Alongside a career in IT, managing some large, high profile and complex projects, Nicky has been playing bridge for over fifty years.

Nicky has been teaching bridge for over twenty years. She qualified as an English Bridge Union Teachers Association teacher in February 2005. 

Nicky teaches online and face to face, from beginners to coaching club players. 

She has a wealth of well tried materials and teaches either in courses of ten lessons or as weekly seminars or as individual crafted sessions. 

She likes to respond to learners' needs as they arise and will consider starting courses or preparing learners to join courses as works best.

Nicky qualified as a Club Tournament Director in 2004 and as a County Director in 2011.

Nicky served on the committee of Rugby Bridge Club for several years, on its development sub-committee and as treasurer.

Nicky served on the committee of the Rugby and District Bridge League on two occasions, once at its foundation, and once more recently.

In April 2010, Nicky founded Rugby Village Bridge Club.

On the Northamptonshire Contract Bridge Association Committee for three years, Nicky served as shareholder, vice chairman and chairman. She was proud to represent Northants on the EBU Midlands County Working Group, which she chaired for a while.

"Bridge is a great pleasure to the tens of thousands who play it at a casual, or social level, or in clubs at a moderately competent level. So many people can get pleasure from duplicate bridge where it is played in congenial circumstances. There is more satisfaction from watching an improvers finally remember to draw trumps than from any results of my own. She has been saddened on many occasions to hear from players of the unpleasant experiences that give duplicate bridge a poor reputation. Bridge is a vital social lifeline for many older players and can combat isolation in later life which is a known factor in poor health and early death"

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