Cockfield Invitation Charity Fours 2020
February 15th 2020

The Competition has been running since 1992 and once again we raised over £1000.00. This thanks to the hard work of club members and there partners, they all played their part with: setting up the hall, providing 100 lunches, baking cakes supplying trifles making teas, coffees etc throughout the day. All the club members helped make it a very successful day. Most of all thank you to all competitors, those who brought draw prizes. And special thanks to Stanningfield for supplying the flooring.

I must mention June Pettit who brings it all together, it is her baby. Well done June.

Unfortunely over the Christmas period Dot Smith sadly passed away after a short illness. Club members and Dot’s husband Dave agreed that funds raised should go to: St Nicholas Hospice as a thank you for the care and support the family received in her final days.

Maranda from the Hospice gave a short talk, her enthusiam and professionalism was evident and she highlighted, how important volunteers are without them and fund raising events such as today’s, the Hospice could not function.

Cockfield use a different format to most Bowls competitions, a match is decided on the numbers of ends a team wins and not by the number of shots. The 20 teams were put into four groups of five therefore each team gets four games. Bowling started at 9.30 and the qualifying rounds were completed by about 16.30. With the £1.00 in the bucket result, the raffle and last one standing Bingo taking place at about 15.30.

Four Groups with 5 teams in each Group. Winners going through to the Semi-Finals.

Group 1 - Winners Gt Barton

Group 2 - Winners Nayland
Nayland and Hundon A, finished with 6 points each: 16 ends for and 12 ends against. Nayland qualified after a one end shoot out.

Group 3 - Winners Ashley

Group 4 - Winners Withersfield A
Withersfield A and Elmsett finished with 6 points each: 16 ends for and 12 ends against. Withersfield A qualified after a one end shoot out.

Semi-Finals:
Mat 1 - Withersfield A v Ashley
Mat 3 - Gt Barton v Nayland

Final
Ashley v Nayland
Nayland raced into a 3 end lead, needing just one end for victory. But Ashley fought back, putting the pressure on and eventually ran out winners by 4 ends to 3 in friendly and competitve match.

Congratulations to the winners Ashley: Grace & Brian Crump, Marion Hayde and Dibs Rogers.
The Runners-Up Nayland : Mervin & Eileen Farthing, Dorothy Bishop and Sheila Frizzel. ~

A big thanks to those who stayed to watch the semi finals and final.

Each winning team member was presented with a £15.00 garden voucher and the runners up a bottle of wine each.

A cheque for £1082.00 will be presented to The St Nicholas Hospice appeal on the 9 March before our match with Brockley.

Winners: Ashley

Runners-Up: Nayland

Cockfield Invitation Charity Fours 2018
February 16th 2019

The Competition has been running since 1992 and this year for the first time we raised over £1000.00. This is thanks to the hard work of club members and partners, they all played their part with: setting up the hall, providing 100 lunches, baking cakes supplying trifles making teas, coffees etc throughout the day. A special thank you to non bowlers Joan Ball & Jackie Levett, they volunteered to help on the day as we were down on club members, for a number of reasons. Most of all thank you to all competitors, those who brought draw prizes. And special thanks to Stanningfield for supplying the flooring.

I must mention June Pettit who brings it all together, it is her baby. Well done June.

Sue Smith and Sally Daniels Representatives from the WISH appeal gave a short talk, and thanked everyone for their support last year when we raised £750.00 to the WISH appeal and every heart matters.

Unfortunately we had a team drop out Friday so Cockfield provided a rink which makes the £1000.00 reached even more remarkable.

Four Groups with 5 teams in each Group. Winners going through to the semi-finals.

Group 1 - Withersfield A
A very close group with three teams finishing on 6 points: Withersfield A qualified with 18 ends, Hundon A 16 ends and Ashley 15 ends.

Group 2 - Hundon B qualified with 8 points.

Group 3 - Thurston
Another close group with Thurston and Burstall both finishing with 6 points. However, Thurston qualified with 18 ends against Burstall 16 ends.

Group 4 - Nayland qualified with 8 points

Semi-Finals:
Withersfield A (4) v Hundon B (2)
Thurston (4) v Nayland (2)

Two close matches with Withersfield and Thurston reaching the magic number of 4 ends first.

The Final:
Withersfield A (4) v Thurston (2)
Another close match with Withersfield the first to 4 ends
Congratulations to Withersfield A: Lin & Tony Cook together with Lisa Edmead & Start McNeil And to the Runners-Up Thurston: Paul Leech, Sally Bolton, Maria Hagger and Peter Kingsmorth

A big thanks to those who stayed to watch the semi finals and final.

The Cockfield tournament uses a different format to most competitions, a match is decided on the number of ends won and not the number of shots, which leads to an interesting game with slightly different tactics. Each winning team member was presented with a £15.00 garden voucher and the runners up a bottle of wine each. A cheque for £1000.00 will be presented to The WISH appeal on 1st April before the Withersfield Match.

Winners: Withersfield

Runners-Up: Thurston

Cockfield Invitation Charity Fours 2018

Cockfield Carpet Bowls Club held their annual charity fours competition on Saturday 10 February.

The competition has been running since 1992 and for the second year running over £900.00 has been raised for charity. This thanks to the hard work of club members, with setting up the hall, baking cakes, supplying a good value ploughman’s lunch and providing teas, coffee etc throughout the day. We must also thank competitors for providing draw prizes and Stanningfield Carpet Bowls Club for providing the flooring.

A full house of: Four Groups with 5 teams competing, bowling started at 9.30am and continued until the final at approximately 17.30.

The four Group winners were:

Group 1 - Nayland

Group 2 - Hundon

Group 3 - Kesgrave

Group 4 - Badwell Ash

The draw for the semi-finals: Nayland 4 v Hundon 3
Kesgrave 4 v Badwell Ash 3

The Final won by Nayland 4 v Kesgrave 2

The Cockfield tournament uses a different format to most competitions, a match is decided on the number of ends won and not the number of shots. The winning four ball were presented with a £15.00 Garden Centre Voucher each and the runners-up a bottle of wine each.

We raised: £960.00 on the day and the club added £40.00.

A cheque for £750.00 will be presented to: My WISH Charity (Every Heart Matters) before the match v Hundon on the 19 March.

A second cheque for £250.00 has been made out to the: Stroke Association SAVG Second Chance

The stroke club meets every Tuesday at Gt Barton Village Hall between 10.00am and Midday. On the 20 March this cheque will be handed over when Diane will be giving a demonstration of Carpet Bowls. She will be using a trolley designed by Colin to help her get back into bowling after her stroke.

All Cockfield Carpet Bowls Club Members are welcome to attend at about 11.00am

Everyone who goes into hospital gets treated with respect and dignity but its when the patient is discharged things seem to fall apart. Stroke patients specially are left to fend for themselves.

Winners: Nayland Runners-Up: Kesgrave