I recently visited the Bowls Daventry Project to see the excellent work that they are doing to raise awareness of bowls in Daventry. Bowls Daventry was formed as an organisation to promote bowls widely across the Daventry and district region. With a desire to involve clubs from any code, the organisation has engaged with indoor and outdoor clubs while also promoting short mat bowls and petanque. Their disability activity has been led by Ian Litchfield, who has enabled 500 disabled people to participate in bowls through developing a portable version of the sport. This has been taken into a range of organisations, such as nursing and care homes and local community groups. Due to Ian’s extraordinary commitment and inventive solutions, the Bowls Development Alliance has awarded Ian a Volunteer Award in recognition of the work he and his team have done to introduce bowls to disabled people within the Daventry region. While also promoting the sport and engaging new disabled participants, Bowls Daventry has also been able to raise money for the Children’s Air Ambulance charity and Ian has written a book of poems which relate to his journey back from severe head injuries.