Weekend Friendlies 2025:

Sat 18th April.

Opening game of the season played at WBC.

President Select v Captains Team

Weekend Friendlies 2025:    

To Follow    

Winter 2025:

WBC Bingo Nights in March & April 2025

After bingo on Saturday 15th February, a further four bingo nights this winter close season are currently earmarked as follows:- 

 Sat 1st March,  Sat 22nd March,  Sat 5th April, Sat 12th April 

Staffing Clubhouse Bar - 2025 Season

We urgently need some more members to step up and join the bar team.

To put things in perspective, as I write this, we have 110 bar shifts needing to be filled and that’s having deducted shifts for which team members have already volunteered.

If we only allocate one person to every home match, on the basis that there will normally be at least one bar team member playing who can help out during the busy half hour when the match finishes, that reduces the required shifts to 92.

As things stand at the moment, we have 14 active members on the bar team so 7 if we allocate two members per shift as we would normally do, especially for evening matches. Many team members have already volunteered for some shifts so you will realise that covering the remaining shifts will be almost impossible.

So our options are pretty limited but, as I see it, they are:

1. Recruit more members to join the bar team

2. Employ outside staff for those weekends when we can’t find staff. If we manage to staff 50% of our weekend commitments ourselves, that would leave us having to pay c£1500 minimum to employ staff for the other 50%, which would have to be covered by an increase in subscription. This is not an option that any member would want.

Members need to understand that if we can’t staff the bar for any particular shift, then it simply won’t open. As the bar is a substantial part of our revenue, any closure would have a significant impact on our income and the reduction would have to be covered by increased subscription. It would also be very embarrassing for the club if we were unable to open the bar for a visit from another club.

So basically, it's up to all members to ask themselves if they can help by joining the bar team. Current team members will, I know, cover as many shifts as they can, but there’s a limit to what we are able to commit. Please get in touch with me by phone or by email at warebowlsmatch24@gmail.com if you can commit some time to helping your club by joining the bar team. We’re just about to take delivery of a new touch screen till in the first week of March which will make things even more straightforward, so it's an ideal time to get involved. Full training will be given, not just for the new till, on which we will all need training, but for all aspects of running our bar. The more people we have, the less will be the necessary commitment.

I know bar work doesn’t suit everyone, but with less than 25% of our members taking an active part in the actual running of the club, there must surely be members in the other 75% who could help to run our club efficiently and economically.

David Thomson