Forthcoming Events 2025:

 Monday 17th Feb Away day at Sitwell Arms. Horsley Woodhouse. DE7 6BN.   On Saturday 20th Sept  Allestree Bridge Club 35 years Anniversary Celebrations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Allestree Bridge club established by Derek Povah in 1990.

Home of Allestree Bridge Club. The Memorial Hall. 1 Cornhill. Allestree, Derby. DE22 2GG

We welcome all visitors and prospective new members. For further information contact Jo Bakshi 07711522706

 Allestree Bank Click >.ABC Bank.

All Bridge sessions are Face to Face. Please make sure one member of your partnership arrives 10 min before the bridge starts to help us achieve a prompt start. 

*WEDNESDAY 10am Supervised play. No partner needed, just come along & play bridge. All welcome. For further information please contact Susan Illsley : 01332-989184

*THURSDAY 10am from 9th JAN 2025. Beginners & Improvers Lessons. All welcome. For further information please contact Elaine on 01332-832654

*THURSDAY 1.15pm: Social Duplicate Bridge.

 *FRIDAY 1pm:  Duplicate Bridge.

* TUESDAY ONLINE Teaching 10.30am -12.30pm. Cost £5, that includes lesson on Zoom and play on BBO. For further details please contact Elaine; 01332-832654

Children in Need 2024 : We have raised total £500. Thank you everyone for taking part in this event and your extra donation.

On Thursday 14th NOV: Well done Glenn Partridge & Eileen Jordan coming 83 with 60.92% out of 1221 overall.

On Friday 15th NOV: Well done Alison & Jo Bakshi coming 74 with 60.28% out of 778 overall.

Pairs championships Thus 7th & Friday 8th Nov  : Congratulations to Thursday pairs champions Gill Griffiths and Alison Craig & Friday Champions Alison and Jo Bakshi . 

Please think of others,  if you are unwell even just a cold or you have or may have Covid or have been in close contact with someone who has then  please do not attend any bridge session. Thank you.

Please do not park in the RED COW car park. The landlord is threatening to clamp your car.

45 bridge players attended the Allestree bridge club holidays at Arnside. Thank you to Elaine for organising very enjoyable holidays.

Click Links: New Blue Book, effective from1st  September 2022

1) Updates to Blue and White Books 2022  (2)  New Alerting and Announcing Bidding Rules and an article by Stephen Green (vice-chair of the Laws and Ethics committee) More detail of the new announcements is in the Announcement Summary

A TD who needs to explain and apply these new rules needs to read (or be able to find) the text in the Blue Book itself. It may be helpful to look at the final draft of the new Blue Book – which has changes marked in the margin.

 Very successful open day on 4th April. Ten  young children and three adult attended and shown great interest to come again to learn bridge.  Also attended by 12 Allestree bridge club members total 25 Thank you to Club members for their support by bringing children, grandchildren and making this event successful.

Sadly Derek passed away on 26th July 2021. Click- A review of Derek Povah's life by his brother Gordon Povah

He was awarded the Dimmie Fleming Award for 2011 and was presented with his certificate on 6th September 2011 at Spondon.These awards are made annually by the EBU for services to Bridge, and this award to Derek was as a result of Derek's activity in the field of Bridge over many years without thought of personal reward and in particular establishing our Allestree Bridge Club in 1990.