Welcome to
Farnborough Bridge Club

The club holds duplicate sessions every Wednesday and Friday at The Village Hall, High Street, Farnborough, Kent. BR6 7BB.  

For a prompt start at 7.30 please arrive by 7.20pm at the latest. Click here for map.

Visitors are welcome unless an event is marked as Members only.  We do not currently run a host system, but visitors should contact the club at FarnboroughBridge@gmail.com if they are looking for a partner.

Farnborough and Bromley North Bridge Clubs are working together to deliver the new Smartbridge initiative. This will take complete novices, who have no prior experience of bridge, to a level where they are able to play the game.

If you have any friends interested in learning bridge, even if they have no practical experience of the game, please direct them to this website.  The initiative consists of two sessions a week for twelve weeks starting 12 September.  The first session each week will be a Zoom session on Mondays at 2pm, lasting between 60-75 minutes.  The second session will be a supervised play session, building on the material covered in the Zoom, on Wednesday afternoons from 2-4 pm starting 14 September at Bromley Common Baptist Church, Gravel Road, BR2 8PE

The cost of the course (all 12 weeks) will be £75 payable in advance.

Please click here for a poster about the course.

The National Inter-Club Knockout Competition is for teams-of-four from EBU affiliated clubs. Inital rounds may be played online should both teams agree, but later rounds are face-to-face.  Full details are given here 

The criteria for entry are that all members of any entered team must have been members of the club for at least three months at the time of entry, must also have played regularly at the club, and can only enter for one team and one club. The Comittee has decided that in practice this means that any members wishing to enter must have played at the club six times in the prior competition year and have been members in the years 2021/22 and 2022/23.

The club would encourage anyone who wishes to enter this competition to arrange to create a team of between four and six players (if only four then up to two more can be added later) and then to notify the Chairman and David Stern.  The club has, in the past, agreed to pay half of the entrance fee of £81 for up to three teams. Should more than three teams wish to enter this support will be spread equally amongst all entrants.  Any entrants should notify the two individuals above by 1st October 2022.

The last two competitions in the Club's year have now been completed.

Congratulations to Marian Hunt who won the Friday Cup, finishing clear of Christine Kempton.

Christine Kempton was successful in winning the Lines Trophy, with Norman Inniss in second place.

A  reminder that the new competition year has now started, running until the end of July 2023, so it is time to think about which trophies you intend winning this year.

The new year for club competitions begins on 1st August 2022.  The first club session will be on Wednesday 3rd August and will be the first round of the Jackson Cup for 2022-23.

A wallet-sized card giving details of the dates of all the club competitions, as well as enabling members to keep a record of their partners in the Jackson Cup, is available at the club.

A course training people who wish to become bridge teachers will be held in Sevenoaks on Thursday and Friday 29th and 30th September by Chris Lohan.  The EBU will fund one person on this course, and a combination of Kent CBA and the club would fund a second person between them.

It is hoped/expected that the course will be oversubscribed, so anyone wishing to book a place on the course is asked to contact the club by email as soon as possible, or to contact Mike Rafferty directly, to express interest

Congratulations to Don Mitchell for winning the Jackson Cup for 2021/22 convincingly.

The Rayner Cup (for the person finishing second in the Jackson Cup) was shared by Mary Kendall and Roger Pechey.

Well done to all!

Farnborough provided many of the team that competed in the Home Counties League for Kent.  Having won their Division Kent proceeded to comprehensively beat Middlesex (the winners of the other Division on countback) in the final.

Many congratulations to all who represented Kent in the competition.  And in particular to Bill Charlwood & Jon Chapman, Stefan Syplywczak & Phil Jones, Stephen Brown & Michael Collins who were three quarters of the team that represented Kent in the final.

Well done to the team of John Amor, Jon Chapman, Bill Charlwood and John Hemington who have won the Arnold Cup (the Kent Team of Four Competition).  In the final they beat the team led by Peter Law that contained Joe Sivayogan by 14 IMPs.  

In the Plate competition the team led by Peter Bibb was victorious.

Many congratulations to all the above from the Club.