FORTH AND ENDRICK PROVINCE
The Forth and Endrick Province is the area organisation covering the Curling Clubs based to the west of Stirling. The present membership is given below. The Province is one of 4 Provinces in Forth Valley Area of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the others being Stirlingshire, West Lothian and Scottish Central.
The Province organises inter-club leagues, knock-outs and a points competition during the season. Member clubs also represent the Province in the Forth Valley Area Bonspiel and Knockout.
The programme for the current season can be found by following this link Province Fixtures. More fixtures will be added as the dates become known.
The member clubs of the Province are listed below:
- Balfron - Web address: www.balfroncurlingclub.org.uk
- Buccaneers
- Buchlyvie
- Castle
- Drymen - Web address : www.drymencurling.org.uk
- Forest Hills Trossachs - Web address : www.fhtcc.org.uk
- Gargunnock
- Kippen
- Loch Ard
- Strathendrick - Web address: www.strathendrickcurling.org.uk
The President and Vice President of the Province are provided in turn by each of the member clubs. Forest Hills Trossachs have asked to be omitted from the rotation as they are not involved in any Province events. The rotation is at present:
| Year | President | Vice President | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24/25 | Buccaneers | Loch Ard | |
| 25/26 | Loch Ard | Strathendrick | |
| 26/27 | Strathendrick | Castle | |
| 27/28 | Castle | Gargunnock | |
| 28/29 | Gargunnock | Kippen | |
| 29/30 | Kippen | Buchlyvie | |
| 30/31 | Buchlyvie | Drymen | |
| 31/32 | Drymen | Balfron | |
| 33/34 | Balfron | Buccaneers | |
The Secretary of the Province is Caroline Davidson who can be contacted at Caroline Davidson.
The Constitution of the Province and Forth & Endrick Province Competitions can be found as PDF files by following the links.
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Forth Endrick Province News
Annual General Meeting
The 2024 Annual General Meeting was held on 1 May 2024 at Balfron Bowling Club. Gordon Jackson of Balfron Curling club stepped down after his year as President and Marjorie Christie of Buccaneers Curling Club became President for the new season. Loch Ard Curling Club will provide the next Vice President. Port of Menteith Curling Club have resigned from the Province as the club is no longer viable.
Henderson Bishop Trophy
Strathendrick's Jane and Kim Mclaren and the Buccaneers' Madge Christie were in the Stirling team which finished as runners-up in the Low Road (Cherrystone) final.
Forth Valley Area Championships
Loch Ard beat Blair Drummond in the semi-final and had a good win over Uphall in the final to successfully defend the title for Forth & Endrick Province. The team in the final was Karen & Conner MacCallum, Davie McEwan and James Dunn.
Stirling Womens' Open
The winners against opposition from various ice rinks were Strathendrick's Fiona Glass, Jean Leitch, Mary MacDonald and Jane Weir.
Province Championships
In the Province Championships at Greenacres, Buccaneers came top of their section with 5 wins out of 5 matches. They beat Stewartry Province by 6 to 5 in the quarter finals. In the semi finals, they beat Borders Province by 4 shots to 2. Unfortunately, in the final they came up against the defending champions, Dunbartonshire Province represented by Kelvinside Academicals, and lost by 3 shots to 7.
This was almost the same team that defeated our neighbours from Scottish Central Province in the 2022 final. Incidentally, one of the Dunbartonshire players, Scott Gibson, represented England (!) in the winning team in the Men's B Division of the European Championships.
Ice Diamond Award
The 2023 Ice diamond Award from Scottish Curling was awarded to Harry Brodie of Buchlyvie Curling Club. This was in recognition of his work for Scottish Wheelchair curling, umpiring in Scotland and abroad and being on various curling committees.
Annual General Meeting
The 2023 Annual General Meeting was held on 2 May 2023 at Balfron Bowling Club. Alasdair Beaton of Port of Menteith Curling Club stepped down after his year as President and Gordon Jackson of Balfron became President for the new season. Buccaneers Curling Club will provide the next Vice President.
Forth Valley Area Championships
In their semi-final against Keir, Buccaneers recovered from 5 shots down by scoring a 2 and a 4 in the last two ends to win by 7 shots to 6. The final against Falkirk went much more smoothly with Bucanners winning by 7 shots to 2.
Henderson Bishop Trophy
Strathendrick's Jane and Kim Mclaren and the Buccaneers' Madge Christie were in the Stirling team which finished second in the Henderson Bishop Trophy.
Scottish Senior Mixed Championships
The team of Neil Murray (Buccaneers), Jane McLaren (Strathendrick), Dougie Telfer (Loch Ard) and Marjorie Christie (Buccaneers) came second in the Scottish Senior Mixed Championships at Stranraer.
Doune Rosebowl
Kippen won the opening event of the 2022/23 season at The Peak, which was organised by Stirling Curling Group. The team of Gavin Scott, Gavin Cross, Rachel Hotchkiss and Douglas Chalmers won 6 ends, scored 12 shots and were 11 shots up.
