AN annual competition to help embrace bowls takes place next month to signal the start of the new season.

The Super 32 competition is held each year to help develop the game and introduce new bowlers into the sport And the Kendal and District Bowling League, the biggest Crown Green bowls league in Cumbria, is hoping the event will help to inspire the next generation of bowlers.

The Super 32 event, which has been sponsored by local firm FMB, will be held at Netherfield Bowling Club on Sunday, April 5 with the action starting from 9.45am.

The league, now in its 57th year, was founded in 1958 and is getting bigger each year.

It currently has 69 teams and more than 500 bowlers - aged from 10 to 95 - competing and this year it has introduced a Sixth Division to accommodate the number of teams wanting to play competitive Crown Green bowls in the area.

"The Super 32 competition is used start the season, develop the game, bring new bowlers into the sport and to celebrate the excellent competition which goes on in the area," said Denise Noble from the Kendal and District Bowling League. "The league really is going from strength to strength and we have started a new division just to accommodate the number of new teams wanting to play competitive bowls."