Members may be aware that Bowls England has issued guidance to their member clubs on how we can reopen. These guidelines can be found by clicking here A summary is posted below.

Our Executive are meeting on Monday (18th May) morning to decide how the club should proceed at this time. Their decision will be posted here as soon as possible, with emails to follow up.

Summary of Bowls England guidance

• Off-site booking system for rink allocation
• Minimum of 20 minutes between allocated time slots to enable players to arrive/depart safely
• Clubs to communicate in advance with players to advise on social distancing requirements that are being applied on arrival at the club – for example not leaving cars until a certain time before their allocated time slot
• Only play on alternate rinks e.g. 1, 3, 5 OR 2, 4, 6 (keep an empty rink between rinks that are being played on)
• Maximum of six players on club premises at any one time (assuming an average of two people per rink who are not from the same household). Clubs may wish to increase this number if more than two people from the same household are to participate on the same rink.
• No visitors/spectators to be admitted to the club
• Capping the number of occasions a player can book a rink each week to ensure that the available capacity is distributed fairly.