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The Pavilion

The history

The club was established in 1969. Sharnbrook Playing Fields Association (SPFA) owns the land and encouraged the formation of the club. Our first season of bowls was in 1972 and the facilities changed little until 2016. Although our green is one of the best in the county, the lack of adequate facilities, changing rooms, toilets, disabled access etc. prevented us hosting the more prestigious county and national games.

In 2016 our new pavilion was completed after 5 years of constant fund-raising. Before we had our new facilities, we had to manage with the original pavilion, a dilapidated portakabin and the use of the SPFA's disabled toilet on Lodge Road. The new pavilion has made a great difference to us, as we use it for meals after matches, for meetings and social events during the winter months, and it is extensively used by community groups outside the bowls season.

Club members at the 50th celebration match Club members at the 50th celebration match

Use by Sharnbrook Bowls Club and the wider Community:

The new pavilion is a light, airy and welcoming space, is accessible for wheelchair users, and is well used throughout the year by the Bowls Club, including for meetings and social events after the bowls season has ended.

During the 'close season' for bowls, our pavilion becomes a Community Hub serving Sharnbrook and other villages in north Bedfordshire. It is well used by numerous groups for art, craft, music, creative writing, learning foreign languages, playing card clubs as well as for meetings of other sports and social groups. Hundreds of local residents benefit from this wider use.

Sharnbrook Bowls Club ensures that all aspects of the building, for example the fire alarm systems, are maintained to the required standards to enable the pavilion to be used by the wider community.

If you would like to use the pavilion, please contact our Club Secretary, Mrs Penny Mann, 01234 781660.

 

We are grateful to the following organisations for their grants which helped to finance the construction of our pavilion:

Sport England - Inspired Facilities Funding

Bedford Borough Council - Rural Grant Assistance

Wixamtree Trust

Garfield Weston Foundation

Mrs B. L. Robinson’s Charitable Trust

Harpur Trust

Sharnbrook Parish Council

 

The new pavilion The new pavilion

 

The next challenge:

Our next challenge is to raise funds for new changing rooms. We have an excellent bowling green, lovely pavilion but lack adequate changing rooms.

Please see our Changing Rooms page on this website.