Gloucestershire Youth Bridge - a GCBA venture incorporating a vibrant and various youth programme
at local schools, regional weekend camps and online
YOUTH BRIDGE in GLOUCESTERSHIRE - the latest news
Good News - Gloucestershire has been one of the top counties this year in recruiting new schools into the youth bridge programme, with some of our students successful at the National Schools’ Competition held in Loughborough in March, and at the Junior Camp held in Kidderminster in April.
Clubs are curently running at Pittville School, Cleeve School, The Cotswold School, Sir Thomas Rich’s. There is further interest from Primary schools, particularly at Foxmoor Primary in Stroud, and St. Gregory’s in Cheltenham.
We are finding that Primary School after-school clubs can need more volunteers than are sometimes available, so greater attention is now being given to Senior Schools. This year we started a 6th form (curriculum-time) club and an after-school club at Sir Thomas Rich’s in Gloucester. In September there will also be clubs starting at Cleeve and Balcarras 6th forms in Cheltenham.
We want this initiative to spread across the county. A difficulty we have is getting into schools. If you have a contact with a 6th Form College, or a Secondary School that has a 6th Form, please let us know. Richard Croot, CEO of EBED will help the school or college set up a 6th Form club. His email is below.
Contact Information: Richard - richard.croot@ebedcio.org.uk Jan - jan.bailey@gcba.org.uk
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Why Do We Play Bridge?
Bridge is a Card Game that is Fun & Makes you Think
All you need is 4 people and a pack of cards to play anywhere in the world
It makes your brain work and every few minutes you have a new challenge
You can play for 5 minutes or 5 hours. Every hand is an adventure
You can sit around any table – on a train – on the floor – in the playground – at home
Or you can get really good and enter competitions all over the UK and the world!
You can play on the internet – maybe with someone in Brazil or Australia?
It is as fun and as fascinating as any computer game (and we still beat the computers)
Bridge is sociable - it is an easy way to meet people wherever you go
It does not cost much – very important if you are at school or university
There is always someone to help you get started or to get better - just ask us!
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| What is Youth ? |
As far as we are concerned - anyone of school age counts. Which does means quite an age range and potentially quite a range of experience. The youngest we see regularly at youth events are about 8 years old but there is occasionally one who is younger.
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