Trevor received the Dimmie Fleming Award in 2024, recognising a long and valuable contribution to county bridge, below is the citation for his award from Northamptonshire:
Trevor’s nomination has been agreed unanimously by the Northants CBA committee.
For 35 years he has been a stalwart for Stamford Bridge Club and Northants CBA. He is also a member and regular player at Kettering, Spalding and Peterborough BCs.
Jeff received the Dimmie Fleming Award in 2024, recognising a long and valuable contribution to county bridge, below is the citation for his award from Lancashire:
Sue received the Dimmie Fleming Award in 2024, recognising a long and valuable contribution to county bridge, below is the citation for her award from Manchester:
Irene Davies has made a major and significant contribution to the success of Manchester County Bridge Association during the last 15 years.
Sue received the Tom Bradley Award in 2024, presented for services to Education, this award from EBED recognizes those who have made a significant contribution to Youth Bridge, below is the citation for her award from London:
Bridge is a lot of fun and getting people to learn the game in your club may not be too difficult. It is also well-known that new bridge players must be offered some form of gentle, supervised play before venturing into one of the club’s main sessions. The truth though is this: the club’s membership development is not complete until some of those players migrate to a main session. Otherwise, they are not fully integrated, nor are they helping to address problems of low numbers.
Why is it difficult for newcomers to play in a standard club session? There are multiple reasons:
The EBU’s National Grading Scheme (NGS) is a great way to see how your skill at bridge compares with others. Every member who plays regularly in EBU sessions has a grade based on the last 2000 boards (approximately) that they played, weighted to the most recent boards. The grade is a percentage that represents what percentage the player is likely to get in a session with average players.
These are hard times for bridge clubs, and speaking personally I greatly miss the bridge sessions we enjoyed before the UK went into “social distancing” lockdown. None of what follows is meant to suggest that playing bridge online is a perfect substitute for the enjoyment of playing face to face at a club, and I very much hope we can get back to doing that safely before too long.
13th - 15th December 2024, Young Chelsea Bridge Club, London
Charlotte Bedford and Raphaela Sinclair
NPC: Sally Brock
13th - 15th December 2024, Young Chelsea Bridge Club, London
Daniel Winter and Liam Sanderson
Oscar Selby and Andy Cope
Liam Fegarty and Sam Anoyrkatis
NPC: Michael Byrne
