Welcome to The Thursday Bridge Club.

We meet at the Hallmark Hotel, Durley Chine Road, Bournemouth BH2 5JS every Thursday. Play starts at 7.15pm. Please be seated by 7.05pm.

The club was established in 2012 and we now have 125 members. Membership is closed for the foreseeable future. The hotel limits us to 20 tables and on some evenings we've been full. 

Priority has to be given to members wishing to play. Visitors will be made to feel welcome and we will do our best to ensure that you will be able to play but we can't guarantee that.

Important Information Regarding Hotel Car Parking

Members and visitors who use any of the Hallmark Hotel's car parks must register their vehicle registration number on arrival at Reception to avoid incurring a fine.

Three times a year the club donates our table money and anything extra which members and visitors wish to give to a local charity. From time to time the club also donates table money to emergency appeals when a major disaster occurs.

On 24th March the club raised £220.50 for Forest Holme Hospice in Poole. Members of the club were able to use this opportunity to donate money in memory of Evelyn Lewin who was a popular and longstanding member of the club and who had received excellent care at the hospice.

On 11th July the club raised £244 for the Dorset Air Ambulance Service. It provides a valuable service for those who are seriously ill or injured and  relies entirely on public support for funding.

Thank you to all our members who support our charity evenings.

In March we donated £142.90 to Chesnut Nursery which is adjacent to Poole Park in Kingland Road. The charity provides voluntary work for more than 60 people  with a mental ilness in a supportive and pressure-free environment.

In April the club donated £176.50 to the Nepal earthquake appeal.

In July the club donated £212.80 to the Bournemouth Leukaemia Fund which is raising £60000 to purchase a 'Next Generation' Sequencer  which  will enable a Single DNA Test to give individual diagnostic information which in many cases will provide specific treatments for patients with solid tumours and blood cancers at The Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

In  November the club raised £279.60 for the Dorset Kidney Fund which works on behalf of renal patients at Bournemouth and Poole hospitals. Members of the club were able to use this opportunity to donate money in memory of Marcia Levey who was a very popular and longstanding member of the club and who had had been a renal patient at Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Overall the club donated £811.80 to charity in 2015

In 2014 we donated £480.45 to local charities.

In November the club donated £150.20 to Crumbs in Boscombe which doubled to over £300 as a result of The "Just Giving " initiative. The charity runs a cafe and catering service which provides work and pre-employment training for people with learning disabilities or mental health problems.

In July the club  donated £163  to Routes to Roots which supports homeless people in Poole by providing them with food, shelter, clothing and bedding as well as help in finding somewhere to live.

In March the club  donated £167.25  to the local branch of Leonard Cheshire Disability which provides care and support for disabled people as well as work and skills training for those who are able to take advantage of this.

In February we raised £182 for the Boscombe Corps of The Salvation Army. The money was used to support the BH1 Project which provides food for those in need living in the centre of Bournemouth.

In July we raised £186.35 for "In Touch" which provides food, clothing, bedding and support for homeless people in Bournemouth.

In November we raised £167.50 for the Youth Cancer Trust which is based at Tracy Ann House in Westbourne.

Overall we donated £852.85 which includes £317 in response to the disaster in the Phillipines.