A huge success last year with record numbers at both clubs, the South West Congress returns. Please make a note in your diaries of the dates  below and send your bookings in.

Swiss Pairs - Sunday 7th February directed by Edmund Louis at Wimbledon 1.30 start - Winning Pair win £200

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I am delighted to tell you that the Charity Event at Wimbledon was an outstanding success with our wonderful auctioneer Paul Mendleson urging people to bid generously and in total the charity fund so far has reached an incredible figure of £10000. My sincere thanks to all the players listed below for agreeing to play and special thanks to Triple Crown winner Fulvio Fantoni who is flying in from Italy for the "Night of the Stars" on Thursday 25th February. Out thanks also to the companies who supported us Robert Holmes, Bridgemate UK, Costco and there were some remarkable donations from Individuals who prefer not to be named.

Most of all thanks to all of who supported the event by buying raffle tickets, bringing in cakes or goodies, bidding for players or playing on the day. Details of the "Night of the Stars" will be available shortly.

Wimbledon Bridge Club 

welcomes you to regular sessions and special events. 

We meet at least 13 times a week, from Monday through Saturday, and we encourage players of all standards to attend these regular sessions of friendly Duplicate Bridge.  Visitors are always made welcome; please come and join us for a session.  A "host" is often available as you will see from the Calendar.  The Bridgemate wireless scoring system is used so that results are updated as you play.  Hand copies of each session can be taken away and are also available once the results are posted on the website. 

Special events from the WBF, EBU, BGB and Surrey calendars are held  throughout the year.

Wimbledon Bridge Club also offers a full Teaching programme of classes and practice sessions (with supervision) for beginners as well as for those with some experience of the game and wanting to improve their skills. 

We are now taking bookings for the night we have all been waiting for - Thursday 25th February when you get a chance to play amongst some of the best players in the world. Time 7.00pm- cost £12.00 members and £15.00 visitors which includes cheese and wine. Please click here for a booking form which you need to enclose with payment and send to the club. Hurry spaces are limited

We are delighted to welcome Andrew Kambites to the club in late February. Andrew will be giving two seminars designed to improve your bridge at whatever standard you play. Andrew is a bridge Grandmaster winner of many national championships (latest being Tollemache Cup 2007 and Pachabo Cup 2008). He is a well know author having written 20 books some in conjunction with Ron Kilinger, Hugh Kelsey and Eric Crowhurst, some as a sole writer. He is a current contributor to English Bridge anmd is widely acknowledged as one of the best teachers in the game today. The first seminar is designed for beginners/novices is being held on Saturday 27 February and is called "Card Play & Bidding". The seminar will run from 10.00am to about 4.30pm and the cost is £20.00 including a two course lunch.

The second seminar which is designed for all club players is being held on Sunday 28 February and  is called "Tight Defence" timings as above cost £20.00 including a three course buffet lunch.

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ANDREW IS DOING THESE SEMINARS AS PART OF OUR CHARITY PAIRS FUND AND AS SUCH ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DIVIDED BETWEEN ST RAPHAEL'S HOSPICE, MACMILLAN NURSES, SHOOTING STAR CHILDREN'S HOSPICE AND THE VILLAGE OF HOPE. WE ARE DELIGHTED WITH ANDREW'S GESTURE AND WE HOPE THE SEMINARS WILL BE WELL SUPPORTED