London Clubs

'Home to the Muse and the Amuse'. Founded in 1863 in London as a meeting place primarily for artists and writers. The Arts Club was a hub of the arts during the 19th century and, although a social venue, it was known to be a place where influence could be exerted and careers developed. It was seen as the power house behind the dealings of the Royal Academy. Its members and guests included Dickens, Millais, Whistler, Kipling, Monet, Rodin, Degas and Turgenev.

The Eccentric Club was founded as a society of original thinkers and achievers, and played a valuable part in British history. It closed down in 1985 and was re-launched in 2008 in London under the Royal Patronage of HRH Prince Philip and with support of Lord Montagu. Based in Dover Street, Mayfair, the Club once again became a popular meeting point to many original characters.

We like to think of ourselves as a home-from-home in London. With 138 bedrooms and 20 serviced apartments known as The Club Suites, The Sloane Club offers its members some of the finest value rooms in London. For such a central location, two of our most valuable assets are privacy and security. Once through our discreet front door, life inside the Club feels a world away from the busy streets outside and members enjoy total confidence in our friendly and long-serving staff. There are few places that can compare, in terms of service, location and value for money.

The Royal Air Force Club was founded in 1918 as a place where serving and ex-serving officers could meet, and in 1922 it was formally opened by HRH The Duke of York. The bedroom and public room facilities at the Club are similar to those offered by other traditional, high-quality London establishments, but with many additional services and amenities for members who may wish to spend just a few daytime hours in its pleasant and stylish ambience.

The City of London Club was established in 1832, and is the oldest of the clubs based in the City of London. Whatever kind of event or special occasion you're planning, you won't find a more perfect venue than the City Club.

The City University Club (CUC) is a lunch club in the heart of the financial area of London. It is the ideal place for lunch or simply a drink at the bar. The (CUC) is in the old Prescott's Bank Building where it was originally established in 1895 by Oxbridge graduates who wanted a lunch club in the City. The link with the universities remains, but membership is now much wider, embracing both sexes and many professions. Members joining the Club find the atmosphere equally conducive to lunching with friends or on their own at the club tables. The food is first-class; the wine-list comprehensive and the service excellent. The Club enjoys reciprocity with over 450 of the finest clubs throughout the world including many in London and other parts of the country.

Step inside and you’ll immediately recognise the qualities that make our private members club and bijou hotel a departure from the usual. It’s not quite an anti-club, but it’s certainly an antidote to the many of Mayfair’s traditional establishments. It’s a fun and friendly place to unwind with friends, eat fine food and even spend the night in dreamy luxury.

The Travellers Club was founded in 1819 and moved to its present purpose-built clubhouse, designed by Charles Barry, in 1832. The intention of its founders was to provide a meeting place for gentlemen who had travelled abroad, their foreign visitors and diplomats posted in London who might enjoy the privilege of using the Club.

St Stephen’s Club is one of London's most authentic private clubs. Situated in a listed Victorian town house at Queen Anne’s Gate, and with roots stretching back 130 years, this is a place that has always attracted the great and the good - from Harold Macmillan to Margaret Thatcher. Today St Stephen’s is both a social hub and a cosy retreat in the heart of Westminster, treating all guests with discretion, warmth and efficiency. Members span all ages and walks of life. What unites them is a shared love of the good things in life.

The Royal Over-Seas League is a self-funded, non-profit organisation which offers clubhouse facilities to members and supports the Commonwealth through its own social, music, arts and welfare activities.

Yacht club originally founded in Plymouth in 1925, now also has a clubhouse in St James's Place, London.

The Royal Automobile Club is a private members' club steeped in over 100 years of history and tradition as a social and automotive club. 2007 sees the Club celebrate 100 years of holding its Royal title - awarded by King Edward VII in 1907. Two clubhouses, one in the glamour of London's Pall Mall and the other in the green countryside of Epsom, provide excellent banqueting, dining, accommodation, golf and sporting facilities. The Royal Automobile Club also has links with other clubs around the globe, which members can visit on a reciprocal basis.

The Reform Club was founded in 1836, in Pall Mall, in the centre of what is often called London’s Clubland. The founders commissioned a leading architect of the day, Charles Barry, to build an imposing and palatial clubhouse. It is as splendid today as when it opened in 1841.

Established in 1886, The Queen's Club was the first multipurpose sports complex ever to be built, anywhere in the world. It was named after Queen Victoria, its first patron, and is widely renowned as one of the premier Lawn Tennis and Racquets clubs in the world. The Club has hosted as many as twenty-five different sporting activities and, as well as lawn tennis, has been the scene for such varied sports as ice-skating, baseball, athletics and rugby.

The Club was formed in March 1972 by the amalgamation of the United University Club and the Oxford and Cambridge University Club. In its first year, the Club was housed at 1 Suffolk Street and thereafter at 71 and 77 Pall Mall.

The New Cavendish Club is an elegant private members club located in the heart of London’s West End. The Club is steeped in history and is a wonderful venue for weddings, functions, meetings & seminars, working lunches and private dining. Our stylish and relaxed dining room and informal bar area together with the roof terrace provides a welcoming relaxed home from home to meet friends or colleagues.

