Welcome! City of London Round Table normally meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, at 6pm for 6:30pm, until 9:30pm. Our new normal venue for meetings is The Old Dr Butler's Head, 2 Masons Avenue (off Coleman Street, near the Guild Hall), Moorgate, London EC2V 5BT.

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About Us
City of London Round Table is the premier club for professional men aged 18-45 years. It enables you to take part in new, interesting and worthwhile activities. It has a sense of tradition, founded in 1928 and re-chartered in 2004, as the 13th Member Club of the National Association of Round Tables of Britain and Ireland (RTBI).

City of London Round Table (and its sister club, City of London Ladies Circle) is all about having fun with a group of friends while at the same time trying to help the community. City of London Round Table is active locally, at a regional level as part of Round Table Area 26 - Thames South East (which covers south east London & Kent), nationally and internationally.

If you would like to find out more about membership of City of London Round Table please click here.  

Our Meeting Venue - The Old Doctor Butler's Head.
The Old Doctor Butler's Head is a traditional English pub in the heart of the City of London within 5 minutes walk of both Bank and Moorgate underground stations. Originally established in 1610 the present building dates from after the Great Fire of 1666. Dr Butler was a specialist in nervous disorders whose 'miracle cures' included holding consultation on London Bridge during which the unfortunate client would be dropped through a trapdoor into the torrent below. For epilepsy he would fire a brace of pistols near his unsuspecting patient, to scare the epilepsy from them, or in cases of the plague, plunge the poor soul into cold water. So highly was he thus considered, despite his lack of qualifications that he was appointed court physician to King James 1. He also developed a medicinal ale for gastric ailments, which was available only from taverns which displayed Dr. Butler's head on their signs, this led to his acquiring a number of ale houses. Of these, the Old Dr. Butler's Head is the last remaining. The pub is owned by Shepherds Neame. We meet in one of the upstairs function rooms. To find the venue please click here for a map. We normally have a meal and drinks - total cost about £25 or so per head.  

In Round Table we don't just sit there!

In City of London we are very much into the social side of Tabling, although we also take an active part in community events and fund-raising.

During the past 12 months there have been opportunities to try new and exotic (for some!) sports such as Scuba Diving.

We have visited Finland for the 13 Clubs' Euro meeting and plan to visit Sweden for the same event in 2006.

Other activities include New Boys' Mystery Night, Curries, Black-tie dinners and balls, Concerts, family events, Treasure Hunts, Beers, Beers and more Beers.

Join us
We have a varied and interesting program including family events and those that might appeal more to bachelors (or to family men with very understanding / uncaring / unknowing partners - delete as applicable :) ).

We always welcome those interested in joining Round Table, or visitors from other Tables, so e-mail us by clicking here and come along and see us soon.

City of London Round Table supports, amongst others, the following charitable causes: Cancer Research UK, The Anthony Nolan Trust and Round Table Childrens Wish.

Sounds interesting, but what is Round Table?
Round Table is non-partisan, non-sectarian club for professional men aged 18-45. There are separate affiliated clubs for women called Ladies Circle and for people over 45 - for past Tablers - 41Club called the London Old Tablers Society or LOTS and for Circlers - Tangent.

The emphasis is on Fun, Friendship, and Fundraising - our community spirit and activities that benefit the wider community, particularly those who are less fortunate or who are not in a position to help themselves. It is this which distinguishes us from just being a get-together with your mates down a pub.

The National Patron of Round Table is HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT.

Round Table is all about having fun with a group of friends while at the same time trying to help the local community.

Round Table started with just one man's idea. Louis Marchesi was a member of Rotary in Norwich but had the brainwave of starting a new organisation for young men between the ages of 18-45.

Round Table was born with the motto 'Adopt, Adapt, Improve' and from small beginnings of one club in Norwich, Louis' dream has become a reality, with over 1,000 clubs and over 10,000 members in Great Briatin and Ireland alone.

Round Tables operate individually but with a common cause, and together they form The National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland. But that's not all. Round Table exists throughout the world and has links with like-minded clubs internationally.

We are not staid - we don't just sit there. Do you?

The Founding of RT13, of the National Association ("RTBI"), of London Old Tablers Society ("LOTS"), of the National Association of Ex-Tablers ("41 Club"), and of Areas. 

Keith Pascall, the son of the Rotarian Sydney Pascall, and himself a Rotarian, was the first President of the Table. He recalled "I heard from my father of a group of young businessmen who used to meet together and I managed to attend one of their meetings at Suckling House, Norwich with Bernard Durrant in the chair. The proceedings were not of great interest, but at a smaller gathering afterwards in Louis Marchesi's room over Langford's restaurant I soon came under the spell of the bubbling, spluttering and excited founder." On return to London Pascall gathered together a dozen sons of Rotarians and at a meeting in the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Bakers, attended by Marchesi and representatives of eleven of the twelve Tables then in existence, the decision was taken to form the thirteenth, meeting in the Olde Cocke Tavern, Fleet Street. The club soon outgrew The Cocke Tavern and relocated to the Mitre Hotel in Chancery Lane.

Upon the formation of the National Association Keith Pascall was elected as the first National Vice President, and succeeded Webb of Portsmouth RT2 as the second National President of the association. The London Old Tablers Society was formed in April 1939, as the first ex-Tablers Club, not knowing that there was already a thriving club in Liverpool (hence LOTS was actually the second). John Shuter was the first President of LOTS. In 1945 Wakefield had called a conference of all ex-Tablers' clubs; Wakefield, Liverpool, London and Lytham St. Annes attended, and among the resolutions was the proposal to form a National Association of ex-Tablers' Clubs. The Liverpool delegates had no power to vote, however, and in any case Liverpool's members were known to be against a National Association. The other three clubs formed one, with John Shuter of LOTS as its first President - a post he held for two years. In April 1933, News & Views announced the National Association's plans for Area development, which had been drawn up after many meetings of the National Council, after considering every likely contingency. There were to be eleven Areas, which were planned to take in not only Tables already in existence, but also Tables not yet even mooted. London and Home Counties, with fourteen Tables was the largest numerically; Northern Ireland had only Belfast. The framework was made, covering the country pretty well, although Scotland was not then represented. The first Areas, approved at the 1933 Annual General Meeting, were:
1.............South Coast........................................................ 6 Tables
2.............Sussex................................................................ 8 Tables
3.............London and Home Counties.............................. 14 Tables
4............ South Wales and the West................................... 5 Tables
5............ The Midlands....................................................... 7 Tables
6.............East Anglia........................................................... 3 Tables
7.............South Yorkshire................................................... 5 Tables
8............ Lancashire.............................................................7 Tables
9............ Yorkshire, West Riding......................................... 7 Tables
10...........North-East Coast.................................................. 2 Tables
11.......... Northern Ireland.................................................... 1 Table
 
The primary task of each Area was to extend, get more Tables, make sure that each one started and continued on the right lines (and each new Table soon showed that it had clear ideas on what the right lines should be and how wrong some of the old lines were!).