| CHILDREN IN NEED |
CIN on Monday 10th Nov: 2025 Congratulations to Graham Reading and Andrew Beaumont, coming overall 325 position with 56.93% out of 1748
CIN on Wed 12th Nov 2025 : Congratulations to Janet Riley and Hilary Pauli Bright coming overall 77 position with 61.08% out of 1183
Total table money and Raffle was £444.00. We agree to send to CIN is £500 . Thank you everyone who took part in rasing money for the CIN charity
Monday 11th November 2024: We donated £480 to CIN . Well done Maggie Beals & Judy Langworthy 107 with 60.75% out of 1372
Monday 6th November 2023.;Well done Ian Blake & Peter Coxhill coming 113 position with 61.89% Nationally out of 1717.We donated £450
Monday 7 November2022.: Well done to Elaine Caldicott and Jogindra Bakshi, our best pair, for coming 194th overall (out of 1850 pairs) with 59.52%. we raised a grand total of £400 -
Monday 8 November 2021: Well done to David Briggs and Maggie Beale, our best pair, for coming 263th overall (out of 1491 pairs) with 57.67%.
Tuesday 10th November 2020 ONLINE on BBO 7 PM
Monday 11 November.2019: Well done to Keith Spencer and Richard Lightfoot, our best pair, for coming 323rd overall (out of 2546 pairs) with 59%. We raised £400
Monday 12 November.2018 : Well done to Roy Fey & Peter Jones on winning our event (East-West) with 64% and for coming 14th overall (out of 2718 pairs) with 68%. We raised £400! Both EBU and EMBA waived their fees so that all the takings went to Children in Need.
Monday November 13 2017: Well done to Graham Reading and Gordon Noble for winning our event and coming 136th out of the 2650 pairs! We raised £300
14th NOV 2016 : Well done to Roy Fey and Peter Jones for coming 23rd out of the 2559 We raised £400.
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| Last updated : 1st Dec 2025 23:01 GMT |
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| Presidents Charity Week |
2014. Motor Neurone Disease Association.£350
2015: President, Richard Edwards, chose the British Heart Foundation as the Club's Charity. raised a total of £280
2016-17 £250 (Umbrella Charity)
2017-18 £685 (Alzheimers Society)
2018-20 £600 (DART Appeal) (that was the ‘16 month year’ when we changed the accounting period)
2020 Nil (Covid meant no President’s charity events)
2021 Ditto
2022 £400 (Pancreatic Cancer)
2023 19th & 21st June. President Ian Blake ''The Treetops Hospice''. Money raised £750. Treasurer Roy Fay says :This year an extraordinarily generous amount of raffle donations (far more than in previous years, as far as I can remember) and there was an extremely generous single donation of £100 (totally unexpected and far greater than any past donations).
2024. (29th & 31st July) President Linsey Charity. ''Derbyshire Children's Home''. Donation £650 (Total received table fees and raffles £610.00; Donation made £650.0.)
2025 23rd/25th June : President Graham Reading's chosen Charity 'Derbyshire Blood Bikes'' donated £600 ( incudesTable Fees & raffle) Total £528 collected,The uplift from the club was £72 making £600.
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| Last updated : 7th Jul 2025 18:18 BST |
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| Marie Curie & Cancer Research event |
Our Marie Curie and Cancer Research (Simultaneous Pairs) event was held on Monday 14 March. The Monday simultaneous event was played at 24 different clubs across UK and Ireland. We were the first club to load any results.
Well done to Roy Fey and Andrew Billson, our best pair, for coming 25th overall (out of 383 pairs) with 62.74%. Click here to see the full results at www.ecatsbridge.com
Derby BC covered the cost of the table fees. This means that all the payments and donations on the day, a total of £220, are going to the charity.
Thank you to everyone for their generosity and support!
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| Last updated : 27th Jun 2023 07:06 BST |
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| Teams of 8 Results |
The teams of 8 final placings are as follows:
2021: Derby A - Div 1 - 2nd, Derby B - Div 2 - 1st, Derby C - Div 3 - 4th,, Derby D - Div 4 - 1st, Derby E - Div 6 - 3rd, Derby F - Div 7 - 2nd.
2020: Derby A - 2nd in Division 1, Derby B - 3rd in Division 2, Derby C - 5th in Division 2, Derby D - 3rd in Division
2019 : Derby A - 2nd in Division 1, Derby B - 5th in Division 1 .Derby C - 1st in Division 3, Derby D - 3rd in Division 4
2018 : Derby A - 2nd in Division 1. Derby B - 2nd in Division 2. Derby C - 5th in Division 2. . Derby D - 5th in Division 3. Derby E - 3rd in Division 5
Well done to everyone who played for any of the teams!
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| Last updated : 30th May 2023 17:16 BST |
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| Online Bridge Tuesday on BBO |
Tuesday Evening
The results from our survey showed there is currently insufficient demand for Face-to-Face Bridge on Tuesday evenings.
