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Denis Goodley
Denis Goodley is the Manager of the club and is also the Club Secretary. He is the club representative on the Norfolk County Executive Committee. Denis is also the Founder and Chairman of the Anglian Junior League.
In 2003 he was elected onto the Executive Committee of the English Indoor Bowls Association and took on the temporary role of Chief Executive of this organisation during the amalgamation with the Ladies National Governing Body.
He currently serves on the Personnel Committee and is Chairman of the Projects Committee, EIBA representative on the Bowls Alliance Projects Committee and also on the Board of Management. Denis is also Chairman of the Schools Group Working Party who have produced a Guide for Club Secretaries on how to get bowls into schools. The guide can be found on the EIBA website.
Denis was the driving force behind the creation of the Acle Indoor Club and his vision was to make the club the model for all other clubs to aspire to.
The Club Youth Policy allied with the Pathway to Excellence are the envy of many and one of his proudest moments was when the Club Under 25 Team won their first National Title, since then the club has gone from strength to strength, collecting 39 county and 4 national titles.
‘My aim is to destroy the image of bowls as an old mans sport and to show a sport that is dominated by young sportsmen and women, but is also a sport that old men can still play.
This is why we are introducing 72 children every year to this great game so that eventually we will be faced with a major problem of how we can accommodate all these young people in our present league system’ he said,’ this is my dream and with the great team I have around me, we will succeed’, he added.
In his spare time he plays bowls for the Acle ‘A’ team.
Indoor bowls articles below are by Denis:-
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