Afternoon all

Bowls Scotland have released updated guidelines after the First Minister’s statement on Thursday.

Read the guidance notes and the frequently asked questions and answers.

Basically there is very little change from phase 1

Toilets are still closed
Club is still closed
NO spectators
NO alcohol

You can now have three households on one rink instead of two households and those who were shielding can now return to play bowls.

We will continue with the booking system, the cleaning of the mats and jacks, maintaining good hygiene and social distancing.

Let’s hope it’s only for the short term as I see it’s been announced today that the COVID-19 level has dropped in the UK from level 4 to level 3 which is good news.

Any questions let me know

https://www.bowlsscotland.com/

There has been an update to the ‘your profile’ section of the website. Every members default avatar/profile picture shows the club’s badge. You may now change this to any image you want, and the largest image size is 4mb. A picture of yourself will help others to know who you are. If any assistance is needed with this then a friendly committee member will be happy to add your picture for you if you have one or need one taken.

There is also a lot more information you can fill in to help the club maintain an accurate record of every members contact details. We would appreciate it if you could fill in as much as you can to help us with this. You can then change the details easily if required in the future. Only you and the administrators can see your profile details. You are also able to change your password there if required.

Morning all,

We are making a change to the booking form, which will be effective for this Monday’s bookings.

This will be changing to five time slots with playing time of 1.5 hours.

The new times available will be 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00 and 18:00.

The current demand is not as high as we expected and we are hoping the change in time slots will encourage more members to play.

Changing to the new times will give more time options for all members who wish to play but say, for example, you are on a rink at 16:00 and would like to stay over the allocated 1.5 hours then you can stay longer if there are rinks available in the next session.

I hope this helps explain the changes we are making but should you have questions then please let me know.

Hope to see more of you on the greens in the near future as we have strict safety measures in place to keep all players as safe as possible.

BOWLS GETS THE GREEN LIGHT

Following the First Minister’s announcement earlier this afternoon I can confirm that we are allowed to open the greens to resume playing bowls from Friday 29th May 2020.

Bowls is a fantastic sport which is also a good form of exercise and helps ease any mental health stresses. Knowing you can get back on the greens with your mates, having that banter and a chat gives us all something to look forward to.

As stated earlier the ‘booking a rink’ on the Clubs website will go ‘live’ tonight at 19:00. If you are not yet signed up then I urge you to do so. It’s great to see that we currently have 100 members signed up on the website.

Please remember you have to book a rink in order to play. DO NOT TURN UP AT THE CLUB WITHOUT A BOOKING as you will be refused entry. There are NO SPECTATORS OR VISITORS ALLOWED.

Also note that the CLUB IS NOT OPEN – we are only allowed to open the greens for bowling. Can’t stress this enough that we have to stick to the rules and guidelines that were issued by Bowls Scotland so let’s make sure we all do.

So finger on the trigger for 19:00 tonight and I’ll see the first players at 10:00 on Friday.