(2 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL TWO WOOD
1st Round
Pat Hough (Parsloes) 17 C Carne (Herts) 11
Janet Wright (Bedfs A) 8 Liz Tunn (Colchester West End) 17
2nd Round
Brenda Barlow (Lincs B) 15 Pat Hough 12
Kath Baxter (Cumbria B) 15 Liz Tunn 11
(3 Aug 2011)
CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS SEMI-FINALISTS
A Area. Frances Peach (Goodmayes)
B Area.
C Area. Yvonne Foley (Colchester West End)
D Area. Maureen Norgate (Wanstead Central)
Draw. CvA. DvB

(3 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL PAIRS
Essex A Laura Foster, Sara Foster, Saffron Walden
Essex B Lesley Cowell, Maureen Norgate, Wanstead Central
Preliminary Round
Wanstead Central 20 C Brown (Kings Langley, Hertfordshire) 17
1st Round
Denise Moore, Kitty Mulholland (Southport) 9 Saffron Walden 24
Tina Broderick, Alison Dring (Swanspool) 23 Wanstead Central 14
2nd Round
Saffron Walden 16 Audrey Bowron, Anne Camp, (Shildon), Durham 17

(4 Aug 2011)
SECRETARIES & TREASURERS SINGLES SEMI-FINALISTS
A & D Area.
B & C Area. Pat Cooper (Victoria) v Sheila Pearce (Wickford)

(5 Aug 2011)
AMY ROSE BOWL
Kelly King, Stacey Fryer, Gan Holmes, Becky Smith
Hayley Kenny, Grace Hopkins, Emma Chapman, Laura Foster
Reserves: Kirsty March, Leanne Granger
Preliminary Round
Essex 62 Cumbria 22
1st Round
Devon 34 Essex 31

(6 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL OVER 55 PAIRS
1st Round
Myra Smith, Beryl Morris (ClockHouse) 28 M Lewis (Oxford City & County) 23
2nd Round
Clockhouse 19 B Bishop (Daventry Town) 18
Quarter-Finals:
J Mitchell (Leighton Buzzard) 23 Clockhouse 17

(7 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL TRIPLES
Essex A.  Doreen Cottee, Margaret Lawrence, Judy Bohannon, Tiptree Jobserve
Essex B.  Emma Chapman, Ann Score, Elaine Score, United Services
Preliminary Round
Tiptree Jobserve 19 L Holliday (Wokingham, Berks) 13
1st round
Worcs B 17 Tiptree Jobserve 13
Norfolk B 7 United Services 26
2nd Round
Northants A 18 United Services 14

(10 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL JUNIOR SINGLES
Preliminary Round
A Spry (Brondesbury BC, Middx) 21 Emma Chapman (United Service) 8
Hayley Kenny (Ilford) 21 K Green (Rover Cowley, Oxon) 7
1st Round
K Richards (Bournville BC, Warks) 21 Hayley Kenny 19

(10 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS
1st Round
Jo Skelton (Stute BC, Derbyshire) 21 Elaine Score (United Services) 18

(12 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL SINGLES
Essex A Ruth Howes, Harlow
Essex B Debbie Kenny, Wanstead Central
Preliminary Round
Ruth Howes 21 C Wharton (Silloth BC, Cumbria) 10
1st Round
J Christie (St Neots, Cambs) 21 Ruth Howes 18
A James (Downham Market Conservative, Norfolk) 21 Debbie Kenny 20

(13 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL JUNIOR PAIRS
Preliminary Round
A Stanton (Worcs) 22 Kelly King, Emma Chapman (United Services) 15

(13 Aug 2011)
NATIONAL OVER 55 SINGLES
J Edson (Boultham Park, Lincs) 21 Pat Whiteman (Liberty of Havering) 14

(27 Aug 2011)
TOP CLUB SEMI FINALISTS
A Area. Clockhouse
B Area. Runwell Hospital
C Area. Mersea Island
D Area. Woodford
Draw. DvC. BvA

(27 Aug 2011)
ALBERT CRABB SEMI FINALISTS
A Area. Drums
B Area.
C Area. Dovercourt
D Area.
Draw. CvA. DvB

(31 Aug 2011)
PRESIDENTS'S CHARITY
President Eileen Miller has received a letter from the Ellen Macarther Trust thanking the President and all ladies of the ECWBA for the
generous donation of £1468.50 which will enable three young people to sail and gain confidence

(1 Sep 2011)
ECWBA v ECBA
The venue for the match ECWBA v ECBA scheduled for Clockhouse BC on Wednesday 21 September will now be staged at Falcon BC
(2 Sep 2011)
INTER GROUP
Wednesday 17 August
A Area 64 D Area 78
B Area 112 C Area 91
Tuesday 23 August
C Area 88 D Area 88
B Area v A Area
Thursday 1 September
C Area 93 A Area 89
D Area v B Area

