Esher Café Bridge in aid of Home Start Elmbridge and The Mayor of Elmbridge Trust Fund

Wednesday 9th April 2025 11:00am ‐ 4:30pm

We are delighted to announce that the Mayor of Elmbridge Cllr Neil Houston has secured a return of Café Bridge to Esher. The event will support his two chosen Charities — Home Start Elmbridge providing practical support to families with children under five, and The Mayor of Elmbridge Trust Fund which provides funding to assist needy residents, especially young people, and victims of natural or manmade disasters.

The event is organized by Shweta Kapadia, who as Mayor of Elmbridge 2018-9 presided at the prizegiving ceremony at the first Esher event in 2018, and Katherine Freeman from Home Start Elmbridge, assisted by Michael Brown with the help of Victor Lesk. The sun always shines on Café Bridge (though not in an extreme fashion), and it is impossible not to have a good time, especially in the company of the friendliest bridge players imaginable.

Our event will open for booking soon.

In the meantime you are welcome to pre-register by contacting michael@cafebridge.org.

Esher Café Bridge is now provisionally full. However, the organisers are looking for space to expand the event.

Esher Café Bridge is now full.

Please click the following link to register your interest in participating. If we are able to increase capacity, or in case of a cancellation, we will contact you and find out if you are still available to play.

The entry price will depend on your preference of lunch restaurants.

  • £100 per pair ‘Spades’: The Bear bearesher.co.uk
  • £90 per pair ‘Hearts’: Giggling Squid gigglingsquid.com  –  Côte (sold out)
  • £80 per pair ‘Diamonds’: Pizza Express pizzaexpress.com
  • £70 per pair ‘Clubs’: Unfortunately sold out

For a peek at the provisional menus, click here.

You will have a chance to choose your price and your lunch preferences when you sign up, using the link below for your preferred payment method. Pre-registration and booking early give you a better shot at getting your choice of lunch venue. Please contact Michael to go on the pre-registration list for future events.

If you were on the waiting list but have been given a place, please pay using one of these methods:

THANK YOU

Thank you from the organizers to everyone who joined in the Esher Café Bridge on 9th April 2025.

Full results can be found here:
Results

Some photos of the event can be found here:
Photos

We intend to update this page over the next few days with the final sum raised for Home Start Elmbridge and The Mayor of Elmbridge Trust Fund. In the meantime please send us any feedback on the event and we will use this to help improve for future events.

We look forward to welcoming you at the next Esher Café Bridge.

Home Start Elmbridge and The Mayor of Elmbridge Trust Fund: To find out more about our beneficiaries, please click here:

Instructions for arrival on the 9th April: These will be sent by email by 3pm on the day before.

Scores are entered by players on their phones using the BriAn app-based scoring system. This allows us to declare a winner very soon after the last board is played. If you have not come across BriAn before, you can find out more here.

Please contact us with any questions about the event. We look forward to welcoming you on 9th April.

Michael Brown (michael@cafebridge.org)  —Victor Lesk (brianplaysbridge@gmail.com)

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