Bowling Club Membership Card Printing
CP Cards have been supplying Bowling Club membership cards to UK clubs and organisations for over 30 years.
Every card is printed here in England, no overseas production and delays.
Orders start from just 25 cards, free delivery is included as standard, and we'll email you a photorealistic proof before anything goes to print.
Bowling clubs commonly use membership cards to confirm green access and playing rights, since many clubs restrict use of the green to current members and their signed-in guests. Cards frequently distinguish full playing members from social or non-playing members, and some clubs print the member's handicap or league team on the card for quick reference during matches. Seasonal renewal is typical, with cards reissued each year to reflect the new bowling season.
About our Plastic Bowling Club Membership Cards
Example Bowling Club Membership Card Prices 760 microns thick
| Quantity | Price from |
|---|---|
| 25 | £75.00 |
| 50 | £79.00 |
| 100 | £85.00 |
| 200 | £99.00 | 250 | £109.00 |
| 500Popular | £175.00 |
| 1000 | £245.00 |
Prices include free UK delivery & for one design to be printed from your print ready artwork sent to the correct specifications, see our artwork guide.
Prices exclude VAT & optional extras.
Need a different quantity? Contact us for a quote.
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Bowling Club Membership Cards printed
Bowls clubs order once a year, in spring, and the list barely changes from one season to the next. That makes these some of the most straightforward reorders we handle — often a single email with a new year on it.
Solid PVC, full colour on both sides, free delivery within Great Britain, minimum 25 cards, and categories printed clearly enough that nobody has to ask.
There are bowling club membership card examples below, and the full specification is on our membership card printing page.
What Goes on a Bowls Club Membership Card
Club name and badge, member name, membership number and category make up the front of most bowls club cards, along with the season. Categories in bowls tend to be more varied than in other sports — full playing, social, junior, country member, life member — and clubs generally want them distinguishable without anyone having to read the small print.
The reverse tends to be the more useful side. Green opening times, roll-up nights and club competition evenings answer the questions the secretary would otherwise field all season. The dress code is worth printing too: whites or greys and flat-soled shoes catch out visitors and new members more often than anything else, and a line on the card is a gentler reminder than a conversation at the gate. Guest green fees and the secretary’s number usually complete it.
Clubs running internal leagues often add the member’s team or handicap, which saves a good deal of checking when matches are being drawn up.
A Card That Lasts the Whole Outdoor Season
Outdoor bowls runs from April into September, and a membership card spends that entire stretch in a bowls bag, generally alongside damp shoes and a waterproof that went in wet. It is a slow, humid sort of punishment rather than a dramatic one, and printed paper cards simply go soft and blotchy under it.
Our bowls club cards are 760-micron solid PVC with the print sealed beneath the surface. Six months of damp bag will not touch them, and neither will the rain that gets them on the way from the car to the clubhouse.
Most clubs reissue each season, and the practical benefit shows up the following spring: last year’s card is still perfectly readable when renewals come round, which makes checking who has and has not paid a good deal easier than squinting at something that has been through a summer of damp.
Options Bowls Clubs Ask About
Sequential numbering is the most common addition, and there is a small detail worth knowing: the numbering can be printed in any CMYK colour, and we can match it to a colour taken from your club badge so it reads as part of the design rather than something stamped on afterwards. Specify a start number and the cards run on from it, or send an Excel file with the exact numbers you want.
Two signature strips suit bowls clubs well. One is signed by the member; the second is labelled for the current season or handicap and written in pen, so a mid-season change does not mean a reprint. A typical strip is 75mm x 8mm, and while nothing can be printed onto the strip itself, wording can sit directly above or below it.
For life members and past presidents, metallic foiling gives a card that is visibly different without needing a separate design. Foil is applied under heat and pressure and works best with simple line art — clean solid shapes with hard edges — because it lays down as flat solid colour, so gradients and photographs will not reproduce in it. A club badge in metallic gold on an otherwise standard card is a distinction most clubs are pleased with.
Bowling Club Membership Card Examples
The bowls club cards below tend toward the
traditional, and deliberately so — club badge, club colours, category and
season, laid out clearly and set at a size that does not need glasses.
That last point is not a small one for bowls, and it drives most of the layout
decisions in the examples. Send us your badge and we will keep the same discipline.
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For a bowls club the quote turns on how many categories you run. Full playing,
social, junior, country and life members are five different printed variants if you
colour-code them, and one job if you do not.
Tell us your categories and rough numbers. Colour variants cost nothing extra in
printing, but knowing about them upfront means we quote the right setup.
Quotes emailed within 10 minutes,
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Design Service
Got a club badge from 1974?
That is entirely normal. Our Design Service
will work with it for just £29 +vat
Bowls club badges are often old, often lovely, and often only exist as a printed
copy on a fixture card. We will redraw it, build both sides around it, and get the
green times and dress code on the reverse in a size your membership can actually
read.
Approved by you before anything prints.
Artwork Fixing Service
Nine times out of ten the artwork a bowls club sends us is a scan or a photograph
of an existing card or fixture book. That is a perfectly good starting point and we
are used to it.
What it is not is print-ready. Redrawing a badge from a scan, correcting sizing and
bleed and getting the colours into CMYK is exactly what our artwork fixing service
does, for just £10 +vat.
Free Photorealistic Email Proof
To give you complete confidence before we go to print, we’ll email you a
free, high-quality, computer-generated photorealistic proof of your full colour plastic Bowling Club membership cards.
This realistic mock-up shows how your finished Bowling Club membership cards will look, so you can check and approve the layout, text and overall design before production begins.
