Message from our President
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eason's greetings to all our members and their families. I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. The past 18 months have been difficult and frustrating. Hopefully 2022 will be a better year with lots of bowling, croquet, darts and social activities.
In September Brian Lucas advised the Board that he was stepping down from his role as the Appointed Director of the Governing Council (GC). Brian has served in this role for the past six years and prior to that served as President for three years, Vice President for one year and Treasurer for two years. He was awarded life membership of the Sorrento Dart Club in 1997 and of the Sorrento Bowling Club in 2013. Members may know that the role of the Appointed Director is non-operational and has specific responsibilities for strategic planning, governance, compliance, awards and grants. In this role he has helped the Club secure over $150,000 in grant funding in addition to the over $300,000 associated with the new synthetic green CSRFF grant. Brian said that he has found his roles with the Club both rewarding and challenging. He said that he gained great satisfaction from seeing the Club’s membership double to over 800 moving from having a Second division top bowls side to gaining First Division and then Premier for both men and women, having six State bowls representatives this year; and of course since 2015 seeing the Club win three Bowls WA Metropolitan Club of the Year awards, five Clubs WA Club of the Year awards, entering the Clubs WA Hall of Fame in 2019 and also
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