On Saturday 28th March the Weston Park Trophy takes place at Brockholes Bowling Club. This season opening event raises funds for the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity in memory of Paul Sykes. Through donations, raffle sales and food sales last year's event raised over £700...
This was the writers last official duty as President before he stepped back and passed the Presidents chain of office to John Pearman at the Associations AGM on Monday 9 February. The council elected John Pearman as President after Richard Armitage completed his two years...
We might still be reaching for the winter woollies, but you can feel it, can’t you? That familiar shift in the air. Because when spring is just around the corner, it can only mean one thing: summer bowling is on the way. And with the...
One of the writers last acts as President of this Association was to present a huge cheque to Judith Ambler of The Kirkwood Hospice. The Association raised £1400 over the course of the 2025 season primarily from running the John Hoyle Trophy as the finale to...
2026 sees the inaugural Inter-District Veterans Merit. All nine district teams in the league will play a knockout tournament of their inter-district squad bowlers playing down to two. The designated date for each district is the day of their bye in their league matches, in Huddersfield's...
The 2026 Hickson Trophy is being hosted by West Riding and is set to return to the round robin format. Leeds, as the current holders, have a bye to the final on 10 July and Huddersfield are in Group 2 with Wakefield, Sheffield and the East...
The 2026 fixtures for the Yorkshire County Veterans Inter-District league have been released and are available on Bowlsnet at https://bowlsnet.uk/YorkshireVets. The season starts on Friday 1 May but due to the fact that there are 9 teams in the league there is a bye on each...
Bowls eh? It never stops surprising us. And yesterday at Netherton Con, we were treated to one of those truly special days, a final that was everything that’s brilliant about bowls – drama, tension, underdogs, and glorious comebacks. John Hodgson is the 2025 Veterans League Rose...
LONGWOOD bowler Andy Wike took the John Hoyle Trophy after defeating fellow inter-district bowler Graham Sigsworth in the final held at Moldgreen Con. Wike won the contest 21-14 and was heard to say to his opponent that it was a "game of two halves" and that...
Tomorrow, 26 September, we have the John Hoyle Trophy final starting 1.30 pm and as usual it's at Huddersfield Recreations home of Moldgreen Conservative Club. This competition has quickly become the grand finale to our season, it's now in it's fifth year and each year we...