AN 111-year-old sports club faces closure because no one can be found to run it.
The entire leadership team of Dufftown Bowling Club in Speyside recently stepped down due to relocation, ill health and retirement.
But no-one at its annual meeting was willing to volunteer to take their places, plunging it into crisis. The club will fold unless locals respond to a call to step in.
An extraordinary meeting has been organised next month in a last-ditch effort to find new leaders and stop the doors closing.
Outgoing secretary Helen Ramsay, who is moving away, said it comes despite 11 people joining over the past year.
She added: “The sad thing is that we work so hard to get people into the club.
“In the grand scheme of things we are a very forward-thinking and up-and-coming club.
“It’s unthinkable for it to come to an end.”
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