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Save Watford Bowls Club - a vital community hub

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Pat Shutler
8 years ago

The council are clearly not following government guidelines regarding keeping Fit and active and thus in the long term saving the BHS and Government a serious amount of money

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Barry Davies
8 years ago

I thought the thinking was to encourage sports and it helps to keep you active

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Tina Bloom
8 years ago

If the club closes, it would ruin so many people’s lives. It keeps us fit and healthy. Please, please think twice before you make a terrible mistake.

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Colin Wicks
8 years ago

A vital local amenity

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Colin Dodd
8 years ago

A bowls club is not just a giant shed housing a bowling green, but a collection of bowls players who are friends and have an affinity with one another, almost like a family. To separate them and force them to join another club will result in a great number of bowlers giving up the sport that they love. This application from the council is shameful.

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John Bates
8 years ago

Save the club

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Brian Taylor
8 years ago

The Council should be supporting active involvement in sport for the health of the nation not closing facilities.

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Shirley Seager
8 years ago

WIBC is a hive of activity for around 300 mostly elderly members plus the many hundreds of visitor players. The club provides its members with invaluable physical activity and social interaction. why on earth would anyone think that taking away this facility is a good idea ???

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Ian Shutler
8 years ago

The council have been extremely difficult and I feel completely out of order on this matter and avoided all of the benefits that The club makes to its members and as a result costs the Council nothing

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Yvonne larkins
8 years ago

Its a vital part of the community.

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Michael Ironmonger
8 years ago

I suffer from Parkinsons, getting to bowl helps me to overcome my worries and meet friends. I cannot get to Herts BC, so no Woodside, no bowls.

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colin hamlet
8 years ago

This Bowls Club is Part of Watford,many people use it's facility's,we have to save it for our Children's future use ".SAVE OUR CLUB"

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Robert William Anderson
8 years ago

Save this club ,stand up to be counted.

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Peter Humphrey
8 years ago

To destroy this community based club would be a travesty. Another case of not looking after the older generation!

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MARTIN BRACKLEY
8 years ago

this club needs to stay. Great club supported by great people

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Anna Ransom
8 years ago

This is a terrible situation to put the older generation in...they have very little for pleasure in the local area whereas the youths have a wide range of activities. Most parents can drive their children to a variety of activities if required. The bowls club is the only a social hub for the older generation who don't have the option or ability to travel further a field. Have a heart....

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Marjorie Luker
8 years ago

We need our Bowls club so don't close it down.

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Sheena
8 years ago

We need to stop cutting things for our vulnerable. A nation is judged by how it treats it most vulnerable

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Hazel Croft
8 years ago

Totally obscene idea, to take away some peoples only social and leisure connection is just disgusting and morally criminal.

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John Godman
8 years ago

Disgusting behaviour