Cafe Bridge event

The South Cotswold Bridge Club is holding a Cafe Bridge Event, in Cirencester on Tuesday 14th July, on behalf of the PARKINSON'S charity.

If you are interested click here for more details.

News Update – 29th May

Directing

We currently have 5 Directors but could do with training-up another Director. Any and all costs incurred will be paid by the Club. Please contact Ian if you are interested or if you need further information.

This will become more important when we start the Thursday afternoon F2F sessions in September.

Please remember that you can’t have a pairs event without a Director. There is one Wednesday coming up shortly where only 1 of the 5 is available! If he were to become unavailable, that evening’s event would have to be cancelled. None of us are getting any younger.

Trial EBU Affiliation

The Club has applied for Free Trial affiliation to the EBU. This has  been granted – the trial running until the end of March 2027. All bar a few members have been enrolled with the EBU (some obviously were already members). All members’ accounts have been updated with an EBU number (apart from a few “dormant” members – not currently playing for various reasons). Those members who have chosen to not affiliate have been given “anonymous” numbers.

Session results dating from Monday 11^th May have been uploaded to the EBU. Everybody who has played in any of the uploaded sessions should have received an email from the EBU detailing their current “standing”. If you find it tedious keep getting these emails every time you play you can unsubscribe.

If you play in an online session on RealBridge, please make sure you enter your (correct!) EBU number when you logon.

Gentle Bridge

Both classes have now finished, and “Gentle Bridge” sessions have started on Tuesday evenings. These will continue through the summer to help the students practice playing and familiarise themselves with duplicate play. Please contact Ian if you are willing to help.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2026

It was decided at the AGM on 11th March that table fees will be reduced - returned to what they were before last year's AGM:

• £2 for Face-to-Face sessions
• 50p for RealBridge online sessions

The change will apply from 1st April.

A draft copy of the meeting minutes is now available on the website in the Membership Area.

The EBU have made some changes to the Rules for Alerting and Announcing.

The main change that applies to us is that you no longer need to Announce a point count when Partner opens 2NT.

Click here for a simplified version

Please read these rules - quite a few of you are getting lazy about Alerting and Announcing!!