HARROW & DISTRICT BOWLING ASSOCIATION.
Founded 1938
Harrow and District Bowling Association News
January 2024 to December 2024 News
Note the Competitions fixture sheets now also contain notes reminding competitors that:
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1. All queries on Rules and Procedures to Brian Moates
by email or Text Message
2. All members of the winning team to be reported.
3. Scorecards are retained by winner
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The Competition Results and Fixture page has now been updated so hopefully the draws can now be printed. Remember that you need to change the scale (within print settings) to "fit to page" if you want it on just one sheet.
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Apologies the print option for the competition sheets is not currently available I will rectify during the week and advise.
The draws for the 2025 competitions has now been completed.
Details of who has been drawn against who can be found on the Competition Results and Fixtures page, or the Veterans Results and Fixture page for the Vets League Cup. To view the draw just click on the link for the appropriate competition.
Please note that NO hard copies will be distributed this year so if your club wants a copy for pinning to your notice board please have one of your members print off a copy ensuring that they set the print scale to "Fit to Page".
Remember it is the responsibility of each competition entrant to ensure they arrange their game against the opponent in accordance with competition rules and that they complete the match and report the result before the completion date shown on the competition draw sheet.
Details of the recorder to whom the results should be sent are noted in the top right of each draw sheet. In the case of the Coronation, Portman, and Vets Cup the results should be reported using the usual website Match Result Reporting page.
As for contact details of each competitor they may be found on the Competition Contacts page, or the Competition Team Club Contacts page.
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The Competition Rules page has been updated to reflect the changes detailed in the 85th AGM - 16th Oct 2024 minutes. There is also an amendment to rule 10 of the Vets League Cup to reflect the approved change of rule 8 of the Competition rules.
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Kingsbury have confirmed that for 2025 they will be continuing in the Bidgood League and available for friendlies but will be withdrawing from the Vets League.
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A copy of the minutes of the 85th AGM now on website under News & Admin 85th AGM - 16th Oct 2024 site still yet to be updated for changes approved.
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Field End have withdrawn their application to join the Bidgood league. The Fixture Process schedule has been updated to reflect this, Note there have been no changes to the remaining Home/Away designations.
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Minor amendment to the Bidgood "Fixture Process" Schedule. The Original scheduled showed the provisional name of Eastcote B for the team in Division 2 which was finally named "Field End" and which the schedule now reflects. Home/Away designations all remain the same.
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Proposal H for the AGM has been amended to highlight the different reporting requirement for the Portman Trophy, Coronation Shield and Veterans League Cup. (amendment highlighted in red)
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Fixture Secretaries please not the details page for the Veterans and Bidgood have been updated to reflect the teams by Division for 2025 taking account of normal promotions and relegations plus new entrants and withdrawn entrants, in addition the Bidgood Fixture Process page has been updated with the Home and away designations for 2025.
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Apologies to Harrow B.C. , in Proposal N for the AGM I missed the part that specified that at least one of the proposed three dates must be a Saturday or Sunday for the benefit of those who still work. I have updated the Proposal accordingly.
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We have been unable to find a new Competition Secretary to take on all the duties previously done by Rod Frazer. It has therefore been necessary to restructure the administration of the competitions in order that they may still continue next season. As a result several of the Competition Rules require amendments to reflect the new structure. All the related proposed changes proposed by the Executive Committee are listed on the AGM proposals page, being proposals B to M inclusive.
In addition Harrow BC have submitted two additional proposals (N & O) independent of the above.
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The 85th AGM will be held on Wednesday 16th October at 7.00pm at Century B.C.
Any proposals for the AGM should be submitted by 20th September for inclusion in the agenda. See the "AGM Proposals" page under News & Admin for the submission process, and any proposals so far submitted.
1. The 2024 Competitions Finals Day schedule can now be viewed under the Competitions tab "Finals Day 2024"
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2. Herga Indoor Bowls club have asked us to notify you that they are holding an open day on 6th October 2024, as per attached notification on temporary page "Herga Open Day" within the News and Admin section- note that the page will be removed after the open day.
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3. First AGM proposal has been added see "AGM Proposals"
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There will be no H&D competitions in 2025 unless someone takes up the role of Competition Secretary. Please contact the Secretary, Steve Flain on 07400 340270 or by email stephenflain@hotmail.co.uk
if you are willing to take on this role.
Also please note that if in 2025 your club wishes to join one of our leagues or add an additional team the deadline for registering your intent is 31st July 2024. Please register your intent by email to h.and.dba@outlook.com
News and Admin section now contains a page with the link to the World Bowls website, specifically the Laws of the Sport page which has a link to the Crystal Mark fourth Edition and revisions thereto in case you need to refer to it where our District rules do not explicitly cover certain aspects and rely on the world Bowls standard instead.
