Acacia Bridge Club - a short history from 1973 to 2009 |
Sadly for a few years this was not updated and so they have been lost to the mists of time.
2021 We are playing at Bourne Hall, Ewell but Covid had stopped us being able to play for the early part of the year. Understandably we were not getting as many tables each week with the threat of Covid still about and even though we were all vaccinated the threat was still there. Our finances had taken a hit due to covid and we hoped attendance would pick up and restore them, sadly it was not to be quite that simple but we managed to keep going.
2022 All started well and we were getting by but there was talk of the fees at Bourne Hall going up which would have made things harder for us and they doubled the parking charges which put a few people off coming. We decided we should start looking for a new venue and one of the members knew of a Local retirement home which had just been built and after investigation it seemed ideal. The home thought it helped their profile to have a Bridge Club there every week their residents could use, so they let us use it free of any charges! We played there quite well for a couple of months but none of the residents joined in and some started complaining that as we drove away we interrupted their sleep so the management decided to stop us playing there.
2023 We played for a short while at a tennis club while we looked for a more permanent place and after looking at many halls in the Ewell and Stoneleigh areas someone suggested Banstead Village Hall. When we came to look it was perfect! We have been there ever since, their charges are more reasonable and we are finding old members who had drifted away at Bourne Hall started coming back and we also have had a few new members join.
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