This is to advise that Neil Payne has taken over from Robert Walsh as North Lancs & Fylde County Financial Officer. All correspondence in relation to affiliation fees and other payments should now be sent to Neil at neil.payne926@gmail.com

The management committee would like to thank Robert for all his hard work in the past few years and we wish him well.

Registration of New Players

The lifetime BCGBA registration & membership fee for new bowlers has increased to £15 (from £12) with effect from 1st May 2023. New Player Registration forms can be downloaded by visiting the NLFCBA website at Registrations of New Players and Clubs Completed forms and payments are to be sent to the County Registrar, Geoff Foy. Geoff can be contacted at geffferi@gmail.com

North Lancs & Fylde v Derbyshire

Sunday 7th May 2023 Games Start at 2pm

Home match will be played at Brownedge Bowling Club (Bamber Bridge Catholic Club), Aspden Street, Bamber Bridge, Preston, PR5 6TA

Please come along and support our Senior Men’s team in their first home county match of the season. Bar, hot and cold drinks will be available throughout the day. Car parking, entrance is free and match programme £1

Teams at Brownedge:

North Lancs & Fylde away team

The Away team will be playing at Alverston & Boulton Bowling Club in Derby. Places are available for spectators to travel on the coach with the team. Cost of travel is £5. The pick up points are Marton Institute (FY4 4DR) at 9:30am, followed by Oakenhurst Farm Brewers Fayre just off the M65 junction 4 (Off Riversway Drive), Eccleshill Rd, Lower Darwen, Darwen BB3 0SN, at approximately 10am.

Please contact Andy Cairns on 07766 731782 to book your seat on the coach.

Tonight on Wednesday 19th April 2023 at 7:30pm via Zoom

Come along to this informal session to find out how your club can benefit from unrestricted funding in 2023 via EasyFundraising.

Sports Fundraising specialist Ben Harper will talk through how your volunteers, members and supporters can use the EasyFundraising platform to raise donations for your club when they shop with thousands of leading retailers. Ben will demonstrate how it works, show you how to get started and answer any questions you might have.

Plus, hear from Steve Clamp at Philip Wright Crown Green Bowling Academy who has used the platform to generate over £1000!

EasyFundraising is free to use and is trusted by 190,000 good causes around the UK, including bowls club, churches, community groups and charities.

Please do feel free to pass this invite on to other members of your committee who might like to come along, the more the merrier.

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This is a reminder that affiliation fees are due for the 2023 season. Affiliation forms need to be completed and sent along with the payment to the County Financial Officer. Forms can be downloaded from and payment options and details (cheque or bank transfer) by visiting the North Lancs & Fylde CBA website by clicking this link:

Thank you to those clubs and leagues that have already made payment.

The Ribblesdale Classic is back for 2023 and has a record prize fund this year. With £6300 in total prize money on offer and £1200 to the winner it is currently the largest prize money on offer for a competition with 128 entries in the sport!

This event, now in its fourth year, is taking place at Ribblesdale Wanderers Cricket and Bowling Club, Clitheroe in the picturesque Ribble Valley. The competition has a who’s who of bowlers with many of the games elite coming to the Ribble Valley to try win this years competition. 

Fancy coming to watch? It’s one of the best competitions in the sport and needs YOU, as one thing the competitions success is determined on the number of spectators it attracts. It’s great to get big crowds watching and supporting events like this and creating a brilliant atmosphere. It would be great to see so many of you at this years event once again. Attracting bowlers locally and nationally the competition standard will be superb once again.

When is it?

Qualifying gets underway on Saturday 15th April at 11am, when the first of eight qualifying sessions takes place. Then after the 8 qualifying sessions it is the Finals Day, when the 16 qualifiers battle it out to win the title, the trophy and the £1200 first prize. Below is the dates for this years event and it would be great to see you especially on Finals Day! (Sunday 28th May 3.30) 

Qualifying Dates:

Q1 – Saturday 15th April 11am

Q2 – Saturday 22nd April 6pm

Q3 – Saturday 29th April 6pm

Q4 – Friday 5th May 6.30pm

Q5 – Saturday 6th May 6pm

Q6 – Sunday 14th May 6pm

Q7 – Friday 19th May 6.30pm

Q8 – Sunday 21st May 10.30am

Finals Day – Sunday 28th May 3.30pm

(All qualifying sessions have 30 mins Practice beforehand)

(Finals Day has 1 hour practice beforehand)

Total Prize Money £6300

Winner £1200

Runner Up £700

Semi Finalists £400

Quarter Finalists £250

Last 16 £150

Losing Qualifying Game £80 

Want to know what’s going on?

Look out for regular updates on the event on our Facebook page ‘The Ribblesdale Classic’ and also on local and national bowls pages including ‘North Lancs and Fylde Bowling Association’.

Also check out our website www.ribblesdalewanderers.com and the county website https://nlfcba.com/

The competition is affiliated to the North Lancashire & Fylde County Bowling Association and to the British Crown Green Bowling Association. 

Main Competition Sponsors of The Ribblesdale Classic include Greenacre Honda, Drakes Pride, Modern Mobility, APWireless and Bowland Brewery.

Green Location:

Ribblesdale Wanderers Cricket & Bowling Club, Church Meadow, Brownlow Street, Clitheroe, BB7 1DW 

Want to know more?

Contact Josh Mordue on 📞 07780361147

Or visit the competition Facebook page ‘The Ribblesdale Classic’ https://www.facebook.com/groups/616390679450370

Entries are now being taken for this years Veterans Singles Competition to be held at Fulwood Bowling Club, Preston on Saturday 17th June 2023 at 10am

The competition is open to both male and female players (no home bowlers) aged 60 years and over. All games are 21 up off 3.

£10 Entry Fee – Closing date for entries is Saturday 20th May 2023

Entries by text to Andy Fleming on 07870 663876 or via Facebook Messenger

Sunday 2nd April 2023 at

Guy’s Thatched-Hamlet
St. Michael’s Road, Bilsborrow, Preston
PR3 0RS
10.00 am start

All spectators welcome

Start times, not the draw:

Paul Brett 10:00 am
Paul Kissock 10:00 am
Kevin Haslam 10:00 am
Craig Smith 10:00 am
Harvey Moore 10:00 am
James Kenny 10:00 am
Brian Buxton 10:00am
John Coupe 10:00am
Gordon Thomas 10:00 am
Mike Knowles 10:00 am
John Hanson 10:00 am
Dave Parkinson 10:00 am
Geoff Little 10:45 am
Craig Rammel 10:45 am
Paul Howarth 10:45 am
Dave Thornton 10:45 am
Andy Cairns 10:45 am
Michelle Tootle 10:45 am
Kieran Dodd 11:30 am
Alan Davies 11:30 am
Brian Buxton 11:30 am
Steve Hargreaves 11:30 am
Stephen Howarth 11:30 am
John Bentley 11:30 am
Lee Longland 11:30 am
Colin Crabtree 11:30 am
Stuart Mort 12:15 pm
Darren James 12:15 pm
Jason Cross 12:15 pm
Gary Cochrane 12:15 pm
Kevin Tootle 12:15 pm
P.Johnson 12:15 pm
Andy White 12:15 pm
Darren Gardner 12:15 pm

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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