Who is in it.
International families, founders, principals and professionals whose lives and interests extend well beyond one city or one country.
Some are based in London. Others spend only part of their year here. Many have children being educated in Britain.
What connects them is not simply circumstance, but curiosity, experience and an interest in knowing one another properly.
The corporate members are in the room too. That is deliberate. The solicitor at the table is a member rather than a firm being presented to you, and will be at the next dinner. It is the only form of accountability that has ever worked.
The rules of the room. We do not publish who our members are. We do not circulate guest lists. Nothing is sold in the room.
How membership begins. An introduction, then a conversation with the founder, without obligation, then our acceptance process — identity, source of wealth and background screening. Membership is considered individually.
Club Dinners
London, through the season. One table, one host, one subject worth an evening. Twelve to twenty people.
Off Nights
Quarterly. The people who move this city: agents, designers, specialists, principals. Larger, louder, and the single best evening for meeting someone you actually needed to meet.
Country
Weekends at houses in England. Families, children, dogs, and the conversations that only happen on the second evening.
Journeys
A few a year, abroad. Small groups. Places, houses and people that do not take enquiries.
Retreats
Two or three days where the subject is you rather than your business. Held properly, in one place, with one person leading it and no agenda circulated to anyone outside the room.
Table
An evening with a mind worth the evening. A philosopher, a scientist, an investor, an artist, a historian. They talk for forty minutes and then it is a conversation, which is the part that matters.
Immersions
One host, one thing, properly done. A collection, a cellar, a stable, a studio, a workshop. Two to three hours, no more than a dozen people.
Expeditions
Journeys with something to learn at the end of them. A place, a discipline and a guide who is the best in the world at it.
Mentors. Members ask their Club Assistant for an introduction to a mentor or a coach from the club's own circle — people who have run something at scale, not people who write about it. You engage them directly. We introduce, hold the standard and check afterwards that it was worth your time.
Fourteen months of the club's year, as it actually happened. Evenings with a lawyer, an artist, a surgeon, an education specialist and a man who built a chain of gyms. A jeweller, a wine cellar, a gallery during Frieze. A weekend on Dartmoor. And four journeys — Bordeaux, Monte Carlo, Sardinia, the Red Sea.
The past stays on this page. A calendar showing only the future is a plan.
Where we are meeting.
This is the club's year. Members book through their Club Assistant. Guests come by member invitation and are approved individually.