(3 Sep 2011)
UNFINISHED FINALS
Friday 26 August 2011
Champion of Champion Singles
Semi Final
Yvonne Foley (Colchester West End) 21 Francis Peach (Goodmayes) 12
Final
Foley 21 Maureen Norgate (Wanstead Central) 12
No other results have been notified

(3 Sep 2011)
COUNTY TOP CLUB
Semi Finals
A Area Clockhouse beat B Area Runwell Hospital
C Area Mersea Island v D Area Woodford
Final at Great Baddow Monday 12 September - 1.30

(4 Sep 2011)
COUNTY TOUR 2012
If anyone is interested in coming on the County tour to Suffolk next year they can download the application form and send the completed form to Eileen Harrold. 
Application form

(4 Sep 2011)
TOP CLUB & ALBERT CRABB - CHANGE OF VENUES
The final of the Top Club and the Semi-final and Final of the Albert Crabb competitions will now take place at Great Baddow BC and not at Clockhouse.  Unfortunately Clockhouse green has deteriorated further and is not a suitable surface to play these finals on.
Monday 12 September Top Club Final Mersea Island v Clockhouse 1.30pm
Wednesday 14 September Semi-Final Albert Crabb Dovercourt v Drums and Chelmsford v Fairways 9.30am, 1.30pm Final.
Refreshments will be available on both days

(10 Sep 2011)
UNFINISHED FINALS
Friday 26 August at Falcon BC
Unbadged Singles
Semi-final:
Sheila Raisborough (Falcon) 21 Sheila Endean (Haynes Park) 19
Jan Collins (Rochford) 8 Jenny Young (Mersea Island) 21
Final: Sheila Raisborough 10 Jenny Young 21
Champion of Champions
Semi-final:
Yvonne Foley (Colchester West End) 21 Frances Peach (Goodmayes) 12
Maureen Norgate (Wanstead Central) 21 Carol Strong (United Services) 20
Final: Yvonnne Foley 21 Maureen Norgate 11
Secretary & Treasurers
Semi-final:
Sue Jones (Chelmsford) 21 Michelle Squires (Thurrock) 16
Sheila Pearce (Wickford) 21 Pat Cooper (Victoria) 8
Final: Sue Jones 8 Sheila Pearce 21
Benevolent Triples
Semi-final:
Jean Durrant, Hilary Graseman, Maureen Weedon (Victoria) 10
Pat Wilson, Jadwiga Twardowska, Margaret Dainton (Buckhurst Hill) 11
Pat Page, June Linehan, Shirley Bell (Rainham) 17
Barbara Dale, Val Green, Pam Bloom (Dovercourt) 16
Final: Buckhurst Hill 10 Rainham 18

(13 Sep 2011)
COUNTY TOP CLUB
Clockhouse beat Mersea Island.
Singles Clockhouse 21 Mersea Island 12
Pairs Clockhouse 17 Mersea Island 17
Triples Clockhouse 20 Mersea Island 7
Fours Clockhouse 20 Mersea Island 11

(15 Sep 2011)
ALBERT CRABB FINALS
Semi-finals:
Chelmsford 34  Fairways 36
Dovercourt 51   Drums 42
Final:
Fairways 38  Dovercourt 30

(21 Sep 2011)
ECWBA v ECBA
The annual battle contest match between the Ladies and Men ended in victory for the Men to regain possession of the coveted urn!

(4 Oct 2011)
COUNCIL MEETING
Notes on the Council Meeting held at Great Baddow on Tuesday 4 October 2011

(9 Oct 2011)
UNBADGED POINTS 2011
The updated Unbadged Points for 2011, by Areas, can be viewed on the link below
Unbadged Points

(15 Nov 2011)
DOROTHY MASSEY RIP
The death is announced of Dorrothy Massey (91). Dorothy was County President in 1982, The Requium Mass Funeral will take place on Monday 21 November at Sacred Heart and St Francis, 114 Connaught Avenue, Frinton on Sea, CO13 9AD, at 1030 followed by committal at Weeley Crematorium, Colchester Road, Weeley, CO16 9JP

