Welcome to Grantham Bridge Club, an EBU club and part of the Leicestershire CBA  We play a mixture of face-to-face and online bridge to suit all abilities including duplicate, gentle duplicate and supervised play sessions. 

New members are welcome, but please complete the Membership Application Form.

Check the calendar here and find out more information about our Club here.  You can contact us at 

granthambridgeclub@gmail.com

Beginners' Course

Our next Beginners' course will start in September 2026.  Details will appear here nearer the time, but if you would like to register an interest in learning Bridge, please email granthambridgeclub@gmail.com

Beginners' Resources

For our current class of Beginners, there is a quick link to the Beginner Course Notes here.

Venue and Weekly Sessions

Every Monday evening at 7pm we hold a F2F duplicate pairs session at Barrowby Memorial Hall. 

A Next Steps supervised and mentored session is run every Tuesday evening at 6:30pm at Barrowby Reading Rooms.  We welcome all players who want to gain confidence and develop their Bridge under the supervision of experienced players in a relaxed and friendly environment. No partner required.

Tuesday evening at 7 pm (log in by 6:45) we (in partnership with Keyworth Bridge Club) are holding a Duplicate session on Realbridge.    

We run an Online Duplicate pairs session every Wednesday morning at 9.30am ( register by 9:20am) on Bridge Base Online (BBO).

A Gentle Duplicate pairs session is held every Wednesday morning at 9:30am at Barrowby Reading Rooms. 

Every Thursday afternoon at 1.45pm, we hold a Friendly Duplicate session on RealBridge. (Currently suspended over the Summer period.)

For RealBridge, we are pleased to tell you that we have several club members  who are very willing to support anyone needing advice on getting the best use of Realbridge to suit their needs.  Links to the RealBridge Player Guide and their camera/microphone test page are in the panel below the EBU Master Points Promotions Panel to the right, and it is recommended that players new to RealBridge have a look at these.  Members who would still like additional support should contact us at granthambridgeclub@gmail.com.  

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Pastoral Support

You may be a club member, or know of a club member, who would like to be contacted for any number of reasons - they may be poorly, isolating, have suffered a bereavement or, more happily, be celebrating a major event in their lives. If so, Carol Hulse would be happy to hear from you and to follow up as appropriate. Tel: 01949 842027 or 07935 050751; email: granthambcpastoral@gmail.com.

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Next Steps Seminars

We have a programme of seminars being run at roughly six-weekly intervals until June 2026: the full programme can be viewed here.  The next seminar is on Tuesday 24 February between 6:30pm and 9:30pm.  The topic is "More about No Trumps - bidding and responses" and the Course Leader will be Jennie Rea and she will be assisted by experienced players. if you wish to attend the seminar, please register here .


Christmas Social

Congratulations to our winners, Dave Cox (1st), Chris Petit (2nd), Carole Stothard (3rd), Wes Wright ( Slam) and Val Carey (2 Clubs).  Dave, Chris and Wes play regularly at our gentle Duplicate Group; and Carole and Val are from our Next Steps Group.

   

 

   20/11/25


Next Steps Christmas Social

The joint winners of the "Play with an Expert" at the Next Steps Christmas Social were Nuala O'Rourke with David Paine  and Val Carey with Neil Henfrey. 

6/12/25


Hyman Crammer Cup

LCBA Competition

This the LCBA Club Pairs Championship, and Grantham Bridge club had two notable successes.  Lou Badcock and Jenny Armitage finished 4th out of 28 pairs.  Patrick Oram and Colin Taylor, Country Members from our Wednesday BBO Group,  were leading Non-Experts.

All results can be seen here

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Last updated : 2nd Feb 2026 12:54 GMT
Results
Monday F2F Duplicate Pairs
Director: Bill Barclay
Scorer: Neil Henfrey
Wednesday Online Duplicate
Director: Patsy Scriven
Scorer: patricia scriven
Wednesday Gentle Duplicate
Director: Carol Hulse
Scorer: Carol Hulse
Next Steps
Director: Bill Barclay
Scorer: Bill Barclay
Host: Carol Hulse
Calendar
17th March 2026
Tuesday On-Line Duplicate Pairs KBC
RealBridge 7pm
Please login by 6:50pm
Director: David Adams (KBC)
 RealBridge Login
17th March 2026
Next Steps
Reading Room Barrowby 6:30pm
Director: Jennie Rea
Host: Tom Rea
18th March 2026
Wednesday Online Duplicate
BBO register by 9.20 9:30am
Director: Neil Henfrey
18th March 2026
Wednesday Gentle Duplicate
Reading Room Barrowby 9:30 am
Director: Judy Hulland
EBU Master Point Promotions

 

Our Masterpoint Champion for 2025 was David Paine who amassed a grand total of 895 points over the year at Grantham Bridge Club.  Well done, David.

Congratulations to the following members who have received a Masterpoints promotion recently:

Advanced Master
Neil Henfrey

District Master
Linda Maynard-Springall

Area Master
Wes Wright

Local Master
Claire Dring

16/3/26

 

Grantham Bridge Club Policy on UNDOs when Playing Online

As an EBU affiliated Club, Grantham Bridge Club follows the EBU policy on UNDOs for online play as expressed in the EBU Player Handbook (The Blue Book), dated 1st August 2024.  In short:

  • Requests for UNDOs during the auction, where the request is made following a genuine mis-click or mis-tap, may be allowed provided that the partner of the player requesting the UNDO has not called.  UNDOs should not be requested after a change of mind and the Director should be called in the event of any doubt1.  After a player has requested an UNDO, no player should make a further call (i.e. bid, double, redouble or pass) until the UNDO has been accepted or refused.
  • Requests for UNDOs during the play will not be allowed for any reason except when authorised by the Director after a play has been influenced by misinformation.
  • Players wishing to reduce the chance of a mis-click or mis-tap occurring should adjust the settings on the platform to require a double click or double tap to confirm calls and plays. 

1  On BBO, Club Policy is that all UNDO requests during the auction should be accepted provided that the UNDO is requested straight away and before Partner has called.  However, if a player requesting an UNDO subsequently replaces a bid with a PASS, DOUBLE or REDOUBLE, that is suggestive of a change of mind and the Director should be called.