Hitchin BC visit from Students

Members of the Hitchin club go every Thursday lunchtime to teach Year 5 and 6 children at Samuel Lucas JMI School how to play Bridge. Recently the club ran a session where the students came along to observe and play some games with the members. See the Hitchin website for more details.

Marjorie Lukyn Charity for 2023-24 Season
Marjorie Lukyn Charity for 2023-24 Season

The HBA charity for the 2023-24 season is Open Door St Albans. Their aim is to support people who have experienced homelessness or are at risk of sleeping rough.  The Charity funds improvements to the Open Door shelter, as well as covering the costs of outreach services and the volunteer coordinator.

Master Point Promotions

Congratulations to all those recently achieving new master point promotions.   
Click here.. to see the full February list.

HBA Committee Meeting

Key points from the Committee Meeting of January 26th are available here..

Latest from the EBU

For all the latest news articles from the English Bridge Union, click here.. 

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This website provides details of all bridge clubs that are affiliated to the County Assoc and the EBU

Forthcoming Events

All Hertfordshire events will be staged on RealBridge unless otherwise stated.


10 High Pairs:  Sunday 24th March at 2:00pm.  
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for details.


Championship Pairs Final:  Sunday 21st April at 2pm  
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for details.
Senior Teams:  Sunday12th May at 11:00am  
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for details.
Seven-high Pairs: Sunday 19th May 2024 at 3:00pm 
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for details.
Green-Pointed Swiss Pairs: Sunday 28th July 2024 F2F at Jersey Farm Community Centre, St Albans 
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for details.
Further Afield

Regional Events

EBU National Pairs - Eastern Region BBO Heat:  Sunday 24th March at 11:30am.  
ENTRIES FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOW CLOSED


County Events

Cambs & Hunts Blue-pointed Swiss Pairs Sunday 28th April at the Fulbourn Centre, Cambs CB21 5BS

For more details, click here..


  For links to other counties' websites - click here


Education & Development

Learning to play Bridge

For details of teaching lessons, please see the Learning Bridge in Herts page.

Club Director Training

EBED are putting on a new Club Director training course in Watford in June. The course is 4 days spread over a few weeks on the 1st, 15th, 29th and July 13th, each day starting at 10.15.  For more details, see the EBED website..

Club Directors - click here for useful information on training courses and updated flowcharts.

Youth - new handbook and safeguarding policies also applicable for vulnerable adults,


Eastern Counties League

Congratulations to all three of our county squads who have won their respective divisions - quite unusual to get a clean sweep these days.

They will all play in the National Final on Sunday the 2nd June where we all wish them every success.

For ECL Results and League Tables , click here..

Marjorie Lukyn

Congratulations to Alan Woof & Oliver Tiemann on a comfortable win in the final of the Marjorie Lukyn Charity Cup on March 10th. Click here... for the results.

Eccles Cup

Congratulations to the Harpenden Red team - Jill & Geoff Horn, John Hanlon & Bob Veal, David Keith & Jo Gardner, Sue Slater & Barbara Berry - winners of this year's Eccles Cup. Click here.. for the results.

Ten-high Teams

Congratulations to the Hitchin team - David Mitchell & Andy Holtham, Simon Bloomfield & Andrew Bacon - the winners of the ten-high club teams competition on January 28th.  Click here.. for the Results.

Championship Pairs Semi-final

Congratulations to all who qualified for the final of April 21st, with a particular callout for Susie Bond & Mike Minting, the semi-final session's winners.  The results are available here..

Humble Cup Qualifying Round

Click here.. for the results.   Congratulations to the 8 teams who qualified; the draw for the quarter finals is available on the competition page..