Monthly Networking Event - October

MONTHLY NETWORKING DRINKS

Our successful monthly network nights in conjunction with the Fleet Street Quarter BID continue with another meeting at

The Rising Sun, Carter Lane, EC4V 5DY

14^th October 2025 from 6.00 pm – SPEAKER AT 6.30 pm

Where we will have exclusive use of the first-floor bar

Our guest speaker will be

Reverend Jonathan Aitken

The Revd Jonathan Aitken is an author, broadcaster, columnist, lecturer and campaigner for prison reform. He is a former Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament, ex-prisoner and now priest and part time prison chaplain at HMP Pentonville.  His 16 books include From Grace to Amazing Disgrace (2013) as well as two volumes of autobiography, Pride and Perjury (2000) and Porridge and Passion (2006). His political career included 23 years as a Member of Parliament. He was Minister of State for Defence and Chief Secretary to the Treasury. After graduating in Law from Christ Church, Oxford in 1964 he became a Fleet Street journalist.  He was a senior reporter and feature writer for the London Evening Standard serving as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Biafra and The Middle East.  He continues to write articles for a wide range of newspapers and magazines. After journalism he went into business and became chairman of a merchant bank in the City of London. In 1974 he became a Conservative Member of Parliament spending eighteen years on the backbenches until being appointed Minister of State for Defence in 1992. He joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1994. His political career ended when he told a lie on oath in a libel action.  Subsequently he pleaded guilty to charges of perjury and served a seven-month prison sentence in 1999.

There will be no charge for these events, just use the bar and do bring friends!

An opportunity to unwind, natter with friends old and new.

Do you have a Club tie or badge yet? The President, who is also our Quartermaster, always has some with him!  - Ward Club Ties £15. - Ward Club Badges £15 - CASH PLEASE.