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Meet the Team
Learn from the very best!
Our directors, hosts and teachers
Fully escorted from start to finish, someone is with you every step of the way on your holiday. We’ve assembled a fantastic team, all dedicated to providing an engaging and supportive bridge-playing environment. An EBU-qualified director, friendly host, professional teacher, or a combination of the team, will accompany you on your holiday.
Solo travellers are welcome, and partners are always found in the bridge room. Our hosts will hold a singles meeting at the beginning of the holiday and introduce you to prospective partners.
Anne Wright
Anne is a host who works alongside our directors with the aim of ensuring that everyone enjoys their bridge holiday. She is friendly and approachable and enjoys her bridge, playing in several competitions near her home in Leicestershire. Anne is a qualified bridge director, and she looks forward to welcoming players of all standards. View Holidays >
Barry and Maggie Watts
Barry and Maggie Watts are experienced hosts who work alongside our directors to ensure a high-quality holiday. They are retired professionals who have played club bridge for many years, as well as organising bridge events. Barry and Maggie aim to ensure that you have the best holiday whether you come with a partner, in a group or alone. View Holidays >
Chris and Linda Benneworth
Following successful careers in education, Chris and Linda retired in the late nineties and started directing together, working at first in local and more recently in overseas congresses. They ran the North Eastern Bridge Association Congress for a number of years in Otterburn, Consett and Gateshead, an event with a deserved reputation for friendliness. View Holidays >
Christine and Stewart MacFarlane
Christine and Stewart MacFarlane started their own Bridge School and Club in Bath. Together, they have taught and introduced many people to this wonderful game and started running weekends away for their students in 2009. This progressed to running bridge holidays and working on cruise ships as the bridge instructors. View Holidays >
Colin Simcox
Colin Simcox is an EBU Panel Director who can be seen at many events, especially across the West Country and Wales. He was fortunate to learn bridge whilst at school, now some 40 years ago. Colin has been playing regularly ever since and has represented Somerset in the Tollemache Cup on many occasions, as well as the Corwen Trophy and Pachabo. View Holidays >
Dom Rayner
Dom is a professional bridge player and coach, who has taken great joy in teaching everyone from brand new players all the way up to experts. He still loves it to this day! Whether you are a complete beginner, or more advanced, Dom is sure you will love learning bridge with him. Give it a try! View Holidays >
Eddie and Kathy Williams
Eddie and Kathy have been playing bridge for over 30 years. For the last 20 years, they have been lucky enough to have bridge as their occupation, running bridge holidays, teaching bridge, organising county events, directing tournaments locally, county wide and nationally. Both are on the national panel of the EBU tournament directors. View Holidays >
Gary and Lesley Conrad
Gary and Lesley have been hosting bridge holiday events for many years They enjoy these events, socialising, and caring for the guests, and always strive to ensure that our guests have a wonderful holiday experience. Gary is a senior EBU panel director and chief tournament director for Hertfordshire, and Lesley is the social expert. View Holidays >
Hilary and David Powell
First for Bridge hosts Hilary and David Powell are looking forward to making your bridge holiday restful and enjoyable. They play bridge regularly at several local bridge clubs and in county competitions. David has represented Kent on several occasions in the annual Metropolitan Cup, and they are on the committee of Bromley North Bridge Club. View Holidays >
Jacky Baker
Jacky has wonderful memories of working on bridge holidays over the years. She has been playing bridge for as long as she can remember and has many triumphs at congresses around the country. She also plays for her county of Somerset. Jacky is looking forward to meeting new and old friends on her next holiday. View Holidays >
James and Jane Tullett
Jane brings her organisational and interpersonal skills to the forefront to make an excellent hosting team with her husband James. James has been playing bridge for over 30 years and is regularly picked for his county. Jane and James have travelled extensively in recent years to explore exotic parts of the world, such as Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. View Holidays >
John and Sarah Barker
Passionate about bridge, John is a fully qualified professional bridge teacher and runs his own bridge club where he also teaches. He plays regularly for Norfolk and is either playing or teaching bridge nearly every day of the week. Sarah brings her people skills and organisation to help make sure everyone has a fabulous holiday. View Holidays >
Maggie Pyner
Maggie has played bridge for over forty years, being a life master and playing at county level representing Norfolk, with her late husband John where they moved to for their retirement. She is a panel director for the EBU and has run bridge congresses all over the country, alongside holidays abroad and cruises. View Holidays >
Mark Hooper
Mark is a bridge Premier Life Master, having played competitively for over 30 years. After retiring from a career in IT, Mark has been able to indulge his passion for bridge. He is an EBU-qualified tournament director, and an EBU-accredited bridge teacher, teaching beginners at his local bridge club. View Holidays >
Nigel Durie
Nigel and his wife, Pauline, have been playing bridge in the Darlington area for the past 35 years and have always been involved with the day-to-day running of local clubs and in organising local competitions. They have been with First for Bridge for the last seven years and ensure that guests have a very enjoyable experience. View Holidays >
Ro Kaye
Ro enjoys playing bridge at her local club, Cheltenham. She has been chairman there and run the Congress Committee for several years too. She is actively involved in EBEDD as child protection officer and loves participating in the local youth teaching scheme as well as being one of the organisers of the Junior Spring Camp. View Holidays >
