Coming Events
2008
London Branch AGM will be held at Three Tuns House, Mon 14 April from 7 – 8pm.
London Branch members: please attend if you possibly can!
On Thursday June 19th we’re back at Royal Ascot for Ladies Day.
Our Royal Enclosure Loge Seats are £130 ea. (excludes Royal Enclosure admission ticket).
Your contact for this great day out is John Griffin 0870 9501 735
This year the Café Royal Christmas Lunch is on Friday December 5. Contact: John Griffin 0870 950 1735.
More info & Booking Form Click Here.
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Branch News
12/3/08
News Flash – Christmas Lunch at the Café Royal
Parker Merchanting, W Long & Co and The Hawk Group are sponsoring the 2008 Lighthouse Club Christmas Lunch at the Cafe Royal.
Parker Merchanting are proud to be our 2008 Platinum Sponsor and joining them are: W Long & Co and The Hawk Group who are proud to sponsor our Cafe Royal Christmas Luncheon for their second year running....
Would be Revellers note:
Available tables are rapidly running out. Contact John Griffin soonest.
01/2/07
London makes it £100k
SPS were our Platinum Sponsors
Long were Gold |
Hawk Silver |
Thanks to these, and all our spectacularly generous sponsors, London’s contribution for 06/07 was £100,000
And these were just some of the Stars who made
The Lighthouse Club Christmas Lunch at the Café Royal
sparkle into the early hours!!
First and Foremost: You – our great hearted members and guests. This group of long standing supporters has, on the left, Dereck Castle of Abird. A very good friend to the Lighthouse Club
The Café Royal’s Master Chef with some of the best beef in London
These were our wonderfully persuasive young ladies
Auctioneer Extraordinaire Jonny Gould |
And Ed Byrne one of the funniest young men around. |
Our Top Table Guests. And in pride of place, the man who put it all together - London Chairman John Griffin
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| Including this glorious glossy 60 page brochure |
The reception in the Dauphine Suite gets underway at 11 am and by mid day the room was entertaining a full house of members and guests. Meanwhile preparations were being made in the Empire Napoleon suite, which, as always for our Christmas Lunch, held the maximum number of tables.
Dinner was called at 12.30 since it takes a full half-an-hour to shepherd everyone down two floors from the reception to the dining room.
When they reached their places all our diners had a 60 page glossy brochure waiting for them. Our brochure included information on our Club, both here and overseas, our Benevolent Fund, and a membership application form; this year 13 new members signed up. It also has advertisements for all our generous sponsors. It is their support which makes our Café Royal Lunch the industry’s event of the season.
Heads and Tails came first and this year it was an all male line up for the final calls.
The young man in the red shirt gazing heavenwards had his prayers answered! He won the impossible to get Wii
The first course cleared away here came our Chef with the Baron of Beef, accompanied by our Piper, it was given its customary welcome.
Speeches were mercifully short, Welfare Officer Don Baldry was rapturously applauded when he lost his place in the text and finished somewhat abruptly.
Welfare Officer Don Baldry gave a shorter speech than intended!
Our very special Compere/Auctioneer Jonny Gould, channel 5’s popular game show host did a great job with our very special auction items. Jonny’s flair and energy generated keen bidding. And comedian Ed Byrne, the most popular act at the Edinburgh Festival, gave us over half an hour of whiplash comedy to great applause.
In the meantime, a silent auction of sporting memorabilia was underway, and the raffle was preparing. When the numbers were drawn there were some very pleased people in the room; London’s raffle prizes are something rather special.
Prince Charles’s very own Christmas Hamper straight from Buck House
This was another great event, buzzing with people enjoying themselves.
Hands up for a good time!
The Café Royal’s staff gave us excellent service; our M. C. John Cook was masterful as ever, and Russ Hyams (Jalmar photography, and a regular since, it seems, year dot), gave us the record you’ve just been looking at.
Our’s was a great event for renewing old friendships and making new contacts. Although the Café Royal bar closed at 4.30. a ‘VIP After Party’ had been arranged at a nearby club to ensure that networking continued.
High spirits at our After Party
That after party, scheduled to end at 10.30, continued until who knows when! A large crowd from our party moved on to Stringfellows!
No question that many at our Christmas Lunch were determined to get the season off to a memorable start!
And it’s a memorable start to 2008 for us! A third of the tickets for this year’s Lighthouse Club Lunch at the Café Royal have already gone. Go to Highlights page to book.
And between now and then?
Well we’re working on a St. Patrick’s Night do. And we’re very serious about being at the Little Britain Sailing Event in Cowes.
Golfers! You shouldn’t miss our Golfing Society’s Pro – Am.
Nor should you miss the only opportunity your likely to get to play at The Berkshire.
Our Summer Ball has everything - even dancing! And it’s on Midsummer’s Night.
Check these out on our Highlights Page
And there’s masses of other entertainment, all over the Country and across the Irish Sea. See our Calendar of Events.
And if you’re flying to foreign parts, well you’ve got friends! Check out Overseas Branches.
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