A teaching programme especially devised for club development

To help membership recruitment in your club, the English Bridge Union have devised a new initiative to help affiliated bridge clubs to ‘grow their own’ membership through an integrated teaching programme.

Each club will be offered one free teacher training session in any 24 month period to help with the development of the club and attract new members. Second and subsequent teachers may attend the course on payment of £102 per person, subject to available space.

The success of your Club Development programme will not be judged on how effectively the student member has learned the weakness take-out or Stayman.

Success will be evaluated on what percentage of the year group eventually graduate to your club duplicate sessions.  The responsibility of this falls to the whole club membership.  The future of your club may depend on it.

The key to successful integration lies with evolving a whole year group, with a minimum of twelve students, from classroom to club room in a three year strategy.

Any club that takes advantage of our free teacher training has to agree to take all reasonable steps to provide training within one year of the course, use the EBU Bridge for All programme and to produce at least 4 students as Pay to Play members within 2 years of the course.

In addition the club will agree to remain affiliated for a full three years after the training course has taken place, otherwise the EBU retains the right to reclaim all or part of the costs involved in providing the course.