Welcome to Richmond Bridge Club, the most popular and successful EBU affiliated club in the country!  A friendly and progressive club, we are housed in the old Bowling Club Pavilion in Cambridge Park, nestled between Richmond & Twickenham.  Our Clubhouse has multiple playing rooms, teaching facilities and a fully licensed bar.

We offer a range of duplicate bridge sessions every day of the week for players of all abilities - our full schedule of regular events may be found here.

Our Academy offers lessons for new players, beginners and improvers, and seminars for more experienced players. For more detail about the different sessions for novices and improvers, please click here.

Looking to learn Bridge in a friendly and supportive environment?  Please find below the details for our next course 

To register an interest in this or any of our beginners courses, please click HERE

Course	Teacher		Start Date
Beginners Course - Part 1 10 Lessons	Pandora (Clubhouse)		Thurs 29 Jan @ 19:00
Beginners Course - Part 2 10 Lessons	Lyn & Glen (Clubhouse)		Tues 13 Jan @ 10:30
Beginners Course - Term 4 10 Lessons	Margaret (Clubhouse)		Tues 13 Jan @ 19:00
Contested Auction Mini-course 3 lessons	Cerith (Clubhouse)		Thursdays @ 10.30am 22nd Jan, 29th Jan & 5th Feb

Congratulations to our team on winning the National Inter-Club Knock Out (NICKO) plate.

The club was represented by John Osmond (Captain), Elisabeth Bingham, Peter Breakell, David Wing, Simon Cocheme and Cathy Barley. The final was played over 48 boards against a team representing Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme, with Richmond coming out on top by a score of 127 v 114 IMPS. This is the first time that the club has won the event. 

The match was played in 6 x 8 board rounds. At the end of the first 8 boards Richmond were up by 35 IMPS. A dodgy third set saw the half time lead cut to 22 IMPS, and the situation was unchanged going into the final round. After the first 5 of the final 8 boards, Richmond were down 8 IMPS with just 3 boards to go. After clawing back two small gains Richmond were +3 going into the final board - a tiny margin at this stage of the event. On the final board Simon & Lis bid to a making game while their opponents stopped in a part-score, leaving Richmond to gain 10 IMPS.

Regular practice is the key to developing your bridge skills and confidence.

We run lots of supervised sessions throughout the week. Guests always welcome. No need to have a partner

Monday 10am (Lyn & Glen) - Assisted Duplicate - 12 boards, practice with all the help you need

Monday 7.30pm (Richard) - Workshop/Supervised Play  - 12 boards on a bidding/play theme, with commentary

Wednesday 10am (Richard) - Workshop - 12 board duplicate on a bidding/play theme, with commentary

Wednesday 10am (Tim) - online supervised practice online if you can't make it into the club

Wednesday 7pm (Margaret) - Gentle Duplicate (15/16 boards) or Supervised Play

Thursday 7pm (Richard) - Supervised Play

Friday Morning 10am (Lyn & Glen) - Supervised Play 

Free Play vouchers can be used at any of these sessions

For advice on any of these sessions, please speak to any of the teachers or contact Richard/Cerith in the office.

After a long illness Roger Collins passed away on November 14th.

Roger had been a member for more than 10 years, often playing 3 or 4 times every week.

Roger's funeral will take place at Mortlake Crematorium on Friday December 12th @ 13.20

Anyone wishing to attend please let me know so that we can inform the family.

We will be organising a wake at the bridge club that afternoon after the funeral. 

After a long illness Susanna Gross recently passed away.

She was a bridge columnist for the Spectator and first represented England in 2010

Please see here for an obituary posted online by David Gold, and the announcement on the EBU website.

 Diana Von Halle suddenly passed away 22nd October 2025.

She was always a lively spirit and I enjoyed many occasions playing against Diana - and her regular partner Emma Forbes.

We arranged a special birthday surprise for Diana at a Sunday cake session last year.

Please click HERE to read more about Diana's past in an article from our "Show your Hand"  series.

Richmond Bridge Club is delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Wimbledon Bridge Club to offer joint online Supervised Play sessions!

Online Supervised Play sessions run every week on Wednesday mornings, 10:30am-12:30pm on RealBridge.  There is no need to book, just click on the appropriate link below about 10 minutes before the start of play and you’ll be taken to the RealBridge login page.  Enter your full name and EBU number to log in to the session.  If you can get a table of three or four together, you’ll be guaranteed a game.  You are welcome to come as a pair or single and we will try and make up tables, but we can’t guarantee you’ll get a game.

See above and to the right under "Realbridge Links" for the link to access this Supervised Play session

Cost is £6 per session which will be charged to your RBC member’s account.