We would like to invite you to do your bit to help Oxfordshire’s bridge community recover its pre-COVID vibrancy.
There are those amongst you who have been happy to return to face-to-face bridge at your local club and others who prefer to continue their bridge online. So, play is now understandably split between the two forms of the game. We want to ensure that lack of viability doesn’t cause any further club or session closures, as we value them all.
Challenge 1 - for the face-to-face fraternity:
Play at four clubs other than your own main club including at least three of the following:
Aylesbury Aces, Bicester, Buckingham, Chipping Norton, Diamond, Henley Duplicate, Kings Sutton, Summertown, Thame, Wantage, Witney
Report back to us the dates and venues of your four visits. Tell us which ones you enjoyed most and why. We will register your name on a new Honours Board on the Oxfordshire website dedicated to Oxfordshire’s Top Travellers - OTT for short. We will pay you £10 for entering, with additional prizes for the comments we deem to be of greatest marketing value.
To register your entry, once you have completed your required visits, you will need to complete the form on the website.: OBA OTTs. (If you try to complete this as you go along, the form will not save details.) Your email and any comments you enter will be private to the organisers and not displayed on the website.
Challenge 2 - for the online fraternity:
Play at six clubs other than your own main club. These clubs offer online sessions:
Abbey Smith, Abingdon, Banbury, Blewbury, Central Yarnton, Oxford Bridge Club, Oxford University, Wallingford, Wantage
Note that Faringdon BC cannot accept additional visitors at this time
Report back when you have done this and tell us which ones you enjoyed most and why. We will register your name on a new Honours Board on the Oxfordshire website dedicated to Oxfordshire’s Online Play Stars - OOPS for short. We will pay you £10 for entering, with additional prizes for the comments we deem to be of greatest marketing value.
To register your entry, once you have completed your required visits, you will need to complete the form on the website.: OBA OOPs. (If you try to complete this as you go along, the form will not save details.) Your email and any comments you enter will be private to the organisers and not displayed on the website.
These offers are time-limited to the point where we run out of budget, so the sooner you get your name on the board the better. Our initial budget will cover at least fifty names appearing on one or other of the boards.
A schedule showing all sessions currently run by Oxfordshire clubs can be found on our website here. Participating clubs have agreed to waive visitors’ fees for this initiative.
We recommend that you contact each club before your visit.
We hope you will meet many new bridge friends and have a lot of fun.
Kathy Talbot and Robert Procter
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