The Association was founded in 1937 and aims to promote and further bridge in Nottinghamshire; to organise competitions in the County and to participate in matches with other counties.
| 2026 AGM |
Sunday 7th June 2026
Time: 2pm
Location: Woodborough Village Hall, Lingwood Lane, NG14 6DX
This notice is to formally invite you to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nottinghamshire Contact Bridge Association. The AGM will be held on Sunday 7th June 2026 in Woodborough Village Hall.
Nomination and Motion Procedures:
- Members who wish to nominate themselves or another member for a position should submit a completed nomination by Friday 22nd May 2026
- Members who wish to propose a motion for consideration at the AGM should submit the motion by email to the Secretary by Friday 22nd May 2026. The motion should be clearly worded.
- The nominations and motions must be seconded by two persons and the seconders as well as the proposer should send them to me and Clare Batten, please.
Attendance:
We encourage all members to attend the AGM. This is your opportunity to learn about the County's activities over the past year, participate in discussions about the future of the County Association, and vote on important matters.
Apologies:
If you are unable to attend the AGM, please submit your apologies to the Secretary.
AGM Papers:
The AGM papers, including the minutes from the previous AGM and the accounts are on NCBA website.
We look forward to seeing you at the AGM, followed by a pairs game, with tea, coffee and biscuits available throughout.
Ewa Hardwick
NCBA Secretary
Email address: ewahardwick@hotmail.com
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| UMS Fees |
At the EBU AGM, the Shareholder agreed for the forthcoming year, Universal Membership fees will increase by 2p to 48p from 1st April 2026. The Club Annual Subscription will increase to £32 from 1st April 2026. County fees will be confirmed in February 2026.
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| NGS |
National Grading Scheme Grades
The NGS calculates a current grade and a grade band for each EBU member, based on the most recent 2000 boards, which is updated whenever new results for that player are received.
The value of your current grade is the scheme’s estimate of the percentage score that you would achieve on average if partnering another player with the same current grade at Match Pointed Pairs in a field of nationally average strength.
An average strength player therefore has a grade of about 50%, but there are no limits to the values of grades. The strongest players have current grades of over 60% and the weakest under 40%. The spread of grade values has a bell-shaped distribution. (For the statisticians, it’s approximately Normal with a standard deviation of around 5 to 6%.)
EBU grades have been divided into 13 playing card bands, ranging from ‘Ace’ at the top to ‘Two’ at the beginners’ end. Each band covers a 2% range of grade values, with ‘Eight’ having a range of 49-51%.
9 High competitions are limited to EBU members that have a maximum Grade of 9.
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| Want to Learn or Improve your Bridge? |
If you would like information on how and where to learn Bridge, if you have played social bridge but would like an introduction to playing duplicate in our clubs, or want to improve your game, please contact Jane Hall, Clare Batten or Sue Wright, and we will help you with the best way to proceed. Contact details can be found here.
This link will take you to Courses being run locally.
This link will take you to the National list of EBU registered teachers
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| RealBridge |
When you log into RealBridge, please enter full name and EBU number.
Convention Card
Save your convention card as a pdf
Log into MyEBU
Utilities
System cards
Upload
You can then copy the link and paste it into the relevant field once you are logged into RealBridge. The link will be there for the entire match.
It's also helpful to enter a brief description of your system in the chat field at the start of each round.
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| Membership Area and Find a Partner |
There is a Partner Request facility available in the Membership area of the web site
To access this for the 1st time, you will need to click on the “membership” tab from the menu on the website then click on “member area”.
If you are using it for the 1st time, when it asks for your username and password, just click “set/reset password” and follow the instructions from there.
Players can use this area to advertise or look for partners for sessions so do please try this out and see if it works!
You will need to opt in if you wish for your contact number and email address to be displayed.
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| ANNOUNCING AND ALERTING SUMMARY |
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| EBU Green Point Events |
The EBU run regular Green Point events on RealBridge
Details
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| Green Point Events |
A list of this years Green Point Events has been added to the Calendar,
along with Entry Forms where available.
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| Charity Events being held around the County |
If you would like any event being run at your club to be promoted on the website please contact Jane Hall
See a list of Charity Bridge Drives
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Calendar
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| 7th June 2026 |
| AGM followed by duplicate pairs for the AGM trophy |
Woodborough Village Hall 14:00
More Info |
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Results
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| 19th April 2026 |
| NCBA GP Swiss Pairs |
| Director: LouiseScull |
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| 8th March 2026 |
| Leicestershire v Notts |
| Director: Bill Barclay |
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| 22nd February 2026 |
| Journal Cup |
| Director: Keith Spencer |
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| 8th February 2026 |
| Notts v Staffordshire and Shropshire |
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