Welcome to the
Bristol Indoor Bowls Club Website
Bristol Indoor Bowls Club, located at 198 South Liberty Lane in Ashton Vale is a modern air conditioned international standard 9 rink indoor bowls club with a large function room and a meeting room which are available for hire.
Accessible from Winterstoke Road and from the South Bristol Link Road.
Welcome
We welcome new members from the age of 7 to 99+.
Economically priced refreshments are available whenever the club is open. A large function room is available to hire for dining or special events. A small meeting room is also available.
For those visiting the club for the first time there are “indoor bowls club” road signs showing the route off Winterstoke Road or off the South Bristol link road. Post code BS3 2TY inserted into the sat nav or smart phone will direct you to the club entrance off South Liberty Lane. We are at the end of the No.24 bus route.
The club provides a warm friendly welcome to all, with a generous amount of free parking on site.
See our advert recently featured on Bristol TV – click to open link:– Bristol Indoor Bowls Club BB V2
Rink availability, league results and rink bookings can be found via our Bowlr web link:- Bristol Indoor Bowls Club (bowlr.co.uk)
Club address:- 198 South Liberty Lane, Bristol BS3 2TY
Club email:- [email protected]
Club tel:- 0117 963 3460
What 3 Words exact location map link:-
Latest News
See our latest newsletter with club news. Links to newsletter, members handbook, membership forms and What’s On information below. See also our Facebook page.
The AGM and presentation evening is on Friday 25 October starting at 7pm, all BIBC members welcome.
The club kitchen and catering arrangements are now under new management, see Claire’s Kitchen page and new menu for food available.
BIBC New or Renewal Membership Form
BIBC New or Renewal Junior Membership Form
The 2023/24 Members Handbook is available to download together with club, competition and league rules, see links below.
Club Competition Rules 2024-25
For details, rules and entry forms for the Under 16 Australian Pairs Tournament on 25 January 2025, see links below.
Conditions of play for under 16’s Aussie Pairs
U16 Tournament Entry form 2025
Please see YouTube link below to a recent video of Danny coaching youngsters at the club.
The EIBA has just updated information for disabled bowlers together with guidance in the use of suitable and approved equipment, see link below.
Bristol now has a Clean Air Zone, which if your vehicle is not compliant will affect people coming across town and from the North. Avoid the city centre at the very end of the M32, A4, A37, A38 and the Portway. See the council website link below for more information, exemptions, zone map and charges.
The World Singles and Mixed Pairs Indoor Bowls Championships for 2022 were held at the club between Monday April 25th and Friday April 29th 2022. See our dedicated web page for a 2 page feature in Bowls International magazine and information, including a list of participants and playing schedules:- World Bowls Tournament
Function Rooms – Our air conditioned function rooms are available to hire every day and evenings all year, please contact the club to book your function or corporate event. See also our Facilities for Hire page.
Members Booklet
The 2024-25 Member’s Handbook, Club and Competition Rules are available online, see links below.
Club Competition Rules 2024-25
For BIBC Mission Statement and Privacy Policy please click on the following links:
Mission Statement
Privacy Policy
The City & County of Bristol Indoor Bowls Club Ltd. subscribes to the Bowls England safeguarding and anti-bullying policies which can be found at www.bowlsengland.com/
Good News:
The Bowls Development Alliance are using the club as a base to promote indoor and outdoor bowls in the region and provide workshops for outdoor clubs to assist them in increasing and retaining membership and participation in the sport.
A solar energy project by Bristol Energy Cooperative installing 370 photovoltaic (PV) panels, with a capacity of 152kW, on the club roof was completed on 14 March 2020 and is generating electricity at a much reduced rate for the club, with excess fed back into the grid. Nearly 50% of our electrical energy is being provided by the panels. For more information about the project see links below.
Bristol Indoor Bowls Club – Bristol Energy Cooperative
For a live feed showing power generated by the panels see link:- https://monitoringpublic.solaredge.com/solaredge-web/p/kiosk?guid=d802bd63-87ba-47dd-ae48-e2d3cd0c50e2