A late hiccup failed to take the shine off the League honouring 3 more great servants of the game with Mid Shropshire Life Memberships.
Former chairman Sean Round, Bylet stalwart Pete Driver and the League’s unofficial archives and records maestro Phil Owen were in the spotlight at the October executive meeting at the Sir John Bayley Club.
But they were kept waiting before their ceremonies could take place as the secretary had forgot to bring the awards to the meeting and had to be rescued by his wife dashing home to get them in record time!
The patient trio are PICTURED with their awards and League chairman Chris Hayward.
Earlier, delegates at the meeting heard that a sub group meeting will be held before the November Executive to look a rule change proposals, with Rule 21 again the focus.
Proposals from member clubs must be received by the secretary by 31st October and then will need seconding at the December meeting to be able to go forward to the 2027 AGM on Tuesday 26th January at SJBC (7.30pm). The code of conduct and disciplinary structure will be updated at the annual meeting
A prize money proposal for 2026 was agreed and will be paid out at the presentation dinner on Saturday 21st November when a full house of 150 is booked in at The Shropshire.
The business of the October meeting ended with a report on the BCGBA crisis. And . . .
A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the BCGBA will be held on Saturday 14th November, called by BCGBA interim chairman Steve Cochrane with Lisa Graham, Managing Director of the Bowls Development Alliance (BDA), to support the running and facilitation of the Special General Meeting.
Steve Cochrane said: “The principle is simple – the next leadership (of the BCGBA) should not emerge through competing claims of authority or informal arrangements. It should be established through the constitutional and democratic processes agreed by the membership itself. Once that process has been confirmed, we will communicate the timetable and next steps clearly to all Member Associations.
“I would encourage every County and every individual involved in the weeks ahead to approach that decision not on the basis of personalities, loyalties or historic disagreements, but by asking one question: ‘What will give Crown Green Bowls the strongest, safest and most sustainable national governing body for the future?”