Where to find your people in London
101 clubs and communities in London, each one on the Guide on merit.
& The Table
Dinners in Local Tables
The most intentional table for women. Conversation is the point.
&Soul
Fitness & outdoors in Shoreditch
The strongest third-space pitch. Alcohol-free, plus café and events.
10 Course Feast Chinese and Southeast Asian Supper Club
Eat together in Crystal Palace
Jay Zhang cooks a ten-course Chinese and South-East Asian supper at his home by Crystal Palace station, served to a shared table. Bring your own drinks. Tickets are from £70.20 and the menu cannot be changed for allergies.
Adventure Queens
Fitness & outdoors in London
A not-for-profit women's adventure and hiking community, 15,000-plus strong and free to join. Warm, low-ego and a real cut above generic walking meetups.
Art Play
Making in Shoreditch
Drop-in freestyle painting and air-clay pottery with a cocktail and coffee bar. Go for the low-key FreeFlow, not the hen-party energy.
Art Social Club
Making in London Bridge
Paint and sip in a real working artist's studio near London Bridge, surrounded by art and resident cats. More characterful than the chains.
Asian Girls Run
Running in New Malden + East London
Sited next to dense Asian communities on purpose, so it reaches women who'd never set foot in a mainstream run club.
ASRA Running Club
Running in London
A running and wellness community centring Muslim women and women of colour, open beyond, with weekly runs and yoga across London.
Baesianz
Clubs & wellness in London
A pan-Asian creative community with IRL events, a cinema club, a football team and maker markets. Young and culture-first.
Batala London
Making in London-wide
An Afro-Brazilian samba reggae band that learns as a group, so beginners start on a simple rhythm and pick up the rest by playing. Drums are provided for rehearsals and performances. Notting Hill Carnival is the anchor, in red and black, with choreography as well as drumming.
BBZ
Clubs & wellness in South East London
A QTIBPOC club night and curatorial collective from South East London, centring queer womxn, trans and non-binary people of colour.
Bermondsey Street Runners
Running in Bermondsey, South-East London
The smaller, newer Bermondsey option, heavier on neighbourhood feel. Several runs a week and socials that go past a token pint.
Black Cyclists Network
Fitness & outdoors in Regent's Park
The biggest cycling community for cyclists of colour in Europe, open to all, with weekly Saturday rides from Regent's Park. Beginner-friendly.
Black Girls Do Run UK
Running in London + online
Built so a Black woman who's never run isn't the only one in the group, which is the whole point.
Black Girls Hike UK
Fitness & outdoors in UK-wide, London walks
The real version of the hiking group you were thinking of. Black women in the outdoors, no experience needed.
Black Women on Wheels
Fitness & outdoors in Rotating London
Fortnightly social bike rides for Black and Mixed-race women, with dinners and an annual weekend away. A tight, joyful community.
Bookbar Book Club
Read & talk in Highbury
A bookshop and wine bar on Blackstock Road that hosts author events, book clubs and live readings. The space has bookshelves lining the walls and comfy seating. It offers a 'Shelf Medicate' service where you get a personalised book prescription based on your mood.
Brixton Run Club
Running in Brixton
Five kilometres from Stockwell Skatepark on Tuesday evenings at a conversational six minutes a kilometre, finishing at the pub. Friday is track at Tooting, Sunday is ten kilometres. James Battershill and Benji Miller started it in 2025 and it supports Building Young Brixton.
Brown Girls Summit
Fitness & outdoors in London + weekenders
Women of colour reclaiming the outdoors, from riverside London walks to Peak District weekenders. Warm, sponsor-backed and properly organised, not a token meetup.
ClimbMuz
Fitness & outdoors in Stoke Newington + Bethnal Green
A safe-space climbing club for Muslim women and women of colour, twice a month at Castle and BethWall. No judgement, no experience needed, kit and coaching sorted.
Club Soft
Clubs & wellness in City-wide event venues
Proof an alcohol-free dancefloor at 2pm can go off, if that's your idea of fun.
Come To My House Ill Make You Fat
Eat together in West London
Paris Rosina cooks a set menu for a table of guests in her own west London kitchen. It is £80 a head, with a wine pairing for £50 more, and it sells out.
Come Together
Dinners in Rotating London locations
A communal cooking supper club where you help make the meal, not just eat it.
Conway Hall (and Skeptics in the Pub)
Reading & ideas in Holborn
The thinking person's village hall. Earnest, unfashionable, the point.
Cosy London Book Club
Reading & ideas in London-wide
A monthly book club that opens with speed book dating, short one-to-one rotations, before the group discussion starts. Ria Bhargava started it after her book account passed 70,000 followers, and it has grown from six people to more than fifty, aged 17 to late fifties.
