Rachel Hardcastle  Local Master
Phil Kemp  Local Master

Congratulations!

Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre is participating in the EBU’s ‘Festival of Bridge: Bridge -it’s a Big Deal’ during the week of September 9^th.  Events are taking place around the country to raise the profile of bridge and to contribute to fund raising for Cancer Research UK. The centre is organising 3 special activities.

Tuesday September 10^th

Our beginners and continuing students are joining together for bridge and lunch – an opportunity for them to play bridge, socialise and celebrate their success in the teaching programs.

Wednesday September 11^th@7.30pm

The centre is hosting a friendly inter-club teams’ competition with visitors from Altrincham Bridge Club. Both teams will include players of all abilities – both experts and non-experts.

If you are available to play in this event, then please let Barbara know via Email

Saturday September 14^th

Wine and cheese evening 7.30 pm. 

Come on your own, play fun bridge with a number of other guests, enjoy a selection of fine cheeses and wine, prizes as well. 

We hope for a great turn out for this particular social.  

The charge will be £10 to be collected on the night.  

If you plan to come, then please sign up HERE

During the Festival week, all of our table money and all of the Saturday night income will be donated to Cancer Research UK – via the EBU.

We hope that the dates are in your diaries.

We look forward to your support of the centre during this week.

Regards

Alec and the B&CHBC committee

Our next Wednesday special event is August 7th, a Non-Expert Pairs. 7.30 start, members and visitors all welcome. Nibbles and prizes. Please sign up HERE.

'Non-expert' includes improvers, continuing students and all those with an NGS of 9 or below.  We look forward to your participation for what promises to be an enjoyable evening and an opportunity to meet new members.

The B&CHBC club year ends on August 31st. We have had a successful year and have been pleased to see our members at Bramhall and on RealBridge.

Membership subscriptions for the year September 1st 2024 to August 31st 2025 remain at £24 and are due now and should be paid before September 1st. 

Your subscription includes membership of B&CHBC, Bramhall Village Club and the English Bridge Union.

If any of your personal details (inc Gift Aid donation)  have changed please let our membership secretary know:  Mary Green  (or update by logging into Members Only page on the web).

Please pay your £24 by BACS transfer - preferred, or by cheque. The BACs  details are:

Business Name: Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre (truncated to 'Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Bri')

Sort Code   01-01-14

Account Number   15236943

please reference with:  Your Name

If you wish to pay by cheque, please make it payable to Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre and send to David McNeillie, 3 Bowness Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 7HS.

If you are not renewing your membership, please let us know so we can update our records and you can avoid the reminder emails!

Experts and non-experts enjoyed a competititve evening on July 24th

Congratulations to the winners - Rodney Lighton and Tom Dessain 

Congratulations also to students Rachel Hardcastle and Phil Kemp

All results can be found HERE

Julia Bannister  4 Star Master
Joyce White  2 Star Grand Master
Tom Dessain  Grand Master
Nigel Matthews  3 Star Premier Master
Jonathan Berg  Advanced Master
Stephen Ward  Premier National Master
Bryn Pick  District Master
David Grimshaw  Area Master
Lynn Bracey  Club Master
Brian Thompson  Local Master

Congratulations! 

Our next Wednesday evening will be our centre's Championship Pairs on July 24th at 7.30pm.  Please sign up HERE.  We hope to see both experts and non-experts for this competition. Members and visitors all welcome.

12 pairs participated in this teams' event, playing hands from a Spring Fours final and scoring with international team-mates. A commentary on the hands was avaibable afterwards. A number of continuing bridge students played and enjoyed the experience. The results are HERE1

Link to commentary HERE2

Link to results, bidding and play from the experts HERE3 - you can just enter any name to login

The next Wednesday night special will be on July 10th - a Non-Expert pairs

The following Wednesday night special events and competitions are scheduled for the summer months

Members and visitors all welcome -  start time 7.30pm

July 10th: Non-Expert Pairs

July 24th: B&CHBC Pairs

August 7th: Non-Expert Pairs

August 28th: Non-Expert Pairs

The EBU is promoting Bridge -it’s a Big Deal, during the week September 9th-16^th, to raise the profile of bridge and to raise money for Cancer Research UK. 

