Bridge Event - 3rd - 30th November 2025
This year we raised £17k.
The funds will be used to purchase an Ultrasound machine for pain relief. Ultrasound is a safe, painless imaging technique that uses sound waves to create pictures of the inside of the body and is commonly used in pregnancy to view the developing embryo. It is also extremely useful for guiding certain types of injections and for giving regional anaesthetics. When ultrasound is used for pain injections, a small handheld probe is placed on the skin. This shows a live picture of the tissues underneath, including muscles, joints, ligaments, and nerves. This allows the clinician to see exactly where the needle is going and can guide it precisely to the right spot. It is also used for regional anaesthesia, which involves numbing a specific part of the body eg the arm, leg or chest area, so that an operation or procedure can be done without general anaesthetic. Overall ultrasound guidance helps treatments be safe, more accurate, and more effective. It provides realtime images without radiation and is now a routine part of modern pain medicine and anaesthesia.
The funds will be used to purchase an Ultrasound machine for pain relief. Ultrasound is a safe, painless imaging technique that uses sound waves to create pictures of the inside of the body and is commonly used in pregnancy to view the developing embryo. It is also extremely useful for guiding certain types of injections and for giving regional anaesthetics. When ultrasound is used for pain injections, a small handheld probe is placed on the skin. This shows a live picture of the tissues underneath, including muscles, joints, ligaments, and nerves. This allows the clinician to see exactly where the needle is going and can guide it precisely to the right spot. It is also used for regional anaesthesia, which involves numbing a specific part of the body eg the arm, leg or chest area, so that an operation or procedure can be done without general anaesthetic. Overall ultrasound guidance helps treatments be safe, more accurate, and more effective. It provides realtime images without radiation and is now a routine part of modern pain medicine and anaesthesia.
BRIDGE EVENT FUNDS RAISED TO DATE £71,500
With these funds we have purchased an Acublade Laser (2021), twenty wheelchairs (2022), a Gamma Probe (2023), two Alinity I-stat Creatinine Devices for the Radiography Department (2024) and an Ultrasound machine in 2025
BRIDGE EVENT FUNDS RAISED TO DATE £71,500
With these funds we have purchased an Acublade Laser (2021), twenty wheelchairs (2022), a Gamma Probe (2023), two Alinity I-stat Creatinine Devices for the Radiography Department (2024) and an Ultrasound machine in 2025
Zeb Stocken
Zeb comes from a family of bridge players and teachers. He started playing at six, played in the English junior squad in his teens and has now taught bridge for 30 years. Firstly at the Andrew Robson Bridge Club then running his own London clubs, before moving with his young family to Bath in lockdown. As well as live and online teaching, Zeb - together with sister Claudia - runs Stocken Bridge Breaks, very special bridge holidays to Morocco, Europe and around the UK: www.stockenbridgebreaks.com. He has recently built a new platform for students and teachers: www.bridge128.com including Handle, the best app for improving your card-play. Played in over 25 countries, it's taking the bridge world by storm: handle.bridge128.com
Zeb comes from a family of bridge players and teachers. He started playing at six, played in the English junior squad in his teens and has now taught bridge for 30 years. Firstly at the Andrew Robson Bridge Club then running his own London clubs, before moving with his young family to Bath in lockdown. As well as live and online teaching, Zeb - together with sister Claudia - runs Stocken Bridge Breaks, very special bridge holidays to Morocco, Europe and around the UK: www.stockenbridgebreaks.com. He has recently built a new platform for students and teachers: www.bridge128.com including Handle, the best app for improving your card-play. Played in over 25 countries, it's taking the bridge world by storm: handle.bridge128.com
Janie Gill
Janie has been volunteering with the Friends of the Royal Marsden, Chelsea for over ten years helping to run the cafe, and more recently the shop, which she has helped to keep open during much of lockdown.. Janie's passion in life is the game of bridge. Not only does she play, but she has become a brilliant teacher, as some of you will know. Her patience, and ability to explain this complex and exciting game in a clear and logical way is one of her main attributes, and she always makes the lessons challenging but fun. Due to her connection with the Friends Janie has kindly offered to support both Zeb and the Friends to make this a wonderful bridge experience.
website: www.thebridgefairy.com
email: [email protected]
instagram: thebridgefairy
Janie has been volunteering with the Friends of the Royal Marsden, Chelsea for over ten years helping to run the cafe, and more recently the shop, which she has helped to keep open during much of lockdown.. Janie's passion in life is the game of bridge. Not only does she play, but she has become a brilliant teacher, as some of you will know. Her patience, and ability to explain this complex and exciting game in a clear and logical way is one of her main attributes, and she always makes the lessons challenging but fun. Due to her connection with the Friends Janie has kindly offered to support both Zeb and the Friends to make this a wonderful bridge experience.
website: www.thebridgefairy.com
email: [email protected]
instagram: thebridgefairy
Testimonials
'Loved the set hands - thank you'
We have played the hands over and over again'
'thank you Zeb and Janie - was great fun and look forward to playing again'
'What a great way to fund raise, more please'
'Loved the set hands - thank you'
We have played the hands over and over again'
'thank you Zeb and Janie - was great fun and look forward to playing again'
'What a great way to fund raise, more please'
