AGM 2021 Report
The AGM was held on Thursday 25 November. Minutes of the meeting and reports can be read and downloaded here: President’s Report. Financial Report Minutes Prize list
Category: Committee News
Covid Update January
Under current traffic light system, we are able to continue bridge play at the Club. Vaccine passports are required. The latest Covid advisory from NZ Bridge is available here: https://www.nzbridge.co.nz/blog/7495/Covid_19-Advisory-from-NZ-Bridge Some personal responsibilities are in place: Face masks are optional. Ensure you use the hand sanitiser when entering the clubhouse. Cups/glasses used by you are to be personally put into …
Upcoming events and news
BRIDGE LESSONS 2021 Bridge lessons commence on 10th March 2021. Please encourage any friends and family to participate. Flyers will be available to be posted on notice boards in your work places and any other club you may belong to. We all remember our humble beginnings to the game of bridge and now see the great benefits in joining the …
News from AGM
Our Bridge Club AGM was held on 26 November 2020 Elected committee members for 2021 President: Colleen Allen Treasurer: Kathryn Morgan Secretary: Jody Richardson Committee: Suellyn Caldwell, Alan Dick, Wendy Fraser, Rowan Friend,Heini Lux, Marie Milsum, Jim Morgan, Margie Robbie. Colleen said her main goal as president was to improve the culture of the Bridge Club, and make the Club …
Back to bridge!
Hooray – back to Level 1 at last! All bridge sessions will re-commence from Wednesday 23 Sep at 7pm. Please note that next week (30 Sep) the start time for Wednesday night changes to 7pm because we will be on daylight savings time. Start times for all other sessions are as per normal, so contact your partners and arrange some …
Covid-19 update 7 September
The goalposts do keep changing! We are now in Level 2 lockdown until at least 16 September. Our last communication on 25 August indicated that club bridge and the Rotorua Restricted Tournament on 12 September would not go ahead unless we were in Level 1. The committee has again reviewed the situation by email over this weekend. *ROTORUA RESTRICTED TOURNAMENT: …
Upcoming events Spring 2020
Mark these dates – • Pot luck Welcome dinner 5 August cancelled and a 1 day pairs competition instead. This was to welcome our beginner bridge players at the completion of their lessons. Now lessons will be beginning on 2 and 4 September and we have decided to have a Spring Fling evening on 7 October and to include our …
Upcoming events
It is heartening to see so many people back playing bridge at the club. This is encouraging for our up-coming events that we hope you will be enthusiastic about participating in. Sunday 26 July 2020 Bay of Plenty Interclub Teams Each club in the BOP who wishes to participate submits a Junior, Intermediate and Open Team to contest the Ib …
Bridge Club re-opening 15 June
We are pleased to let you know that playing bridge at the club rooms, in person, will be resuming next week beginning on Monday 15 June. To reiterate the main guidelines: *All sessions will be open as per the programme booklet, with events shortened to accommodate the start date. For example, a 4 day pairs will become a 3 day …
Re-opening in Level 1 – update
The Bridge Club committee very much hopes that you are all ‘champing at the bit’ to come back to in-person bridge. We met last night to discuss when and how to reopen the club rooms for play and resolved the following: • We will not open for bridge until Level 1 is reached. When it is reached, regular bridge will …
Alert Level 1 re-opening update
We are hopefully nearing the end of the ‘lockdown’ road! Gatherings of 100 are allowed as of midday Friday 29 May but we are still in Alert Level 2. Government has also announced that this will be reviewed on 8 June and with the possibility of a shift to Alert Level 1 on 22 June. As NZ Bridge recommends in …
Bridge at Level 3 and 2 – and more options
Lockdown 3 has provided some flexibility for those of you in your isolated bubbles but we will all be looking forward to a lift of the restrictions. Quite what this means for Bridge is still uncertain until Level 2 becomes a reality and we understand exactly what the constraints are. We will be guided by NZ Bridge recommendations on when …
Lockdown Bridge
The committee hopes you are all coping in your respective ‘bubbles’, that you are well and surviving the rigours of ‘lockdown’. In the absence of knowing when we will be able to return to a semblance of the old normality, we do not foresee that club bridge will be occurring for quite a few weeks yet. Therefore playing on-line is …
Coronavirus update
UPDATE: As of Wednesday March 18 the Bridge Club will be closed for four weeks. See latest bulletin from NZ Bridge. Members may be concerned as to what steps the bridge club is taking to guard against the spread of the coronavirus. NZ Bridge has issued a bulletin to all clubs outlining their policy at the moment. The main points …