(16 Nov 2011)
ECWBA AGM
Notes on the AGM of the ECWBA held on Tuesday 15th November 2011.
PRESIDENT'S OPENING REMARKS:  Eileen welcomed everyone to the meeting and commented on how quickly the year had gone by.
A minute silence was observed for the following ladies who had recently passed away:  Hilda Aufflick (Witham - 104years old), Dorothy Massey - Past President ECWBA 1982 (Frinton) Dorothy's funeral will be held on Monday 21st November at the Catholic Church in Connaught Avenue, Frinton at 10.30am.
APOLOGIES:  Betty Findlay, Pam Foley, Ford Sports Basildon, The Ilford Club, Cranbrook Park, Barking Borough, Springhouse, Castle Point, Thorpe-le-Soken, Stock & Buttsbury, Prittlewell Ladies, Southend, North Weald, Central Essex, Woodford, Shoebury Park, Griffin, RHP. Chadwell St Mary, Grays Town, Wanstead Central, Drums, Clements Wood, Elm Park, St. Chads, Halex.
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING:  Agreed and signed: Proposed Alma Willox, Seconded Kim Wiggins.
MATTERS ARISING:  Although the Secretaries and Treasurers competition has been opened up to include more Female Officers the response has been disappointing.  This competition will have to be run as this year in two sections with Areas A and D, B and C being drawn together.  The final two in each section will form the semi-finals.
Just to confirm that the Benevolent Triples will be 3 games of 8 ends followed by a semi-final of 8 ends.  When the area final is played on the same day this will be 10 ends, but if it is played at a later date it will be 15 ends.  The County semi-final and final will both be 15 ends.
Result of the voting for the new uniform for ECWBA is currently being collated and will be discussed at the next Executive Meeting.
CORRESPONDENCE:  Thank you letters received from Rosemary Ellman-Brown JVP Bowls England and Maureen Pond President Falcon BC, giving their thanks for our hospitality at the County Luncheon and for their gifts and flowers.
The EBYDS County School of Excellence Event 2012 will be hosted by the Jacks Centre, Latchingdon on Sunday 15th January 2012 commencing at 11am.  The event is open to girls and boys between the ages of 8 and 18.  Please bring this to the attention of anyone who may be interested.  Notification has been sent out to all indoor bowling clubs.  Entries have to be in by 30th November 2011.
SECRETARY'S REPORT:
Membership is 3294 not 3280 as we had 14 late affiliations which had not been included in my initial numbers.
Report as circulated.  Adoption of report:  Proposed Pam Bowden, Seconded Anne Beale.
TREASURER'S REPORT:
Good afternoon Ladies.
You should all have copies of the Receipts and Payments Account but there are a few available at the back of the hall for anyone who needs one.
Everybody looks at the bottom line figure first, and I guess very few of you will be surprised to learn that we made a loss this year of £2042.78 - the first loss I have had to report since taking office as your Treasurer.    
I will go through the significant difference between last year and this, working down the accounts and commenting on both income and expenditure together.
For the first seven items, before "Sales" and "Purchases", the notable differences are:
- under "Receipts", there was a one-off donation of £1597 from the Essex Bowls Council, which disbanded during the year. The Executive has agreed that this money should be earmarked to subsidise the move from the old to the new county uniform.
- under "Payments", printing, stationery and postage were up by nearly £500, in part due to the cost of mailing out the unification documents and in part due to the increasing cost of stamps and ink.
"Sales" and "Purchases" were much in line with expectations.
The Tour Account suffered a loss of just under £250 mainly because the price charged for the coach trip day out was based on more people supporting the day than actually did. Nevertheless, a healthy balance of £671.16 remains for the Tour Account. 
No fund-raising was done for the Under 31s this year, but there is a balance on their fund of £587.50.
The luncheon figures nearly doubled on both sides of the accounts as the quirks of having a financial year ending on September 30th, and the luncheon in October, mean that the majority of the money for both the 2010 and the 2011 luncheons were included in this year's figures. Also the deposit for the 2012 luncheon was paid two years in advance in order to ensure we got the date we really wanted. So, although it looks as though there was a loss on the luncheon, this is not so. Payment for some of the tickets for the 2011 luncheon will show in the next set of accounts together with the wonderful profit on the raffle of over £500, for which thanks are due to the ladies of Clockhouse who organised and ran the raffle last month.
For "Competitions and Matches", there was a net deficit of just over £4000. We took in an extra £2691 because there were more Johns matches than last year and also we increased the match fee for Inter-group matches to bring it into line with the fees for county friendly matches. Against this increase in income, we had significant increases in expenditure:
- the item, "Competition Expenses", totalling £1450 ,was the new allowance, agreed at last year's AGM, given to our President and Secretary for supporting the finalists at Leamington.
- Competition travel was up by over £400. This was partly because the previous year there were two less people claiming travelling expenses as I drove the President to most of the events she attended, and Eileen Harrold had two hats as JVP and as "B" Area Secretary.
- Leamington finalists' expenses were up by £1540, as we decided to give our Essex Finalists good allowances for Leamington rather than any prize money. The saving on prize money will not show until next year's accounts as prize money is paid out in October.