Save the dates!

Tuesday September 10^th

Lunch and bridge for Year 1 and Year 2 Beginners. Ann and Ric are organising an event to bring all the newcomers together.

Wednesday September 11^th

Altrincham Bridge Club are bringing a team to Bramhall for a friendly inter-club teams’ competition.

All members will be eligible to play: experts, non-experts and improvers. Details to follow.

Saturday September 14th

Wine and cheese evening with fun bridge ….an individual bridge event – play with different partners.

Sunday September 15^th

Twin Towns on-line duplicate – organised by MCBA

For all these events and the Monday/Tuesday/Friday duplicates, we will be asking for donations rather than charging table money. All of the donations will go to Cancer Research UK

The minutes of the B&CHBC AGM are now on the website (under 'Documents') or HERE

5 teams had an enjoyable and competitive teams event evening on June 11th.  The results are HERE

Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre

Annual General Meeting

Tuesday June 11^th 2024:  6.30pm 

in the Rhodes Room at Bramhall Village Club

AGM June 11th 2024 AGENDA

Chairs Report

Treasurers Report Page 1

Treasurers Report Page 2

Treasurers Report Page 3

Thursday May 30th, 7.30pm, The AGM of Manchester County Bridge Association will be held in the Rhodes room at Bramhall. There will be food and wine during a break and a prize giving ceremony for league winners and other MCBA events.

MCBA - Minutes AGM 29th June 2023

MCBA - Agenda AGM 2024

MCBA - Report of Officers

MCBA - Offices and Porstholders

MCBA 2023-2024ACCOUNTS -Final HS JB

Tuesday June 11th, 6.30pm, The AGM of Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre......followed by the usual Tuesday night duplicate.

Congratulations to the team of 8 from B&CHBC who played in the Regional final of the Garden Cities trophy on May 11th, and qualified for the final on June 1st. The team were Rodney Lighton - Tom Dessain, Stephen Ward - Peter Grauer, Michael Byrne -  Gideon Harvey & Tom Slater - Fly Leung

Peter Wilkinson  County Master
Gavin Callow  Club Master

Congratulations!

9 teams enjoyed a competitive mixed teams' event on April 24th. This included 3 teams of year 2 beginners who displayed  their increasing knowledge and confidence. A good time was had by all.  Results are HERE

The non-expert pairs competition on April 10th was an enjoyable and competitive evening.

Congratulations to the prize winners: Brian Thompson and Charlotte Bruce-Foulds; and Julie Suckling and Tony Bowden   

Full results are HERE

Festival Of Bridge

Thank you to Patricia Tooze and friends from Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Club who recently raised money for Cancer Research UK as part of the Bridge - It's a Big Deal! Festival of bridge.

Eight members from the Y2 Beginners’ class at Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre played in a “Barbie” themed bridge afternoon at Patricia's house. They raised £50 for the Bridge - It’s a Big Deal! fund in aid of Cancer Research UK.

The official Festival week will take place from 9th - 15th September, but we welcome groups big or small to raise funds at any stage. We hope you will join in and have fun playing or learning bridge while raising money for this wonderful cause.

If you are planning an event, please let us know, email EBU and/or Espen Gisvold

You can make a donation to Cancer Research UK via: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/.../english-bridge...

(Taken from Aylesbury Staff on FaceBook)

It is timely to remind our members to always engage in Best Behaviour at Bridge as outlined in the EBU document that can be read HERE.

