It is with much sadness we announce that our long standing member Enid Rookes passed away on 30th January. Our heartfelt condolences to all the family and friends.

And  that the DCBA President and our long standing member Alan Smith passed away. Our heartfelt condolences to all the family and friends. 

More information will follow

Our congratulations to Elaine Coldicott and Stephen Read winners of Hazel Whinfrey plate this year.

Allestree Bridge club established by Derek Povah in 1990

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

SUBSCRIPTION of £5 IS DUE NOW. YOU CAN PAY VIA BANK TRANSFER- PLEASE CLICK > ABC BANK

All sessions are Face to Face. Please be seated 10 minutes before the bridge starts.

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

*THURSDAY 10am  Beginners Lessions : For further information contact Elaine on 01332-832654

*THURSDAY 1.15pm: SOCIAL DUPLICATE BRIDGE

 *FRIDAY 1pm:  Duplicate Bridge

 Web master: Jogindra Bakshi

For further information contact Club Secretary Simon Jackson Tel: 01332-841182.

* TUESDAY 10.30 ONLINE Improver's Lessons on Zoom.Cost £4 per lesson, For joining link Contact Elaine; 01332-832654           

 *THURSDAY F2F- -Beginners bridge Lessons at 10am. £5 per lesson. £60 for 12 lessons.Improvers lesson 10 am £5  you can attend either lesson 

Book your place by ringing  Elaine 01332-832654

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

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

Congratulations to members for getting promoted by the EBU: 

  Celia Shaw -County Master,  Mike Ball- 2 Star Master

     & Ravi Jhangiani- Distrct Master

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.

Arnside 2022. Enjoyable Bridge holidays attended by 31 bridge players.

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

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.