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 Simon Jackson 01332-841182 or Jo Bakshi  Web master 07711522706

 Click :Allestree Club Bank Details.

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. For further information contact Susan Illsley : 01332-989184

*THURSDAY 10am; Beginners & Improvers Lessons. £60 for 12 lessons. Restarting on 5th Sept. For further information please contact Elaine on 01332-832654

*THURSDAY 1.15pm: Social Duplicate Bridge.

 *FRIDAY 1pm:  Duplicate Bridge.

* TUESDAY ONLINE Teaching 10.30am -12.30pm. Cost £4 , that includes lesson on Zoom and play on BBO. for further details please contact Elaine; 01332-832654

Please think of others,  if you are unwell even just a cold 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.

♠ ♥ ​​​​​​Children in Need :We have raised £270 on Thursday and £180 on Friday. We are sending £450 to Children in Need. Thank you everyone who took part to raise this money. Our congratulations to Anne Cullen and Keith Robertson coming nationally at 2nd position

This year Children in Need on 10th Nov .Raised £132 , sent to charity £200

Well done Alan Walters and Jogindra Bakshi coming first  with 73.79%  Nationaly & overall out of 1332 pairs.

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. Click- A review of Derek Povah's life by his brother Gordon Povah

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.