Wiltshire Contract Bridge Associaiton is affliated to the EBU and is the umbrella organisation for clubs in Wiltshire, supporting, developing and promoting bridge in the County.

This year the EBU are organising a Festival of Bridge, to promote the game and raise awareness of local clubs. This event is being run in conjunction with the Cancer Research UK and many clubs are running events which will raise money for CRUK. To fin out what is happening in Wiltshire and to get involved, please click here.

Wiltshire League 2024-2025

Entries are now open for the new season of the Wiltshire League. This teams competition, for 4 to 8 members, will take place on Realbridge over 10 dates from September 2024 to April 2025. For more details and to enter, please click here. 

Entries are now open for the Wiltshire Knock-out - the qualifying event for the EBU Pachabo Cup. The competition is a great opportunity to play against fellow bridge players in each other's homes and enjoy a social evening with bridge. For more details about the Knock-out and to enter, please click here.

There are many opportunities to learn bridge in Wiltshire, and many local teachers. To find out about opportunities to learn this fascinating and stimulating game, please click here.

A cafe bridge event was held in Devizes on Wednesday 17th April 2024. The event took place at the Bear Hotel, Pepper Mill cafe and Condado Lounge and all the participants enjoyed playing bridge in relaxed surroundings. The winners were Alastair Spence and Gary Stevens, Ian Roach and Richard Freeman, Wendy Powney and Katie Langman. Over £260 was raised for Dorothy House Hospice. If you would like to know more about cafe bridge in general, please click here. Below are a few photos of the event. For the results, please click here.

With the final matches played, the winners of League One for 2023-2024 are the Hodgson team - Bob Bannister, Pat Davies, Roy France, Katharine Hodgson, Sam Sloan and Keith Williamson. They nearly completed a clean sweep of wins against every team, only drawing one match against the Hands team.

The convincing winners of League Two were the Dunlop team - James Dunlop, Susie Gall, Chris Jones, Trevor Purchas and John Treble. Congratulations to all members of the winning teams and hopefully more players will take part in the league next year.

Alongside the main Wiltshire league, a novice teams league took place with 9 teams playing 5 rounds. There was a tie for first place, and after the tie-breaker had been applied, the winning novice team were Sulis 4 - Ann, Jackie, Neil and Yash, the second place team were Dark Horses - Jacqui, Jane, Mike and Phil. Many congratulations to all who took part and hopefully this will encourage more players to try their hand at team matches.

Congratulations to Garry Towns and Evelyne Thomas who won the Championship Pairs qualifier on Sunday 17th March. In second place were Susie Hands and Georgie Dalton, and third place went to Elaine Taylor and James Dunlop. For the full results of the qualifier, please click here. These three pairs will represent Wiltshire in the Corwen Trophy, to be played on 15th and 16th June, at Stone, Staffordshire. For more information on the Corwen, please click here. The Wiltshire committee wishes all the players good luck in representing our county.

Wiltshire B and Wiltshire C had convincing wins over their opponents, East Wales B and C, in the match played on Saturday 13th January. Wiltshire B won 14VP to 6PV and are now sitting in second place with 3 matches to go. Wiltshire C won 17VP to 3VP and have moved up to 3rd place in the C division with a good gap to the 4th placed team, Herefordshire. Unfortunately Wiltshire A were unable to complete a winning trio, losing their match 5VP to 15VP, despite Stuart Bridge and Richard Samter coming 3rd out of 48 pairs in the cross-imps. For the full results and to see the hands, please click here.

The Wiltshire CBA Annual General Meeting took place on Sunday 14th April at Nursteed Centre, Nursteed Road, Devizes. It was followed by the Chairman's Bowl - a handicapped event. The winners before the handicapping was applied were Richard Samter and Andrew Parkes, closely followed by Hugh Gross and Philip Bennett in second place. However, after the handicapping was applied, the winners of the Chairman's Bowl were Ray and Cath Elms - many congratulations to Ray and Cath.

In order to see both the main ranking and the results after handicapping has been applied, make sure you are viewing the results in the 2022 edition of the webpage - there is a link at the top of the results page.

Have you considered becoming a bridge teacher in Wiltshire? EBED, the education arm of the EBU, are re-starting face-to-face training in September and there are courses on offer In Aylesbury, Yeovil and Solihull. Each EBU affiliated cub may apply for one free place every two years, and anyone applying via an affiliated EBU club (who will be paying the invoice), will be entitled to a 20% discount. This discount is funded by the EBU.

For more information about the course and details on how to book, please click here.