LCBA Club Teams-of-8 Championship Sunday 16 February 2025 starting at 11am

(Holders 2024: Bolton BC)

A multiple Teams-of-8 competition held at Bolton Bridge Club,  4 Chorley Old Road, Bolton BL1 3AA. Phone 01204 526484.
Sunday 16th February 2025 starting at 11am (with an early finish)

Entry Fee £4 per player per session i.e. £64 per team (please note that a meal is not included - bring your own food).
Prizes: The winning club will have the £254 entry fee for the Garden Cities Trophy event paid by LCBA.
Master points will be awarded to County Scale
Permissable Systems and Conventions: Level 4
General Conditions:
1 Each team will have just eight players all of whom must be EBU members, belong to the same LCBA Affiliated club and have primary allegiance to Lancashire.
2 Two teams may be entered from a club. If there are space constraints, the first team entries will have priority and first come first served will operate.
3 Entries will close when the venue is full or on Wednesday 12 February, whichever comes first.
Payment: Beneficiary: Lancashire Contract Bridge Association (Type as much as you can)
Bank: Lloyds 
Sort Code: 30-54-66
Account Number: 10848260

Garden Cities: The winning club will be entitled to represent the County in the Regional Final of the Garden Cities Trophy.  Different players may represent the club in the LCBA qualifying round and the regional and national finals but must meet the criteria defined at #1 above.  The £254 entry fee for the Garden Cities trophy will be paid by the LCBA.

To enter: Please complete the form below.

LCBA Trophies

LCBA has 14 trophies (click LCBA - Trophies.pdf for a list), donated over a long period by various generous benefactors.  They have previously been kept, free of charge and insured, by one of our clubs, for which the county is very grateful, but the club is no longer able to continue doing this.  As LCBA has no premises, if we retain the trophies, we will have to pay significant insurance and storage costs.  Trophy winners no longer want to be responsible for looking after a trophy for a year, so the trophies are not presented anymore - they are just gathering dust and deteriorating.  We are sure the benefactors would not have wished their gifts to be wasted in this way and as the charity is only able to dispose of any of its assets for charitable purposes, we have decided to sell them and put the proceeds into a charitable fund restricted in use to investing in Education and Development across the county.  We will call this restricted fund "The LCBA Benefactors Fund for Bridge Education & Development".  As a charity we are allowed to fundraise under the Gift Aid scheme and in the future, we will be able to invite individual members to donate to this fund.

We believe all the trophies on the list have been donated to LCBA or its predecessors and therefore belong to the charity.  If anyone or any organisation believes they have a call on any of the trophies, they should contact the LCBA Secretary, John Brearley at jmbrearley1611@outlook.com or mob: 07948 513863 before 20th December 2024.  After this date we will start the process of selling the trophies.

Well done to Ann & Jeff Wilkins who finished 2nd in the Swiss Pairs at the Scarborough Summer Congress on 18th July 2025.

The second NBL 2025 match was played on RealBridge 16th August 2025.

Lancs A team finished 2nd of 6 teams. The players were S Woodcock/M Fay, A Petrie/J Dhondy, J Smith/M Farr, J & A Wilkins.  Andrew/Jeremy were 2nd on XImps.
Lancs B team finished 4th of 6 teams. The players were B Irlam & J Morrell, A Kirby & S Challinor, P Richmond & J Dearing. D Costich/A Lum. Angus & Stuart we best on Ximps.
Lancs C Team finished 2nd of 4 teams. The players were B Apfel/G Beattie, S Bentley/K Broadbent, P Medowcroft/H Dent, B Perry/S Fanning. Steve & Kenny topped the Ximps

LCBA ONLINE BLUE POINT SWISS PAIRS

• Oliver Cowan is running a 6 x 6 board Blue Point Swiss Pairs on BBO on Saturday 30th August for the Lancashire Contract Bridge Association.  The game will start at 1pm and finish by 6pm with a 40 minute break half-way through.
• LCBA is a registered charity and Oliver is running this event to raise funds for the charity to invest in bridge development in Lancashire.
• The entry for this game is $13 BBO per player and masterpoints will be awarded for each round that you win or draw as well as an additional award based on finishing positions.
• The game will be on the BBO tournament list under "Lancashire Swiss Pairs" and you will be able to register for the game from 11am on the day.
• For more information and to enter please click HERE.