Established 144 years ago by a party of officers who realised the need for a home from home environment in the heart of London, the Club, whose President is HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, is one of the oldest and most popular establishments of its kind. Whether it’s to relax with a glass of wine whilst listening to the Club pianist, socialise with fellow Members and entertain guests, dine à la carte or bistro style, use the many leisure facilities, find some quiet space to do business or simply to escape the stresses of the day…

The Naval Club is the ideal place to stay in London, whether for business or pleasure. In the heart of fashionable Mayfair, the Club occupies a listed Georgian Town House, the 18th Century residence of the Earl of Chatham, brother of William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Members can hold private and corporate functions and business meetings using our comfortable facilities and elegant function rooms. Accommodation is available in our 25 bedrooms. The Club offers a relaxed and friendly atmosphere in a setting where all those interested in the sea and maritime affairs can feel at home. It is not necessary to have served in the Navy to become a member.

Founded in 1882, the principle object of the National Liberal Club was to provide the club facilities in London for its members and their guests. Overlooking the Thames, with its 'most splendid terrace in London', the club is within easy reach of Whitehall, the West End, the City and theatreland.

Marylebone Cricket Club is better known, throughout the cricketing world, as MCC. Founded in 1787, MCC is the world's most famous cricket club. Today, MCC's role remains as relevant as ever. From guarding the game's Laws to safeguarding its Spirit, and from promoting cricket to young people to looking after Lord's, MCC is committed to the good of the game.

The Royal Thames Yacht Club is the oldest sailing club in the United Kingdom. Our members participate in a wide range of yachting events in home waters and worldwide. They also enjoy all the facilities of the London Clubhouse and leading reciprocal clubs around the world.

Situated overlooking the River Thames in the City of London, the Little Ship Club is primarily a sailing club with its focus on cruising and socialising. Our members are a diverse, international group but all share a common passion: a love of the sea and sailing.

Set in the heart of Mayfair, just off Berkeley Square, the Lansdowne Club is a Private Members Club, where men and women have always been welcomed with equal status. A haven of tranquillity where 18th century grandeur and stylish Art Deco meet 21st century vitality. Perfect for relaxation, recreation and business, the Lansdowne Club offers an unrivalled range of facilities including accommodation, sports and social events.

The primary objective of the Kennel Club is 'to promote in every way, the general improvement of dogs'. The Kennel Club was founded in 1873 and is able to offer dog owners an unparalleled source of information, experience and advice on dog welfare, dog health, dog training and dog breeding.

The Institute of Directors is Europe's largest membership organisation for business leaders. We have been representing senior level professionals since our Royal Charter in 1906, earning us our trusted reputation as the business network for leadership.

Bordering the Thames in Fulham and set in 42 acres of magnificent grounds, The Hurlingham Club is a green oasis of tradition and international renown. Recognised throughout the world as one of Britain’s greatest private members’ clubs, it retains its quintessentially English traditions and heritage, while providing modern facilities and services for its members. The Club continually looks at ways in which it can improve, for both current and future generations, the first-class social and sporting facilities within an elegant and congenial ambience.

Goodenough Club provides 4 star accommodation which looks over the beautiful Mecklenburgh Square Gardens in the heart of Bloomsbury. We offer you a home from home in London for those wishing to enjoy the best the captial has to offer. The Club occupies five Grade II listed Georgian townhouses with mews which blend the traditional with the modern. The superb location of the Club makes it the perfect place to stay for international and national leisure guests, senior academics, Goodenough College alumni and professionals. The Club is part of the educational charity, Goodenough College. Club guests can take advantage of the extensive cultural and academic events takign place at the College. We look forward to being your host for your visit to London. A warm welcome from our friendly staff awaits you at the Goodenough Club, which offers accommodation with a personal touch at very affordable prices.

The Garrick Club, founded in 1831, is a private members’ Club situated in the heart of London’s West End and Theatreland. The Club provides excellent dining facilities, accommodation, exclusive member events, an important theatrical library that includes many manuscripts and documents and the most comprehensive collection of theatrical paintings and drawings in existence. The Garrick Club also has reciprocal arrangements with several other private members’ clubs around the world, which members can visit.

Based in Whitehall Court, the majority of our members are farmers and landowners, with the rest being associated with the agriculture industry. Whitehall Court is the heart of the club offering a very comfortable, 'home from home' atmosphere, with staff renowned for their friendliness and efficiency, excellent value bedrooms and a superb restaurant. It also has a number of function rooms for business meetings and private parties.

Founded in the middle of the 19th century, its original members were ‘the servants of the East India Company and Commissioned Officers of Her Majesty’s Army and Navy’. The legacy of those early members, home on furlough from far flung lands, continues today. As a private club, only open to members and their guests, the club still provides a refuge and meeting place for busy young men and their more seasoned seniors. Since those early days, the club has amalgamated with the Devonshire, the Sports and the Public Schools clubs, and also welcomed members of the Eccentric Club. The amalgam has been a happy one, possibly because together, as their titles suggest, the component parts reflect the very best diversity of English tradition. The club retains its international dimension through its reciprocal arrangements with similar clubs throughout the world.

