Custom & Practice

A guide for new members – and a reminder for others.

The mainspring of our Club is lunchtimes between Monday and Friday, starting around 1.00pm in the Grundy Room, the members’ bar. Most members will have adjourned for lunch in the Halliday Room, the members’ dining room, by about one thirty. Lunch finishes when it does! On occasions, members may be asked to vacate the club at around 4.30 whenever we host early evening functions. Your co-operation in this regard is important – thank you!

Drinks and table wines are usually bought in ’rounds’ and usually equals out during the lunch. Please be generous and pay your way, gentlemen! Members who prefer not to get in to a round may declare the ‘one o’clock’ rule and buy drinks for themselves.

Members and guests should address each other by their preferred name (do not apologise for not remembering others’ names -merely ask again!)

Members should fill places at one table at a time if appropriate. If you wish to sit privately, please advise our staff and Table F can be set up for you and your privacy will be respected.

Mobile phones are not allowed in any of the club rooms unless you wish to use in ‘vibrate mode’ only. Any such calls MUST be taken outside of the members’ areas. Any breach will result in a sanction of a bottle of wine on each table.

Members and guests must not proceed beyond the Manager’s desk wearing coats, hats or scarves. The previous mentioned sanction will apply! Members must always sign in guests in the Visitors Book. Guests are not normally allowed to be signed in by a member more than four times per year, or as per the specific conditions under Rule 10.

Weare-Williams lunches are held several times during the year and usually publicised in our Club Diary on the club website (www.artists-club.com), as are all our events. This includes the monthly Golfers (and Others!) lunches on the second Tuesday of every month, and our ‘Last Friday in the Month’ lunches.

Mixed Arts Lunches are held through the year and publicised as above to launch new art exhibitions curated by our Chairman of Arts.

The Club dress code is clear. Members and Guests should attend at all times dressed in a manner which does not offend the club traditions and other members. Guests should always be advised of the dress code before attending to prevent possible embarrassment to themselves or others. In general, this should mean the wearing of a suit, or jacket and appropriate trousers – and definitely NOT denim jeans , or trainer/sneakers etc. On formal occasions, such as the Civic Lunch or when the club event might be ‘en fete’ , dress code is most certainly lounge suit or dinner jacket and both members and guests will be required to comply with this requirement. The wearing of a tie on normal lunchtimes is optional but please respect the occasion in question.

Alan J Markham
Honorary Secretary 
February 2019