Above: Chairman Richard Merriman.

Welcome to the website of Rutland and Oakham Bridge Club. We are a friendly club playing on Tuesday evenings (7pm - 10pm) and Friday afternoons (1.45pm - 4.00pm: a more gentle session) in the meeting room at St Joseph's Catholic Church, Station Road, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6QU. Our usual attendance is now about 4 to 6 tables. We play duplicate pairs,  and  every so often we participate in Simultaneous Pairs competitions. We are affiliated to the English Bridge Union and the Leicestershire CBA

NEW MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS VERY WELCOME

For further details about our club, please click the Information button in the menu on the left

For brief details of other regular bridge games organised in Rutland, please see  "Bridge in Rutland" on this page

There is a thriving bridge community in Rutland, which meets regularly to play various forms of the game, as follows

(please click on link for the history of the bridge clubs on the News page)

Tuesday (afternoon) 2-4pm, TUESDAY CHICAGO, chicago bridge at St Joseph's Church Meeting Room Oakham: contact Dawn O'Higgins on 01664 567057  Please Note:  The membership list for this club is full at the moment.  Please contact Dawn if you would like to be put on the waiting list for membership.

Tuesday (evening) 6.45-10pm and Friday (afternoon) 1.45pm-4pm, RUTLAND AND OAKHAM BRIDGE CLUB, duplicate bridge (EBU-affiliated) at St Joseph's Church Meeting Room Oakham:  

contact Richard Merriman on 01572 720002

or Paul Collins on 0116 259 6278, mobile 07802 887759, email paul.collins0759@gmail.com 

Wednesday (afternoon) 2-4.30pm (mid-Sept to mid-April), OAKHAM (BOWLING) BRIDGE CLUB, Chicago bridge at The Vale Oakham: contact Secretary Jan Dowse (Tel 01572 723704 e-mail jkdowse@yahoo.co.uk) or Chairman Di Culshaw (01572 868758)  new members are very welcome, including inexperienced players. Single players welcome. 

On Mondays, duplicate bridge is available just over the county border at Melton or Stamford (also on Thursdays at Stamford).  Both those clubs have a presence on BridgeWebs

If you organise a regular bridge group session in Rutland which is not listed here, please let us have brief details for inclusion in this panel.  Click "Information" in the menu (above left) and then click "Contact us"

At a meeting of members of both Rutland and Oakham Bridge clubs in November 2021, it was agreed to merge both clubs and name the combined club "Rutland and Oakham Bridge Club".