11 teams participated in the Swiss teams 'special' on March 27th. Congratulations to the Mystical Machine Gun team (Neil Thomas, Gillian McMullan, Rodney Lighton and John Holland) who won the event. The full results are HERE

Congratulations to the 3 teams from the centre who have recently won their 3rd round matches in the EBU's Inter Club Knock Out Competition

Royce Alexander, John Currie, Peter Foster and John Roberts

Neil Thomas, Gillian McMullan, Irene Davies and Roger Hopton

Michael Byrne, John Holland, Rodney Lighton, Gary Hyett, Tom Slater and Alec Smalley

B&CHBC was very well represented at the MCBA Green Point Pairs event on Saturday March 2nd.  Cogratulations to the winners who are members of the centre: Rodney Lighton and Tom Dessain

All results can be found HERE and more pictures can be found HERE

Congratulations to the Manchester county team of 8 who won the national inter-county Tollemache Cup final, for the second year running, held in Coventry on February 17th and 18th. The team was Tom Slater/Alec Smalley, John Holland/Alan Mould, John Hassett/Jeff Morris, and Phillip Taylor/Nicholas Greer. The results are on the EBU website (HERE)

Congratulations to Mary Green, Rob Harris and Fly Leung who have recently taken the EBU  TD training courses and assessment and are now qualified EBU Club Directors.

We look forward to them joining the TD team at the centre.

B&CHBC entered 3 teams in the MCBA inter-club teams of 8 competition on February 4th. Congratulations to the winners: the centre's team of John Holland and Raymond Semp, Rodney Lighton and Gary Hyett, Tom Slater and Alec Smalley, Stephen Ward and Peter Grauer.  They will now play in the Regional finals of the Garden Cities Trophy in May.  The results are HERE

Bramhall Village Club

 

B&CHBC is the largest section and membership group at Bramhall Village Club.   BVC is a registered charity and is managed by a group of trustees and representatives of the member sections who deal with the management of the building and the activities that take place - these include building issues,  membership, and liaison with those who rent the various rooms for their activities and events. The management team are all volunteers and are presently looking for new members to join the committee to participate in the present running of, and future planning for BVC.  If you have a little time to spare, and would be willing to volunteer your time and expertise, then the chairman Ross Worthington will be delighted to talk to you.  Please let me know if you are interested and I will pass on your contact details to Ross.
 

B&CHBC members were well represented at the Chester Congress on January 27th and 28th with some measure of success! Tom Slater and Alec Smalley were 2nd in the pairs with Ann Thornton, Barbara Lewis, Steve Mattinson, Pauline Lang and Raymond Semp also scoring well. In the teams, there was a very close finish between the top 3 teams with Tom and Ann, Alec and Barbara coming 3rd. Full results: HERE

The bridge centre is thriving and we now have 227 members. Consequently, the duplicates are very busy with up to 12 tables.

To assist our  TDs and scorers will everyone please:

Arrive in the Rhodes Room no later than 10 minutes before the start of play so that the movement can be decided and set up, and the boards put out.  Latecomers  may not be guarateed a game. Also, before the start of each round it is the responsibility of players to check the names and board numbers on the bridgemates - please ensure that you do this.   Thank you.

We look forward to seeing you at Bramhall.

Happy New Year to all our members from the B&CHBC committee.

We wish you all the best for a healthy and happy year with success at bridge.

B&CHBC recruited 32 students for the Beginners' Bridge Course that started in January, with expert teaching and guidance from Ann Thornton and her fantastic team of mentors. The students have completed Year 1 of the course and on December 5th were presented with certificates and offered encouragement to continue learning by Irene Davies, chair of MCBA. Alec was also present to support the occasion.  The group will be starting Year 2 - Continuing Bridge - in January 2024.

RealBridge - Monday evenings at 7.30pm. You do not need to register, just click on the appropriate link in the "Login RealBridge" on the right of our home page.

Results - The results are all on this website together with the ‘leader boards’ to be found under Competitions in the Menu.

TD's - Our TDs are all volunteers: Espen, Alec, Paul & Mike

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