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Paviors' Luncheon Club

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The number of formal livery dinners held each year is limited and, therefore, if only these are attended, it can take a long time to know many other members of the Company. To these functions it is not unusual for members to bring a guest, maybe more than one, and they, quite rightly, take most of the members’ attention which makes getting to know other Paviors even more difficult.

To overcome this situation and to enable new members to become more quickly integrated, the Company has set up a number of allied social events – informal in nature and reasonable in cost. The Luncheon Club is one such activity which was started almost thirty years ago.

The Luncheon Club is open to all Liverymen and Freemen of the Company and is managed by an elected Committee of about half a dozen members who each arrange one event each year aided by our part-time secretary. The essential character of the Club is informality and venues and activities are tailored to the needs of the members. The Committee tends to meet only once a year to review our finances, and plan the following year’s programme, which is sent to all members and published on the Company’s website.

There are about eight events planned each year. Four or five lunches at various venues, usually within the City or the West End, starting at 12.30pm for 1pm and finishing by 2.15pm if possible (costs vary but are usually about £35, and some 30 members attending is average). The Club also arranges one or two theatre visits, and a lunch and visit once a year at a venue in the country. Christmas dinner is held in early December. About half the events are for members only – to encourage meeting fellow Liverymen - guests are allowed at the remainder.

To encourage new members of the Company the Luncheon Club grants new Liverymen and Freemen free membership for the first year after joining the Company and a free first luncheon at a members only gathering.

If we had a motto, but that would be too formal for us, it would be ‘Hospitality and Informality’.