Croissant Run Club
Running in Roving
A charming, low-ego Saturday run of four to five kilometres finishing at a different bakery each week. The pastry-reward antidote to hardcore run crews.
Cycle Club London
Social clubs in North London
An independent cycling club based in North London with a no-drop policy that keeps all riders together regardless of ability. Weekend rides depart from locations including East Finchley and Whetstone, covering up to 60 miles into Hertfordshire and Essex. Weekday sessions meet at Regent's Park for training or social laps.
Daytimers
Clubs & wellness in London (roaming)
The British South Asian collective that rewired the daytime rave. DJs, producers and poets taking over club rooms and institutions, from the Barbican to warehouse parties.
Dhaga
Making in London
A young British South Asian art collective putting on exhibitions, markets and workshops. A proper way into the city's South Asian creative scene, not just a feed.
Didi Supper
Dinners in Blackheath
Micro-regional Punjabi cooking, monthly, with a real waitlist. Featured in Vogue India and on BBC Radio.
Drink & Draw Balham
Making in Balham Bowls Club
Monthly social life-drawing led by a working artist, first Wednesday of the month, free drink and materials included. Come-alone friendly.
E3 Vegan
Dinners in Bow
A seven-course vegan fine-dining supper club from chef Marc Joseph, ex-head chef of Vanilla Black. Occasional Fridays, deli the rest of the week.
Easy Saturday Skate
Fitness & outdoors in Battersea Park, South London
A weekly beginner-friendly inline skate session at Battersea Park that feeds into a much larger social skate community. Start here; the Street Skates network has hundreds of people and weekend trips.
Eleven98
Clubs & wellness in Walthamstow Village
Chef Aidan Brooks cooks a nine-course tasting where every fruit, vegetable and herb is grown within East London. Communal table, weekly, properly distinctive.
Emilys Walking Book Club
Reading & ideas in Hampstead Heath
Everyone reads the same book, then walks the Heath discussing it for an hour and a half. Emily Rhodes has run it since 2012 and asks you to finish the book first, for the sake of the people walking with you. Fifty to seventy turn up on the Heath. Dogs are welcome.
ESEA Book Club
Reading & ideas in London, in-person meets
A reading group where the books, and the room, finally reflect you back.
ESEA Outdoors UK
Fitness & outdoors in City-wide + UK
Built for East and Southeast Asian people who've felt like the only Asian face on a trail.
Exilio
Clubs & wellness in City-wide nightlife
Where the Latin and queer scenes properly overlap. A recurring home for people who are both.
Fly Girl Collective
Running in London
One of London's first run clubs for Black women and women of colour. Come for the free run club; the coaching packages are a separate thing.
Grove Lane
Running in South East London
Five runs a week around Camberwell, started in 2022 by Harry Swinhoe with five people in the rain. Trackside is the coached session, £5 to drop in, with a gel included. The Sunday run finishes at a deli. The join page carries a zero tolerance line on behaviour that makes members uncomfortable.
Home House
Clubs & wellness in Portman Square
The best-value proper townhouse club for a 25-38 newcomer. Warmer than the rivals.
Hoopla Impro
Making in Central London, multiple venues
London's main improv school, with beginners' courses year-round. Eight weeks with the same group, and you leave funnier and braver.
Horse Meat Disco
Nightlife & dance in Vauxhall
A weekly Sunday night queer party at the Eagle in Vauxhall, running since 2004 and hosted by a collective of four DJs. The crowd is all-inclusive, drawing homos, heteros, bears, fashionistas and drag queens to dance to Italo disco, punk-funk and disco. Entry is around £6 to £8 and things get going around 11pm.
Hot Boys
Running in East London
A women's training group rather than a social run, twice a week on the track around Victoria Park. Sessions run on effort, so you are told to go hard or at eighty per cent and not given your splits. Kimiko Ninomiya founded it after co-founding Black Roses in New York, and keeps it to about thirty people.
Jay's Fengzhen Supper Club
Dinners in Crystal Palace
A ten-course Chinese and Southeast Asian feast served family-style out of Jay and Chris's home by Crystal Palace station. Theatrical, BYOB, and NYT-featured.
Jazzmad (New Cross)
Fitness & outdoors in New Cross, South London
Wednesday night swing and Lindy Hop at a South London venue. Beginners' lesson before the social, free entry from 8pm to see the room first.
Jiran
Dinners in East and West London pop-ups
Southeast Asian, mostly-pescatarian heritage cooking from two friends. Jiran means neighbour. Young, warm and sells out.
Journey Through Italy at Alfi
Eat together in Spitalfields
A supper club at Alfi in Spitalfields that takes one Italian region at a time: a cocktail, a starter, that region's pasta, dessert and a digestif, with someone talking you through it. Thursdays from 6.30pm, from £57.20, and the wine pairing is £35 more on the night.
