Clubs

Welcome to the home page for Clubs! This page includes news, and links to information, which is relevant to EBU affiliated clubs. We also produced a quarterly online newsletter for clubs - Club Management Focus - and past issues are collated here.

Useful information for club administration is available via the menu on the right, and in the Club Management Handbook. If further assistance is needed, please contact the EBU office, and we would be glad to help - postmaster@ebu.co.uk, 01296 317200. The services of the Club Liaison Officer, Jonathan Lillycrop, are available for those needing more specialist guidance.

We would be delighted to welcome new affiliations - more information is available lower down the page.

Free places on Club Teacher Training Courses

Affiliated clubs are able to have a representative attend EBED's Club Teacher Training courses for free once every two years. These courses are intended to enable members with a motivation to help bring more players in to the game - and specifically in to their club - to run lessons. See here for more information.

Club News

10 Jun 2019

Bridge Fraud URGENT

In a further follow up to the article last week about fraudulent emails, we ask all clubs to remain vigilant with regards to “phishing” emails.

There have been a number of clubs that have reported being targeted, with at least one resulting in a financial loss.

23 May 2019

Top 50 clubs by players 2018/19

We're pleased to announce the top clubs by number of player sessions in the year (2018/19). The top 5 are below - click 'read more' for the top 50.

1 Richmond Bridge Club =
2 Wimbledon Bridge Club =
3 Stamford Bridge Club 1
4 West Midlands Bridge Club Limited 1
5 Cheltenham Bridge Club 2

In previous years we have included Bridge Club Live in this list as our one online bridge club, but since the basis of measuring their UMS is rather different from other clubs we have decided not to include them this year. Similarly we are not including our Funbridge games, although it is interesting to note as a reflection of the evolution of the game, that had we done so they would have come in at number 8.

23 May 2019

Spring 2019 Club Management Focus newsletter now available

The Spring 2019 edition of the Club Management Focus Newsletter is available now here.

It contains news, articles to help you in the running of your clubs, details of forthcoming events, and important information about club administration. If you need any advice, or have any suggestions for issues you would like covered in the next newsletter, then please don’t hesitate to contact us.


New affiliations

We would be delighted to welcome any clubs to affiliate with the EBU.

You can read about the Benefits of Affiliation in this document.

There is also a series of articles from EBU Chairman, Jeremy Dhondy, in Bridge magazine in which he explains what the EBU is doing to help clubs, players, and the game in general, in England, and outlines the benefits of affiliating and supporting the national governing body. See here for all the articles - Bridge magazine articles - and in particular the reasons why he believes clubs should affiliate are covered in this article.

Since April 2010, the EBU has been funded through Universal Membership which means that anyone playing in an EBU-affiliated club (provided they are a member of that club) automatically becomes a member of the EBU and pays a small subscription amount each time they play.

If you are interested in affiliating your club, and would like to discuss this further, please contact our Club Liaison Officer, Jonathan Lillycrop - jonathan@ebu.co.uk - who will be able to discuss with you the benefits of affiliation, and the process for doing so.

To affiliate, download and complete the one of the following forms:

When you have affiliated your members will receive a Member's Pack to welcome them to the EBU. It includes a membership card, a new members' booklet (which can be downloaded here), and other information.

We hope affiliated clubs will choose to use the 'affiliated clubs logo'.

The EBU is always available to give advice and assistance to affiliated clubs - please contact us on 01296 317200, or send us an email, with any questions you may have.