Tetbury Bowls Club was formed on 2 December 1908 and commenced playing as a bowls club in May 1910. The first match was away to Cirencester and in the first season had 45 playing members.
The Club is affiliated with the Gloucestershire Bowling Association and also Bowls England.
In 1953 the Club moved to its present location and originally had 4 rinks. In later expanded to the current 6 rinks.
The season runs from April through to September and competes in ladies and mens Gloucestershite leagues. We also play inter-club senior and friendly matches with teams around the county.
There are many club competitions that culminate in a dinner and prizegiving during October.
During the off season we hold social functions to help with fundrasing and keeping in touch with the members.
At the end of the 2018 season plans were formalised and a management plan agreed upon. This was in two parts.
"Upgrade the facilties" and "Focus on the People".
Upgrade the facilities. The Club felt that not only did the facilities need upgarding but that it was essential to improve accessibility. We employed a local architect who produced plans to include new changing rooms, an extended Clubroom and an accessible toilet for members and visiors.
Planning permission was gained in August 2019 and the membership demolished the old changing rooms and built the new, now completed, changing rooms. Due to the very high costs of having a contractor undertake the project (£60,834) the membership undertook the majority of the works. Some specialist trades were used and the project was completed for £34,000.
The cost of phase 1 was met from fundraising and interest free loans from the membership.
Phase 2 is already underway and the membership have completed the groundworks for the Clubroom extension.
Focus on the People.
A Development Committee was formed to progress this part of our future. The Sport England Club Matters tools were used to review and analyse how the club operates and help to critically assess how we perform in the areas of Club People, Club Marketing, Club Finance and Club Management.
We also created Mission and Vision statements that can be viewed at www.tetburybowlsclub.co.uk
This season we have raised over £1000 towards the starting up of a Junior Bowls Section and we have set a target of attracting upto 16 juniors= members.
