The funeral of our former member Nes Charles, is on Tuesday September 1st at 2 o clock at St Peter and St Paul’s church River.

Everyone who can attend will be most welcome.

We play face-to-face on Mondays, and online on Thursdays.

Our Monday session starts at 2:00 p.m.at Folkestone Baptist Church. Please be there by 1:50 p.m. so that the session can be set up.Visitors are welcome on Mondays (Table money £4).

On Thursday evening we join with Retford bridge club on Real bridge.Details of how to do this can be found by clicking Thursday online bridgefrom the menu on the left.

We welcome new members to the club including beginners.

You can find details of our BRIDGE CLASSES below.

Due to falling numbers Folkestone bridge club no longer plays online on a Thursday evening.

We are however concious that there are players still wishing to play online and after some

research we have made arrangements to play online with Retford bridge club.

The details are below.

" Retford Bridge Club ( Nottinghamshire )  https://www.bridgewebs.com/retford/ play RealBridge on Thursday evenings,

in association with Allendale BC ( in Dorset ) . 

Play starts at 7.15 and comprises 24 boards. There is no online event entry form ; instead you join no later than 7.05 by clicking on " RealBridge login" in the Calendar box on the right hand side of the Retford BC website. 

Table money is £1.20 per player . You can play three times as a guest . Annual membership is £5, which can be gift aided, as the club is a Registered Charity . 

Payments are made by BACS to 

 The Retford Bridge Club ( The " The" is required ! ) 

 60-17-28

 0680 3946 

For "Reference"  , you use RB Fred Bloggs for table money and Mem Fred Bloggs for annual membership.

You are asked by Roger Stock ( roger.retfordbc@outlook.com)  ,the club treasurer,  to email him after you have made the BACS transfer .

Before playing for the first time, you are asked to put £1.20 per player into their club account and to email Roger Stock to give your names . Please tell him that you have come from Folkestone DBC. 

If, after playing at Retford for 1,2 or 3 sessions, you wish to join, then you email the membership secretary and they will send you a membership application form . " 

This page

https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwor/bw.cgi?club=retford&pid=display_people1

Takes you to the committee members page and you can email the membership secretary (and Roger Stock) directly from there.

Our bridge teachers Teachers run the following classes.

Our EBTA  Associate Teacher, Shirley Goldwin, runs classes in her home in Mersham.

Please contact Shirley for further details on 01233 501871 or shirley.goldwin@gmail.com

Our EBTA Teacher, Mark Rixon, runs classes in his home in Dover.

Mark is hoping to start a beginners class in September.

Please contact Mark for further details on 07753 201859 or msrixon@sky.com

Gentle Duplicate for less experienced players runs alongside

the main movement on Monday afternoons. 

Anyone wishing to join in should contact us in advance.

The club operates a partner finding service.

If you are looking for a partner please email Ruth (ruthnmal@hotmail.com) or phone her on  07538 426180 at least 24 hours in advance, that is by 2.00 pm on Sunday for face-to-face or by 7.00 pm on Wednesday for our online games. The earlier you let Ruth know, the more likely it is that a partner will be found for you. You will be notified by Ruth either by noon on Monday or by 3.00 pm on Thursday with your partner's details. In the case of online on a Thursday, please ensure that you enter the competition on the website by 4.00 pm in the normal way.

Please note that the electronic partner finding system that we trialled  on this website is no longer available.