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Good news there is a new bowls club in the District:- The "West Harrow Community Bowls Club". Although it is too late for them to join our leagues this season they are ready and able and keen to play friendlies with any clubs who have a free slot on their fixture list.
To arrange a game with them their contact is their Secretary, Alan James tel: 0780 1644914, email: westharrowbowls24@gmail.com
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In preparation for 2025 when all clubs will need a "safeguarding policy" and an officer responsible for the policy, the Harrow and District policy is now included in the News and Admin section under Safeguarding Policy any questions or guidance for this policy should be referred to Andy Docker.
There appears to have been a problem with the PDF display of competition contact details still showing 2023 details rather than 2024 as correctly displayed in the google Docs version. I believe this is now resolved and it should be showing the contact details for 69 competitors (not 73 as was in 2023). Competition Contacts
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Contact details for the competition entrants have now been updated. See Competition Contacts and Competition Team Club Contacts and Club Contacts Veterans pages for details.
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The draw for 2024 competitions has now taken place. The Competition results and fixtures page has now been updated and the draws can be seen by clicking on the appropriate link. The contact details for the competitors will be updated in the next few days.
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The Site has now been updated for the results of the 84th AGM which included election of officers a revised Constitution, inclusion of women in the Coronation Shield and Portman Trophy, and reduction of ends in Pairs/fours/Coronation/Portman Pairs
January 2023 to December 2023 News
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Bidgood "Fixture Process" page amended for 2024 Fixtures. Amendment removes Stanmore B fixtures as they have withdrawn from the league and corrects two typos on the Cavendish row (only) for Harrow Weald and Uxbridge
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Stanmore "B" have withdrawn from Bidgood Division2
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For the avoidance of any doubt it should be noted that both Wealdstone and West Harrow have both closed at the end of the season so will not be playing any future matches.
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A fifth AGM proposal has been supplied see "AGM Proposals"
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The schedule of home and away designations for 2024 Bidgood League matches may now be found on the "Bidgood fixture process"
page.
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Also a fourth AGM proposal has been supplied see "AGM Proposals"
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The 84th AGM will be held at Century BC on 18th October 2023 at 7.00pm
Any proposals that clubs may have for consideration at the AGM should be submitted to the webmaster by no later than end of 26th September 2023. See the "AGM Proposals" page for the process and format for submitting proposals and also to see the three proposals already received.
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The results of the Finals Day competitions have been uploaded onto the "Competitions Results and Fixture" page.
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Congratulations to Hendon and Harrow A who are promoted to Division 1 in the Bidgood league for next season.
Provisional tables for 2024 season is on the "Bidgood Details page"
Congratulations also go to Century and Deane Park for their promotions to Div 1 and 2 respectively in the Veterans league for next season.
Provisional tables for 2024 season is on the "Veterans Details page"
Appologies I updated the site but forgot to publish it, you should now see the 2023 finals day order of play
Order of play for 2023 Finals Day can now be found in the competitions section as "Finals Day 2023"
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Herga Indoor Bowls club have asked us to notiy you that they are holding an open day 0n 7th October 2023, as per attached notification on temporary page "Herga Open Day" within the News and Admin section- note that the page will be removed after the open day.
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Note tomorrow is the deadline for submitting additional teams to the Bidgood and Vets league for next season (as permanently indicated in the red box outline on this page). if you have overlooked this or just forgotten then we will still accept applications for consideration upto Saturday 5th August but no later.
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Please note that the recent World Bowls rule change regarding forfeiture of games for displacing bowls has been rescinded with immediate effect. PDF copy of the World Bowls letter is here:
Unfortunately there were a few errors in the published competition contacts list . These have now been corrected.
Andy Docker has kindly agreed to take on the role of verifying the consistency of "A" and "B" team players taking part in matches with the listings nominated and reported by clubs at the start of the season. Accordingly electronic copies of the signed results cards should be sent to him rather than the Webmaster as previously advised. Result Reporting Procedures for both the Veterans and Bidgood leagues have been added to the website for reference:-
click on link - Veterans Bidgood
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Apologies to those of you that have been trying to view the league fixture lists I hadn't switched on the View function. I have now switched it on but beware the fixture lists are incomplete at the moment as I am awaiting details from the various clubs. as they are received the site will be updated accordingly. I will advise once they are completed.
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The draws for the Portman Cup and Coronation Shield have now been completed and can be found under the
Competions Results and Fixtures
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Due to a technical glitch the draws for both the Portman Cup and Coronation Shield will be redone in the near future, please discard any copies you may have already printed.
All other draws are not affected.
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Contact details for all teams and competition entrants for 2023 have now been updated and can be found under:
Competition Team club contacts
The draws for all the Harrow and District competitions have now been completed and can be found (and/or printed) on the website at
Competions Results and Fixtures , and
Veterans Results and Fixtures for the Veterans League Cup.
Contact details will be updated next week.
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