The Hitchin team of Simon, Andrew, Liz, Christine, Valerie and Gill

won the HBA Eccles Cup competition by a clear margin.

Well Done to them all.

The total donation from the Hitchin Bridge Club to Children in Need this year was £430

making Pudsey a very happy bear.

The joint winners of our Anniversary Pairs competition were Alan and Saroj (who won Category A ) and Carol and Roy (who won Category B)

Only a smidgen behind were Jean and Maggie who won in Category C.

Well done all of you.

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Members of the Hitchin Bridge Club go every Thursday lunchtime to teach Year 5 and 6 children at Samuel Lucas JMI School Hitchin  how to play Bridge. Year 6 members have now been coming for a year and half and are becoming real experts. They were delighted to be invited to observe their teachers and other members of the Hitchin Bridge Club play a session at their club in the Church Hall of Our Lady’s R C Church. They went along for an afternoon with great interest and excitement  They able to both observe play and play some games with the members, who were incredibly welcoming. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves, especially when they were able to play ‘real’ bridge players. They left commenting on the wonderful welcome they had received and chatted about the different games they had observed. Thank you so much to the members of the Bridge club who come every week to share their expertise with such patience and commitment.

Carol and Debbie won the 2023 Anniversary Pairs Competition held at the Chesfield Downs Golf Club on Wednesday 4th October (the 23rd Anniversary of the foundation of the club)

A very enjoyable afternoon for all members.

The winners in each stratification were:-

A - Saroj and Alan

B - Carol and Debbie

C - Robert and Kathy

Well done all.

Richard and Bernard won the Combridge Plate by the smallest of margins, just pipping Brian and Valerie on the last board.

A very well done to Brian and Jennifer who came second in this event.

Congratulations to Nigel, Steve, Andrew, Simon, Patricia, Susan, Penny and Valerie who came 2nd in the HBA Eccles Cup competition

Congratulations to the overall (and B category) winners of the Anniversary Pairs Competition - Martin and Richard

Winners of the A category were David and Susan and Martin and Linda won the C category

well done all

In the HBA/Essex Joint Green Pointed Pairs Simon and Kishore came 24th out of a field of 78 pairs.

In the EBU Handicap Pairs Hitchin members did very well :-

Peter and Alla came 6th

Jocelyn and Stephen came 21st

Valerie and Jean came 26th

in a field of 141 pairs

Well done to them all.

Many congratulations to Richard and Dave who came second in this event. Really well done in a very close finish and losing only one match.

Meet Anna and Mark who started the Children in Need Sims Pairs in 2002.

Bridge players all over the world come together to play a simultaneous pairs competition every year to raise funds for CIN.

So far the sums raised total £1,031,381.30 and even in 2020 despite Covid the event raised £59045.70.

Saroj, Alan, Bernard and Margaret were the winners of this year's HBA Seniors Teams in a very strong field.

Congratulations to Francis Eddleston, Steve Allen, Tom Dessain & Tugrul Kaban, worthy winners of this season's Humble Cup.

The Humble Cup is the premier teams competition and the winning team are the county's representatives in the prestigious Pachabo Cup.

Our teams performed well in this HBA competition coming 1st, 2nd and 5th.

Well done particularly to Debbie, Stuart, Patricia and Susan who won the event and did not lose a match.

Dear Margaret

On behalf of everyone at Garden House Hospice Care, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and all the members of Hitchin Bridge Club for supporting our charity with your incredibly generous donation of £3800. We really appreciate being chosen as the charity to benefit from the proceeds of the weekly online bridge night fundraiser you set up.

We are so touched by your generosity, which will make a real difference to the lives of patients and families who are facing a life-limiting illness in North Herts, Stevenage, Royston and surrounding villages of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

As you may know, we face a huge challenge in that we need to raise over £5 million every year to continue our vital services so we really count on the help of the people in our community and generous people like yourself. The impact of the virus has been devastating for us and we have been losing approximately £25000 a week in charitable income, so the donation you made to us is appreciated more than ever.

As I write this, we are still working hard to plug the £1.3 million gap that the hospice has lost so far in this financial year and we will not rest until we hit that target.

The money raised from your fundraising efforts will really help us to fund vital services, such as beds on our inpatient unit, complimentary therapy sessions in our Hawthorne Centre and community care with the Hospice at Home team.

Once again thank you.

Harry Folgate Fundraising Coordinator Garden House Hospice Care

The lockdown version of our Club Championship was held over the 5 Sunday afternoons in August.

Winners were Margaret and Bernard with Dave and Richard runners up.

They will represent the club in the HBA Club winners Cup which will be held online in November.