Wishing you all a Christmas that is filled with love, joy and all the little things that makes the season bright and our best wishes for good health in the New Year. 

Please note: Club is closed from Wed 24th Dec and reopens on Wed 7th Jan 2026 

Forthcoming events: 

Christmas Fuddle. Thursday 11th Dec & Friday19th Dec. Patsy has got the list of food to bring on both days by the members. 

Allestree away day on Monday 19th Jan 2026 at Sitwell Arms. Cost £20 . Booking is taken by Deborah Wren. For Menu Click > Lunch Menu

EBU Sims Pairs:Tuesday 13th Jan 2026 Sponsored by the Allestree bridge club. please click >https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwx/bw.cgi?club=spondonoldschool&pid=display_page19

Thank you everyone for taking part on Thursday and Friday to raise the money for Children In Need. Total donation was £285, which is sent to CIN Charity. 

Money donated for charity in the collection tin and during the session, total  of £358.05 to give to the ''DOORWAYS Derby Charity''. Thank you every one for their donations.

Allestree Bridge club established by Derek Povah in 1990.

Home of Allestree Bridge Club. The Memorial Hall. 1 Cornhill. Allestree, Derby. DE22 2GG

We welcome all visitors and prospective new members. For further information contact Club Secretary Adarsh Batra; 07530309437.  Subscription of £5 is due now. To pay online click >.ABC Bank

All Bridge sessions are Face to Face. Please make sure one member of your partnership arrives 10 min before the bridge starts to help us achieve a prompt start. 

*WEDNESDAY 10am Supervised play. No partner needed, just come along & play bridge. All welcome. For further information please contact Susan Illsley : 01332-989184

*THURSDAY 10am  Beginners & Improvers Lessons .New course starting on 4th Sept. Cost £5/ lesson. For further information please contact Elaine on 01332-832654

*THURSDAY 1.15pm: Social Duplicate Bridge.

 *FRIDAY 1pm:  Duplicate Bridge.

* TUESDAY ONLINE Teaching 10.30am -12pm  Cost £5, that includes lesson on Zoom and play on BBO.  For further details please contact Elaine; 01332-832654

Secret word ''Finesse'' what does it mean?

Congratulations to Graham Fairweather & David Dawkins our Thursday pairs champions. 

Congratulations to David Hardy and Jenny Park our Friday Champions. Well done all of you.

Please think of others,  if you are unwell even just a cold & cough or you have or may have Covid or have been in close contact with someone who has, then please do not attend any bridge session. Thank you.

Bridge holidays at Llandudno. 43 people attended 40 bridge players and 3 non bridge players. Thank you Elaine for organising. Everyone enjoyed the holidays.

♠♥♦♣ Great evening yesterday 20th Sept, celebrating 35th Anniversary of Allestree Bridge Club. As many of you said it was a most enjoyable celebration. Everything went very well, very nice food and entertainment by Elvis, making the event so memorable. People danced all the way until after 11,30pm.Thank you for attending.

Thank you to 35th Anniversary committee organisers, Chairman Elaine, Jo Bakshi, Patsy, Ann and Deborah for their hard work. You can see the photos on ''New Bridge Subs'' WhatsApp group.

Please do not park in the RED COW car park. The landlord is threatening to clamp your car.

45 bridge players attended the Allestree bridge club holidays at Arnside. Thank you to Elaine for organising very enjoyable holidays.

Click Links: New Blue Book, effective from1st  September 2022

1) Updates to Blue and White Books 2022  (2)  New Alerting and Announcing Bidding Rules and an article by Stephen Green (vice-chair of the Laws and Ethics committee) More detail of the new announcements is in the Announcement Summary

A TD who needs to explain and apply these new rules needs to read (or be able to find) the text in the Blue Book itself. It may be helpful to look at the final draft of the new Blue Book – which has changes marked in the margin.

 Very successful open day on 4th April. Ten  young children and three adult attended and shown great interest to come again to learn bridge.  Also attended by 12 Allestree bridge club members total 25 Thank you to Club members for their support by bringing children, grandchildren and making this event successful.

Sadly Derek passed away on 26th July 2021. 

He was awarded the Dimmie Fleming Award for 2011 and was presented with his certificate on 6th September 2011 at Spondon.These awards are made annually by the EBU for services to Bridge, and this award to Derek was as a result of Derek's activity in the field of Bridge over many years without thought of personal reward and in particular establishing our Allestree Bridge Club in 1990.