Sport
24 December, 2024
Sunday barefoot bowls
The Beachmere Bowls Club has started a barefoot bowls program every Sunday to attract more members to the club and give locals something to do.
Recently elected club president, James Anderson, said it started when he put a Facebook post up on a community notice-board, to see who might be interested in barefoot bowls.
“We received 100 replies over the space of a week, and we’ve had five new members join the club as a result of that,” he said.
“I introduced that as a way to get more members because we were getting a bit light on, and a few of the locals wanted something to do on a Sunday.
“There’s really nothing to do on a Sunday in Beachmere.”
James added that the program has brought people from all walks of life into the bowls club.
“We are getting a mixture of older people and younger families with kids to teenagers,” he said.
“The other day we had a family with a teenage boy and girl, and we also saw kids aged two to five-years-old.”
“We’ve got special rubber bowls which have got the same effect as a regular bowl but is for kids.”
He said that anyone is welcome to play down at the club, and the program is cheap.
“It’s not expensive, we charge $15 a head for adults and we don’t charge the kids,” James said.
The barefoot bowls program was started around eight weeks ago, and is held every Sunday from 9.30am.
Although the program has wrapped up for the year, the club will reopen after their Christmas break on January 9.
