Development with Lesley, Wade and Micheal
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Post Covid-19 Return to Play By Wade Mutzelburg
As we make our way back into regular competitions, State Championships and Pennant playoffs etc. It is timely to keep abreast of recent changes to competition and support available. With the recent announcement of the Club Pine Rivers BPL event in November being postponed to next year. It means that the BPL Cup National Finals will shift from the Club Pine Rivers BPL event to the Moama BPL event. The 16 national finalists from this year now earning their trips to compete in the BPL Cup National Finals during BPL12 at Moama from February 23-26, 2021. With the movement of the National Finals this allows Bowls Australia to extend the 2020 BPL Cup season dates as such: • Preliminary Rounds – to be completed by early December (6/12/20) • Regional Finals – to be held between early December (5/12/20) and completed by early Jan (10/1/21) • State/Territory Finals – to be completed by 24th Jan (24/1/21) At present we have completed 49 events with another 48 events confirmed throughout the country and 486 entries to date. At present we are still looking for BPL Cup Host venues for Preliminary
RBM - NORTH QLD
Lesley Bates 0429 213 207 lbates@bowls.com.au
round. If your club would be interested in host an event please get in touch with your local RBM to register your interest and plan for the event. Recently the successful recipients were released for the Queensland Governments COVID SAFE Active Clubs Kickstart program. The program supports the sport and active recreation community to restart activities as COVID-19 restrictions ease. The program is part of the Sport and Recreation COVID SAFE Restart Plan. COVID SAFE Active Clubs Kickstart provides funding of $2,000 to assist not-for-profit local and regional sport and active recreation organisations re-establish their operations in a COVID-safe environment. Funding is available for equipment, training and operational expenses. Over 3800 sport and active recreation organisations have received $7.6 million in funding to support their activities and encourage Queenslanders to return to play. In Queensland our bowls clubs were successful in obtaining a total of $446,000 in funding being 223 grants for 207 individual bowls clubs. This means that just over 67% of our 307 Bowls Clubs were successful and received this grant. Well done and keep up the good work. As always if you have any questions regarding BPL Cup or grants feel free to get in touch with your local RBM.
RBM - CENTRAL QLD
Wade Mutzelburg 0429 442 818 wmutzelburg@bowls.com.au
RBM - SOUTH EAST QLD
Micheal Sorrensen 0447 507 040 msorrensen@bowls.com.au October 2020 queensland bowler 21
