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♠ ♥ WELCOME TO ORMISTON BRIDGE CLUB. ♦ ♣
The club is now closed until September 7th 2026.
♥ Ormiston Bridge Club meets every Monday evening from September to April in Gala Rugby Club. The club closes from May and reopens in September. We have a refreshments break during the evening so there is chance for informal chat as well as playing bridge. There is free parking nearby and our club room is on the ground floor.
♥ Please can members arrive by 6.20pm and we will aim to start as close to 6.30pm as possible.
♥ New members are very welcome and if you would like to join the club or play as a visitor, please contact the club using the email address under the information tab on this website. Do let us know If you would like some refresher sessions or an introduction to club play and we will arrange some sessions. We are a relaxed and friendly club and are committed to supporting newcomers to club bridge .Whilst coming with a partner would be helpful, we would also try to find a partner if this was not possible.
♥ Autumn session 2026
Monday 7th Sept 2026 to Monday 7th December 2026
Christmas Party Monday 14th December.
♥ Spring session
Monday 11th January to Monday 19th April 2027
AGM Monday 26th April 2027
♥ Committee 2026/2027
President Marie Keith
Vice President Jennifer Lamont
Secretary Aileen Scott Aiton
Treasurer Barbara Pavey
Masterpoint Sec Sheena McPherson
Committee members : Donald Swanson ( Tournament Director), Gill Knight, Bridget Sinclair (past president)
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| Who are we? |
Ormiston Bridge Club is an affiliated club of the Scottish Bridge Union: East District. It meets every Monday (6.30pm at the Gala Rugby Club, Netherdale, Galashiels . Please be seated for 6.20pm).
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| AGM 2026 |
We held a successful and well supported AGM on Monday 27th April. We received reports from the President , Secretary and Treasurer on the year's activities. We also made a presentation as a token of the club's appreciation to Donald who has stepped down after many years of service both as treasurer and then secretary of the club. Thank you Donald for all your hard work.
We also had the annual trophy awards and presented the trophies to the following winners. Congratulations to you all.!
The Rose Bowl Sheena and Elaine
The Millennium Shield Brenda and Brian.
The Jeanette Chalmers Salver Caroline and Sheena
In addition to these competitions, we also played in the Borders wide Pairs and Teams tournaments, the SBU national Lord Thomson and Easter Sims as well as the Children in Need charity competition. There was a good turn out for all the events this year with an average attendance of over 70%.
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| BABC tournaments |
Ormiston Bridge club is hosting the BABC ( Borders Association of Bridge clubs) events for 2 years. We have completed the first year when we ran the BABC pairs competition in Nov 2025 followed by the BABC team event in March 2026. Both were a great success with 20 pairs playing in November and 11 teams in March.
The winners were as follows :
BABC Pairs.
1st Robin and Kenneth (Peebles)
2nd Marie and George ( Ormiston)
3rd Jane and Trish ( Berwick)
BABC Teams
1st Kenneth, Grant, Willie and James (Peebles)
2nd Anne, Robin, Richard and Jon ( Kelso)
3rd Gordon, Patricia, Elizabeth, Sheila. ( Peebles)
We look forward to running the same two events in 2026/27. Thank you to all who supported the events and congratulations to the winners.
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| Lottery Grant |
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Following the success of our lottery fund application in January 2012, we are now owners of 15 Bridgepads and the very latest version of playbridgedealer4. The equipment was successfully trialled during April 2012 and has been used routinely from the start of the 2012/2013 season.
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| MEMPAD |
MEMPAD is SBU's Membership and Master Point Administration Database. MEMPAD gives you your own area where you can view your current Master point rating, updated daily, and your rank. Master points earned in our club sessions are submitted on-line via Scorebridge so you can see your total points updated relatively soon after you’ve gained points - in practice after the first Monday of each month for the previous month. There’s also information available about members and SBU competitions.
You initially gain access to your account on MEMPAD by emailing the Master Points secretary (masterpoints@sbu.org.uk), quoting your Master Point (SBU) number. MEMPAD's address is www.mempad.co.uk.
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| GDPR |
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