West of England Bridge Club

We are a duplicate bridge club based in North Bristol. We play with the emphasis not so much on winning the game as on enjoying it.

We are primarily a Members' Club, but visitors with at least some experience of playing club bridge are welcome to come along and play.

Our regular bridge sessions are on Wednesday evenings starting at 7.15pm and Friday evenings starting at 7.00pm. There are gentler duplicate sessions starting at 1.30pm on Monday and Friday afternoons. Our acclaimed supervised play sessions are on Thursday afternoons, also starting at 1.30pm. All sessions are held at the RAFA Club, Westbury-on-Trym. More details of our sessions.

There is some car parking available on site, but also in the surrounding roads, and in the evening the licensed bar serves refreshments throughout play. Results and hand records are available at the end of play and on this website.

We are affiliated to the Avon Contract Bridge Association and the English Bridge Union, and master points are awarded for all of our events.

Membership: please see here. Table money is £5.

The AGM was held at the Club on Wednesday 15 May 2024. The annual reports are available here.

All members attending sessions are required to have had both vaccinations, and a booster where possible, against Covid, to not be under a duty of self-isolation and to be feeling healthy and symptom-free on the day. The playing room has built-in extractor fans, and we run two air sanitiser units, which use UV light to kill germs. Hand sanitiser is provided for use.

The directions to the Club are here. There are also more details about all our bridge sessions, and information about Club competitions and our special events.

If you need more, please contact us.

Login to Pianola for your personal history of results and analysis of your performance.

A partner can be provided for an afternoon session or Wednesday evening but you will need to arrange a partner for a Friday evening session.

Click on the Partner Finder tab to find or advertise for a partner.

Alternatively, join our WhatsApp group called WoEBridge. If you have the WhatsApp app installed on your smartphone, then email Jane Chapman at Jane.chapman@blueyonder.co.uk with your mobile phone number and you will be invited to join the group. You will then be able to post requests/questions etc to the group via WhatsApp, which will be seen by all group members.