2019

Bridlington Open

Eight members of the Chesterfield Petanque Club entered the Bridlington Open Doubles over the August Bank Holiday weekend 2019. Brian & Margaret Eldridge Tim & Carla Jervis Ian Kingsbury & Carole Sheppard Di & Steve Harrington. They all collect prize money with First, Second, Forth & Fifth places over the two day event winning five out of five games.

Home Nations Cup

Brian & Margaret Eldridge, members of the Chesterfield Petanque Club, were part of the the England Squad that won the Home Nations Cup for 2019. An honour and a privilege to be part of the winning team.

Pointing and Shooting competition and Star of the Year

We held our annual shooting and pointing competition on Friday evening 26 July, in relatively dry weather. The winners received a bottle of Cava and a medal and was presented with the trophy. The winners were: Shooting - John M with 25 points, Pointing: Tim with 34 points. Click here for the full competition results The Star of the Year was Ian for all the hard work that he puts into the club behind the scenes.

Petanque played at Club by Blind Veterans

Petanque is a sport that can be played by anyone, regardless of ability or disability. This point was proved on July 16th when the Club hosted a session for a group of blind veterans. None of them had played before but with a bit of guidance soon got the hang of it and a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon was had by all.

National Women’s Doubles competition

Congratulations to Carla and Carole, representing Mercia and winning silver in the Finals at Oxshott on 14th April

2018

Congratulations to Tim Jervis

Tim has completed his coaching course and is now a registered Petanque England Coach - well done Tim

Mercia Inter Regional qualifier - Sunday 22 April

Chesterfield hosted this first round of the competition

Key Points from Coaching Session

A coaching session was held at Nottingham by Brian Stote for the Mercia Region in October 2016. This resulted in some very useful points being brought up on how to improve your game - the full text can be downloaded here.

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Part of the winning Home Nations Cup England Squad 2019

2020

After a difficult pandemic-affected year, September saw some good news with 10 tons of new material delivered for the piste. A great team effort to lay, rake and then play on our new material. Our sincere thanks must go to Stuart and Catherine Bradley who very kindly donated the material to the club. Enjoy everyone.

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2021

Shooting & Pointing Competition

This was held on Friday 16th July - a lovely sunny evening with many of our members The Pointing Champion was Linda Robinson The Ladies Shooting Champion was Carole Sheppard The Men’s Shooting Champion was Ian Kingman Well done to all three of you!! Thanks to everyone who came and took part and to Brian and Margaret Eldridge for organising the competition. Star of Chesterfield Petanque Club is a trophy donated by Brian and Margaret Eldridge awarded to whom they feel has worked hard behind the scenes throughout the year and was awarded to Carla Jervis!

2023

Mayor and Mayoress open new Piste

Chesterfield Pétanque Club based in Holmebrook Valley Park welcomed the Mayor and Mayoress to formally open their new piste on Wednesday 2nd August 2023. Several local councillors and others involved in the provision of the new piste also attended, praising the club, and enjoying its lovely surroundings. The club also celebrated their 10th year anniversary with over thirty of the club’s nearly seventy members present to witness the opening of the new piste, including club founder members, Brian, and Margaret Eldridge. The club was launched in 2013 after former England players, Brian, and Margaret, moved to Chesterfield and approached Chesterfield Borough Council with the idea to build a pétanque terrain in the park. Pétanque is a fast-growing sport for all ages, abilities, and disabilities. Chesterfield Pétanque Club offer people in the community the opportunity to play the French game of ‘boules! It can be played at many levels. Club members can simply enjoy the social aspect of the game at club sessions, or they can also take part in open club or regional competitions improving their level of play. Chesterfield Pétanque club offer three free taster sessions, and the loan of boules to anyone new to the game, before people decide whether to become a member, to encourage more people to come along and have a go. Contact details can be found on our website or come along to one of our busy club sessions on Wednesday afternoons or Sunday mornings and speak with members to find out more.

CPC Competitions 2023

5th May Pointing competition – 1st John Hearnshaw, 2nd Tony Smith & joint 3rd Tim Jervis & Martin Kelly. 12/19th May Shooting competition won first time by a lady..Carole Sheppard who finished on equal points with John Metcalfe but won on an overt jack point. Tim Jervis came 3rd. 16th July Mixed doubles - 1st Debbie Giles & Martin Kelly, 2nd Barbara & John Hearnshaw, 3rd Linda Robinson & David Carlin. 20th August Singles – winner Richard Pitchfork, runner up Mile Philpot and 3rd Mark Schofield. Sherwood Shield CPC club captains David Carlin and Linda Robinson coached and encourage a team of mainly newbie players to take part in this Merica competition and had some very tough competition with established teams in the region, CPC after holding top spot until the final ended up 3rd but a brilliant well done to the team! Monday night triples, again club captains David Carlin and Linda Robinson dedicated their time and efforts to bring a new team Chesterfield United into the mix on the Monday night triples, the team had some amazing games and ended up 10th place in the final standings, well done all! Winter League CPC entered a team and played well over the winter months and finished in the gold section of the final. After some very close games and only on points difference CPC finished 3rd in gold, well done all! Thursday Night Pairs for the first time CPC entered a team ‘Holmebrook Harriers’ into this competition. Captain Tim Jervis and his wife Carla played every Thursday apart from 1 to coach and encourage the players in the new competition in Division 2. From week 1 ‘Holmebrook Harriers’ held top spot until the last 2 weeks where we dropped to 2nd place. The final standing was ‘Holmebrook Harriers’ finished 2nd meaning promotion from Division 2 to Division 1. The team also played in the cup and played top teams within both Division 1 & 2 and was victorious bringing the cup home to CPC. Well done to Tim, Carla and the ‘Holmebrook Harriers’! Tim & Carla Jervis organised a 10-year anniversary open triples competition at CPC where 22 teams took part. The competition was well run and a fun day with team Philpot winning the Pewter, team Williams Bronze runner up and team Bouled as Brass winning Bronze. Team The Nutters were Silver runners up and team The Jandaya’s winning Silver. Gold semi finalists team Hodges and team Giles (well done our very own Debbie and John for getting this far), Gold runners up were team Green Bridges and winners team Smith. This competition will now be a yearly feature at CPC.