The weather held for our Taster Day on Saturday April 20th which was the first event of the 2024 bowling season.

Advertisement of the event was done through existing members of the club and the club website along with a few fliers in local establishments such as Tutu’s cafe. Previously, delivery of fliers in residential streets hasn’t proved to be effective in raising numbers of attendees so it was decided not to done this time.

We tried a timed booking system with hourly slots and this worked well, insuring members could sign up to help for part of the day. As in previous years attendance numbers were low, but everyone who did attend gave very positive feedback.

Through the Taster Day we picked-up six brand new bowlers who have enrolled our New Bowlers Course with the intention of ultimately joining the club and playing bowls in the future. These numbers may seem low to other bowling clubs, but are very significant to the future of our club.