Also in this issue: Kerry Mapp, Canford School Bowls Fair wind or foul for bowls?
Bowling clubs are on a knife-edge of survival, with tales of closures and mergers all too frequent over the last decade. So, is the sport tailor-made for the Coalition’s ‘Big Society’ vision? Pg18
Welwyn with pride!
Chris Sherriff, Greenkeeper at Welwyn & District Bowls Club, and County Greens Advisor for Hertfordshire Bowls, talks about his role at the club and the initiatives he has put in place. Pg24
Helping Hands at Woodford...
In a leafy Northants village, Pitchcare members rally round to help a floundering bowls green get back to its former glory. Pg28
Winter Sports Play up Pompey
We spend a day with Phil Frost, the former man in charge at Somerset CCC and now holding the reigns at Portsmouth Football Club. Pg82
Magpies - two for sorrow?
During last winter, Greg Smith, Stadium Manager at Notts County, had to contend with a huge dump of snow and a prolonged spell of sub-zero temperatures... and a new ground sharing scheme with Nottingham RUFC. Pg86
School Report Adequate is not good enough
That is what Kerry Mapp was advised by the Headmaster when he joined the staff at Canford School in Dorset as Head of Grounds and Gardens. Pg72
The Person-al Approach...
With forty years service, Graham Person, Head Groundsman at Summer Fields School in Oxford, still has a twinkle in his eyes. Pg78
Sulekha Varma, Market Rasen Racecourse Equestrian Racing back to the top!
Emma Marley and her experienced groundscare team have performed a remarkable turnaround in fortunes at Ayr Racecourse. Pg100
Rasen to be cheerful...
As Clerk of the Course at Market Rasen, Sulekha Varma and her team of four groundstaff have won ‘Best National Hunt Track’ in the annual Neil Wyatt Awards. Pg104
Regime change at Ascot
Ascot Racecourse continues to rise to the challenges posed to its team of groundsmen, led by Clerk of the Course, Chris Stickels. Pg108
Technical Topdressing ... down to a Green and Healthy from
science? Topdressers have evolved with the latest industry trends and now offer a host of environmental and user friendly options. Pg116
Root to Tip David Robinson, General Manager from Bathgate Group discusses the key considerations for specifying both rootzone and topdressing. Pg120
Getting to the root of the For FOCs sake!
Richard Comely, Director of Product Management at Ransomes Jacobsen, looks at Frequency of Cut and its importance to the quality of cut on fine turf. Pg124
problem! Andy Turnbull, Managing Director of the Great Turf Company, discusses the benefits of undertaking a rootzone survey. Pg122
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between grandmother duties and cake making of course! This entails booking trainers, venues and dates, preparing course notes and formalising email
promotions. Nothing too taxing then?
As the round of spring training courses comes to an end, Chris is now busy preparing the autumn schedule, in
CHRIS JOHNSON
awaiting the fate of her team, as the Baggies
form dips and sways at the wrong end of the season. So, she has immersed herself in all things equestrian and equational to take her mind off proceedings. And I thought you were meant to count sheep, not horses, to get to sleep!
Company Accountant Another footie fan
SHARON TAYLOR Accounts Admin
wouldn’t argue with her, that’s for sure!
transmogrifies into the company rottweiler, hounding anyone who dares stray into 31 days territory and beyond. To see her in ‘full flow’ is a sight worth seeing. We
assembled office staff and ‘passing the time of day’, Lyn
In between making coffee for the
LYN PRICE
KIRAN CONTRACTOR Sales Administrator
Football League, where his stated aim is to beat Dan Hughes for the third year running. Nothing too childish then?
was an Indian opener in the 1960s - Kiran has now turned his attention to the Pitchcare DLF Fantasy
With the ICC Cricket World Cup secured - his grandfather Nari
STUART BURTON Web Designer
term). The results of his endeavours are usually spot on, although a recent surge in activity, did leave him a tad
tetchy after a couple of late finishes. For
‘tetchy’ read “yeah, I don’t mind”.
The ‘quiet man’ of the nerd centre, Stu likes nothing better than to be beavering away at html stuff (technical
character out of Mighty Mouse. He’s certainly our super hero.
knowledge of what goes on at the back end of a computer than most of us have about the front end, and is always helping out us technophobes! Has been given the moniker ‘Penfold’ for his likeness to the
Web Developer Dan has more
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