Reform Club
The Reform Club was founded in 1836, in Pall Mall, in the centre of what is often called London’s Clubland. The founders commissioned a leading architect of the day, Charles Barry, to build an imposing and palatial clubhouse. It is as splendid today as when it opened in 1841. Membership was restricted to those who pledged support for the Great Reform Act of 1832, and the many MPs and Whig peers among the early members developed the Club as the political headquarters of the Liberal Party.
The Reform Club is no longer associated with any particular political party, and now serves a purely social function. And today’s Reformers are men and women drawn from many backgrounds and a wide field of professional life.
The Club will forever be associated with Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, as the place where the idea of this incredible journey was conceived and the famous bet made and was featured in the James Bond movie Die Another Day
Tours of the Clubhouse
The Reform Club encourages reasonable access to the public to view its historic and architectural features, art collection, furniture and artefacts.
Tours of the clubhouse are offered to small groups and to individuals on weekday mornings by prior arrangement. Large groups are also welcome on Saturday mornings by prior arrangement only. Those taking part in these tours are invited to contribute £7.50 per person to the Reform Club Conservation Charitable Trust. Please contact James Coldrick on 020 7930 9374 to arrange a tour.
The Reform Club also participates in Open House London, which takes place annually in September when hundreds of London buildings open their doors to the public.