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
[email protected]
The January 2026 Committee meeting minutes are here January 2026
Additional seating is being fitted under the window in the ladies changing rooms, as requested by some of our lady members.
Please note the date has been changed to Saturday April 11th, see Events page.
Ray was recently rushed into Hospital, having suffered a stroke. He has now recovered sufficiently to be released from Hospital and is now recuperating at home. His speech has been affected but he is still communicating by text and email but is unlikely to be playing bowls for a while. Some of the other tasks he took on (Such as Coaching) will also have to be picked up by other members.
We have been invited to send teams to play against Guests at the TLH Hotel group on their indoor green.
Our next three games are on March 10th, 17th and 26th March. Please help by supporting these games if you can, check
Rink Diary and advise Bob Tame, as he has taken over organising our
teams for these games while Ray is unwell.
Do you have a Bowls England Coaching qualification? If so and would like to help your
club please let us know.
If not, we urgently need new coaches as due to varying circumstances, we do not have enough coaches
qualified to train our new members and juniors. The training takes place locally and involves a couple of
online sessions, plus a day on the green locally and a couple of practice sessions.
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 this season.
Please let Gillian Burchell know if you would like to take on this essential role and all will be arranged.
We are trying to organise the Heath Triples to be played on a Friday night.
WE NEED SOMEONE TO VOLUNTEER TO DO THE FOLLOWING:
1) be at the club every Friday that the games are being played
2) to run the league
3) print the cards
4) take the money and give to Peter
5) collect the results
6) organise the play dates throughout the season
Please let me know if you would want to be the volunteer, we cannot run the league without one.
In order for the league to work, we will need at least 6 mixed teams, which must consist of 2 men and one woman or visa versa to play each week, ideally the team should consist of at least 6 or more players.
Just let me know if you are interested.
Thanks, Pat Edwards.
Many thanks to Maureen Morgan who has done this for the past few years, but she does not wish to continue.
This successful club league ideally will have two people who can work together, kindly let Howard or Gillian or Pat know if you are able
to do this.
Club nights and Heath Triples Nights are very good for giving new members an opportunity to play in organised matches,
whilst also raising funds for the club. Many thanks to all the members who have supported these weekly events in the past.
Maureen Morgan also intends to retire as Fixture Secretary and so we are looking for a member who will take on this role for the future. The majority of the Fixture Secretary role can be done from home, with most fixtures being organised well in advance by phone or email. The Fixture secretary would also be involved in last minute changes to fixtures if required.
Rink Diary is being used through the winter for booking friendly games at the Derwent
Look in the TEAMS section for the games now available and get your names down early, please.
Rink Diary can be accessed from Computers,Tablets or Smartphones and a computer will be available at the club when
it is open, for anyone who does not have a suitable device.
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/
Training and support is still available for anyone who still requires it, contact Les Clarke 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
Regretfully, our chairperson Ollie Abercrombie resigned recently. The committee have thanked him for his good service to the club and have co-opted Gillian Burchell into the role of Chairperson until the next AGM.
The Draws for these matches have been made, see Competitions page for details.
The next event is the Italian Night on Feb 14th. Open to all members. (See Events page )
The Short Mat Bowls in the Village Hall was cancelled on Wed Jan 28th as the Marldon
Pantomime group were in the Hall that week,
shortmat restarts on Wed Feb 4th 2026.
All members are welcome to take part, cost is £2.50 a session. Take your own woods and shoes. Gordon Page may also
require additional players for the shortmat league which takes place on Monday and Tuesday Night at Marldon BC and
various other clubs around Torbay,
Contact Gordon if you are interested in playing in this league.
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.
We are pleased to see that our Ladies South Devon League 'A' Team have been included in a shortlist of four for the
Bowls England "Team of the year" prize. One of the other shortlisted teams is last year's winners, Gerrards Cross Men's team.
The Bowls England Presentation night takes place on Saturday 21st February 2026 at Athena, Leicester, LE1 1QD.
For more details follow this link.
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 £240.50 so far).
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.
Our 'B' Team won Division 4 of the Mid Devon League this season and are promoted to Division 3 for next year. Men's Captain Paul and representatives of the 'B' team went to the MDL AGM recently to receive the trophy which is now on display in the Clubhouse. We also received a certificate containing the names of all the players involved, to display in the clubhouse, and the players involved can get a copy from Ray O'Brien if interested.
We have updated our privacy notice by adding the following paragraph, to remind members that we have CCTV operating on site at all times.
"To capture images of individuals engaged in theft, vandalism, or trespassing. To both act as a deterrent and toidentify person or persons involved.
This will be helpful when pursuing criminal or management committee investigations".
The policy can be accessed on this site from the "About us" Page
Our first open day of 2026 will be on Sunday April 26th at 10am (Weather permitting). Details of how to take part will follow nearer to the time.
Many Members will remember our former member Heather Pickard, who sadly died on Jan 5th 2026. Our thoughts are with her family. Heather was a good Ladies 'A' Team player and former Ladies Captain as well as representing the County as Devon Ladies President.
Former member Alan Drayton passed away on 25th January 2026. Our Condolences to his family.
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.
Paul cannot cut the grass at present so we need a team of volunteers to assist in keeping the grass cut regularly.
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 Paul Stretton to let him know when you can come.
Many Thanks,
Management Committee.
Paul 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) and Paul 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 always welcome, Contact Paul to Volunteer.
We will, at some time in the not too distant future, need a new greenkeeper, as Paul wishes to retire, so if you have any interest in commencing the training required to be our greenkeeper, please let Paul know.
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.
We plan to open for the summer on Saturday April 25th, (weather and green permitting) with our president,Les, bowling the first wood, events after that have not yet been planned.
Please note, we will continue with the cashless bar at social events through this winter, as it makes life much easier for the team of bar volunteers and the bar manager.
Page updated 17th February 2026.