Upminster & Cranham Bridge Club
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Welcome to Upminster & Cranham Bridge Club
New Club in Upminster!
New Club in Upminster!

Welcome to the new EBU bridge club in the Upminster area offering a friendly and social regular bridge session on Friday evenings, a daytime competition, lessons, social activities and club holidays. We are the only EBU affiliated bridge club in Havering.

Play with Upminster & Cranham - 'We play with finesse'

Club Competitions

Club competitions include annual ladders for pairs and individuals (Gents and Ladies), improvers, handicap and a 'World of Bridge - World Championship'.

Our 'World Champion' will be the highest ranked individual/s from at least 3 of 4 'World of Bridge' events, these will be quarterly daytime sessions in local restaurants that include lunch - each event will feature a different country's cuisine.

Only club members will be eligible to win competitions (although non-members may play), there will be entry fees to 'World of Bridge' which is an 'open' event but these are discounted for members.

New Beginning Bridge course starting soon

We have a new 'Beginning Bridge' course starting very soon. The course will run in Great Leighs and brief details can be found on the Bridge Tuition link to the left.

If you know of anyone who may be interested please let us know ASAP.

Upminster & Cranham BC

Regular session Friday evenings at 7:30pm.

We are also running a daily game on FunbridgeYou'll need a Funbridge account (free) and our game password to play these daily games. They work on a drop in drop out basis, so, to complete the 'event' you'll need to play all 10 boards but at a time or times to suit you over a 24 hour period. You can play these games completely free of charge without a partner on a computer or via an iPhone or iPpad App. 

Please contact us for the password and visit www.funbridge.com or download the App to get started. Our game is found through 'Exclusive Tournaments' under our club name.

Please note we now only run BBO sessions on an ad-hoc basis.

We also have a WhatsApp group (UCBC Chatter) for members to keep in touch, discuss bridge or anything else, please join us.

If would like help accessing any of these facilities Tony will be delighted to assist.

What's on

We will keep you up to date with what's going on here! 

We are currently planning a return to our popular World of Bridge events starting with a one off 'Balti Bridge', not 1 but 2 club holidays and recommencing our bridge lessons - watch this space.

Guests, visitors or friends are always very welcome to attend any of our sessions or events but only members may win competitions. Members will also be entitled to discounted rates for all sessions and events.

Congratulations!

Fantastic news! - Many congratulations to Robert Elliott and John Sutcliffe along with Angela Fenton and David Cooper for finishing in 1st and 2nd place in the recent Essex Club Pairs event held at Barleylands thus bringing the trophy home to Upminster! A solid performance from our other two pairs in event saw Jon Ward and Tony French in 5th place and Val and Paul Mollinson in 6th place...... 4 pairs in the top 6 places, very impressive.

Again congratulations to all our players and thank you for representing Upminster & Cranham Bridge Club.

Our students Karen and Chris Jones recently attended their first bridge holiday winning high praise from the organisers for their exemplary etiquette, what an achievement considering their short experience! Well done guys.

The progression of our members gives us great pleasure and we offer you all our heartfelt congratulations, keep it up!

In case you are unaware, you can access your EBU record via 'My EBU' - speak with Tony if you need help to do so.

Movers and Shakers!

This years competitions are underway including the new improvers and handicap ladders, online events do count - please see the 'Current Competitions' menu on the left.

Results
Friday Pairs
Director: Jon Ward
Scorer: Jon Ward
Friday Pairs
Director: Jon Ward
Scorer: Jon Ward
Friday Pairs
Director: Jon Ward
Scorer: Jon Ward
Friday Pairs
Director: Jon Ward
Scorer: Jon Ward
Calendar
18th July 2025
Friday Pairs
7.15pm
Director: Jon Ward
Scorer: Jon Ward
25th July 2025
Friday Pairs
7.15pm
Director: Jon Ward
Scorer: Jon Ward
1st August 2025
Friday Pairs
7.15pm
Director: Jon Ward
Scorer: Jon Ward