Due to unprecedented demand the Murder Mystery on 7th March is sold out. Thanks to everyone’s support .. we are considering further events in the future.

The next social event is this coming Tuesday 3rd Feb at 7:30pm .. Quiz Night with Gary as compere.

We have just a couple more winter socials before the bowls activities ramp up.

Gary is the compere for Quiz Night on Tues 3rd Feb 7:30pm and then we conclude with a new attraction courtesy of Geoff and his crew .. a Murder Mystery on Sat 7th March 7pm.

We are asking for pre-payment for this latter event – further details are available here .. Murder Mystery.

All the fixtures for the coming season will be available soon and published on Calendar and in the Fixtures booklet, which will be available at the signing-up evening. Here are a few key dates to look out for ..

Tue 3rd Feb – Quiz Night

Sat 7th Mar – Murder Mystery

Tues 17th Mar – Membership sign-up

Sat 4th & Sun 5th Apr – Grounds clear-up

Sun 12th Apr – Green opens!

Fri 1st & Sat 2nd May – Open Days

A list of pre-season jobs is being drawn up and any help you can offer will be much appreciated either on the set working-party days or separately. Many hands make light work, or so they say!

The minutes from the latest committee meeting are available on the club noticeboard and here .. Committee Meeting

Finally, the Cricket Club have an upcoming event in March, a Comedy Night, full details here .. Cricket Club News

It was a good start to the year for DavidC winning the first event of 2026 at the winter social on Tuesday He snuck under the radar nicely and won Slippery Ann by a fair margin in a field of 24 players. Next month sees a Quiz Night on Tuesday 3rd Feb 7:30pm.

Ticket sales have now opened for the Murder Mystery on 7th March so please get in touch if you fancy coming. Geoff and the team will start rehearsing soon with some sessions booked at the club. All proceeds will go the Bowls club.

The World Indoor Bowls Championships commence soon with broadcasts available via YouTube and Facebook and the latter stages from the BBC.

As was alluded to in the previous bulletin, a Murder Mystery will be played out at the club in the new year. One of our more recent members, Geoff Buckingham, has very kindly offered to put on a play with all proceeds going to the club and with a prize going to the member of the audience who successfully identifies the murderer! Unfortunately it coincides with some building work to the overall club but the show will definitely go on so please add Saturday 7th March to your calendars. All members and family & friends are welcome – tickets are available at £12 including nibbles .. just get in touch by whatever means. Thanks also to Gary for acting as our liaison officer alongside Geoff.

The latest winter social this week saw a first for the club .. once we got the trial ends out of the way to iron out the rules, we had a very enjoyable evening of dominoes! Ann took the honours by the closest of margins just pipping JenC by a single point; Sandy wasn’t far behind in 3rd.

The next winter social is Slippery Ann on Tuesday 6th Jan 7:30pm. This card game is known by many names, Hearts being the more familiar and similar game, and is based on whist where players win tricks hoping they don’t contain a heart. All will be explained on the night and we’ll no doubt have a trial or two before the game proper. At the end of each round of games, two players move tables so you end up chatting to a range of folk, which perfectly encapulates the idea of the evening.

Other events at the SSA include a New Year’s Eve party – further details here .. SSA & Cricket Club News.

Some of you may be aware of building work taking place to the club over the winter. The start date isn’t yet confirmed but may be sooner than we thought. Our rooms will make way for new women’s changing rooms but we will get some shiny new rooms with access to the bowls green. As such we need to clear out our existing rooms so make sure you book January & February hols to avoid the working parties for this and other jobs that are needed before our bowls season starts!

Just to add to the confusing mix of county/national competitions, Bowls England have recently opened entry to some National championships. These are entered directly via the portal and not via the county associations and include such ones as Mens and Women’s over-60 singles and Mixed Pairs (the one entered via Middlesex are county-only competitions). Here is the link .. Bowls England Competitions 2026

That’s it for another year. Best wishes to everyone and particularly those in need of our prayers. Happy Christmas to you all .. look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

Come and see if you can chip out, or perhaps hit the deck, in the festive winter social on Tuesday 2nd December at 7:30pm. There’ll be a £5 entry fee to include a mini-buffet .. all are welcome including family & friends.

The bowls committee met up this week and digested some of the suggestions raised at the AGM. Payment by card will be trialled over the coming season allowing those who wish to pay by card rather than cash. This will be available at all events, including Club Night and team games. Name badges or names on shirts is under investigation. Minutes from committee meetings will be available on the noticeboard for the time being. More to follow soon, including a mystery in March!

We celebrated a good season for Sunbury Bowls at our annual Club Dinner and Presentation of Awards at Fulwell Golf Club on Friday. It cemented a successful season for Sandy, picking up four trophies in total after she was presented with the Club Night Women’s trophy for the second year running. With Simon also picking up the Men’s prize (for the third time) it ensured the pair went home with a box load of silverware! The main club trophy was awarded to Maggie for her dedication to the upkeep of the garden and grounds.

David Chatterton, our retiring Club Secretary, was honoured for his dedication to the club but will continue to feature at the club despite words that hinted otherwise! Sandy was confirmed in the role at the AGM. Many thanks to all involved in organising the dinner and to our compere Gary. Also to Cassie for organising the programme, etc.. for the last time.

