Palatine Bowling Club

The 3R Foundation recently awarded £484 to Palatine Bowling Club in Lancaster for a new recycled-plastic bench, helping make its historic bowling green even more welcoming and accessible.

Located in South Lancaster, Palatine Bowling Club is a community-run crown green bowling club that has worked hard to bring its historic green back to life after years of decline and vandalism.

The club provides friendly, affordable opportunities for people of all ages to enjoy bowling, including older residents, families, school groups, home-schooled children and complete beginners.

Through regular sessions and partnerships with local schools and community groups, the club has become a popular place for people to meet, stay active and enjoy the outdoors.

Thanks to an earlier grant from Sport England, the club had already installed five new benches around the green, transforming the seating available for players and spectators.

However, with membership growing and more local people coming along to watch matches and social sessions, the benches were already proving so popular that additional seating was needed!

The 3R grant funded one more matching bench, completing the seating around the green and making the space more comfortable and accessible for everyone.

And there's an environmental benefit too! 💚

The benches are manufactured entirely from recycled plastic by a specialist company in South Wales, helping reduce waste while providing durable, low-maintenance seating.

It's a great example of a local club combining community wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability – with a little bit of 3R's Recycle and Reuse philosophy thrown in too!

The 3R Foundation funds grants like this through the Recycle, Reuse, Rehome charity shop in Carnforth (next to Tesco).

Every purchase in the shop helps fund grants for local charities, clubs and community groups across North Lancashire and South Cumbria. Please support the shop so we can continue helping even more organisations in our area.