The England Youthteams compete annually in competitions including:
- The Youth Camrose/Peggy Bayer - against the other 'Home Nations'
- The Channel Trophy - against France, Belgium and Netherlands
- The European Championships (odd-numbered years)
- The World Championships (even-numbered years, if qualifying via the preceding year's European Championships)
- and other competitions
Recent selections can be seen here. The squads meet regularly throughout the year to practice, and receive expert coaching from the squad leaders and other current leading players, who give their services voluntarily. The following lists contain all the members of the current Youth Squads.
Under 26’s
Olivia Bailey | Henry Bissell | Charles Bucknell | Jonathan Clark | Joe Clark |
Joshua Clarke | David Chen | Laura Covill | Nick Dean | Jonathan Derrick |
Daisy Dillon | Laura Ersek | Nathan Galpin | Aaron Hutton | Daniel Kelsall |
Filippos Kritsalis | Stephen Kennedy | Toby Lloyd-Jones | Nicholas Lee | Jack Lawrence |
Bethany Madden | Ben Norton | Oliver Powell | Siyu Ren | Alex Skelton |
Eshan Singhal | Hanna Tuus | Kripa Panchagnula | Dominic Price | Tony Ye |
Scott Wang | Ewa Wieczorek |
Under 21’s
Sam Anoyrkatis | Theo Anoyrkatis | Jasmine Bakhshi | William Clennell | Woody Cohen |
Dido Coley | Dominic Cooke | Andrew Cope | Liam Fegarty | Liz Gahan |
Benjamin Gardner | Theo Gillis | Patrick Gaudart | Kim Hudson | Megan Jones |
Lily Kearney | Imogen La Chapelle | Edmund Lea | Ben Lewis | Harry Madden |
Alex Pemberton | Jack Ronayne | Henry Rose | Liam Sanderson | Oscar Selby |
Senthur Shanmugarasa | Theodore Sinclair | Zane Soonawalla | Kavinthan Vickneswaran | Daniel Winter |
Under 16's
Bjorn Ahl | Venetia Anoyrkatis | Charlotte Bedford | Frederick Beneat | James Cater |
Harriet Cork | Jamie Fegarty | Thomas Gardner | Martin Hawkes | Antoinina Mauve |
Amelia Mauve | Lucy Norman | Aman Parekh | Jacob Potter | Thomas Potter |
Raphaela Sinclair | Sam Wakefield | William Wauchope |
Squad Leaders
U26:
U26 Women: Sally Brock, with Bryony Youngs
U21: Michael Byrne
U16: Giorgio Provenza, assisted by Alan Shillitoe
To contact any of the squad manager, or for more information on the Youth squads, please write to the Selection Committee secretary Charlie Bucknell, or ring him on 01296 317219, and he will pass on your enquiry.
Sponsors
Thank you to the following sponsor, donors, and supporters, for their contribution and assistance to the squad's involvement in the 2018 World Youth Team Championships in China:
- Touchlight - for their donation of £10,000 to fund travel and training for the U26 Women’s team.
- Tetragon - for their donation to support the participation of the U16 team
- No Fear Bridge - for their financial donation, and for their support of the U16s through the donation of free membership to their website to all the squad and coaches.
- English Bridge Education & Development
General donations
- Worshipful Company of Playing Card Makers
- Berks & Bucks CBA; Devon CBA; Dorset CBA; Essex CBA; Gloucestershire CBA; Lincolnshire CBA; London Metropolitan BA; Middlesex CBA; Oxfordshire CBA; Somerset CBA; Staffs & Shrops CBA; Suffolk CBA; Sussex CCBA; Warwickshire CBA
- Allendale BC; Austenwood BC; Aylesbury Aces BC; Chobham BC; Clare BC; Colchester BC; Coventry Bridge League; Felsted BC; Folkestone Duplicate BC; Oxford BC; Richmond BC; Slough BC; Stansfield BC; Stratford-upon-Avon BC; Summertown BC; Wearside BC; West Midlands BC; Weymouth BC; Wimbledon BC
- Plus numerous individual donors