English Bridge Education & Development

Youngsters attending our Autum Bridge Camp had a fabulous time. Woldingham School in Surrey was the new venue for the Autumn Youth Bridge weekend. 41 youngsters from complete beginners to squad members, and assorted camp followers enjoyed lots of bridge tuition and play. This was interspersed with the usual frisbee and football, but also art and drama. Many thanks are due to all the volunteer tutors and to Will Clennell for running the bridge games.

Click below for camp photo links (Instagram). News of our next camp to be held in Spring 2025 coming soon.

Youngsters attending our Summer Bridge Camp had a fabulous time.
Click below for camp photo links (Instagram) and news of our next camp (booking information for November 2024)

The Trustees of EBED have appointed Richard Croot as the CEO of EBED.

Richard will take up his duties on 1st September, replacing current CEO, Mark Humphris.

You can read a biography of Richard here.

EBED's chair of trustees, Ian Sidgwick, welcomes Richard, adding that “The board of EBED are delighted to appoint Richard, and look forward to working with him to implement our goal of growing the number of people of all ages who learn and access our game”

Following the departure of Lee Guy, and the resignation of incumbent EBED trustees, the EBU Board has today appointed Ian Sidgwick, Paul Gibbons and Abbey Smith as Trustees with immediate effect.

Ian Sidgwick will take the role of Chair, Paul Gibbons is appointed Treasurer.

EBED and its employees welcome our new Trustees and look forward to working with you.

Mark Humphris, CEO English Bridge Education & Development , 25 March 2024

Subsequent to the departure of Lee Guy, the following five remaining EBED Trustees have resigned from their positions:
Simon de Winter (treasurer)
Terry Hewett
Gillian Fawcett
Tim Chanter
Ian Lewis

"On behalf of the staff at EBED I wish to thank the outgoing Trustees for their support of the Charity. Your direction, advice and informed challenge has helped EBED to emerge from a very difficult time with renewed strength and confidence to help shape our game as we move forward."

EBED Chair of Trustees, Lee Guy completed a 3 year term of office on 18 March 2024

The Board of Trustees, and the leadership of EBED , unanimously proposed to the EBU Board, that Lee be reappointed to continue as Chair.

At a meeting of the English Bridge Union Board on 21 March, the EBU Board voted not to renew Lee Guy’s appointment as Chair of EBED Board of Trustees. The post is now vacant and the English Bridge Union intend to appoint a new Chair soon.

28 teams from all over the country attended EBED's Young Bridge Challenge at Loughborough Grammar School. The event held on Saturday 2nd March brought together over 100 bridge playing youngsters from various schools and bridge clubs, competing in several competitions. 22 teams took part in the main Swiss teams competition and another 6 teams played in the novice teams event.

Winners of the novice teams competition – NorthBridge House School
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RealBridge and BAMSA (Bridge: A MindSport for All) have arranged a short online conference on 7/8 October 2023 for bridge teachers, coaches and mentors.

The speakers are from around the world. Some material will be pre-recorded and subtitled. The entire conference will be recorded and made available subsequently.

For full information and to register for the event, go the RealBridge website with the link below.

Here is a flavour of the topics: (See full details using the link below)

England's under 16s achieved the Silver medal at the 2022 European Youth Team Championships in the Netherlands. Not only did they play brilliantly but they had a great time and even created a super VLOG which you can see here: https://youtu.be/c32U7qUL_bc

On Wednesday the 29th of June, Eton College, winners of the Inter-schools League, were presented with the new Lords Trophy during a visit to the House of Lords.

Following on the Schools Cup having been played online in 2020 and 2021, EBED decided to build upon the success of those events. Following an idea by Stuart Haring and the relentless work of Joan Bennett (EBED’s national youth coordinator), in September 2019 the Inter-schools League was up and running.