We welcome new members to our club.  Please contact our Chairman, Andrew Gregory, on andgregs@gmail.com or 07791 794707 if you would like to come along.

Tea and Biscuits  The Club makes available tea, coffee, milk and biscuits.   Please bring your own mug with you.  We cannot use the sailing club cutlery and crockery.

There will be no formal tea break, it will be up to players to take advantage of natural breaks, eg when dummy, or if you finish the round early

The Club committee has arranged to open the club and start play 30minutes earlier to enable players to avoid travel during the darker winter evenings.

The agreed date for changing the starting time of 14-00pm to be 13-30pm, for the winter, is the last Wednesday in October (29th) which is the 1st Wednesday after the Clocks go forward an hour on Sunday 26th October to Greenwich Mean Time. Please note this in your diaries to avoid confusion on that date.

Any pair arriving after the start time unfortunately can't be inserted into the movement.

♠ ♥ George Pilcher Trophy ♦ ♣ 

Congratulations to Franco & Helen Carlotti who we are pleased to announce won this competition on the 15th Oct 2025.   Congratulations to you both.

Congratulations also go the Linda & Paul Hoptroff for their second place position.

This was the first running of the competition in the new format as a handicapped pairs event,  no longer an individual Ladies only handicap event.

Both sets of results are available on the results tab on the club Bridgewebs site, both with and without the handicap applied.  The results go to the EBU without handicap for Master & Points and NGS ranking. 

We hope members enjoyed the new format. 

Please ensure when wishing to play that at least one of the partnership is in attendance at the club 10 mins before scheduled start.  If you are delayed on your way to the club please call Pam Whitehead on 07881 952115 or Andrew Gregory on 07791 794707 to let them know that you will be late.   This will help us when we set the movement at the beginning of the session

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ Have you ever wanted to learn to play Bridge?♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 

Deal and Dover Duplicate Bridge Club shares a teaching resource with our neighbouring club Ace Bridge Club which is also meets in the South Downs Sailing Club, Deal. Pat Welsh is an EBTA trained teacher and she offers online lessons for complete beginners or returners to the game, taking them to club entry level bridge and beyond. Both our clubs welcome new players and we provide not only lessons but also Gentle Duplicate to introduce new members into our bridge clubs. 

This year's AGM was held at the Downs Sailing Club on 30th April 2025. It was agreed that we would continue with our current level of subscriptions.  Annual fee is £5 which is due now please.   Table monies will rise to £4.00 per person for members and £6.00 for visitors