The 2026 January Challenge will take place on 28 January 2026 on Level 17 at the City Club.

Reserve the date in your diary.
This is an all day event with morning and afternoon bridge sessions, and a break for lunch.

Bookings can be made here.

The RACV Club has announced the following table fees will apply for 2026:

Monday Supervised
        Club Members   $17.50
        Guests                $22.00

Wednesday Duplicate
        Club Members   $17.50
        Guests                $22.00

Wednesday Coaching
        Club Members   $22.00
        Guests                $27.00

The Beginners+ group having some Christmas cheer in the Wine Bar after their last session for 2025

Over November 2025 the four Wednesday Duplicate sessions were combined to create the RACV Club Championship Pairs, with the best three out of four results to count.

In a very tight result Shayne Wurf and Jo-Anne Heywood prevailed by 0.01 percent.  Runners up were Denise Rozner and Barry Ballard with Mary Stoney and Sally Foster coming third.

Complete results can be seen on the Results page (here) with the date being 26 November 2025.

Planning for the Bridge Club's 2025 Christmas Bridge and Lunch is now complete.  Details can be found in the attached flyer.

In November 2025 the 4 Wednesday Morning Duplicate Sessions will combine to create the RACV Club Championship Pairs 

• Each Wednesday session will continue to run as stand-alone Duplicate and bookings can be made as usual via the website.
• Pairs playing in 3 or more sessions will be automatically entered in the overall Championship rankings.
• Only the best 3 scores out of 4 will count towards the final result.
• Seating positions will be allocated by the director
• Club members who normally play at other sessions (Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon) are encouraged to play in this event.

Eligibility

• The same pair must play with no substitution allowed
• Each member of the pair must have an active ABF number
• Each member of the pair must be a member of the RACV Bridge Club

Prizes and Prestige

• The winning pair will receive a trophy or medallion – and, of course, bragging rights

Ronella Stuart
President

Changes to processes by the Bridge Club Committee
The Committee has made the following changes in August 2024

Changes to the Partnership Service
The current partnership service has been a very successful and much appreciated component of our Bridge Club for the past 10 years. It was put in place during a cultural change in our club when a non-playing director was appointed, which identified the need to support players without partners. The changes to the partnership service are being made in order to make more effective use of Bridgewebs, and you will be aware of the many changes and updates that have been implemented in recent weeks to this site.

The committee is pleased to announce the enhancements and changes to how you may go about requesting a partner: See below:

•          You may have noticed on our Bridgewebs site a new page under Bookings - now titled “Request a Partner”.  This is the “Self Help” option. Here you check if someone has advised their availability for a specific date and session.  If they have, and you are interested, then you can contact them directly using the information supplied in the contact field.  If there isn’t anyone available, then you can advertise your availability by filing out the form.  Please note the information entered is “public”.

•          If you prefer not to have your contact details in the public domain, then you can continue to use email, but please note we now have a new, dedicated email address for this service, which is: partnership@racvbridge.au  

Changes to the Bridge Club Group email - updated Auguat 2025
As you know the Bridge Club has used the racvbridge.au@gmail.com email address to send announcements, newsletters and bulletins to all Bridge Club members.  However, many of you may not be aware that there have been issues primarily  - sending group emails with attachments, especially to Bigpond addresses and others as well.

We have researched options and believe we will get a much better result using a commercial mail sender.  There are many available, all vying for the bulk email marketing campaign market.  The best known of these is MailChimp.  These companies are targeting 500,000 or more emails in a campaign - we only need to send about 150 each time

In 2024 the Committee, based on the Webmaster’s recommendation, selected sender.net to see if we can deliver a better message and content more reliably to more members. Sugsequently some issues with this provider have been detected, and as of july 2025 the Webmaster is now trialling Mailer Lite.

For you, this means you will receive newsletter emails from “RACV Bridge Club” and a reply-to address of “news@racvbridge.au”.   This email address is not monitored, so do not reply. Your reply will not be seen or actioned.

To ensure these emails get to your Inbox, we strongly suggest you add this email address to your address book and/or your safe sender list, also known as a Whitelist.

We will no longer send attachments.  In the wider world, attachments are a potential means of loading malicious software to your device.  If we need to send a document the email you receive will have a safe link to that document, which will reside on the Club’s Google Drive.

The following clarification on Members introducing guests has been received from

Robert Chambers
Member Engagement Coordinator, RACV Club

Dear RACV Bridge Club,

There have been some questions to the Bridge Committee from Club Members regarding the limiting of non-member guest attendance at Bridge sessions. Previously, a limit has been imposed to ensure that RACV Club members were given priority when Bridge sessions would regularly book out. 

Attendance at Bridge sessions has stabilised over the last two years, and we are now in a position to host Club Members and their guests without restriction. Such a position is not in contravention of the RACV Club’s by-laws in allowing guest attendance without a limit. The appropriate section from the by-laws is included below for reference.

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6.5 Regulation of entry of guests

(a) The names of all guests and the names of Members introducing them shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose.

(b) A Member may introduce guests in accordance with any restrictions determined by the Club and Membership Committee and notified to Members from time to time.

(c) Members are responsible for the conduct of their guests in Club Premises including any expenses incurred or any damage caused by them.

(d) The RACV Club may refuse to admit any guest without giving any reason.

(e) The RACV Club may suspend or limit the admission of guests to the Club Premises on any occasion or during any hours. 

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