Our volunteer run club needs to upgrade its marketing, both to support its important bridge education strategy (principally by attracting new beginners) and to enhance its internal and external image during its premises changes over the next few years. We would love to use any marketing experience and skills you (or a family member or friend?) may have gained in the past.
How this might work in practice depends on the experience, skills and willingness of those we are able to attract. There is also a possibility that we might be able to find a marketing student intern that might join the team.
If you (or someone you know) are able to offer us marketing experience and skills, please talk to me (David Farmer 0415 715 743) or to our Secretary, Simon Hunter (0451 130 330). Thank you in advance!
Our club is diverse but our website doesn't always get all the best stories. If you have an ear for a story and would like to help these stories find an appreciative audience via our newsletter, then please help.
What's involved? Keeping an ear, an eye and/or a nose out for a story that would be of interest to our members - could be profiling one of our volunteers or new members or old members. Compile a short easy-to-read story and ideally grab a photo to go with it. And send it in.
If you'd like to try, let me (Simon Hunter) know on 0451 130 330 or at
The Comms team's goal is to establish effective and efficient communication options (see below) and to support event conveners and others in their use of these options. This support can vary from backup technical advice through to training in how to use a channel through to, where appropriate, the actual work involved in using the channel.
Please let me know on
The event and lesson flier templates in this folder are in Word (.docx) and/or Google Docs format, and contain sample text as well as the club's visual branding and Roboto font. are editable as appropriate. Updated or additional templates can be uploaded by Vivien or David. The Word format docs all embed the Club's Roboto font (hence the large files sizes) so that you do not need to download and install it on your computer.
If you want to use Word, you can download the relevant Word template by right clicking on it and then selecting the Save As option. This will allow you to then edit the flier template as you wish on your computer.
The flier templates are available in both colour and black and white formats each using the appropriate logo. To use both colour for posters and black and white for the same event/lessons you will need to copy and paste the event/lesson details from one format to the other.
These club templates are in various appropriate formats, generally including Word (.docx) format for standard documents. They often contain sample text as well as the club's visual branding and are editable as appropriate. Many embed the club's Roboto font in the template (hence the large files sizes) so that you do not need to download and install this font on your computer.
If you want to use Word, you can download the relevant Word template by right clicking on its link and then selecting the Save As option. This will allow you to then edit the flier template as you wish on your computer and save it as your own document.
Some of the templates are available in both colour and black and white formats each using the appropriate logo.
I’d like to give you an introduction to masterpoints and the work involved to have them appear in your masterpoint record.
As in other countries the Australian Bridge Federation (ABF) coordinates a masterpoint scheme. Its three main goals are to:
- Stimulate interest in Contract Bridge,
- Provide a means of measuring player achievements, and
- Assist with the financing of the ABF’s national and international commitments.
As a club we aspire to facilitate enjoyable bridge for all. The diversity of our bridge players can add to this enjoyment - but can also present challenges if behaviours learned elsewhere conflict with common courtesy and the ethical foundations of our game. The club wants to encourage and celebrate positive behaviours and identify and appropriately respond to other behaviours that might threaten our goal of enjoyable bridge for all.
Here is the club's Code of Conduct (maintained in our Playing Rules):
A member sent me this message and agreed to it being published anonymously:
"I know that there have been almost no cases recently in NSW but I also believe that we should be as COVID-safe as possible.
Bridge players are a very susceptible cohort so I believe that it is up to each of us to do our best (despite low case numbers).
