The Club is open for F2F play, and we are glad to see an increasing number of members returning to the Club. 

In accord with government guidelines, we have now decided to relax the Club Covid rules. See below. 

The Club AGM will now be held on Thursday 9th June. This has been moved due to the late announcement of the proposals.

This will be an important meeting for the future of the Club, so please would members make a note in their diaries and make every effort to attend.

To provide time for full discussion and bridge afterwards, the AGM will commence at 19:00.

The Agenda and briefing papers will be made available to members in good time ahead of the event. It is unlikely that there will be time for AOB on the night, so would members with matters they wish to raise please let a member of the Committee know at least a week ahead of the event so they can be included on the Agenda.

The ECBA is holding its annual AGM at Barleylands on Saturday 14th May, at 14:30, with a free session of duplicate bridge after the meeting. This AGM is important as the ECBA Committee is up for re-election, with our own John McCoy standing as the new Chairman and other Club members also standing for places on the ECBA Committee. For further information, see the ECBA Website. 

The ladders for the past year have reached their conclusions. Congratulations to:-

1. Val Mollison for winning the Ladies' Ladder, and thereby the Faye Wernick Trophy
2. Peter Oake for winning the Gentlemen's Ladder, and thereby the Lionel Wernick Trophy

Peter also has 'first refusal' as Club Captain for the 2022/23 season.

Click on the links above for full details. 

Thanks to all who competed for the Mary Rogers Trophy on 24th March which doubled as support for the Ukrainian emergency. All table money was donated to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, and - including members' generous donations - a total of £205 was raised which doubled to £410 when donated via theBigGive. 

Well done to Les Curtis and Dave Piper who won the Mary Rogers Trophy for 2022 by a comfortable margin. That's in addition to their victory in the Windmill Trophy and joining The Seventy Club earlier in the year. Something must be done about this!

There are no longer any legal Covid restrictions. So, while the Club Committee will continue to monitor how this should affect the Club's policy, it has been decided that we should now relax our 'terms of play'. So:-

1. If you are diagnosed with, or show symptoms of, Covid or Flu, we would still expect you to stay away until you are recovered. 
2. Asymptomatic attendees may of course wear masks if they wish, but need not do so, nor take a Covid test unless circumstances suggest they should.
3. All should use hand sanitizer on entry to the Club.
4. Unvaccinated individuals may attend at their own risk. 

We hope these measures will continue to provide a safe environment for all our members. 

Well done to Les Curtis and Dave Piper who have joined the exclusive Seventy Club after an excellent session on Thursday 3rd March 2022. 

Well done to Alaric Cundy and John Sutcliffe for winning the above event at Club level. Alaric & John came 8th nationally, though in a disappointingly small field.

The National results and the booklet / hand analysis are available online here.

Well done to Les Curtis and Dave Piper who comfortably won the Club winter championship in a good turnout for these Covid times. 

Click here for the full table of results. 

Les & Dave also won the somewhat less prestigious Player of the Month competition for November: see the notice to the right. 

The approved minutes of the AGM and the Annual Accounts are available here, or from the menu-item on the left, as are the latest Covid Rules (also under the Information section). 

If you are looking for a partner, you have three basic options:

• Log in to the Members' Area where you can view current contact details for all members, and you can optionally send email(s) to players of interest to you (see the panel below about 'Accessing the Members' Area if necessary); or
• Use the on-line partner matching service available through this website (see the panel below about 'Accessing the Members' Area if necessary); the advantage of this method is that your request is posted immediately though the disadvantage is that you may need to wait for other players to see the post; or
• Send an email to mountCM15@gmail.com. This action will result in an email being sent to potential partners, though there could be a delay as such action triggers a manual process.

If you have not already done so, please click on the 'Membership' menu item, then follow the instructions.  Enter your email address as your 'name' and then press 'Forgotten Password'.  You will then receive an email with a password that will enable you to log into the membership area.  NB You MUST use the email address by which the club recognises you, e.g., the one to which Secretary sends you club-related messages.  Once you have registered on the system in this way, you will be able to log into the membership area, where several services are open to you:

• You can view the current club membership list, on which you can find your 'Club ID', which serves as your personal 'short-code' for the wireless scoring system. 
• You can also register that you are seeking a partner.  Note that in the Calendar summary to the right of this pane, if you spot the message Partner? then it means that at least one potential partner is available;  if you spot the message Bookings then it means that at least one partnership has been arranged - but there could be another partner available.  Click on the Partner? or Bookings message to reveal details.
• You can also access documents that are restricted to club members, such as, the agenda and papers for the Club's AGM

If you want to learn to play Bridge, we have two suggestions:

• Some of our individual members do offer private learning and development opportunities.  If you are interested, send us a message via the 'Contact Us' link, which is accessible through the left hand menu
• On the 'Useful Links' page you will find a link to a commercial on-line Bridge Learning experience