Some memories from the evening are available here .. Club Dinner 2025

The club AGM on the 11th recapped on the year and raised a few items of note .. we are keeping afloat but the priority is the green; further consideration of cashless options; name badges for shirts; publishing of minutes; work to the front of the building over winter; safeguarding changes; recruitment of more greenkeepers. More information to follow over the coming months.

Lastly, our final official get together of the year is on Tues 2nd December from 7:30pm.

The next of our winter socials takes place on Tuesday 4th Nov. It’s an evening of Bingo with Neil hosting .. eyes down at 7:30pm!

The AGM season is nearly here and we have our own Bowls Club one on Tuesday 11th 7:30pm. All members are invited to hear of the latest developments and put forward suggestions and questions. Following on is the Sunbury Sports Association (SSA) AGM on Thursday 27th 7:30pm with all members welcome.

Our annual bowls Club Dinner and Presentation of Awards takes place on Friday 21st at Fulwell Golf Club. Please arrive from 6:30pm for a 7pm start. Any queries about payment to our Treasurer Barry with any raffle prizes appreciated on the night.

We recently kicked off the monthly winter socials with an evening of skittles. Congratulations to the winning team of Alan, Eileen, Karen, Kath, Mike & NeilF and thanks to our compere, David, for keeping us all in order. The socials take place on the first Tuesday of each month, so next up is Tues 4th Nov 7:30pm (theme to be confirmed, but maybe Bingo!). November will be a busy month as we have our AGM on Tues 11th 7:30pm and our annual Club Dinner and Awards Evening on Fri 21st at Fulwell Golf Club.

The green is looking pretty green with new grass showing, in fact it’ll need cutting soon! Fingers crossed that the scarecrow and bird-scarer do their jobs. The hedges have also been cut so let’s hope they don’t grow back quite as well as the grass!

The long-overdue updates to the Honours Boards are taking shape. One board has now been installed with comments/suggestions invited.

For those of you wishing to test yourselves beyond social roll-ups or our own club competitions there’s an array of county and other competitions available. Some need to be entered by the end of the month, others are less pressing. Here’s a short guide to how it all works .. County Competitions. I’m happy to field any queries in the first instance.

Lastly, switching to the SSA club scene, tickets are now on sale for Groove Manoova on Sat 15th November with their funky disco floor fillers.

The season ended well for Sunbury with Jen and Nathan winning their SML Mixed Pairs final on Sunday. Fordbridge Park has proved to be a lucky  ground for Sunbury in the last few years in the Bluewood Cup and so it proved for Jen and Nathan too, revisiting the scene of their 2nd-round win. They led early in their match against an experienced Hampton pair and kept ahead throughout, despite dropping a four towards the end. Congratulations to them both .. they have proved to be a real asset for the club over the past couple of seasons.

The South Middlesex competitions start later in the season than the main Middlesex county competitions and may appeal to lots of our bowlers next season. There will be more details on these and also the NW Surrey competitions in due course.

Tuesday’s Club Night marks the end of the bowls season for another year but there’s still plenty of work to be done to close the green and prepare for next year. Also a reminder to sign-up for the Club Dinner and Presentation evening on 21st November and the nomination sheets for positions on the committee are on the noticeboard.

Despite Sunbury Bowls being blessed with an abundance of rather good women bowlers, the men somehow managed to come out winners in Saturday’s annual Men v Women game. Perhaps it’s because they’re more suited to inclement weather or they’re used to taking a break, or shorter jacks, but whichever way you slice it the men won! Delving closer though it was vey tight as two of the men’s 4 wins were by only 2-shots. Thanks to Dennis & Nikki, and many others, for organising the teams, providing food and for help on the day. Despite the weather it was another resounding success for Sunbury Bowls.
This week saw the last of the season’s team friendlies, both away fixtures. Thursday at Teddington saw lots of rain and was looking like a repeat of last year’s abandonment but the clouds cleared in timely fashion and 14 ends were played in lovely sunshine. Two years ago the result was 59 shots each and, amazingly, this year’s result was 52 shots each!

On Sunday it was the turn of Chertsey and, inevitably, the weather played a big part again. Some rinks stopped play after 14 ends; others went the full distance. The rinks were shared 2-2 but Chertsey took the honours by 19 shots.

So that’s pretty much it so far as bowling is concerned for another year, apart from a couple of club nights and the SML Mixed Pairs final on the 21st. The annual club dinner and presentation of awards on 21st November will round up a pretty successful year for Sunbury Bowls and its bowlers. Unfortunately, our club captain, Dennis, will be absent so I’m sure you’ll join me in thanking him here for all his efforts over the last year. Managing teams alongside everything else he does is not an easy act, acknowledging the help he gets from Nikki. With that in mind we have the club AGM on 11th November. There is a list of nominations for those wishing to stand for committee on the noticeboard.

Tues 16th Sep 5:30pm – Club Night;

Sun 21st Sep 10am – SML Mixed Pairs final at Fordbridge Park;

Tues 23rd Sep 5:30pm – Club Night;

Thur 25th Sep – Green closes;

Tues 7th Oct 7:30pm – Winter social;

Tues 4th Nov 7:30pm – Winter social;

Tue 11th Nov 7:30pm – AGM;

Fri 21st Nov – Club Dinner & Awards;

Tues 2nd Dec – Xmas social