| F2F sessions at the club |
Monday afternoon bridge is suspended until after the summer. Wednesday afternoon (2pm) and Friday evening (7pm) continue as normal. Thank you for your continuing support.
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| Jubilee Pairs with lunch |
JUBILEE PAIRS WITH LUNCH - 11:00AM Thursday 2 June
You are warmly invited to celebrate Her Majesty’s 70 years on the throne at a Jubilee Pairs on Thursday 2 June starting at 11:00am. This will provide a great opportunity to meet up again with old friends, enjoy a session of friendly duplicate bridge and partake of a light buffet lunch.
Visitors welcome - no visitor's fee
To find out more details, click HERE
To enter, click on the title of this item (at the top in the Green Box).
The event will only take place if we get at least 5 tables entered by Monday 30 May so please sign up as soon as possible.
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| May 2022 Newsletter |
We have prepared a short May 2022 Newsletter please click anywhere in this box to read it.
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| Some good news - Lottery Grant |
 SOME GOOD NEWS
As you will have read in our recent Newsletter, the club is really struggling with numbers following on from the Covid epidemic and we are due to start paying rent this November. We therefore applied for a Community Fund Lottery Grant to help the club rebuild attendance. The application was for £10K for a 3-year project called Preston Bridge Club – Build Back Participation. We have heard this week that we have been awarded the full amount. As you may realise this is our 2nd grant from the Lottery, the last being in 2017 which was to help equip our re-furbished premises. The club is very grateful to the Lottery for its continued support and also to all our volunteers who are helping the club through this difficult period. To help rebuild the club we very much need new volunteers and if you are able to help in any way, however small – TDing, acting as an ‘odd-bod’, dealing, tidying, helping organise competitions (big or small), helping with catering, cleaning etc, please contact a member of the Club Committee (contact details are on the website or click HERE).
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| Membership |
Membership was due on the 1st April if you have still not paid and intend to remain a member please pay soon.
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| Support Preston Bridge Club |
Now that we have returned to face to face bridge it is obvious that it will be some time before there is a return to anything close to the pre-pandemic levels of face to face bridge. In fact it seems likely that there will be a very significant fall in numbers on a permanent basis.
If the club is to survive we need the support of members, there are two ways you can help.
The first is to return to face to face bridge although I appreciate that not everyone is ready for that.
The second is that if you are playing other online bridge please participate in the Lancashire online Pairs sessions see both our website and the Lancashire website. These provide several sessions a week for all abilities and table money after expenses goes to the club.
No other online bridge benefits the club, we do need your help.
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| 2021 Trustees Report |
The 2021 trustee report is available by clicking this text. It was originally written earlier this year but due to clashes with newsletters etc. it wasn't relesed at the time hence we have added some updates.
Any comments or questions please email
bill@alston-family.co.uk
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| Online Bridge For All |
Preston Bridge Club is part of the new Lancashire Online Partnership (LOP) which will take over from the highly popular BPS.
Sessions are provided for all abilities so it really is Online Bridge for all from the Beginner or Social player up to the experts.
If you were not previously registered with BPS you will need to register to play. More details on our LOP pages here:
Lancashire Online Partnership
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| Member Feedback |
Membership Feedback Suggestions
The club is introducing an online feedback/suggestion system to enable members to make suggestions on how the club could be improved. All suggestions will go to the club secretary and they will normally be considered at the next Club Committee meeting, after which, one of the committee will get back to you. Club Committee meetings only take place every few months so please be patient! If you want to use this service then please click here.
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| Charity Status |
Preston Contract Bridge Club is a registered charity No. 1161100
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| ROOM HIRE |
Our spacious club rooms are available for hire to play bridge at the following rates
Matches Involving Preston Members £10
Unless representing Preston such as in the NICKO when it is free
Non Members £30
Ad hoc Bridge £2-00 per player
Regular Bookings by negotiations
Hire for similar games etc by negotiation
Whether free or not the room must be booked with the secretary contact Maxine on 07736810562 or email whalley.n@sky.com
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