Khao Suppers
Dinners in Rotating London locations
Family-recipe Gujarati food served as a feast, not a tasting-menu performance. Open to anyone.
Knitfaced
Making in London (rotating)
The breakout 2025 maker community. Craft-and-pub having a moment.
Languages in London
Making in Central/east/south/west
The most introvert-engineered social in town. A host walks you in.
Les Running Club
Running in London-wide
A queer women, trans and non-binary run club that programmes track, strength, yoga and physio as well as running, at your easy pace. Track nights start at Finsbury Park at 7.40 and everyone is on the sidelines with a drink by half past eight. Beginners building to a first 5k are the stated audience.
Lido swimming (Serpentine SC / Parliament Hill)
Fitness & outdoors in Hyde Park / Hampstead
The cold-water crowd at the Serpentine and Parliament Hill, famously tight. A dawn swim and a habit you will defend.
London City Runners
Running in Bermondsey (SE)
One of London's biggest free run clubs, and still one of the least cliquey. A proper clubhouse, substance over scene, and enough pace groups that nobody gets dropped.
London Climbing Meetup
Fitness & outdoors in Stratford / White City
Bouldering as a social sport: you spot each other and cheer the hard sends.
London Drawing
Making in Waterloo / Euston
The lowest-pressure creative room. You're there to look at something else.
Made in Hackney
Eat together in Clapton
The UK's first fully vegan community cookery school, opened in 2012. Classes run free, pay-what-you-can, or ticketed, with youth sessions for ages 12 to 17 during school holidays. Ticketed masterclasses fund the free community programme.
Melanin Skate Gals & Pals
Fitness & outdoors in Finsbury Park
A skate community for marginalised genders and people of colour, with coached and open sessions. Cool, current and very welcoming.
Midnight Runners
Running in Central (Tower Bridge)
A night out with a 10k attached. Burpees instead of pre-drinks.
Muslim Hikers
Fitness & outdoors in Day hikes from London
A huge, openly inclusive movement normalising the outdoors, with accessible day hikes Londoners can join. No faith questions asked.
N16 Book Club
Reading & ideas in Stoke Newington
Running out of the Rose & Crown on Church Street since 2007, one Thursday a month, sessions numbered rather than dated. Number 185 was Octavia Butler. The group picks the book by vote and the range runs from classics to graphic novels.
Ozo Run Club
Running in Hyde Park (Speakers' Corner)
A run club that's really a culture-and-belonging project with a 5k attached, and people stick around because of it.
Pana Run Club
Running in London
A Pan-African-rooted social run club, open to all, with Thursday social runs and Sunday long runs. Genuinely warm and very active.
Peckham Pacers
Running in Peckham
Seven kilometres at seven on Wednesdays from Eko Brewery in Copeland Park, with at least three pace groups and a leader at the front and back of each. Ten at ten on Saturdays. The motto is pizza, pints and PBs, and there is a free beer at the end of the Wednesday route.
Polyramblers
Hiking in London-wide
A London-based rambling club that runs day walks, weekends away and social events. Members come from across greater London and beyond. You can try one or two walks before joining, and membership costs £10 per year.
POVSRUN
Running in Hackney
A young, content-native East London run club built on a relaxed 5k, music and good company.
Queer Running Club
Running in Hackney Downs
One of the warmest ways into queer London: a coached social run, then the pub.
Reading Rhythms
Reading & ideas in Rotating
Silent reading parties: an hour with your book in good company, then easy talk about what everyone is reading.
Run Dem Crew
Running in East London
The cultural godfather of the scene. Community first, pace a distant second.
Run Dusty
Running in East London
A relaxed five to eight kilometre Thursday run meeting at a different independent brewery each month and finishing with a pint. Distinctive and pleasingly in-the-know.
Run Talk Run
Running in ~14 London groups
The gentlest, most honest one. You talk while you do a 5k.
Running Late Book Club
Reading & ideas in Hackney
Last Sunday of the month, ten in the morning, from a coffee shop on Mare Street. In their words, they walk to the park, they sit, they discuss. The book is chosen by poll in the WhatsApp group, so the reading list belongs to whoever turns up.
Saath Run Club
Running in East-leaning, city-wide
The one for the South Asian music-and-arts crowd. More about who you meet at the end than the splits.
Safari Kickboxing
Fitness & outdoors in Fulham, Queen's Park, Finsbury Park, Acton
A martial-arts school with a big women-only Muay Thai and kickboxing programme across London. Beginner-friendly, with a free trial.
Salsateca
Fitness & outdoors in Central London
Daily salsa and bachata across London, with social dances most nights. One of the city's great dancefloors.
Samosa Run Club
Running in London, meet points vary
A playfully branded brown run club with a strong food-and-community hook.