Located in the heart of London, just minutes from Trafalgar Square, the Club's contemporary and design led interior is an extremely flexible space with the ability to host a raft of different occasions and events. Founded in 1868 as an international meeting place for the exchange of ideas, this unique venue continues its mission in a thoroughly modern way behind a deceivingly traditional façade.

History, tradition, timeless elegance and quiet efficiency plus that all important personal touch, are the hallmarks of The Cavalry and Guards Club. This gracious building, which is more a home than an institution, is situated at the Hyde Park Corner end of Piccadilly, in the heart of Mayfair, with wonderful views of Green Park. The ambience is relaxed and the standards are high.

Founded in 1832 in the aftermath of the victory of the reforming party, The Carlton Club was designed as a party political organisation, just as other clubs after the Napoleonic War were founded to satisfy particular interests.

The Caledonian Club, founded in 1891, is a private members' Club situated in the heart of Belgravia just five minutes away from Hyde Park Corner and Victoria. The Club occupies five floors and comprises the Members' Dining Room, Drawing Room, "Smoking" Room and Library, together with five meeting and private dining rooms.

Situated in relaxed refinement in the heart of St James's, the Army and Navy Club, often known by its nickname, "The Rag", prides itself on offering a unique combination of the ambience traditionally found in an officers' mess, with the comfort and facilities of an exclusive hotel. Catering primarily for serving and former officers of the British and Commonwealth Armed Services, as well as their immediate relatives, the Club has approximately 5,000 Members comprising both ladies and gentlemen. The Club is also able to offer a limited number of membership places to other ladies and gentlemen who have not served in the Armed Forces.

The list of gentlemen's clubs in London, England, including those no longer functioning and some which are fictional.

The London Sketch Club is an historic graphic artists' club located right in the heart of London's Chelsea. Although over 100 years old, it still remains one of city's best-kept secrets, forming a link with the artists, illustrators and writers of a century ago. With a membership drawn mainly from fine artists and designers, its social activities revolve around life drawing and painting, and during the winter months, around evenings of live entertainment hosted by some of its braver members.

The principal objectives of The Association of London Clubs are to provide a forum for the discussion of matters of common interest to the Clubs that are Members of The Association and, if and when necessary or desirable, to promote united action or take action on behalf of Member Clubs. Clubs shall be eligible for membership of The Association of London Clubs when the main Clubhouse is based within the Greater London area and have been continuously in existence for at least five years. Exceptionally, The Association may elect to membership a Club which has a postal address outside the Greater London area but which is situate within the M25 circumference. The Club shall have a minimum of 200 Members and the full annual subscription charge shall be at least twenty-five pounds and shall have printed Rules and Regulations. The Rules shall provide, inter alia, for the election of a Committee at a General Meeting of the Members and for the election to membership by a Committee or by a ballot of the Members.

The Savage Club was founded in 1857 and remains one of the leading Bohemian Gentleman's Clubs in London. Members are classified into one of the six Membership categories which best describes their main interest. This might identify with a Member's profession, but not necessarily so. There is many a Savage with more than a passing interest in one or more of the Membership categories, but who practises none professionally. This is not to imply that any gentleman can become a Savage: in this, as in other imprecise areas of life, personal qualities are decisive. It is sometimes an indication of suitability that a candidate has pursuits or attainments of a personal nature which would qualify him for Membership. A gentleman who would be equally comfortable in more than one category is at liberty to choose.

The Chelsea Arts Club was established in 1891 in Chelsea, as a rival to the older Arts Club in Mayfair, on the instigation of the artist James Abbot McNeill Whistler. It is a private members club and has a waiting list for new applicants, who have to be sponsored by current members. It has a membership of 2,400 including artists, poets and writers, photographers and filmmakers.

Located in a quiet cul de sac in the heart of the West End, just off Oxford Street, the Oriental Club is a Private Gentlemen's Club founded in 1824 by and for the benefit of members of or retired from the East India Company. The general purpose of the Club set by the original founders, which included the Duke of Wellington and General Sir John Malcolm remains unchanged; to provide a meeting place for like minded people.

The Savile Club, in the heart of Mayfair, is one of the most prestigious private clubs in Britain. Established in 1868 and occupying a very fine 18th Century house, its distinguished history has made it famous within Britain's literary, academic and artistic circles.

The Athenaeum Club stands proudly at 107 Pall Mall, London, at the corner of Waterloo Place, since 1827 (the Club itself was founded in 1824). It is noted for its large library, and for a bas-relief frieze decorating the club house exterior. It was long regarded as a clergymen's club and boasts bishops, Cabinet Members, and peers amongst its members. The club's facilities include a dining room, a smoking room and a suite of bedrooms. A notable feature of the Club's clock which hangs above the stairs is that it has two figure sevens and no figure eight, the reason for which is uncertain. The membership of the Athenæum was originally limited to one thousand, and the waiting list was always long. The cost of the magnificent premises had resulted in a deficit of some £20,000 and 200 supernumerary members were elected in 1832 to restore the finances.