The EBU is pleased to encourage and reward members who have been performing well with Masterpoints which, after acquiring a certain number, lead to a promotion in rank.

Congratulations to our members listed below who have attained a promotion in August:

Bill Rosie  Advanced Master
Richard Litchfield  County Master

Click for an explanation of the EBU ranks

Here are the results of the second round of the 2023-24 Club Handicap Competition. 

Congratulations to the winners Richard Litchfield and Ian Darch.

Runners up were Jennifer Vale and Carole Adamek.  In third place were Steve Brown and Derek Moses.

Many thanks to Alan for working out the handicap results, Jane for directing and the 17 pairs who took part in this enjoyable evening.

The Charity Rubber Bridge Knock-Out has not been held since 2019/20 but is being relaunched this year.

Paul Slater has agreed to organise it and the Worcestershire Contract Bridge Association has decided to support the Worcester Buoys who are rowing the Atlantic to raise money for Acorns Children's Hospice.

More details of this worthy cause here. 

The entry form is here and we would be grateful if you could advertise this event to your Club Members.

Thank you from the Worcestershire Contract Bridge Association.

The EBU is pleased to encourage and reward members who have been performing well with Masterpoints which, after acquiring a certain number, lead to a promotion in rank.

Congratulations to Philip Morgan who has attained a promotion in July and is now a 2 Star Premier Master.

Click for an explanation of the EBU ranks

Thanks to everyone who sponsored me. I’ve raised over £300 for Maggies cancer charity.

I’ve cycled for the last three days to complete 262km this month.

My ongoing (unsponsored) cycle challenge is to visit all 42 C of E Cathedrals in England by bike.

13 completed last year and although I have yet to make a serious start this year I have plans to add another 7/8 to get half way there.

Should keep me busy into the Autumn!

On Wednesday 19th July excitement was added to the evening with the playing of a Swiss Pairs movement.

5 rounds were played, each of four boards.  The movement ensured we played one of the pairs closest to us in rank in each round after the first.

The results were as follows:

    Winners          Paul Greaves and Terry Collins

Runners Up         David and Sarah Halford

           3rd place         Barry Menheneott and Keith Watson

Congratulations to everyone who took part and many thanks to David Halford for organising and directing the evening.

The EBU is pleased to encourage and reward members who have been performing well with Masterpoints which, after acquiring a certain number, lead to a promotion in rank.

Congratulations to all our members listed below who have attained a promotion in June!

John Hellens  County Master
Candy Shelley  Master
Belinda Morgan  District Master

An explanation of the Masterpoint ranks.

Richard Greenwood is raising money for a cancer support charity which has been of enormous support to him and his late wife Rachel.

He sent this message in the hope that we might be able to support him:

"I have always enjoyed cycling and spent four summer holidays touring with Rachel in France. Rachel and I both benefitted enormously from the support we received from Maggies during her illness.

Presently my continued cycling keeps me active and I have also made friends with other cyclists from cycling uk Cambridge."

Here is the link to use if you wish to help him raise funds for the Maggie's Cancer Support Charity

The 'Chairmans' cup takes place at Ombersley on the 9th July at 2pm. This competition is specifically aimed at players with less than 5 years experience playing bridge.

The Worcester 'mixed' teams event also takes place on 9th July at 2pm on Realbridge. We would really like more teams to enter and represent Bewdley Bridge Club.

The 'Fun' bridge session on a Friday morning at 9.15am is proving very popular! We usually get about 6 tables, but there is always room for more. This is an ideal opportunity as a stepping stone from learning bridge and just playing socially into a formal (albeit extremely relaxed and fun) duplicate session. So don't be shy come and join in the fun for an hour.

eileen@oakleydevelopment.co.uk

07974743575

You are invited to take part in in a huge contest, spanning vast expanses of land and sea!

It all happens on Tuesday 4^th July, at 9 am. Please see the poster below for more details.

