Returning to Indoor Bowls
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 10:47 am
Good morning All,
I hope you are managing to stay well and keep active despite these extraordinary times we are all currently living through.
I have had a couple of conversations with the EIBA over the past month regarding plans for how and when we might be given the green light to re-open the club.
Their reading of the situation is that July / August (IF restrictions continue to be eased gradually AND there are no major spikes in infection), may be a realistic goal.
So far here down in Poole, we have purchased:
- Reception sneeze-screen
- Visors & face masks for staff
- Gloves for staff
- Hand sanitiser pump pots for each rink x 2 (one each end)
- Disposable wipes +++
- Temperature checker (infra-red) - gives a reading within 1-2secs
- Surface cleaner +++
We have drawn up some new rules for when we do re-open and shared these with the EIBA.
Sounds as if these guidelines are very much in step with the guidance they will be issuing when clubs like indoor bowls clubs are permitted to re-open.
We hope to open the club initially for just one session per day, limiting the number of rinks available and therefore the number of bowlers in the club at any one time.
If this goes well, then we will look to open the club for longer each day.
Gradual steps, lots of extra cleaning of surfaces etc and hopefully we will gain the confidence of our members to return.
Good luck with your plans to re-open and I look forward to the day when we can all meet up again "face to face".
Regards
Ken
Ken Joy
Club Manager, Dolphin Indoor Bowls Club, 52 Waterloo Road, Poole, Dorset BH17 7LG
[email protected]
Tel: 01202 675551
Mob: 07845 178734
I hope you are managing to stay well and keep active despite these extraordinary times we are all currently living through.
I have had a couple of conversations with the EIBA over the past month regarding plans for how and when we might be given the green light to re-open the club.
Their reading of the situation is that July / August (IF restrictions continue to be eased gradually AND there are no major spikes in infection), may be a realistic goal.
So far here down in Poole, we have purchased:
- Reception sneeze-screen
- Visors & face masks for staff
- Gloves for staff
- Hand sanitiser pump pots for each rink x 2 (one each end)
- Disposable wipes +++
- Temperature checker (infra-red) - gives a reading within 1-2secs
- Surface cleaner +++
We have drawn up some new rules for when we do re-open and shared these with the EIBA.
Sounds as if these guidelines are very much in step with the guidance they will be issuing when clubs like indoor bowls clubs are permitted to re-open.
We hope to open the club initially for just one session per day, limiting the number of rinks available and therefore the number of bowlers in the club at any one time.
If this goes well, then we will look to open the club for longer each day.
Gradual steps, lots of extra cleaning of surfaces etc and hopefully we will gain the confidence of our members to return.
Good luck with your plans to re-open and I look forward to the day when we can all meet up again "face to face".
Regards
Ken
Ken Joy
Club Manager, Dolphin Indoor Bowls Club, 52 Waterloo Road, Poole, Dorset BH17 7LG
[email protected]
Tel: 01202 675551
Mob: 07845 178734