A keen bowler, I joined Gullivers in 1986 and have carried out various duties on the committee, as well as acting as Chairman of the Board of Directors for over twenty years. I am now in my second stint as Chairman of the Board and we have worked hard to ensure the re-development of the Club takes place asap. The redevelopment of this great club has been one of my proudest achievements in lawn bowls. With the help of the Board, especially Sandra & Philip Balchin, the Board has given the bowls club a venue to be proud of. At the same time, it bestows on the bowls committee a duty to maintain the club as a viable, business proposition which must be run correctly. Failure to carry out that basic duty, will see Gullivers Bowls Club go the same way as many more outdoor bowls clubs in the 2020's.
As a bowler, I have won 25 County titles, the last being the Sussex Indoor Singles title in 2020 and outdoors, the 2025 County Senior Fours. In 1995, I won the English National Champion of Champions title with a victory over a Durham player in the final. As well as this, I have won the Home Counties Bowls Assc indoor & outdoor Rinks titles and numerous Open competitons, including the Hastings Open Singles (2004) and the Eastbourne Open Singles (2016). For Sussex, I have represented their outdoor Middleton Cup team on seventy occasions and, indoors, I represented Sussex in the Liberty Trophy from 1991 - 2011, without missing a single game. During my years of playing bowls as a sport, I have represented my Club & County at the National Championships twenty times outdoors and ten times indoors, where my best efforts were a EIBA National Indoor Singles quarter final (1996) and a loss by one shot to Greg Harlow & Nicky Brett (City of Ely) in the semi final of the EIBA National Pairs (2010).
Away from the bowls green, I have served on the Sussex County Bowls Executive for a few years and was on the Sussex County Indoor Bowling Assc Executive for six years, during which time I have been the Team Manager for the County Middleton Cup team (2014 - 2017) and the Sussex indoor Liberty Trophy side (2006 - 2011). Prior to that I was in charge of the Sussex indoor Under 25 team for three years, during which time we reached the semi final of the EIBA U25 Inter County double rink.
In 2019, I was selected to play for Zambia in the World Outdoor Championship qualifiers, in Cardiff, skipping the Pairs and playing the Singles.