- Johns and Walker Cup expenses were significantly up resulting in a net loss of about £2700. We gave our John's team £50 each expenses for Leamington, costing £1450, and we had coaches for all three Johns and both Walker Cup matches, costing a total of £2350.
I re-iterate what I have said in previous meetings. I feel that the costs of success in the Johns and/or the Walker Cup should reasonably be taken from our reserves. Had it not been for this success, we would have made a small profit for the year, due in part to the Essex Bowls Council's donation.
The loss sounds a warning bell. The Executive Committee will be discussing ways of reducing our costs at their next meeting and I shall have more to say about this under item 11 later today.
That's all I have to say now, but I am happy to take questions………………….
There were no questions raised.  Adoption of report:  Proposed Rosemary Ludar-Smith, Seconded Shirley Sucker.
The 200 club was then drawn:  £55.80 No. 50 Buckhurst Hill £37.20 No. 4 Iris Rawlins, £23.25 No. 63 D Harrington (Tiptree Jobserve)
BENEVOLENT REPORT:  Margaret explained the accounts that had been circulated and there were no questions raised.  Two errors in the addition were corrected.  Margaret thanked everyone who had supported the Benevolent Triples Days and the clubs who had hosted them.  She had enjoyed her years on the executive and wished everyone well in the future.
Adoption of report:  Proposed Vera Cousins,  Seconded Iris Rawlins.
A presentation was made and sincere thanks given to Margaret for all the years she has been the Benevolent Secretary.
BOWLS ENGLAND REPORT:  The Bowls Development Alliance is carrying out a National Audit of Bowls Facilities.  The document has been emailed to clubs and needs to be returned by 9th December 2011.  From the results they will identify the needs for developing bowls facilities and thereby secure funding for these for a further 4 years 2013 to 2017.
There is now a Bowls England Cruise Club for anyone who may be interested.
The Bowls England Annual Conference will be held on Wednesday 4th April 2012 at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Nr. Kenilworth.  Everyone is welcome to attend.
Bowls England EGM will be held on Saturday 26th November 2011.
PROPOSITION:  Proposed by Tiptree Jobserve and Seconded by Maldon that "C Area 2 Wood Day be separated into C1 and C2" so that there is a winner from each section.  The numbers of entries for each area were given to the meeting, showing that A and D areas had vast differences in the entries for the two sections, whereas B and C were fairly even.  Maureen Newman made the point that several entrants withdrew before the day and many did not turn up on the day.  It was explained that the final decision would be made by the executive, but as the proposition came from C area the representatives from C area were asked to vote on the proposition in order to gauge the feelings of the clubs.  The proposition was NOT CARRIED.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES:
In past years, the Council has been responsible for setting fees, allowances and expenses and it is under this heading that I have historically brought to you my proposals for financial changes.
With unification, this responsibility has passed to the Executive and the Board of the Essex Bowling Association, so all I shall do today is report to you known changes.
You will all be aware that we have increased competition entry fees by 50p a head per competition. This will be offset against the increase in expenses paid to our Leamington finalists and is in line with the charges made by the men for National Competitions.
There are no proposals to increase any other charges, but I earnestly urge you all to support our fund-raising activities - 200 club, raffles and gold 21 cards, which not only boost our funds, but also offer you all the chance of winning something.
I shall be putting various proposals to our Executive which is meeting later this month and I hope that, in April, I shall be able to report several cost-cutting measures, but it would be improper for me to identify the proposals before the Executive have debated them.
If any of you have any suggestions as to where savings can be made, please let me know.
Wendy explained the known changes to the meeting and said that any further changes would be explained to the Council at the April meeting after the Executive and the Board of Essex Bowling Association had met.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS:  All Officers elected as per Agenda.  Please Add BOWLS ENGLAND DELEGATE Mrs R Howes  Proposed J. Copp Seconded I. Anderson.  Also under our new Rules the Emergency Committee is appointed by the Executive Committee when the need arises and therefore does not have to be appointed at the AGM. (Rule 7.3g)
All badges were presented and new officers welcomed and wished the best of luck.  Eileen Harrold addressed the meeting and announced that her Charity would be Help for Heroes.
ANY RELEVANT BUSINESS:
Reminder: that Jill needs the photographs of the County Winners for the 2012 handbook by the end of December.  Good quality photos may be emailed.
It is not too late to apply to come on the County Tour next year.  See Jill if you need a form.
Ann Aston wished to thank the Umpires and Markers for their hard work during the season.
Upminster BC requested confirmation of the rule regarding giving the mat away.  Explanation given that if you win the toss on the first or extra end you have the choice of giving the mat away.  At all other times the winner of the end keeps the mat and casts the jack.
The meeting closed at:  1.25pm
Thanks to the chair proposed by Pat Brown, seconded by Jan Copp
Next meeting is on Tuesday 17th April 2012.