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WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL SITE FOR

PEACEHAVEN and TELSCOMBE

BOWLS CLUB

LOCATED AT PIDDINGHOE SPORTS PARK, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 8RJ.

TEL. 07767 755 797 (Emergency Seasonal use only) Live links are underlined in blue.

Last update on Friday 31^st May 2019 at 08.00 hrs. See below re Phil
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With considerable personal sadness and deepest sympathy I must announce the news none of us wanted to hear.
On Saturday the 18^th May we lost a great stalwart and champion of our Club.

Phil Armstrong

lost his battle with cancer and passed quietly away.
Many of you will know the huge admiration I had for Phil.
Despite many physical disadvantages he used his persuasive and technical abilities to advance the reputation and facilities of our Club
to the point that we are now among the best equipped and widely reputed bowls clubs in Sussex, if not the whole of Engand.
I could list his achievements on our behalf here but will leave the rest of this website to testify to his long and difficult labours.
See ClubNews among others.
I'm sure you will all join me in offering our heartfelt condolences to Margaret and her family at this very sad time.

Phil

May he rest in a richly deserved peace.

Phil's funeral will be held at the Woodvale Crematorium North Chapel on Friday the 7^th June at 10.00 a.m.
and after you will be welcome at the Peacehaven & Telscombe Bowls Club pavilion in Piddinghoe Avenue for drinks and refreshments.
No flowers please. If you wish, donations to Arthritis Research UK and Cancer UK can be sent via Coop Funeralcare.

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The 2019 season started on a beautiful warm late-April Saturday.
At least 50 of our members were there to greet and meet.
The green soon began to produce some entertaining bowling and bodes well for the months ahead.

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Pavilion, Terrace and Green, April 2019. (A composite view).

On Easter Sunday we welcomed Newick to launch the season.
They really are a very strong club.
A fantastic day, the warm sunshine and good bowling were enjoyed by all.

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THE OFFICERS FOR SEASON 2018/19 :-

CLUB PRESIDENT ALAN WALLACE 01273 583835

VICE PRESIDENT AUDREY KIRBY 01273 584143

CLUB CHAIRMAN TED GILES 01273 586217

CLUB TREASURER PAT GILES 01273 586217

ADMIN SECRETARY MIKE GOULD 01273 584011
CLUB AND LADIES CAPTAIN PAT GOULD 01273 584011

MENS CAPTAIN TERRY WHENMOUTH 01273 584019

COMPETITIONS SECRETARY MARGARET ARMSTRONG 01273 582588

MATCH SECRETARY JOHN PETERS 01273 959447

BAR MANAGER MARTIN GILL 01273 586109

SHORT MAT REP RAY BURNETT 01273 582311

CLUBMARK COORDINATOR

SOCIAL SECRETARY Various

MAINTENANCE MANAGER PETER HERMAN AND RAY HILLMAN

BOWLS SECRETARY CAROLE ALDER 01273 303165

and County/BE contact
WEB & EMAIL CONTACT: FRANK LEACH 01273 584741

Our Club was founded in 1981. Our present membership is 32 Ladies and 58 Gentlemen.
We would like our membership to be at least 100. So if you ever felt the desire to bowl or
just enjoy pleasant company in a friendly and welcoming environment please come and join us.

We need you.

Contrary to common misconception it is not expensive. See Club Facilities for prices.

We are affiliated to Sussex County Bowls and through them to Bowls England, the national governing body for our sport.

Our already superior bowling green, ably maintained by Peacehaven Town Council Greens Manager Kevin Bray, is the envy of many clubs in the County. How do Kevin and his team do it? We are most fortunate to benefit from his dedication and expertise.
The terrace, our Garden Lounge, outside our extended pavilion is complete. We hope our members and all our visitors will find it attractive, accommodating, and hospitable. This will always be our aim here at Peacehaven and Telscombe Bowls Club.

The pavilion was erected in 1986 and sports excellent facilities including a bar, fitted kitchen meeting the latest hygiene standards and comfortable changing rooms. If you're not a Club member why not come and see what we have to offer? The club is open for all our Home fixtures and you will be made most welcome. Take a look at our Fixture List. You might enjoy just sitting and watching one of our home games. If the sun is hot enjoy a cold lager or glass of wine with the bowling on the North Terrace. If its not-so-hot perhaps a cup of tea or coffee in our spacious pavilion would be more comfortable. Short Mat bowls started in November 2016. The funding to permit this was provided by

Sport England Inspired Facilities
under the Olympic 2012 Legacy.

