Club Management Focus: Summer 2018

County & Club Director Training Courses


Courses are available for most levels of TDs, whether they want to learn just enough to run a club session, get to grips with more detailed rulings, or move through the ranks to become a County Director.

Club Director Training

EBED’s Club Director Training course is designed for any player who wants to develop their knowledge of the laws or who want to become a qualified director to support their club.

EBED runs these courses at clubs all over the country. All courses are open to members of affiliated and non-affiliated clubs. Participants do not need to be members of the English Bridge Union.

How to run a club duplicate

This course does exactly as it sounds, and helps those who have to run club sessions to understand the basics that are required to make a game of bridge run smoothly, including movements and scoring. The dates in the calendar so far are:

Easton BC (nr Winchester) - Thursday 13th September 2018
Welwyn Garden City BC - Saturday 22nd September 2018 (NB: change of date from the original 8th Sept)
Richmond BC - Saturday 29th September 2018
Aylesbury EBU HQ - Wednesday 31st October 2018
Nottingham BC - Saturday 10th November 2018
Oxshott BC - Friday 25th January 2019
Solihull WMBC - Tuesday 19th February 2019

EBED are also supporting local initiatives in Cumbria and Cornwall to run their own version of the course, using EBED's materials. For more details please contact richard@ebedcio.org.uk.

Club Director Training Courses

This is a 3-day course, focused on the Laws and giving rulings at the table. It includes both "Book" and "Judgement" rulings which have to be given by a director at the typical club level, and finishes with an assessment. See here for more details.

Courses will be held at:
Aylesbury HQ; Easton BC (nr Winchester); Nottingham BC; Oxshott BC; Richmond BC; Stafford BC; West Midland BC (Solihull); Welwyn Garden City BC; Young Chelsea BC; Bakewell BC*; Bath BC*; Beckenham RFC*;
* - one or more sessions of the course at this venue will have taken place at the time this newsletter is circulated.

It is intended that there will be 15-20 courses held around the country each year, and more dates will be added to the calendar in due course. We are in discussion with Cheltenham, Deva (Chester), Stamford and Stockport about course dates and would like to hear from other clubs who would be interested in hosting a course. There will also be a course in Eastbourne when (all being well) the Summer Meeting returns there in August 2019.

Please check the calendar for the date of the three sessions.

Individuals can now book on these courses online, through My EBU (choose ‘Book courses’ from the ‘Utilities’ menu). If the club wishes to book and pay for an individual then they should do so directly with Richard Banbury - 01296 317218 or by email: richard@ebedcio.org.uk

County Director Courses

Bookings are now being taken for the 2018 County Director's Courses. Please pass this information on to anyone at your club who is a qualified Club Director or previously qualified County Director.

It will be held on 15th - 16th September at the Coventry Hilton. The course fee is £220 for residential delegates which includes dinner, bed and breakfast at hotel for one night, and a light lunch on the Sunday, plus course materials.

Courses are only open to qualified Club Directors or previously qualified County Directors. This intensive course starts on Saturday afternoon at 2pm, with other sessions on Saturday evening, Sunday morning and afternoon, finishing at approx 3:30pm.

The County Directors' course is for qualified Club Directors who will normally have at least one year's experience of directing and some experience of organising events at County level. The prime objective of the course is to assess candidate's experience to become fully qualified County Directors, based on their performance in the exercises therein.

Participation is also a learning experience - those attending will; on completion of the course:

  • Have answered a pre-course test including topics from the Blue and White Books.
  • Understand the role and responsibilities of a county director.
  • Have a good understanding of the Laws and EBU Directives governing duplicate bridge.
  • Able to deal confidently with common table situations.
  • Have participated in an appeal.
  • Have dealt with harder judgement rulings.
  • Have a better understanding of the Laws of Duplicate Bridge 2017.

The course is a mixture of table simulations, lecture and written assessment.

Further details available from Richard Banbury - 01296 317218 or by email: richard@ebedcio.org.uk.

EBUScore courses

EBED are hoping to run courses on the use of EBUScore scoring software at Deva BC (Chester) and in Buckinghamshire. Please contact richard@ebedcio.org.uk if you would like to attend or if you to host a local course.

EBUScore is the scoring software available free of charge to all affiliated clubs, counties and EBTA members. For more details see www.ebu.co.uk/ebuscore

Menu