The Noverre Bridge Club is please to announce that it will be hosting the YMCA Trophy on Thursday, August 18th.  The YMCA Trophy, a NCBA event hosted by the club, will be played simultaneously on RealBridge and Face to Face at the club's venue, the Old Lakenham Community Centre, NR1 2NG.  Following the latest update of the RealBridge platform, overall scores will be available throughout the event.

The table money for the event will be the same, £2:00, and visitors can pay online at Sort Code - 090155, Account No. - 23692080 remembering to use your name as a reference.

 The club will be delighted to see you on the 18th, whether online or, especially, 'in the flesh'! 

♠ Note this double promotion in the master Point ranks. Gabriel and Giles Ip have become Grand Masters, a tremendous achievement especially as Giles is only 32. Well done from all at NCBA. We wish them every success as they move on to other competitions. Their promotion means they can no longer play in the Premier Life Masters competition which they’ve won for the last three years.

♥ NCBA member Imogen La Chapelle won the Portland Pairs with her partner Stefano Tommasini. Imogen is a member of the U21 Youth Squad and represented England in the European Youth Championships in Holland.

♦ The NCBA County team reached the final of the Garden Cities Tournament and finished sixth. Well done to all members who played in the various rounds.

Sunday 24th July at 2pm at the Costessey Centre

Congratulations to Barbara Baker and Jill Cadley who won the Buxton Trophy

and to Wendy Howard and Rosemary Robinson who won the Barbara Dick-Clelland Trophy.

Both pairs are pictured receiving their trophy from County Chairman Robert Smith

The EBU have initiated a scheme to help increase membership, by offering assistance in many forms. There are already a number of County Associations that have signed up for this initiative and Norfolk is now one of them.

The principle is that the EBU help co-ordinate and facilitate inter county cross fertilisation. Jeff Smith has been asked to lead this initiative for Norfolk and he has already been in touch with other Counties in the scheme so we can learn from each other's successes and failures. 

All the clubs are invited to join in the effort to promote bridge in Norfolk in general and to increase membership in particular.