, and will not be 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 wass James Kennedy from Kings BC.
Our club's first ever player to reach Leamington All England Finals, Well done Logan.
Another 11 pupils from our local middle school here in Marldon came along for a “Try Bowls”session in July. All 11 showed great enthusiasm and looked as if they were hooked by bowls! That’s 29 pupils who have attended over these sessions this week. More juniors attended another seeeion on 8th August.
Many thanks our team of coaches & helper.
Graham, Kay, Teresa, Alex, Peter for being involved plus Gillian for organising these 3 sessions for Marldon Maple Leaf Bowling Club.
This what creating the future of bowls is all about.
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?
Our next open day for potential new bowlers is on Sunday August 23rd at 10am.
Our first open day of 2026 was on Sunday May 3rd and a few new people came to try the game, the second session on May 10th attracted several new potential bowlers, some of whom have now joined our club. Anyone is welcome to come along to try the game, see the notice below for details.
We have fully qualified Bowls England Coaches available to assist at these sessions.
Let them introduce themselves:
We would like to introduce ourselves.
Graham is a Level 2 Bowls England Coach & Kay is a Level 1 Bowls England Coach & both Regional Umpires.
We are pleased to update you with news that our 2026 Sessions will run weekly through to the end of August. These sessions are for both beginners wanting to "Try Bowls" and those looking to improve their bowls skills.
All equipment provided, all we ask is that you wear flat soled non heeled shoes.
We would also like to encourage any club members that are considering taking a Level 1 course to have a chat with us about what's involved.
Here's to a successful enjoyable season.
Graham & Kay Sowerby
Mobile: 07971 882125
We are pleased to note that Graham and Kay have both joined as full members.
Alex Green has completed his training course and is now a qualified coach.
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 Craig Ayres as he has taken over organising our teams for these games.
The Sunday morning coaching sessions are going well with a number of new bowlers trying out the game. after watching them this morning I was impressed how well they are doing.
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.
Congratulations to Alex Green who has completed his coaching course and qualified as a Bowls England level 1 coach.
Mixed fortunes for our two men's Mid Devon League teams this season as our 'A' team are now League 2 Champions with a game to go and will be promoted to Division one, after just missing out in last two seasons, but our 'B' team are equally close to relegation back to division 4, having been promoted only last year.
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!
The Club Competitions are nearing the final stages and a schedule for Finals weekend will be available soon.
The draws are on 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
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. 👏👏👏
The Tickle Trophy, otherwise know as the Marldon World Cup, took place on Saturday July 4th. More details on Past Events page and on Members Page 1.
Please note, we will continue with the cashless bar this season, as it makes life much easier for the
team of bar volunteers and the bar manager.
in addition, Members can purchase rink fee vouchers in packs of 10 (at the bar) to save having to find the change for every game.
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
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.
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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Our Presidents for 2025, Dave and Sue, raised funds for the
Devon Air Ambulance Trust.
At the AGM in October they revealed that they had raised £1500 during their year as Presidents and presented
a cheque to a representitive of Devon Air Ambulance.
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. The Events Page will list social events as they are arranged.
Payment is now due, either by BACS to club account or cash to Keith Hollings, who is at club on a Tuesday morning.
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.
Maintenance sessions continue on Tuesday mornings. The green will not be open for Roll ups on Tuesday am, 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!
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.
We are pleased to announce that Tony Walker has taken over from Paul Stretton as Greenkeeper. Paul has worked tirelessly on our green, but his health has recently deteriorated and we could see that he was struggling to carry out his duties. Tony has undertaken the necessary course in handling the chemicals, and has worked with Paul for the last few years.
Many thanks to Paul for all the hard work maintaining the green for the last 8 years, we trust his health will improve and he will be back bowling soon !
Gillian Burchell (Chairperson)
Phil Toms, from Plymouth Retired Civil Servants BC has arranged a tour to the Isle of Wight and has invited
Marldon Bowlers to join them on the tour. About 18 Marldon bowlers have taken up this invitation, but there are still a few
spaces left.
You will need to become an associate Member of Plymouth RCS BC at a cost of £10 to cover insurance,
added to the cost of the tour which takes place from August 25th to 29th 2026. Further details from Phil Toms
on 07737 744 872
Rink Diary is now populated with games up to the end of the season.
Look in the TEAMS section for the games now available and get your names down early, please. The selectors/Captain does not wish to spend his/her summer chasing people to play in Games because there are not enough names down, please.
Rink Diary can be accessed from Computers,Tablets or Smartphones. If you don't use a computer we can assign you a "buddy" who can do it for you.
The link is www.marldon.rinkdiary.co.uk.
If you have forgotten your Rink Diary password then you can generate a new one by using the 'Forgot Password' option:
https://www.marldon.rinkdiary.co.uk/forgot-password/
Please do not register again if you are already registered.
Training and support is still available for anyone who still requires it, contact Les Clarke or Bob Tame to arrange or have a look at the training information below.
Training 1 - How to register and put name down for games. Register/Name down
Training 2 - Booking a rink (for competitions etc) (Note Booking a rink for a rollup is is optional.) Booking a rink
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 17th August 2026.