Innovative members have turned these in to "cannons" which allow people with disabilities to bowl more easily.

Club treasurer Stephen Piercy said the cannons got people into the game and enjoying it.

Mr Piercy developed the device with another member, inspired by a club in Perth.

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He said visitors from disability support service Scope's ICON group had been coming to bowl for years, but many in wheelchairs had struggled to be part of the game.

The pipe and trestle configuration makes it easier to bowl for people with limited arm movement or in wheelchairs.

Now most of the 11 players from Scope who bowl with the Eaglehawk club use the cannons.

"It works out really well. It gets people in the game ... so they enjoy it, and they're coming back," Mr Piercy said.

"That's like any sport, if you enjoy it, you're going to come back. That's what we want to do. That's what we want for our ordinary bowler and these people are no different."

Mr Piercy has particularly noticed the change with one member of the group, who now plays in the standard bowls team.

He said the man was "thrilled to the back teeth" to play in an open event.

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Scope Customer Service and Delivery manager Mary Sullivan said members of the ICON group could not wait to get down every Monday morning to play bowls.

She said sometimes people's physical limitations, or the speed of many sports, put challenges in the way of people with disabilities playing.

Ms Sullivan said the social element of bowling was most important for the ICON members.

She said the group's members felt like part of a club, often bumping into people they'd met down the street.

"Any sport, there's obviously the physical activity side of it. There's the fact that you can compete against yourself and against others and improve," Ms Sullivan said.

"But most importantly you're doing it with other people, it's that whole social... you feel a part of a club."

The Eaglehawk Bowling Club received Scope's 2019 Community Award for the project at the organisation's annual award ceremony.

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