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North Lancs & Fylde County team Champions, Hoghton will be competing at the BCGBA World Championships this Sunday 19th March at Spen Victoria Bowling Club, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire.

Our other County team representative at the World Championships, Parkfield Labour (Winners in 2016 & 2018), will be playing their first round game on Sunday 9th April.

Good luck to both teams.

North Lancs & Fylde CBA are now in receipt of the 2023 BCGBA Handbooks. Regional District Chairman & their reps will be helping to distribute these to affiliated clubs over the next few weeks

Just a quick reminder to all clubs planning to host an Open Competition, (i.e. a competition where players are invited who are not members of your club), that you must apply for an Open Competition Certificate, which is renewed annually with the BCGBA.

The cost is £10.00

The application form and payment details can be found on the NLFCBA website by clicking the link below:

Open Competition Certificate

Entries are now being taken for this year’s competition

Open to men’s, ladies and mixed 8 player teams. (all players must be registered team players at the same club)

Qualifying rounds to be played during May, June, July and August 2023. Dates to be confirmed when draw is made

Semi Final and Final to be played on Sunday 17^th September 2023

Entrance Fee £25

Closing date and payment for entries Sunday 16^th April 2023. Entries by text to Andy Fleming on 07870 663876 or via Facebook Messenger. Please include team name, contact name, email, and phone number

Winners and runner’s up will represent NL&FCBA at the BCGBA World Club
Championship. Regional Qualifying on Sunday 8th October 2023

NL&FCBA would like to invite applications for the following positions on the Management Committee:

Regional Chairperson: Blackburn District

Regional Representatives: Blackburn District

Regional Chairperson: Preston District

Regional Representatives: Preston District

Junior Secretary (This comes with an Honorarium)

Junior Representatives: Preston, Blackburn, Lancaster, East Lancashire

Please complete the contact form on the NL&FCBA website

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Welcome to the new website for the North Lancs & Fylde County Bowling Association. We hope that you like it, but if you have any comments or suggestions for new or amended content then please get in touch via our Contacts page

***Saturday 18th February at Norbreck Bowling Club, Blackpool – 10am start***

If you’re at a loose end, or want to find out LOTS of information to help support and develop your Club, you could do far worse things than come along to Norbreck Bowling Club for 10am

With information on grants that are available, how to apply, how to research them, growing your membership, and much, much more, I’m confident that everyone will find it useful. There’ll even be a selection of bowling aids/products there for you to see (and try).

We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible

Congratulations to the Philip Wright Bowling Academy who won the prestigious ‘Contribution to Active Communities (Group) Award’ at the recent Active Lancashire Awards for the work they do in Colne – a fantastic achievement given that this covers all of Lancashire.