Welcome to the EBU’s 2010 Members Survey and thank you on behalf of all the members for agreeing to provide your views on the development of the organisation.

You will be asked for your contact details on the penultimate page of the survey. If you wish to you can provide your answers anonymously but you will not be entered in to the draw for the holiday prize. The information you provide will only be used by the EBU to improve service provision to the membership. It is governed by our privacy policy and data protection legislation.

For the following questions, please tick High, Medium, Low or Not Applicable beside each relevant topic.

For the following questions, please tick High, Medium, or Low beside each relevant topic.

The following questions give you the options to tell us what appeals to you if you play in county, EBU and other national bridge events, and what might encourage you to play more. If you don't play in these events there is an option to tell us why.

For the following questions, please tick High, Medium, or Low beside each relevant topic.

For the following questions, please tick High, Medium, or Low beside each relevant topic.

The EBU currently runs a Master Point scheme which provides a life time achievement ranking and reward system to our members. We hope to launch a new scheme measuring current playing ability within the next year; this is called the National Grading Scheme. Please keep a look out in English Bridge and on our website for further information about this initiative.

For the following questions, please tick High, Medium, Low beside each relevant topic.

The EBU also communicates with its members via its website and electronic newsletters your answers to the following questions will help us use these tools effectively.

We hope to restructure the EBU website within the next year.

Do you have any of the following social networking accounts? Please tick as many as are appropriate.

We are committed to developing the game through education and learning as demonstrated by our free club teachers’ initiative, our subsidised club tournament director training and our recent consultation with counties on possible education projects and needs. We want to raise as much money as possible to invest in education. We are considering running a small scale lottery as governed by the Gambling Act 2005. EBU members could buy tickets with the chance of winning a monthly cash prize and an annual larger cash prize – the maximum amount of prize money that could be available in any one draw is £25,000 but this is obviously dependent on how many members take part, the price of the ticket and the number of tickets sold.

The money raised would be used for adult bridge education projects across England. However, running a lottery quite rightly involves checks and balances for compliance with the scheme and this would involve the EBU paying for these services to be undertaken on the Board’s behalf. So we need to know how many members would be interested in taking part in the scheme to determine whether it would be financially viable or not.

Do you know how your membership organisation is governed? By answering these questions you will help us identify if we need to communicate further on these matters.

We would like you to tell us how, and if, you use our existing members services and what, if any, future services may be of interest.

The following information will help us understand who makes up our now substantial membership and thus allow us to ensure that our members are properly represented in our approaches to Government, the Charity Commission, the media and sponsors and that our members only receive information about appropriate services through English Bridge magazine and our website.

Personal details are optional, but if you provide them we can enter you into our prize draw.

Thank you for spending the time completing this questionnaire. The information you have provided to us will help us meet the needs of our existing membership and develop the game of duplicate bridge throughout England.

If you have provided us with your contact information on the previous page you will be entered in to the draw for £500 of holiday vouchers from Bridge Overseas. If you missed the opportunity to complete your contact details please click below to go back.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Bridge Overseas for their kind support of this important EBU initiative.

Please ensure you press Submit Answers to complete the survey.