You are welcome to enter as many or as few pairs as you like.

This event is free to you - but you can ask your players to pay normal table money, if that is something you would like to do.

There will be three pools of players. The top 20 tables will comprise the expert pool. Club players will be in the middle pool. Newcomers to the game and learners (having played more than 6 months) will be in their own pool. In the newcomers pool we will play 2 fewer boards, so that we all end at the same time.

If you are interested in playing , please let Eileen know as soon as possible.

The latest ongoing results for Mon, Weds and Thurs 2023/24 have now been put onto the website and are accessed from the blue menu down the left of this page.

The EBU is pleased to encourage and reward members who have been performing well with Masterpoints which, after acquiring a certain number, lead to a promotion in rank.

Congratulations to all our members listed below who have attained a promotion in April!

David Malcomson  County Master
Jonathan Price  1 Star Master
Jennifer Vale  Club Master

For your reference here is the full list of EBU ranks

An exciting start to our competition for the annual 4-Round Handicap Trophy. 
 

Here are the final results for Round 1 (many thanks to Alan for working them out)
 

Handicap 23-24 Rd1

It may be of interest to members to look back at our historic cup, shield and trophy winners or to look at the items that have appeared on our website over the years.

The blue menu strip down the left hand side of this page contains the item 'Board of Honour 1996-Present'.  Pressing this will reveal the full Honours Board of Bewdley Bridge Club since 1996.

The item on the left hand menu below the Board of Honour is 'Previous Items on our Web Site'  Pressing this will give a list of years since 2015 each of which contains items from the website for that year.

You may enjoy a trip down memory lane sometime!

We had another enjoyable evening on Thursday 27th April with our first Thursday night Swiss Teams event.

 Appreciation was expressed for the RealBridge software which handled an odd number of teams so incredibly well.

The clear winning team was Heather Westcott, Jennifer Romer, David Halford and Ian Argyle.

Second were Alan Booth, Bob Law, Chris Greatbatch and Sue Deakin.

The third place went to Richard Litchfield, Ian Darch, Mick Blakeman and Jayne Bolton.

Many thanks to all who took part.

I am hoping that we will be able to play (for the first time on a Thursday) a teams session this coming Thursday, 27 April 2023 with the usual 7pm start time.  We will play teams provided that there is not a half table.

It would be great if a pair would volunteer to act as hosts, thereby ensuring that we can play a teams event.

We will either play a Swiss movement or a Round Robin movement depending upon table numbers.

There is no requirement to pre-form teams for this event.  Please join your partner at the lowest available table and you will form a team at that table.  Please try to avoid creating "super teams" as I want everyone to have a good chance of winning the event.

The event is open to all members, regardless of the subscription paid and regardless of the sessions of the week in which an individual member normally plays.

Teams is a superb form of bridge and I look forward to you playing in the event.  For the avoidance of all doubt, players of every experience level are welcome to play.

The EBU is pleased to encourage and reward members who have been performing well with Masterpoints which, after acquiring a certain number, lead to a promotion in rank.

Congratulations to all our members listed below who have attained a promotion in March!

Linda Symonds  County Master
Anne Glendenning  Area Master
Tim Wadsworth  County Master
Bill Somers  Area Master
David Arbuthnott  Area Master
Nicola Downes  Club Master

The subscription rates for online bridge for the next six months are as follows:-

Duplicate Single Weekly Play £30

Duplicate Multiple Weekly Play £50

Morning Single Weekly Play £10

Morning Multiple Weekly Play £20

So the maximum subscription, which would cover every online bridge activity provided by the club would be £70 (equating to less than £3 per week and a reduction for this six month period of around 30% to reflect the strength of club reserves).  Your committee considers that this represents excellent value for money and I really hope that you will renew your subscription.

Please will you pay your subscription to Bewdley Bridge Club.  The account is a business account and its number is 10301671 with sort code 20-82-70.  Please when making a payment put your name as the transaction reference.

