The Association offices have been situated at 50 Wellington Street, Glasgow, since 1955. The first Council Meeting in the new premises took place on 2nd March 1955. The yearly rent at that time was £59-5/- but it is now in the region of £11,000.00!!

In the years leading up to the Centenary, the Association has been deeply involved in the organising of coaching and umpiring. In 1989 a National Coach was appointed with responsibility for coaching at Regional and District levels. The Association is represented on the Scottish Joint Committees for coaching and umpiring.

Today there are 914 constituent clubs with a membership of approximately 75,000. It is interesting to note that in 1992 the number of clubs was essentially the same, but their members totalled 92,000.

The Association is a democratic body. Its office bearers and council members are elected democratically. Each year the Annual Meeting is held alternately at Glasgow, Perth and Edinburgh, when the voices of the delegates are heard, and listened to, by the council.

It is worth remembering the pioneers of the Association, men such as James Brown, James Pretsell, Dr John Clark, Andrew Hamilton, and others, who had the foresight to realise that for bowling to be successful there must be standardisation and regularity. In the preface to the Manual of Bowling, James Brown emphasised 'The necessity and the desirability of having a central authority of a representative character established'. Such a desired authority became the Scottish Bowling Association, whose rules were ultimately accepted by the International Bowling Board.

As to the future, at the current time talks are ongoing with the Scottish Women's Bowling Association with a view to a unified body to administer outdoor bowls in Scotland. A recent survey of constituent clubs showed that more than 75% have equality of membership for ladies and gents.

In 1912, a well known bowling writer, J.A. Mason, summed it all up when he wrote 'On the initiative of James Brown of Sanquhar and James Pretsell of Edinburgh a conference was convened in Glasgow in September 1892 and without flourish of trumpet created the Scottish Bowling Association, which is to bowls what M.C.C. is to cricket and the Royal and Ancient to golf'.