These Championships are organised by the Northern England Short Mat Bowling Association (NESMBA)

The NESMBA is a grouping of several of the northern counties (currently 7) originally set up in 1990. At this time the ESMBA recognized four Zones (South West, Central, Eastern and Northern) but the idea failed to be developed by them and soon fell out of favor. Of the four, the Northern Zone survived (now renamed) and is run by its own committee. With no official role to fulfil as far as the ESMBA is concerned, the NESMBA now fulfills two functions. Firstly to organize the local northern Inter-County League and secondly to organize and run the annual Northern Championships.
North Yorkshire participates fully in both of these.

The County Shield
(donated in 1997 by Melvin Bourne – Chairman)

North Yorkshire were the Shield runners up in
2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019
We have won the Shield twice – in 2011 and 2020