| EBU |
The English Bridge Union, the game's governing body in England.
Many bridge clubs are affiliated to the EBU, including Royston. Club members are also EBU members, and are thus automatically eligible for a number of benefits such as the bi-monthly English Bridge magazine and the increasingly popular NGS rating scheme.
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| EBED |
The English Bridge Education and Development website. A good place to start for those wishing to learn to play bridge.
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| HBA |
Hertfordshire Bridge Association. The County website contains a directory of affiliated clubs, competition details, entry forms and results.
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| Morden Ruffians |
Holds sessions on Wednesday evenings at Steeple Morden Village Hall. A handy alternative/addition to local Bridge.
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| Melbourn Bridge Club |
A friendly and informal club that holds sessions on Monday evenings at Melbourn. The club has recently added a Tuesday afternoon session for Beginners and Improvers. However, unlike many local clubs, Melbourn is unaffiliated to the EBU.
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| Hitchin Bridge Club |
An ambitious and successful club with a similar profile to Royston (BridgeWebs, Bridgemates, computer-dealt hands etc). Holds a number of sessions each week, well worth a visit.
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| Welwyn Bridge Club |
The biggest bridge club in Hertfordshire, holding sessions most days of the week. It also acts as host to a number of HBA events and EBU heats.
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| ECATS |
Home of ECATS who run a couple of Simultaneous events that the club regularly participate in each year, namely the Children in Need annual fundraising event in November and the Charity Challenge in March.
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| BBO |
If you're interested in playing or watching bridge online, then look no further.
There's also regular coverage of top national and international events via Vugraph, Solitaire bridge and even a weekly Instant Tournament over 8-boards... and all for free!
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| Funbridge |
Another online bridge app, definitely worth a look, especially now that Funbridge is hosting weekly tournaments there on behalf of the EBU. With Funbridge (unlike BBO) you can specify your own pet bidding system, even Acol. So there should be a lot less excuses when you and your robot partner screw up the bidding!
See here for the EBU's announcement.
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| Bridge lesson books from Andrew Robson |
 If you like learning from books as opposed to lessons, here's the Andrew Robson approach to modern Acol. Great value for players wishing to improve their game, at only £5 each.
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| Mr Bridge |
A useful bridge site with a library of systems and conventions, a regular newsletter and Bridge magazine now online.
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| Bridge Warehouse |
 The (re-branded) EBU shop
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| Chess and Bridge Ltd |
Chess and Bridge have a shop in London at 44 Baker Street (they moved from Euston Road) at the former British Chess Magazine shop. They are chess specialists but have a good stock on bridge and publish "Bridge" magazine. Editor Mark Horton can often be found there.
Subscribers to "Bridge" or "Chess" get a discount (Peter Rice is a subscriber).
They are also the UK distributors for the "Jack" bridge playing software.
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