We are  fully involved in the Children-in-Need Sim Pairs events, and we're holding heats on Tue afternoon and Wed evening.

We make no charge for Bridge (and the EBU do not charge us P2P either), so we very much hope that you will as usual give generously via the JustGiving page, linked from here. We've been recommending a minimum of £5 (per session) for about 10 years, so you may well wish to give more than than this! It's great if you can include a comment with your donation eg "WBC Tuesday - Devilish hands!" or "Wed WBC - great fun, good luck!"

Please note that, if you're eligible (do read the details) you can GiftAid your donation, but we can't do this for you.  We can take cash if you can't make online payments, but again, we can't GiftAid this. Do read this, from ECats, about how to control how much you choose to "tip" JustGiving. Some people prefer not to add a tip - not everyone knows how to do this!

Results will be two-fold - you'll have a "room" result, and a national result, so two chances to get a good score! SIM results and hand commentaries will be posted in this panel.

Are you new to Worcester, new to Bridge, or just visiting? Click HERE for details on how to get started! 

We play every Wednesday (start time 7.00 for 7.10pm), at Claines Royal British Legion, Cornmeadow Lane, WR3 7PL, and every Tuesday (start time 12-50pm for 1pm), at Hallow Parish Hall, Hallow Worcester, WR2 6PE.

 To book to play on a Tuesday, click here to contact Ian, or for a Wednesday,  click here to contact Martyn.

We are delighted that the EBU has recognised our own Mike Vetch to receive this year's Dimmie Fleming award. Dimmie ran the English Bridge Union from her home, as secretary from 1955 to 1974, and was only the second woman to play in a British open team. The award is to publicly recognise those people who have, for a long time, worked hard for bridge in administration at County level. Well done Mike, you join a select group of Worcestershire players to have previously won the award, including Ron Allen (1990), Bill Dalman (1997), John Turner (2002), Jean Newton (2004), John Cattanach (2005) and Paul Hammond (2007).

On Wednesday 12th November, we will be holding our TENTH Café Bridge event in Worcester City Centre! We are fully booked, with ten tables, but contact George (see poster) if you'd like to be first reserves!

The event will be in aid of The Stroke Association, particularly relevant to the Club given the experience of at least two of our established members last/this year (Tim Keates and Peter Fisher). Happily they can both be described as survivors, indeed Peter has now made two comeback appearances at the Club. Sadly, however, Ross Garratt, a long time member of WBC, suffered a stroke and died in December.

Full details can be found in these pages, where you will also find parking advice and details of pre-event briefing in the next few days

Lots of exciting things coming up in the next few weeks/months: put these dates in your diaries!

On Wednesday 12th November, (Daytime) we will be holding another of our popular Café Bridge events in Worcester centre (approx 11am till 4pm). We are sold out  - but Contact George via the links if you want to be on the waiting list!

On Tuesday 11th (Hallow) and Wed 12th November (Claines, evening), we will hold heats of the Children-in-Need simultaneous Pairs events in our normal sessions. No charge for the Bridge, but we invite a donation of £5+ to C-i-N.

Christmas is coming! (soonish...);

As usual we plan to have fun, with PARTIES scheduled for Tue 16th Dec and Wed 17th Dec; these will be TEAMS events, with Tuesday's following the "scratch teams" format, and the Wednesday one with planned teams.  More details to follow soon, but you can be sure of: Free Bridge; Food; Drink; Prizes as ever!

To-be-confirmed will be our usual "SIM" pairs event with our French exchange Club, Romorantin, which would be on Tue 23rd December - some further communications with the Romorantin President still needed. Watch this space!

Also we DO plan to have a normal session on Tuesday 30th December - but NOT on New Year's Eve!

Our Summer Special (Wed 30th July at RBL) and Summer Extravaganza (Tue 19th Aug at Hallow) were both much enjoyed by all - many thanks to all those who put in the work to make these a success. Winners were: Pete Cole + George Jeffrey (Wed event) with runners-up Sue and Dennis; and at Hallow: Marian + Paul T (NS) and Bryan + Brian (EW).

Well done to Heather Carr and Dave Wiseman, winners of the Mixed Pairs in July; to Helen C and Louise, who won the Ladies' Pairs on September 10th, and Mike V and Rob C who (narrowly!) won the Men's Pairs on the same night.

The September Teams at Hallow was won by Martyn + Ian, Terry + Anita; and the Championship Teams trophy was won by Jane Morton, Mark Askwith, Rob Cookson + Mike Vetch, with Paul H, Geoffrey, Grahame + Steve in 2nd place.