A big thank you to all our members who supported our Charity/Improvers evenings during 2025. We held 6 of them, and were delighted with the big turn-out. Our chosen charity for 2025 was the WALTON LEA PARTNERSHIP, a wonderful local charity that provides supported learning, training and work experience activities for young people and adults with learning disabilities, in Warrington and surrounding areas. The photo shows Ashok Kalia (second from the left), Walton Lea's Director of Operations, who came along to the Club for a presentation of our cheque. He expressed his gratitude for our donation, and described to us the huge difference it makes to the lives of the local families which they support. 

Although the cheque was for £1485, we since held our final charity evening for 2025, and donated a further £330, bringing our total donation for the year to £1835. So by supporting Warrington Bridge Club, you're not only enjoying the bridge playing and social aspects of our great game of bridge, you are helping our local community in Warrington. 

Congratulations to Tony James and Steve Bentley, who won this year's Jordan Vase. The runners up were Margaret Kinder and Pat Morris. 

It's an annual handicap pairs competition, of 5 sessions over the year.  For a pair to qualify, they need to play in at least three of the 5 sessions, but playing in more gives you a better chance to lift the trophy, as only your best three scores count.

Since it's a handicap competition, everyone has a chance to do well.  

 A total of 10 pairs qualified in 2025. The full results can be found HERE

The competition is played using XIMP's scoring, rather than the usual Match Points that we use for Duplicate Pairs. This makes quite a difference to the strategy when playing. It rewards making games and slams; overtricks are less important, and going off for large penalties is not a great thing for your score - far more than in duplicate, where a bad score is at worst just a bottom on that one board. If you want to know how it works and why it's different, there's an explanation HERE

 New classes have now started (but it's still not too late to join, except the Beginners class, which is now full)

Our summer season, for the whole of July, August, and the first week of September, is now over. We are now into our teaching season, which means on Thursdays at Alford Hall we have

a lesson on Thursday mornings (10am-12noon)

and

a relaxed duplicate on Thursday afternoons (1pm till 330pm). 

To find out about the Club, where we are, what's on, and how to make contact, or join the Club, click HERE

For information on County Bridge and events, click HERE

Fancy learning to play bridge? Bridge is a great social game. You'll make new friends, improve your memory, and have fun.

Perhaps you already know how to play, but want to improve, or to get back into it? Click HERE to find out how.

OUR NEW SEASON OF 2025/26 COURSES (BEGINNERS, IMPROVERS, AND INTERMEDIATES) STARTED ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2025. But it's not too late to join. 

....and if learning face-to face doesn't work for you, here's a great resource, totally free, for learning bridge on line, designed for people new to the game: 

It’s a series of You Tube videos created by expert bridge player and teacher John Stell. Start off by clicking  HERE , which will explain how to access the 52 videos.

John has now also added a short course on how to play two over one: HERE
Many people play online, and this system is very popular on sites such as BBO, INTO Bridge and RealBridge.
This is a useful resource for club members to brush up on various topics that maybe they don't have a full grasp of. The course would normally cost over £260 - but here it’s free, with no strings attached. The only thing John asks is if you like it, you spread the word, and subscribe to his YouTube channel.  

Another great option for learning on-line is available from Jack Stocken at Yorkshire Bridge

You can even start for free! You can watch Jack's series of 9 introductory lessons; Click  HERE

And if you're already a bridge player, whether or not you'd like to attend classes, you will be made most welcome at any of Warrington Bridge Club playing sessions. We run both face to face and on-line bridge sessions, mostly Duplicate Pairs. You can always find up-to-date details; click here for our website calendar.

We are now offering, in addition to our regular Friday evening on-line bridge, a weekly online session on Tuesday evenings on RealBridge, play starting at 7pm. Please log in at least 10 minutes beforehand. 

It is run in conjunction with Antrobus Bridge Club. For more details, click HERE

Members who want to play, just log in on the day by clicking on the link for the relevant session, on the panel at the top right of  the Homepage. Please do this at least 10 minutes before the session start time of 7pm. 

If you don't have a partner, log in anyway, sit at a table, and we'll do our best to fix you up. 

Jordan Vase: you can see the results for the 2025 Jordan Vase HERE. The winners were Tony James and Steve Bentley. 

To see the results of the Elizabeth Bennett Memorial Trophy, held on 30th June 2025, with the handicaps applied, click HERE. The winners were David Martin and Ann Beddard.

To see the results of the Marjorie Milton Trophy, held on 20th October 2025, with the handicaps applied, click HERE. The winners were Geoff Fisher and Cynthia Simpson.