| Mayflower AGM: 3rd June 2025 |
The Club has much to discuss and vote on at the upcoming AGM. All is hopefully explained in the finalised Agenda (click this box). Members and Guests have been notified by email. Please diarise and do your best to attend.
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| ECBA - AGM & Club Pairs: Sunday 8th June 2025 |
The ECBA AGM is being held at Barleylands on Sunday 8th June, 16:30, with the Club Pairs held beforehand at 13:00. The Agenda for the AGM are provided on the ECBA Website.
Eligibility criteria for the Club Pairs have now been relaxed. The event is now open to players who "did not represent the county in an A team match (or the Tollemache) in the current season (2025-26) or in the season 2024-25". Clubs can submit up to 4 pairs, so Mayflower volunteers are requested! For reference, last year's results - featuring several Mayflower pairs - are here.
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| Club Ladders: 2024-25 |
We no longer seem to trumpet these things - if we ever did - but the annual ladders reached their conclusions at the end of March 2025 and the final standings were:-
Individual Ladder:-
A 3-way tie for first place between
- Jacek Lapszys
- Sandy Riach
- Peter Oake
Partnerships Ladder:-
- Pat Johnson & Simon Moorman
- Jacek Lapszys & Sandy Riach
- David Piper & Graham Beeton
Well done to the winners and to one and all for taking part!
Click on the 'Ladder' headings above for the full final standings, which are for the best 30 sessions (minimum 15).
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| Club Championship 2025 |
The Club Championship Pairs took place as usual this year over 2 weeks - 18th and 25th March 2025. To qualify for the title of Club Champion, you needed to play with the same partner on each occasion and both partners needed to be Club members.
Congratulations to Simon & Colin who won the competition by a comfortable margin. Tim & Steve fell away somewhat in the second session, but came in second place. David and Sandra were third after an excellent showing in the second set. Well done all.
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| Cornell Trophy: Sunday, 9th February 2025 |
The Club aims to be one of the strongest in Essex, so it was about time we proved it. Well, the Club's entry in the Cornell Trophy won the competition! The team was: David Piper, Theo Todman, Sandy Riach and Jacek Lapszys. Additionally, David & Theo came fairly comfortably top in the X-IMPs, with Sandy and Jacek in 6th place (of 26 pairs). Well done Team! For the details, follow This Link.
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| Club Committee Meeting - 14th January 2025 |
A Club Committee held a meeting on Tuesday 14th January. The main resolutions were that the Membership Fee would stay at £15 but that Table Money would rise 50p to £3.50 (£5.00 for guests), the Club Championship would be on Tuesdays 18th & 25th March, and the AGM would be held on Tuesday 3rd June. All current Committee members stated they were willing to stand for re-election. Click on this box for the minutes of this and other meetings.
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| Club AGM - Tuesday 4th June 2024 |
The Minutes of the AGM are Here.
Apart from the re-election of the Committee unopposed, the key result from the recent AGM was the agreement that we will play three SIMS events annually. All three will be ECATS, with the Club matching donations for two of them.
The first - which was in aid of Kidney Research UK and the British Heart Foundation - was on Tuesday 2nd July and had donations matched. Congratulations to Pat Johnston & Simon Moorman for winning the local event, but dark horses Lorraine Butler and Mike Harbour did best nationally, coming 16th out of 304. The results on ECATS are here, and the booklet is available for download here!
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| Billericay Mayflower History |
 Peter Williamson has very kindly put together the history of the club. Peter is one of the last playing founders of the original club.
Click on this box and have a read, there are some lovely pictures which probably date from the seventies complete with dodgy moustaches, crevats and a mean, moody and magnificent Peter.
If you have any pictures of Mayflower Bridge or the people who have played here please send them to John@johnmccoy.co.uk and get them saved for posterity before they are lost like tears in the rain!
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| Seeking a Partner |
 After years of sterling service Carol McCue is stepping down from the find a partner role - very many thanks to her!
Going forward there are alternatives - the website has a facility for you to register the dates when you would like to find a partner. You will have to register in the members area first - this is very straightforward. The other method is to contact me (John McCoy) and I will attempt to find a partner. The former method is best for the more longer term and the latter when your partner cries off at short notice with a broken eyelash or man flu! I can be contacted on 07474 267160 or john@johnmccoy.co.uk - click here to send an email. During the day text messages/email are probably the best way of contact as sadly I am still working.
There are I'm sure people that don't come through lack of a partner or they may not wish to play regularly. If you are aware of somebody let me know their names and I will contact them and see if we can get them back playing or as an occasional last minute stand in.
John
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| Club Ethos |
I play on a Bridge website playing teams and happened upon a Swedish Team's logo, fortunately in English:
Play Fair
Play for Fun
Play for Knowledge
Play among Friends
Couldn't have said it better - so its now on the page heading!
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