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Events for 2026
Next Event
Our next in house competition is the Ted Burton Triples which will be played at Stonards on Saturday May 23rd.
New Sign at Stonards
We now have a sign at our piste on Stonards Park
which was erected this week.
Thanks to Epping Town Council who funded and organised it.
Photo of the sign is in our Photo Album
Two more new club Competitions
The committee have decided to introduce 2 new club
competitions this year.
A Womens singles competition and a Veterans mixed doubles competition.
Further details to follow.
COMPETITION REPORTS
Chalkwell Friendly (2026)
A great fun day was had on Saturday at Chalkwell
(Westcliffe on Sea) where a friendly match by the sea in the sunshine was held.
8 members played 4 games each and the day ended a tie at 8 all.
Well done to those that played and thanks to Mark for arranging.
We will arrange a return home match later in the year.
A photo from this event is in our Photo Album
Spring League (2026)
Our 2nd Spring League match was hosted at Stonards.
Before the match began a minutes silence was held for Sue, dedicating this match to her.
Epping Blue won 2 games and lost 1, Epping Green won 1 and lost 2 and Epping Yellow won 2 and lost 1.
Well done to all teams.
Full results of all the divisions will be available in due course.
Thanks to Mandy and Dee for helping to set up for the day, and others who helped us clear up, to GG for coming
to support us and to Valerie and Doreen for being in charge of refreshments.
Special thanks to Mark for organising the day.
Even the weather was even kind albeit a bit chilly.
Some photos from this event are in our Photo Album
Winter Challenge Competition (2026)
Twenty members competed in our club
Winter Challenge competition held at the Gardens of Hanbury.
Played in 4 leagues with everyone playing 4 games and the winners of each league (Mark C, Dee, Graham and John)
played in the semi finals.
Dee and Graham went through to play in the final with Graham the eventual winner.
Some really competitive games were played with some great fun along the way (and the bonus of some sunshine).
Well done to all who competed and congratulations to Dee and Graham.
And thanks to Mark for organising and David for scoring.
Some photos from this event are in our Photo Album
International Womens Day (2026)
A very enjoyable day was had at the International Womens
Day competition held at Towers Petanque Club.
It was great for our women to meet other clubs and play on different
pistes.
Marion and Jill, Jane and Mandy got through to the quarter finals for the Gold trophy while Dee and Shirley, Sue D and
Rosemary played for the Silver.
Shirley and Dee got through to the semi finals but unfortunately lost 13-11.
Well done to all and thanks to Andrew and Mike for supporting them (and great measuring).
Autumn Doubles Competition (2025)
Sixteen members played in the Autumn doubles at Stonards on
the afternoon of Saturday 18th October.
Kathryn and Jill played Mark C and Andrew for 3rd place with Mark and Andrew winning the game.
Mark T and Rosemary had a very close match with John A and Marion in the final and after playing an extra end,
the winners were Mark and Rosemary
Congratulations to them and well done to all those that took part.
Special thanks to Mandy and Andrew for helping out with the piste.
This completes our in-house competitions for the year.
George Durno Doubles Competition (2025)
Sixteen members competed on Monday 8th September in the George Durno doubles
competition at Hanbury.
After some close matches, Ashley and Colin won the cup with Andrew and
Chris the runners up and Jill and John P in third place.
Congratulations to you all and
thanks to all those that helped with setting up, scoring etc.
Vintage Pairs
On Saturday 30th August ten brave Epping Petanque
souls entered for Petanque Englands - Eastern Counties Region -Vintage Pairs for over 70s.
Ongar hosted and the competition was organized by John Innocent.
Everyone played well and after 3 games Jill and Marion, Ashley and Barry, went on to compete in the
Trophy Section, whilst Sue and Patricia, Graham and Roger, David and Jane were competing in the Plate Section.
After another 3 games David and Jane went on to win the semi-final but unfortunately in their 8th match,
lost to Sheila and Alan from Ongar in the finals.
Gerry and Tony from Chalkwell emerged as Champions in their 8th match, beating Carolyn and John.
Dee and her dog, John and Rob came to offer encouragement, which they certainly needed as everyone played at
least 6 games.
Thanks go to John Innocent and all the helpers from Ongar, who as usual set up refreshments and ran a
great competition.
Summer Singles Challenge Competition (2025)
We had a good afternoon playing our club summer
singles competition at Stonards.
14 members competed and they all played 4 games each.
Kathryn played the final with Andrew and finished second, while Mandy played Sue finishing in third place.
Congratulations to all.
A special thanks to all those who helped out at the piste and in the kitchen, to those that came along to
support and, of course to Mark and David for running the competitions and scoring.
We also hosted the Town v District Council competition. Epping Town Mayor, Janet Whitehouse and her partner,
Christine Burgess, played against Epping Forest Districts Chairman, Louise Mead and her daughter.
It was a hard fought game resulting in another win for Epping Town.
We finished the day with some well deserved tea and cake in the pavilion. Thanks to all those that brought
cakes and biscuits - very much appreciated.
Ted Burton Triples Competition (2025)
We had a great morning of play in the Ted Burton
Triples competition.
12 of us played, making up 4 teams so all teams played each other.
The outright winners were Jill, Mike and Ashley - congratulations.
2nd were Peter, Mark and Graham G.
It was agreed that the team with the most plus points would receive
the third place medals as the overall differential points were identical between the remaining 2 teams.
Therefore Patricia, Doreen/Sue and Shirley received third place.
Wooden spoon to Mandy, Marion and myself.
After the competition we had lunch and medal/trophy presentations in the sunshine.
Well done to everyone involved. And thanks to Captain Mark for the organisation and scoring.
Ongar Town Festival (2025)
The Petanque Competition had invited two
triples teams from Epping.
Team one was Jill, John Adams and Chris
and team two was Mandy, Janet and Graham.
The 16 teams were divided into 4 leagues and each league played all the other teams in their league.
Mandy, Janet and Graham played another 2 games in the Plate section but lost in the semi-finals.
Meanwhile Jill, John and Chris, playing very well, qualified for the Gold section and then into the semi-finals.
They were narrowly beaten by the team French Connection from Towers Petanque Club, who went on to win.
Many thanks to Carolyn and all her team of helpers at Ongar.
Some photos from this event are in our Photo Album