All HIWCBA EBU Affiliated clubs are all invited to hold a heat of the pottage cup. Please use website contact us and/or contact mike kinsey to ensure that all heats are known by HIWCBA and can be listed below. When known to the webmaster, the heat will be added to the list of heats below and added to the HIWCBA website calendar.

The Pottage Cup is the HIWCBA major pairs championship 
Heats in Clubs - see below
Semi final  : 1st March  2026 F2F .Basingstoke Bridge Club. 14.00 start. Single session.
Final :  26th April 2026 F2F Winchester Racquets and Fitness Club 
If you are an HIWCBA club and intend to hold a heat, but the heat is not listed below then please inform mike Kinsey mike52kinsey@gmail.com and/or use website contact us. The heat will be added to the list of heats below and added to the HIWCBA website calendar.

The following clubs have heats of the pottage cup with semi final qualifiers as detailed further below ((cluck heat you are interested in below to go the the relevant club website):

Heats  / Semi-final Qualifiers

Petersfield  Tuesday 25th November 2025 : Stuart Burnett & Tony Truluck, Jim Ramadan & Margaret Stothard, Lilias Lamont & Mike Kinsey.
Titchfield Monday 12th January 2026: Peter Aubeck & Lia Deyal, Susan Poole & Gloria Benton, Karen Dewar & Adrian Fontes.
Basingstoke Realbridge Heat Monday 12th January 2026 : Stephen Lee & Andrew Doye, Gareth & Aleks Birdsall, David Youll & Julain Richens, Gabriel Hearst & James Bond, Robert Burns & Vera Watts, Johgn Fairhurst & malcolm Green, Charles Nixon & Dorothy Rivers, Stephen Scott & Simon Taylor
Titchfield Wednesday 14th January 2026 : Roger Johnson & Chin Yin Kam, Nick Atkinson & Stewart Cameron, Many Smith & Mark Whitlock, Ed Ahern & Ian Giles, Sylvia Sleeman & Gerald Ingram.
Winchester 22nd January 2026: Tim Anderson & Martin Lamblen, Margaret Blewett & David Walton, Clare & Ian Fearon, Mike Ailin & Marian Rudd, Susan Wilson & Robin Speed, Heather McGinn & geoff Oldfield, Louise & peter Toghill, Jane Jenner & Carolyn Endicott, Jill & Alan Hickson, Mike Marchant & john Ambroise, Fraham Withecombe & Alistair Thomson
Lymington Friday Afternoon 23rd January 2026 : Julia Wood & Sue Boyd, Paul Londesborough & Julian Platten, Sue Clarke & Tony Elliot, Peggy Bennet & John Taylor, Peter Dance & Patricia Carruthers, Michael Branfoot & Stephen Rotherham, Stephanie Blaquiere & Elizabeth Turner, Pam Phillips & Sue Balfour
Basingstoke F2F Heat Thursday 29th January 2026 Sam Golding & John Glasscock, Mike Battisson & Sue Chapman, David Walton & Ann James, David Crosby & Mike Sellar, Charlie Patrick & David Craggs, Ethna Hammond & Paula Wibrew, Tony Turner & Peter Lawes, Bill May & Jane Cleaver
Newbury Thursday 5th February 2026 Stephen Martin & Gill Weeks, Alan Oliver & Sue Oliver, John Foster & Bill Wells, Stuart Strachan & Eleanor Rice, Evelyne Thomas & Keith Terrell
Island Bridge Club : 6th February 2026

Semi-finalists and Finalists: Please inform Mike Kinsey mike52kinsey@gmail.com if you can't make the semi- final /finals so that the numbers in the semi final are known and for the final so that reserves can be informed and play in your place.

Congratulations to Steve Preston & Fred Hotchen, 2024-25 winners of the Pottage Cup, making them 2024-25 Hampshire Pairs champions. (Full results here). Congratulations also to Steve Lee & Andrew Doye, Kim Beazley & David Craggs, Gabriel Hearst & James Bond, who finished 2nd to 4th respectively and therefore also qualify for the Corwen Trophy - the national competition for the top county pairs. The competition was close throughout, enjoyed by all, and well directed by Keith Bennett (thank you from the HIWCBA committee).