It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Arnold Chandler on 31st Dec 2025. Arnold was a former Secretary and Chairman of the DCBA, former Treasurer and Chairman of East Midlands Bridge Academy and  Secretary of Derby bridge club and member of Derby and Allestree bridge club for long time  Our Heartfelt condolences to Sandra and all the family. 

Arnold's Funeral arrangements, Monday 26th Jan 3.30pm at Markeaton Crematorium fowolled by wake Great Noethern , Station Road .Mickleover. Family flower only. Donations to Alzheimers society.

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.

Allestree away day on Monday 19th Jan 2026 10 am for 10.30 start at The Sitwel Arms. 30 Wood Lane Horsley Woodhose. DE7 6BN. 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

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.  Allestree Club Bank  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 -12  Beginners & Improvers Lessons .. Cost £5/ lesson. You can join any 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?

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.

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.

♠♥♦♣ 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.

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

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

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.