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February 2024 Open Weekend

2024/25 Winter Season, details HERE. 

August, 2024

The Club's new winter season features plenty of league action, three Cygnets (beginners) sessions and plenty of open play opportunities.


New for this coming season, the Club will open at 8.30am every weekday and the first hour of the day is an open play session designed for bowling practice. 


In addition,  the Club will be open Saturday and Sunday to include more opportunities for members still at work, to get some bowling action. 


Download your own copy of the winter programme.

New Club Manager Jojohn Collins

Meet our Club Manager 


Jojohn (JJ) Collins is the East Dorset Indoor Bowls Club's first Club Manager. He is responsible for managing our team of paid and volunteer staff and managing a  daunting variety of administrative and development tasks.

He is also responsible for day-to-day building care and maintenance, and most of the league, competition and membership administration is under his purview. JJ has the skills to take all this on.


A public school and university education provides the foundation, 16-years of active service as an Army Officer in the Royal Tank Regiment adds team management and leadership skills, as do managerial positions in operations at Amazon, and Health and Safety within the construction sector. A keen sports player, JJ often to be seen on the rinks honing his bowling skills.

Covid ventilation system

Fresh air ventilation

August, 2022

East Dorset IBC is justifiably proud of its fresh air  ventilation installation, amongst the best of any bowls club on the south coast. It is cleaned and recertified regularly by our maintenance company. 

Online bowling system updated!

Dateline   July 31st, 2022

Two new features have been added to the Club's online bowling software top-level menu: Members list and Club info.


Now, Members looking for new team members or competition opponents can get their phone and email details by logging on. Also, Club infor now contains documents such as all the latest newsletters. If you are not familiar with the system, check out: How to use the Bowlr system.

EDIBC appears on TV

Dateline September 1st, 2022

Andy Moon, Sports Reporter for BBC South Today, was interested in how indoor clubs were recovering from the problems of lockdown, one of the places he visited was East Dorset Indoor Bowls Club.