For the time being, Derby BC is joining with East Midlands to hold an on-line event on BBO from Tuesday 7 September at 7pm. The event will be run by Andrew Scott. The number of boards will be dependent on the number of entries. If you have played in East Midlands online sessions or in the Derby Bridge Club charity event there is no need to register beforehand as your details are on the database. But if you need to register please contact Andrew with your EBU number, BBO username and your real name. His email is andrew.scott42@hotmail.co.uk. The sessions will be $4 to ensure costs are covered. Any profits will be given to EMBA to support Spondon. It has been decided that that only level 2 compliant systems are allowed.
When entering the event, in the search box (above where it says "Entries") type EMBC. The event is called EMBC/Derby BC Tuesday Evening Duplicate
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| Last updated : 5th Jul 2025 20:32 BST |
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| Bridge for Beginners |
Bridge classes will start again this month (September).
Obviously with the Covid virus and social distancing, these cannot be held face-to-face at Spondon. But they can take place online!
Being online means that the classes can be more flexible in terms of timing. This means that potentially there can be multiple classes during the week in smaller groups.
If you are interested or you know of someone who wants to learn bridge, please contact Anne Townsend by email at spondonoldschool@yahoo.com or phone 07377 555341
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| Last updated : 10th Aug 2021 14:43 BST |
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| Andrew Robson Study Sessions |
Study sessions on 'Opening Lead' will resume after the Christmas break at 10:00 am on Wednesday January 8th.
Tutorial fee £3. Pre-ordered lunch (including vegetarian option) will also be available at a cost of £4, but you must book for this.
Contact Andrew Billson (abillson@bcs.org) or Miranda (mirandavin@yahoo.co.uk)
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| Last updated : 17th Mar 2020 15:13 GMT |
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| LEARN from ANDREW ROBSON |
Following on from the event with Andrew Robson last month, there will be a series of tutorials held on Wednesday mornings at 10 am to 12 noon in the Lounge at EMBA. The tutorials will be based on Andrew Robson's lesson books, taking the form of bidding and playing the hands featured in the books. The play will be followed by finding out what Andrew Robson says happened or should have happened.
The sessions running up to Christmas will focus on Andrew Robson's Guidelines for Opening Leads.
Tutorial fee £3.
Pre-ordered lunch (including vegetarian option) will also be available at a cost of £4, but you must book for this.
Contact Andrew (abillson@bcs.org) or Miranda (mirandavin@yahoo.co.uk)
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| Last updated : 8th Dec 2019 17:53 GMT |
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| Special General Meeting - Tuesday 27 August |
At the Special General Meeting (SGM) on Tuesday 27th August, the following proposals were agreed:
1) to change the financial year to 1 January – 31 December
2) to reduce subscriptions to £5 per annum from financial year 2020 onwards until further notice
3) members joining after 1 September 2019 will not pay their subs until the beginning of the next financial year
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| Last updated : 28th Nov 2019 10:11 GMT |
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| Bate Cup |
The Bate Cup is Derby Bridge Club's Teams-of-4 championship.
Bate cup 2018: Congratulations to Janet Jacques, Ken Smith, Michael Bleaney and Steve Lemmings for winning the Bate Cup
Bate Cup 2017: The team who finished first in the competition for the Bate Cup, which was held on Monday February 27, included players who were not members of Derby Bridge Club prior to the event. Consequently the runners-up on the day will be awarded the Bate Cup for 2017. Well done to Richard Weeks, Munir Tanvir, George Smith and Brian Marshall!
2016: Congratulations to Jim Tomlinson, Richard Hodgkins, Chris Rogers and David Briggs on winning the Bate Cup in convincing style
2015: Congratulations to David Briggs, Jim Tomlinson, Chris Rogers and Richard Hodgkins for winning the Bate Cup.
2014: Congratulations to Maggie Beale, Jim Parker, David Briggs and Jim Tomlinson on winning the Cup.
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| Last updated : 27th Jun 2023 07:08 BST |
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| Celebration Tea at Morley Hayes |
Click on the blue title bar for details about the Celebration Afternoon Tea on Tuesday 25 June.
If interested, please contact the Secretary before 13 June on derbybridgeclub@gmail.com
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| Last updated : 1st Jul 2019 17:14 GMT |
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| Jubilee Pairs |
The winners of the Jubilee Pairs 2018 were Keith Spencer/Steve Fordham
Jubilee Pairs 2014: Congratulations to Cedric Cockroft and John Reavy on winning the Jubilee Pairs
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| Last updated : 24th Jun 2023 07:24 BST |
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| Silver Plate |
Congratulations to the team of Derby Bridge Club members who won the Silver Plate, a prestigious national competition, which is the consolation event for the Gold Cup.
The players in the final were Bob Ross, Richard Edwards, Alex Hogg and Peter Kelly. Don Smedley and John Griffin played in earlier rounds.
Well done everyone!
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| Last updated : 2nd Nov 2017 13:56 GMT |
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| Charity Week |
2015: This year's President, Richard Edwards, chose the British Heart Foundation as the Club's Charity. raised a total of £280
I am sure that everyone who participated in the Charity Week will be pleased to know that the Bridge sessions and the raffle raised £350 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Well done everybody!
Special thanks to Jennifer and Miranda for all their efforts
The highest winning percentage was achieved by Patricia Hill and Margaret Avery who therefore win the President's Cup
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| Last updated : 30th May 2023 17:58 BST |
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