🏆 Carlton Cup Winners 2016-2017

St Austell Bay win the Carlton Cup in a match against Truro winning 400 points to 358. St Austell Bay's team were Charlotte Grigg, Linzi Crosswood, Penelope Jane Allen, Jeremy Roberts, Matt Thoume and Pete Jeremy.

🏸 Summer Club 2016

St Austell Bay Summer Badminton Club starts on Tuesday 29-Mar-2016 through to 30-Aug-2016. It meets every Tuesday from 7 pm to 10 pm at Polkyth Leisure Centre. The fees for 2016 are £100 for all 23 sessions or pay as you play at £6 per session. The club uses feather shuttles.

🏸 New Meeting Time for Lunchtime Social Club

St Austell Bay Lunchtime Social Badminton Club now meets from 11am to 1pm on Wednesdays at Polkyth Leisure Centre. The Lunchtime Badminton Club was founded in February 2011 and is a social pay and play club and welcomes all standards or players.

🎂 St Austell Bay Celebrates 50 Years

Badminton players gathered at the weekend to celebrate the golden anniversary of their club. St Austell Bay Badminton Club opened its doors in 1964 as the New Cornish Riviera Badminton Club in Carlyon Bay and has since gone from strength to strength, with six teams currently playing from its base at Polkyth Leisure Centre. The club are the current County Club Champions after winning the West Briton Cup last season, and play competitively in the Mid Cornwall Badminton League. There are three men’s teams, one ladies, one combination and one mixed, and it is also a social club that welcomes players of all levels, including up and coming youngsters in the junior section.

To celebrate its 50th year the club held a party for current and former members at Sticker Football Club on Saturday. The club is holding ladies only night for potential new members tomorrow (Thursday, September 11) at Polkyth Leisure Centre from 7pm. For more information contact Penny or Lyndon Allen on 01726 63245 or at lyndon@staustellbaybc.co.uk ... see more

🏁 Mens win v Camelford

St Austell Bay's 1st Mens team travelled to Camelford on Thursday 31st October to try and build on the 6-0 win against Newquay away earlier in the season.

Despite missing 3rd man Kahoo Tse, St Austell were triumphant once again, with James and super sub Russell closing out a 3 ender with a tight 23-21 last set to complete a 5-1 victory.

Team: James Whetter, Guy Michell, Pete Bazin, Russell Hallett.

🏆 Carlton Cup Winners 2010-2011

St Ausetll Bay Badminton Club clinched a county cup victory. The club were triumphant in the Cornwall County Badminton Carlton Cup in a tense match against Cornwall Youth Badminton with a final result of 380-372. Club chair Lyndon Allen said "The performance of the final must go to Pat Edwards and Sam Simon; St Austell's third mixed pairing, which ensured victory by a margin of just 8 points."

🎖 Premier Club and Club Mark Achievment

St Austell Bay Badminton Club has acheived Badminton England Premier Club status. Both the Senior Club and the Junior Clubs also received Sport England Clubmark Accreditation. Tim Jones, Badminton England's regional officer, presented certificates to club chairman Lyndon Allen at the junior club night at Polkyth Leisure Centre. To gain the awards Lydon Allen and lead coach Jeremy Roberts developed a portfolio of work, a coaching structure, links with schools and attended badminton and sport welfare courses. "It's fantastic to see such an energetic club be rewarded for their continuous hard work and support," said Mr Jones.

Club Mark is the only national cross sports quality accreditation scheme for clubs with junior sections. It is built around a set of core criteria which ensure that accredited clubs operate to a set of consistent, accepted and adopted minimum operating standards.