I am contacting you to provide an update on activities provided by Bewdley Bridge Club and to invite you to renew your club subscription for the six month period from April to September 2023.

The club wil continue to provide a diverse programme of online bridge using the excellent RealBridge platform.  All three of our weekly duplicate sessions - Monday afternoon, Wednesday evening and Thursday evening - remain popular and provide the opportunity to play friendly but competitive bridge.  We have developed our programme so that it includes Simultaneous Pairs in partnership with ECats Bridge, Swiss Pairs and Swiss Teams.  We have also transformed the club handicap competition so that it is staged quarterly throughout the club year.  We continue to look for innovative opportunities to develop the club calendar to maximise enjoyment for members - a new innovation being played recently was a joint session with our friends at Pershore Duplicate Bridge Club.

We will have periodic sessions of Face To Face Bridge in the lovely settings of Wharton Park Golf Club, the latest of which will be on Wednesday 29 March 2023.  Other Face To Face events are scheduled for 5 July (Club Annual General Meeting), 27 September and 13 December (Christmas Party).  RealBridge sessions will be provided on those Wednesday evenings for those unable to attend Face To Face.

In addition to these sessions, the club provides morning social and teams sessions which remain very popular and which have helped to develop new players to join our ranks.  Many thanks to everyone who has helped to develop these sessions.

Club membership is at a record high with every prospect of further membership growth over the coming year.

Thanks to Eileen, we have the most progressive teaching programme in the county.  New initiatives will continue to be developed with the aim of widening bridge participation.  It remains our ambition to work with local education providers to attract younger people to the game.

Many members enjoyed our inaugural club bridge holiday to Salisbury last October.  I am delighted to report that interest in the planned holiday to Dartmouth this coming October is even greater and that we expect to have nine tables of bridge playing each evening over the three days of the holiday.  Major thanks are due to Pauline Terry for all her hard work liaising with hotels and other partners.

This all points to a thriving club.  Our table numbers for both the Wednesday and Thursday duplicate sessions are at record levels.  I wish to extend my thanks to all club members for their loyalty and support.  In particular, I wish to thank everyone who continues to assist with club management, not the least those members who have directed online bridge - a thankless task but always delivered professionally.

I am immensely grateful for the support of a superb committee and would wish to thank Eileen, Belinda, Sue, Alan, Jonathan and Candy for all their hard work and encouragement.

Club finances are in excellent health and have been expertly stewarded by our new Treasurer, Belinda Morgan.  In the context of the strong financial position, I am delighted to report that subscription rates can be reduced  for the next six month period which covers April to September 2023.  Club reserves  are strong and remain available to support the development of new initiatives as they become identified.

As with previous six month periods I am inviting you to make a single subscription payment which will cover all bridge to which you have subscribed.  Again you can choose whether to purchase a single or multiple weekly subscription for club duplicate sessions.  Also you can purchase single or multiple subscriptions for morning sessions.  Multiple subscriptions are heavily discounted for the simple reason that we wish to encourage players to play as frequently as their circumstances allow.

The subscription rates for online bridge for the next six months are as follows:-

Duplicate Single Weekly Play £30

Duplicate Multiple Weekly Play £50

Morning Single Weekly Play £10

Morning Multiple Weekly Play £20

So the maximum subscription, which would cover every online bridge activity provided by the club would be £70 (equating to less than £3 per week and a reduction for this six month period of around 30% to reflect the strength of club reserves).  Your committee considers that this represents excellent value for money and I really hope that you will renew your subscription.

Please will you pay your subscription to Bewdley Bridge Club.  The account is a business account and its number is 10301671 with sort code 20-82-70.  Please when making a payment put your name as the transaction reference.

In summary, I would wish to repeat my thanks to all club members for their support and I really hope that you will renew your subscription and continue to participate in the progression of our club.

Kindest Regards,

David Halford