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Development
Open Internationale
des Sports in Macon, France.
    
Following on an invitation from CMSB, World Bowls were delighted to be
present at an International bowling tournament held in Macon, France on
2nd/3rd July 2011.
The venue was about the size of a full size bowling green and had been
partitioned off for the other bowls sports - petanque, raffa volo and
Lyonnaise.
This is a big international tournament - players from France, Switzerland,
Croatia, Monaco, Scotland, Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, Montenegro
and Bosnia & Herzegovina particpated.
Bowls was represented by two under 25 international players from Scotland
and two from the only club in France. Over the two-day period there was
competitive bowling between the Scots and the French with quite a few
spectators watching who were keen to try which we let them do. The players
used their coaching skills to acquaint them with a game many had never
seen before. Then quite a lot of players from other sports tried and on
several occasions we had the rink full of players doing their stuff. Being
bowl related players they were surprisingly good. Many took to the game
like ducks to water and showed a surprising degree of skill within a short
period of time.
We watched most of the finals of the other sports in the afternoon and
you could not fail to be impressed with the level of skills. Some of the
players also took us under their wing to show us how to play raffa and
petanque and explain the rules.
Thanks are due to the French and Scots bowlers who spent a lot of time
showing and encouraging the spectators and other bowl players the rudiments
of lawn bowling.
The
following is an email sent to World Bowls by Andrew Newell, a London born
Jamacican, and his efforts to introduce bowls to his mother country.
Think Extreme Sports. Start maybe
with a group of heat loving Jamaicans crammed into a narrow Bobsled on
an icy track. Slide through a kaleidoscope, see the Reggae Boyz rocking
an entire nation and imagine the floating skirt tails of the Sunshine
Girls. Pass by the polo fields rich with manure and imagine a two hundred
meter sprint from the perspective of one of Usain Bolts over active muscles.
All those images we see readily. But it is a bit more difficult to picture
a Lawn Bowls Green.
A Jamaican on a Lawn Bowls Green,
is definitely akin to a Jamaican in a Bobsled. It almost never happens.
There is however one Jamaican man who has successfully become the perfect
exception to the imperfect rule.
London born Andrew Newell, the offspring of a St. Elizabethan father and
a Clarendonian Mother, is as close to Jamaican as it gets. Apart from
being well versed in Jamaican values, music, food and culture, he is an
avid supporter of Jamaica in any sporting events that happen to be broadcast
on television.
Andrew
began playing a sport called Lawn Bowls seven years ago after having seen
it on television and having watched it live in parks around London. He
was instantly interested and went to a local club and joined. He has won
a few semis and finals in regional competitions and is now inspired after
his rapid progress in the sport, to pursue the international bowls tournament.
Newell though is such a patriot, that he can not imagine playing this
sport without representing Jamaica while doing so.
Newell says that research he conducted has revealed that due to the lack
of a Jamaican governing body for the sport of lawn bowls, it is impossible
for him to represent Jamaica as a member of the World Bowls Organization.
This organization demands that there be a common interest in the sport
in Jamaica, before anything can get started. To date, Newell has not found
a Lawn Bowls Green in Jamaica, however he plans to find or create one
and create a high profile invitational competition featuring the worlds
best and raising awareness of the sport in his families homeland.
Newell will be visiting the island between the 24th of July and the 10th
of August and would like to meet anyone with an interest in assisting
him pursue his dream of placing Jamaica on yet another world stage.If
you are interested in assisting him please contact OGNR@ognr@gmail.com
Here's to the spirit of Jamaican sport and success. In a country that
does not even have one bowling alley, but ample open green land, instead
of just squatting and throwing parties, lets give Lawn Bowls a thought,
and a few actions. Who knows which latent world champions are playing
marbles in Jamaican streets, unknowingly practicing in preparation for
an opportunity to beat the world's best skippers at Lawn Bowls.
Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric
balls, called bowls, so that they stop close to a smaller normally whitebowl
called the "jack" or "kitty". Bowls, either flat- or crown-green, is usually
played outdoors, on green or synthetic surfaces. Flat-green bowls can
also be played indoors on synthetic surfaces. Both variants are collectively
known as "lawn bowls". Bowls belongs to the boules sport family, and so
is related to bocce and petanque. It is most popular in New Zealand (where
the natural playing surface is called cotula), Australia, the United Kingdom,
and in other Commonwealth Nations.
Strategic
Plan for the Development of Bowls - click here
Operational Plan for
Club Development - click here
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 Barry
Fleming - Europe
This area includes the Member National Authorities
in, Cyprus, England, France, Guernsey,
Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Jersey, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal,
Scotland, Spain and Wales.