Annual General Meeting
The 2022 Annual General Meeting was held on 20 April 2022 at Balfron Bowling Club. John Steel of Drymen Curling Club stepped down after his year as President and Alasdair Beaton of Port of Menteith Curling Club became President for the new season. Balfron Curling Club will provide the next Vice President.
West Stirlingshire Ladies Curling Club notified the Province of their resignation as the club was being wound-up.
Forth Valley Area Championship
Buchlyvie were beaten in the semi-final by Oatridge.
Emily Tait Trophy
West Stirlingshire Ladies won this Stirling Ladies Branch Trophy for 2021/22. The winning team was Judy MacKenzie, Fiona Glass, Di Christie and Luisella Mosley.
Covid 19 update
No curling took place during the 2020/21 season. Ice for the 2021/22 season at Stirling has been allocated and a full programme drawn up which is available on the website.
Province officials
No Annual General Meeting was held for 2021 as no activity took place. John Steel has taken on the role of President from Donnie Allan. Alasdair Beaton of Port of Menteith has become Vice President.
Forth Valley Championship
Buccaneers are the season 2019-20 Area Champions. Feedback from the Livingston team was as follows "Livingston lost 9-3 but it was a good game and at the end of the seventh end the score was 4-3. Buccaneers had the last stone in the eighth end and despite Livingston putting up lots of guards, Buccaneers managed to get in to score 5. The team members have told me that the final score did not reflect the closeness of match."
Annual General Meeting
The 2020 Annual General Meeting was held online because of the restrictions on meetings due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Les Watson of Kippen Curling Club stepped down after his year as President and Donnie Allan of Buchlyvie Curling Club became President for the new season. John Steel of Drymen Curling Club became the next Vice President.
Fintry Curling Club notified the Province of their resignation as the club was being wound-up.
Ladies Grand Masters 2020
Fiona Glass and Sally Macfarlane of Strathendrick, Judy Mackenzie of Buchlyvie and Kirsty Letton of Ayr won the Ladies Grand Masters at Greenacres.
Winnock Shield
The charity competition run by West Stirlingshire Ladies was won by Dougie Telfer of Loch Ard and Fiona Glass, Helen Watson and Stan Moore of Strathendrick.
Arnold Seftor Salver
This Ladies Area competition was won by a West Stirlingshire team of Judy Mackenzie, Fiona Glass, Di Christie and Luisella Mosley.
Stirling Area Ladies Pairs
This was successfully defended by Fiona Glass and Jane McLaren of Strathendrick.
Scottish Senior Mixed Championships 2019/20
The team of Andy Hemming, Neil Murray and Marjorie McCulloch of the Buccaneers along with Jane McLaren of Strathendrick were beaten in the final of this competition.
Betty Montgomery
The Province notes with regret the death of Betty Montgomery on 9th August 2019. Betty was a long-standing member of Forest Hills Trossachs, Balfron and West Stirlingshire Curling Clubs. She served as Secretary of the Province from 2006 to 2014. She was also involved in umpiring for the RCCC.
Judy Mackenzie
Congratulations are due to Judy Mackenzie of Buchlyvie and West Stirlingshire Ladies Curling Clubs who received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to wheelchair curling.
Annual General Meeting
The 2019 Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 23 April at Balfron Bowling Club. Gavin Scott of Fintry Curling Club stepped down after his year as President and Les Watson of Kippen Curling Club became President for the new season. Donnie Allan of Buchlyvie Curling Club became the next Vice President.
Fiona Glass retired as Secretary after five years and was succeeded by Caroline Davidson of Fintry Curling Club.
Prizes were presented for the various competitions and details were given of the Province's involvement in Area and National competitions.
Stirling Ladies Open 2019
This was won by a team including Fiona Glass and Jane McLaren of Strathendrick.
Scottish Women's Junior Championship
The winning team was skipped by Lisa Davie with Anna Skuse at Second. Both are members of the Buccaneers. Anna is the granddaughter of Gillian and Richard Kingslake who are members of Strathendrick.
Henderson Bishop competition
The Stirling play-offs were won by the team of Judy MacKenzie, Fiona Glass, Di Christie (all of West Stirlingshire Ladies) and Kirsty Pender (of Forth Valley Ladies). Sally Macfarlane of Strathendrick substituted for Kirsty in one match. They will be going to the finals in Stranraer in February.
Stirling Area Ladies Pairs
This was won by Fiona Glass and Jane McLaren of Strathendrick.
Annual General Meeting
The 2018 Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 24 April at Balfron Bowling Club. John Cross of Castle Curling Club stepped down after his year as President and Gavin Scott of Fintry Curling Club became President for the new season. Les Watson of Kippen Curling Club became the next Vice President.
Gavin Flemming addressed the meeting to give news of the re-formation of Gargunnock Curling Club. He and the Club were welcomed into the Province pending admission into the RCCC.
Prizes were presented for the various competitions and details were given of the Province's involvement in Area and National competitions.