Their award to the Club of £31,280 to fund this project was announced in April 2014.
With contributions from Lewes District Council, our own Peacehaven and Telscombe Town Councils,
the House Project and the Bruce Wake Charitable Trust we have completed our expanded facility.
We are also very grateful for an interest free loan, now repaid, from Bowls England which has financed the North Terrace.
We are very fortunate.
We have also benefited from the financial help of Sport England and the House Project Centre.
Their combined grants totaling some £15,700 have enabled us to provide wheelchairs and bowling arms
and other vital equipment to enable disabled members to get on the bowling green to participate fully in their chosen sport.
So now there can be no reason for you NOT to enjoy bowls on one of the best greens in the County.
Recently grants of £7,000 and £5,000 from the House Project Centre and the Big Lottery Fund respectively will enable us
to complete our in-house facilities for the disabled and wheelchair users.

We are constantly seeking new members, from all sections of the community.

All ages and all ability levels will be made most welcome.

You might be a Champion just waiting to be discovered.

In the Summer months, late April thru September, we have an excellent development program run by

Margaret Armstrong and Audrey Kirby on Monday afternoons on the green.

In Winter, from October thru April, several members are on hand on most Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 1.00 pm till 4.30 pm.

waiting to introduce you to the increasingly popular indoor version, Short Mat bowls.

Why not come and try your hand? You might enjoy it and you might be good. Just turn up. We'll do the rest.

If you want to guarantee someone will be there drop a quick email to the club secretary listed above.

Our club coaches will be happy to instruct you in the basics of the sport or advise on how to improve your game.

Just come in and say Hello!

If you don't try you will never know.

Bowling is as much a social activity as a sporting one and to enforce this aspect there are several social functions arranged every year,

from coffee mornings to quiz’s, from bingo to fish and chip suppers, barbecues to candlelit bowling.

During the closed season our Social Team of Martin Gill and helpers organize various events

including Club social evenings on Wednesdays, 7.00 pm, which prove quite popular and raise much needed revenue for the Club.

The more who attend the more successful the venture.
Cards, darts, dominoes, etc., you name it.
And all with your favourite tipple. Tea, beer, wine, coffee, whatever.

If you are at all interested in taking part in the sport of bowls please
contact any member of the club whose names and numbers appear above.

TOURING TEAMS from all over the country visit us during the summer. We welcome them most warmly and can help arrange accommodation in Brighton, just 8 miles west and/or Eastbourne, just 14 miles east, where the Langham Hotel offers bowlers unrivaled service and superb cuisine. It’s a great day out on the Sunny South Coast. PEACEHAVEN is exactly where the Greenwich Meridian intersects the coastline so its not hard to find us. If you’re in the western hemisphere and on the UK mainland, drive south to the sea and turn left. If in the eastern hemisphere do the same but turn right. And make sure you're on the A259.

Our Fixtures Secretary John Peters will be very pleased to hear from anyone thinking of touring beautiful East Sussex in 2020 and later. We have excellent parking facilities for cars and coaches. East Sussex is home to many world famous sites such as the Seven Sisters white cliffs, Cuckmere Haven and the Fishermens' Cottages of Atonement fame and featured on almost every calendar with photos of Beautiful Britain, the fantastic Brighton Pavilion and lovely old villages such as Alfriston where King Alfred reputedly burned the cakes, Rottingdean, home for years to Rudyard Kipling, and Batemans, nestling in the South Downs at Burwash Common where he lived out the rest of his days. The County remains one of the few areas where you can find old country pubs which welcome you with a bygone warmth and hospitality. Most sell Harveys Sussex Bitter, a brew of International fame and alone worth traveling many miles for. Sounds like Heaven? Try it. You'll think you are in Paradise. (Which can be found just down the road at Newhaven. Our local Garden Centre, coaches and children welcome and worth a visit on its own). If you prefer to walk when your partner is bowling on our green just walk out of the green and turn north. In two minutes you will be in the South Downs National Park, an area of outstanding natural beauty. What more could you ask for on a warm sunny South Coast day in East Sussex?

If you are organizing a tour and can think of a good reason for not visiting Peacehaven I would like to know what it is
( leachf@cldmail.co.uk ).

Let us help you to enjoy a memorable tour.

On the bowling side we have a team in the Brighton and Hove District League, (men only), in Division 2 so there is plenty of opportunity for competitive bowling.From May this year we have a very popular Club Monday Evening League. For up-to-date information on these leagues please see our Competitions page.

For winter bowling we are fortunate to be within a couple of miles of Denton Island Indoor Bowling Club where the facilities are unrivaled. For links to many other local Clubs go to our Meet the Neighbours page. For those who enjoy the increasingly popular Short Mat bowling we now have our own fully operational facility which is rapidly gaining in popularity to the extent we have had to double the number of weekly sessions. We would be happy to double them again if the interest level continues to increase. It's a warm and friendly environment and provides entertainment and relaxed exercise throughout the winter months. Why not join in? You will be made very welcome.

Suggestions to improve or add to this site will be appreciated.

Contact Frank Leach ( leachf@cldmail.co.uk 01273-584741) for further information of any kind.