clickhere to email Barry Fleming at barandbet@btinternet.com
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  Stephanie
Chung/Vincent Cheung - Asia
This area includes the current Member National Authorities
in Brunei,China, Hong Kong China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea,
Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Click
here to email Vincent Cheung at hklba@hklba.org
Please ensure that all communications are clearly marked 'for the
attention of Vincent Cheung'
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WORLD BOWLS
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
"BOWLS - A SPORT
FOR ALL"
Social and Friendship
Enjoyment
Sportsmanship
Competitive
Principal Guidlines
for the Development of the Sport
by National Authorities and Clubs
for use at "Workshops" conducted by the National Authorities
1.0 Public Relations - Image
1.1 Strive to become recognized and
accepted as a serious sporting body in its country
1.2 Be represented in government sporting bodies
1.3 Be represented on key world committees of the sport
1.4 Participation in international competitions and bolster national pride
1.5 Maintain a physical record of the history and tradition of the sport
1.6 Improve the "image" of the sport by marketing it as a vibrant, dynamic
and exciting leisure activity for people of all ages and socio-economic
groups
1.7 Review relations with disability groups
2.0 Communications
2.1 Maintain an Internet Website
2.2 Maintain an up-to-date data base of all members
2.3 Build a detailed and informative data base for the Website
2.4 Distribute regular e-newsletters
2.5 The National Authority to be in regular communication with its centres
and Clubs
2.6 Information sharing and dissemination
2.7 Advise centres, Clubs and members of the World Bowls Website and the
updated information thereon - www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk
3.0 Playing the Sport
3.1 "Affiliate" all persons playing
the sport - see World Bowls Website on this aspect
3.2 Regular review of competitions
3.3 Conduct post event survey of each competition
3.4 Promote training opportunities to Clubs and centres
3.5 Support and develop all levels of coaching
3.6 Undertake a world- class high performance programme for elite athletes
3.7 Participation at international competitions
3.8 Encourage visits to, and from, other
National Authorities
4.0 Financial Considerations
4.1 Attract sponsors, key funding
agencies and commercial partners
4.2 Increase the total revenue generated by the sport at all levels
4.3 Establish a position of financial stability and independence
4.4 Develop models for viable centres and clubs
5.0 Administration
5.1 Establish appropriate administrative
structures, appoint personnel and develop all levels of administration
systems
5.2 Keep committee members regularly informed of activities
5.3 Work with the management, staff and volunteers in developing their
skills and competency
6.0 Club Development
6.1 Regularly bring to the notice
of Clubs all aspects for the development of the sport at Club level with
particular emphasis on the maintaining of existing members and the recruiting
of new members, including the many examples given in the World Bowls Operational
Plan for the Development of Clubs on the World Bowls Website, such as:
6.1.1 Open day
6.1.2 Promotional activities, such as shopping mall display
6.1.3 Marketing strategies
6.1.4 Regular communication between Club and its members
6.1.5 Newsletters, or better still, e-newsletters
6.1.6 "Buddy-system" for all members
6.1.7 "Member-brings-member"
6.1.8 Social gatherings
6.1.9 Hold regular "think-tanks"
6.1.10 Create talent identification programmes
6.1.11 Create and implement youth bowls development plans and strategies
6.2 Explore the opportunities of introducing
the sport to all target markets, including to retirement villages
7.0 General
7.1 Create strategic plans for the next five years
on an on-going basis
7.2 Conduct regular "workshops" on development
7.3 Review of the World Bowls Strategic Plan for Development on the World
Bowls Website
Submitted by: The World Bowls Development
Committee January 2007
ADVANTAGES
OF "AFFILIATION"
From the various Development Conferences
conducted by World Bowls it has transpired that in most of the National
Authorities there are very many individuals who play the sport on a regular
basis but have no desire to become affiliated to a club and there are
clubs that have no interest in being affiliated to its Division and/or
the National Authority.
What are the benefits of affiliation?
1 World
Bowls in its various forms was established very many years ago to protect
and preserve the sport. Its responsibility is one of stewardship and trusteeship
on behalf of, and accountable directly and indirectly to, all those who
play the sport.
2 World
Bowls and its National Authorities, as independent bodies stand apart
from all constituencies, commercial and otherwise of the sport and adopt
policies that are in the best interests of the sport and for the enjoyment
of its participants.
3 Individuals
who play the sport are benefiting from the infrastructure and the laws
of the sport developed, improved and amended over very many years by World
Bowls and through its National Authorities.
4 World
Bowls, its National Authorities and the Clubs cement a bond between the
individual and the larger community of like-minded bowlers who recognise
the need to nurture the values of the sport and ensure that they are passed
on to future generations.
5 The
National and Divisional Authorities provide instructional materials and
supplies on all aspects of the sport without which the sport would not
exist.
6 All
bowlers benefit directly in the substantial "investment" made
in the past. The "investment" must be protected and this can
be done by becoming a member of a club and affiliated to your National
Authority and by paying the nominal fee requested.
7 Affiliation
is not something that is linked to competitiveness and every bowler has
a moral duty to support the required infrastructure of the sport, which
is a club, the County/State, then the National Authority and the international
federation, World Bowls.
8 By
supporting the infrastructure of the sport, a member will also have the
benefit of advice on playing formats, receiving umpiring advice, participate
in coaching schemes and the opportunity to visit clubs throughout the
world.
9 There
is of course the very old adage "if you play then you pay",
and in reality, the amount you pay is indeed very nominal in proportion
to the substancial benefits enjoyed.
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Roy
McCune - Middle 
Debra
Ferguson - Africa
Tony
Sherwill - Pacific