I think the time is right for me to pass responsibility for taking the Club forward to more enthusiastic hands and brains!

We have in recent years moved F2F premises twice and have now settled as an online entity with widespread support and a healthy bank balance of £7.6K. (audited a/c’s soon).

We have co-operated in BOA with our sister clubs - MK and Regis and are now paying admin fees to BOA to help run the weekly events and collect fees. Thus, the management of the Club is not onerous but does need a degree of diplomacy to help rebuild broken partnerships , keep the website going and very occasionally keep the peace when something goes wrong!

The Club would function quite happily without a Chairman but it would be good to have someone with a fresh outlook  volunteer to take us forward. 

Maybe these volunteers could form an orderly queue at the door of our excellent secretary (pennybligh@gmail.com)

Thank you for your support in these past years. I look forward to continuing to see you all at LBBC.

Best regards

Peter Malpass 

We operate with MK and Regis clubs so that we can offer bridge on Monday to Friday evenings by sharing our resources and offering free access to each club's membership and guests. The essence of this is that the bridge will be friendly and inclusive of all levels of ability. An umbrella website B O A (bridge online alliance) where all events can be seen but each club will retain it's own identity.

We  have PLAYING directors so we would remind all of you that the Club's ethos is that friendly bridge is the norm at LBBC so director calls are rarely appropriate except if an issue cannot be amicably resolved by discussion at the table. Please see Information and click Appeals and GDPR. 

Click here to register  (with BOA - required for billing)

Teams of 8

We are trying to raise at least one team (most likely two), to represent the club in the BBA online event on Thursday 20 March at 7-15 login.

It is not necessary that Bedfordshire is your primary county of allegiance - merely that you qualify to represent the club as a regular player with LBBC. Therefore almost all of the players who play with us each week will qualify.

The winning team qualifies to play F2F in the regional heats of the Garden Cities Trophy and whilst  many would choose not to play in this, it is worth noting that if you wish to qualify for the regional finals with another county, you may find yourself cup-tied! 

That apart, would those of you willing to represent LBBC on 20 March please email me at peterfmalpass@yahoo.co.uk. Please let me know if you have any questions and  preferred partner.

If you would like us to try and find a partner for you

please call our treasurer Judi on

01296 681583, 07887775006 

or email judimalpass@gmail.com