Sauna Social Club
Clubs & wellness in Peckham
Peckham's wood-fired sauna and ambient-listening space: heat, ice baths and a soundtrack, mercifully not packaged as a productivity hack.
Serpentine Running Club
Running in Hyde Park
The serious-but-friendly institution. Proper coaching, 1,000+ members.
Shanghai Supper Club
Dinners in London (private kitchen)
Old-school Shanghainese home cooking at a shared table, from Lillian Luk's family recipes.
Silent Book Club London
Read & talk in London-wide
A reading club where you bring your own book, share what you are reading over coffee or wine, then settle into an hour of silent reading. The format is simple: no assigned homework, no quizzes, just quiet company. Afterwards there is optional social time to swap recommendations, or you can leave.
Sisterhood FC
Fitness & outdoors in Ilford
Muslim women's football founded by Yasmin Abdullahi, with weekly kickabouts and a 200-strong community aged 18 to 30. Warm and current.
Smoke and Lime
Dinners in South London (residencies, e.g. South London Louie)
Sohini Banerjee's Bengali home cooking around a family table. Open to anyone, not an identity space.
Social Pottery
Making in Balham and Camden
BYOB pottery painting and wheel-throwing with late-night sip-and-paint sessions. A reliable group or date social.
South Asian Run Club London
Running in London, meet points vary
Show up and run with people who get it. No founder-personality gloss.
South London Feminist Book Club
Reading & ideas in South London
The neighbourhood-scale option if the big girlie book clubs feel too influencer-coded.
Steam Down
Nightlife & dance in Peckham
Steam Down is a weekly jazz collective and jam session founded in 2017 by multi-instrumentalist Ahnansé, based in Deptford. The core group of eight musicians creates longform improvisations blending African, Caribbean and UK sounds, with guest players joining the spontaneous sessions. It has built a loyal following and a reputation as the place to experience the raucous edge of London's new jazz scene.
supperclub.tube
Dinners in Walthamstow
A six-course Latin American tasting menu eaten inside a restored 1967 Victoria Line tube carriage. Communal, genuinely shareable and very London.
Suppers by
Eat together in East London
Suppers by is a seasonal supper club run by Rosie Kellett and Virginia Malavasi in East London. They host four times a year, welcoming 32 guests over two consecutive nights with menus that combine British seasonal produce with Italian cooking. Each supper features a collaborating artist who reflects the concept behind the menu.
Swim Dem Crew
Fitness & outdoors in Inner London
An inner-city swim club built on community, bringing city dwellers together through the water with lessons and social swims.
The Common Press
Reading & ideas in Bethnal Green
London's first queer intersectional bookshop, with a cafe and bar attached, so a ten minute browse turns into a coffee and a talk you have signed yourself up for. Black, queer and trans owned, not for profit, and programmed most nights.
The Latin Collective
Clubs & wellness in City-wide
The dependable weekly fixture if you want to dance, not stand near a salsa playlist.
The Say Yes Club
Run & move in Hackney
A Hackney running club founded by Esmée Gummer after a back injury left her relearning to walk. The crew meets every Tuesday at 6:30 PM at London Fields for a 5k Pub Club run with pace groups for all abilities. The ethos is encouragement and saying yes to movement, with weekly runs, team races and trips abroad.
The Tooting Tavern Book Club
Reading & ideas in Tooting
Last Monday of the month at a Tooting High Street pub, six until eight, over pizza. It started in July 2026 with Yellowface, so the back catalogue is short and nobody is behind. Free, but ticketed, and over 18s.
These Girls Run
Running in Multiple London meets (e.g. Battersea)
Bigger than under-the-radar now, but the local meets stay small enough to make friends.
Track Mafia
Running in Paddington (Paddington Rec)
The cool kids who can run, fast.
Turning Pages
Reading & ideas in London-wide
An hour of silent reading followed by an hour in the bar, held in London buildings worth being inside. The anchor is RSA House on John Adam Street, where you can borrow from the library if you arrive empty-handed. There is no set book, so there is nothing to have finished.
Uyen Luu
Dinners in London Fields (Hackney)
Eight courses of home-cooked Vietnamese at Uyen Luu's table in London Fields.
Vegan Runners UK (London)
Running in Greater London
The established, slightly older-skewing option. More affiliated club than cute new social, but unambiguously vegan.
Wanderers of Colour
Fitness & outdoors in London
A people-of-colour adventure collective built around climbing, with hikes, water sports and socials on top. Free to join, London-anchored and welcoming to first-timers.
WSET Level 1 Wine Course
Making in Central and various
Get a real, recognised intro wine qualification in a single relaxed day.
Your Friendly Runners
Running in East London (Hackney)
The friendly East London juggernaut, with its own clubhouse.
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