Fast Production Time
Outdoor bowls runs from April to September and the cards need to be out before the
green opens, which for most clubs is a fixed date the committee has known about
since October.
Production is 7 working days from proof
approval, with 4 working day express available.
March is our busiest month for bowls. Approving a proof in February rather than the
last week of March is the difference between a calm order and an anxious one.
Free Delivery
FREE DELIVERY within Great Britain on any
quantity.
Most bowls clubs do have a clubhouse, but it is often only open in the evenings or
at weekends during the season — and in March it may not be open at all. Cards
usually go to the secretary at home for that reason.
All orders travel in plain, unbranded packaging with no paperwork or invoices
inside.
Made in England
Bowls clubs reorder the same card, with a new year, for decades. English production
is what makes that
actually consistent.
Club colours come off the badge, and badge greens and maroons are precisely the
colours that wander between suppliers. Every run of yours comes off the same press
from the same stock, so a card from this season sits happily next to one from five
years ago.
We keep your artwork on file indefinitely.
Recyclable Material
A club reissuing every April is producing one card per member per year and putting
last year’s in the bin.
Ours are solid PVC and can be recycled
where facilities accept PVC,
unlike the laminated cards they usually replace, which cannot be separated into
their layers.
For clubs with an environmental policy to satisfy, our
biodegradable cards print identically
and suit an annual-renewal pattern exactly.
Optional Extras
Two extras suit bowls clubs particularly well.
Metallic foiling on the club badge gives life members and past
presidents a visibly different card without a separate design — it needs
simple line art, since foil lays down as flat solid colour. And a
second signature strip lets you pen in a handicap or season
without a reprint.
Barcodes and numbering are available for
clubs running a bar till.
Our vast range of optional extras combined with our competitive prices and fast, friendly service makes us a market leader which keeps our customers returning time after time as well as recommending us.
The majority of cards that we print have a signature strip and also a unique number which is usually sequential however you can supply an Excel document and we can print the details from the document onto the cards so each one has unique details. For example, their name, membership number, expiry date, level of membership etc.
Membership Card Specifications
760-micron solid PVC,
Full Colour (CMYK)
on both sides at no extra cost, print
sealed beneath the surface.
High gloss is the traditional choice for bowls
and makes club colours look their best on a card that mostly lives in a bowls bag
rather than being handled constantly.
Premium matt adds £20 +vat and is
slightly easier to read in bright sun on the green.
Bureau Personalisation Service
Bowls clubs are among the least likely to need this, because almost everyone joins
at the start of the season — but new members do arrive in June, and a club
that has ordered exactly enough cards in March has none left.
Our Bureau Personalisation Service covers it:
we hold your printed stock, and you email details as people join. Cards are
personalised and posted
within 3 working days.
Cheaper than over-ordering by fifty every spring.
A Plastic Card to Approve
For a bowls club the physical card answers one question above all: is the type big
enough?
A layout that looks comfortable on a screen at 200% is a different thing at actual
size in the hand, and bowls has an older membership than most sports. Holding the
real card is the only honest test of whether the category and the year can be read
without reaching for glasses.
We will print one from your artwork and post it.
Artwork Specifications & Guides
Two guide points worth knowing for a bowls card.
Type size over cleverness. The reverse usually has to carry green
times, roll-up nights, dress code and guest fees. If it will not fit at a readable
size, cut content rather than shrinking type.
300dpi at final size. A badge scanned from a fixture card is
usually well short of that, which is what the artwork fixing service is for.
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How to Order your Membership Cards
The club secretary, in February or March, usually alongside the fixture card going
to print.
Send the badge or a photograph of last year’s card, the categories and
numbers, and approve the proof we email back. Cards arrive before the green opens.
After that, a reorder is genuinely one email — we keep the artwork, so it is
a new year and a quantity.
Bowling Clubs Membership card examples
Do you see a design that you like?
One of the bowls cards below close to what you want?
Tell us which and we will start there.
Clubs normally keep the layout — badge placement, how the categories are
distinguished, what goes on the reverse — and change the name, the colours
and the category list. All covered by the
Design Service.
Bowling Club Membership Card FAQs
Can bowling club cards show handicap or league team?
Yes. Both can be printed on the card, and if they change through the season a signature strip labelled for the purpose lets a club officer write in the current value in pen instead of reprinting.
Can we distinguish full playing members from social members?
Yes, at no extra cost. Both sides print in full colour as standard, so a different card colour per category — full playing, social, junior, country, life member — is the simplest way to do it.
Do bowling clubs usually reorder cards each season?
Most do, since outdoor bowls runs on an annual cycle. We keep your artwork on file, so a reorder with a new season date on it is straightforward and does not need redesigning.
What's the minimum order?
25 cards. Small clubs order exactly what their membership needs rather than paying for stock that sits in a drawer.
Can we print the dress code and green times on the back?
Yes, and it is one of the most common requests we get from bowls clubs. The reverse is full colour at no extra cost, so green times, roll-up nights, dress code and guest fees all fit comfortably.
Can life member or past president cards look different?
Yes. Many clubs use metallic foiling on the club badge for these. Foil works best with simple line art, since it lays down as flat solid colour and will not reproduce gradients or photographs.
Can the membership number be printed in our club colours?
Yes. Sequential numbering can be printed in any CMYK colour, and matching it to a colour from your club badge makes it look designed in rather than added on.
Will a card survive a summer in a bowls bag?
Yes. They are 760-micron solid PVC with the design sealed beneath the surface, so a season alongside damp shoes and a wet waterproof will not soften or blot them the way it does printed paper.
Gallery of Bowling Club Membership Cards
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