Wednesday night special - October 30th - Swiss Pairs

Our next Wednesday night special is on October 30th - a Swiss Pairs Competition. All members and visitors welcome: nibbles and prizes - as always

Tea and coffee from 7pm - 7.30 start time.

We look forward to seeing you.  Please sign up HERE

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Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre - for your diaries - forthcoming events at B&CHBC

Wednesday October 30^th 7.30pm Swiss Pairs

Monday November 11^th 1.30pm Simultaneous Pairs for Children in Need  

Tuesday November 12^th 1.30pm Non-Expert Duplicatefor Children in Need

Tuesday November 12^th 7.30pm Simultaneous Pairs for Children in Need

Wednesday November 20th 7.30pm  Point-a-board Teams

Wednesday December 4^th 7.30pm Mixed Pairs

Saturday December 21^st 7.00pm Christmas Party

Watch the website and e-mails for further details

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4 Star Grand Master Irving Blakey

Area Master John Commons

Club Master Rachel Hardcastle

Congratulations! 

The centre has entered 5 teams in the 2024-25 National Inter-Club Knock- Out competition.  We wish them all well in the coming months.

Team Byrne (Holland, Hyett, Barton)

Team Foster (Roberts, Alexander, Currie)

Team Thomas (McMullan, Davies, Hopton)

Team Harris (Knowles, Keary, Booth)

Team Smalley (Slater, Lighton, Dessain, Harvey)

Good luck to all the teams!

Dimmie Fleming - Irene Davies

Congratulations to Irene Davies who will be receiving the Dimmie Fleming Award from the EBU for her contributions to the success of the MCBA during the last 15 years.  Click here for citation.

We are shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden death yesterday September 18th of Milly Lang.  She was a lovely lady, very fit - a badminton player - and a good bridge player.  She was a regular player at Bramhall on Monday afternoons, and at other bridge games in the locality. She will be greatly missed. We send our condolences to her family.

The committee thanks all our members who have donated so generously this week to Cancer Research as part of the Festival of Bridge week. In lieu of table money we collected £1600 which David McNeillie is sending to the EBU for Cancer Resarch: also the EBU is donating our UMS payments for the week (45p each time you play at the club) to Cancer Research UK.

The centre has had a great time during the week, including our special events. On Tuesday, all our beginners/students met together for bridge and lunch.  On Wednesday evening we had a visiting team of 20 players from Altrincham for an inter-club match  - which was social and competitive: the visitors were victorious but we look forward to a revenge visit to Altrincham next year.

Finally, 37 members enjoyed cheese and wine with bridge on Saturday evening: Alec ran a great individual movement so each person played 18 boards with 18 different partners...without bridgemates ...a few were challenged by paper travellers and calculating the scores!....however, all was entered on the computer after the event and results posted before midnight.

Premier National Master: Karen Jones & Barbara Lewis

District Master: Hilary Moules

Congratulations!

As part of our Festival of Bridge week's activities, we hosted an inter-club teams match against Altrincham Bridge Club on Sept 11th. 10 pairs from each club participated, and the event was directed by Jeff Smith is his usual efficient and friendly manner.  The evening was social as well as competitive, and deemed to be a great success - and an annual match was proposed.

The individual team scores are HERE. The aggregate VPs gave Altrincham an impressive victory : congratulations to them but we will get our revenge next year!

Thanks to our members who came forward to play for the centre, and to all the players - who donated generously to Cancer Reserach.

Rachel Hardcastle  Local Master
Phil Kemp  Local Master

Congratulations!

The B&CHBC club year ends on August 31st. We have had a successful year and have been pleased to see our members at Bramhall and on RealBridge.

Membership subscriptions for the year September 1st 2024 to August 31st 2025 remain at £24 and are due now and should be paid before September 1st. 

Your subscription includes membership of B&CHBC, Bramhall Village Club and the English Bridge Union.

If any of your personal details (inc Gift Aid donation)  have changed please let our membership secretary know:  Mary Green  (or update by logging into Members Only page on the web).

Please pay your £24 by BACS transfer - preferred, or by cheque. The BACs  details are:

Business Name: Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre (truncated to 'Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Bri')

Sort Code   01-01-14

Account Number   15236943

please reference with:  Your Name

If you wish to pay by cheque, please make it payable to Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre and send to David McNeillie, 3 Bowness Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 7HS.

If you are not renewing your membership, please let us know so we can update our records and you can avoid the reminder emails!

Julia Bannister  4 Star Master
Joyce White  2 Star Grand Master
Tom Dessain  Grand Master
Nigel Matthews  3 Star Premier Master
Jonathan Berg  Advanced Master
Stephen Ward  Premier National Master
Bryn Pick  District Master
David Grimshaw  Area Master
Lynn Bracey  Club Master
Brian Thompson  Local Master

Congratulations! 

The minutes of the B&CHBC AGM are now on the website (under 'Documents') or HERE

Peter Wilkinson  County Master
Gavin Callow  Club Master

Congratulations!

Festival Of Bridge

Thank you to Patricia Tooze and friends from Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Club who recently raised money for Cancer Research UK as part of the Bridge - It's a Big Deal! Festival of bridge.

Eight members from the Y2 Beginners’ class at Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre played in a “Barbie” themed bridge afternoon at Patricia's house. They raised £50 for the Bridge - It’s a Big Deal! fund in aid of Cancer Research UK.

The official Festival week will take place from 9th - 15th September, but we welcome groups big or small to raise funds at any stage. We hope you will join in and have fun playing or learning bridge while raising money for this wonderful cause.

If you are planning an event, please let us know, email EBU and/or Espen Gisvold

You can make a donation to Cancer Research UK via: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/.../english-bridge...

(Taken from Aylesbury Staff on FaceBook)

It is timely to remind our members to always engage in Best Behaviour at Bridge as outlined in the EBU document that can be read HERE.

Congratulations to Mary Green, Rob Harris and Fly Leung who have recently taken the EBU  TD training courses and assessment and are now qualified EBU Club Directors.

We look forward to them joining the TD team at the centre.

Bramhall Village Club

 

B&CHBC is the largest section and membership group at Bramhall Village Club.   BVC is a registered charity and is managed by a group of trustees and representatives of the member sections who deal with the management of the building and the activities that take place - these include building issues,  membership, and liaison with those who rent the various rooms for their activities and events. The management team are all volunteers and are presently looking for new members to join the committee to participate in the present running of, and future planning for BVC.  If you have a little time to spare, and would be willing to volunteer your time and expertise, then the chairman Ross Worthington will be delighted to talk to you.  Please let me know if you are interested and I will pass on your contact details to Ross.
 

RealBridge - Monday evenings at 7.30pm. You do not need to register, just click on the appropriate link in the "Login RealBridge" on the right of our home page.

Results - The results are all on this website together with the ‘leader boards’ to be found under Competitions in the Menu.

TD's - Our TDs are all volunteers: Espen, Alec, Paul & Mike

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