Facilities and events The Caledonian Club offers a range of first-class facilities and services, including a Dining Room, Drawing Room, Library, Bar, snooker room, outside terrace, small Business Centre, as well as a variety of function rooms that cater to events, meetings, and weddings. The bar of the Club has over 200 whiskies and a growing collection of Scottish gins. Members can also use changing rooms with showers and access to
Belgrave Square gardens for tennis and outside gym. For accommodation, the Club offers 39 en-suite bedrooms to members and their guests. The Club hosts a wide range of events throughout the year, including an annual
Burns Night Supper,
St Andrew's Dinner and Caledonian Club Ball.
Societies The Club has several societies, including: • '''
Arts Group:''' formed in 2011, the Arts Group brings together members with an interest in all aspects of arts and culture. Events include theatre visits, private viewings at galleries, museums and exhibitions and talks by prominent guest speakers. • '''
Book Club:''' a group focused on literature that hosts regular events throughout the year, including interviews with authors. •
Golfing Society: members regularly play at some of the finest golf courses throughout the UK, including
Loch Lomond, The Berkshire,
Woking, and Archerfield, and on an annual visit to France, usually
Le Touquet. •
The Number 9 Society: named after 9 Halkin Street, the society was set up to bring influential speakers from a wide and diverse group of disciplines including academia, arts & culture, finance & commerce, diplomacy, media, armed forces and politics. • '
The Racing Society'''''
: formed in 1996, the society has owned 20 horses across 20 consecutive Syndicates and throughout the season arrange a mix of events with race-days, stable and stud visits, and dinners with prominent guest speakers. It currently has one horse in training, "Fruit Pastille". Members may buy shares in a syndicate or become supporters: they are informed when the horse is racing and have the opportunity to attend races using owners’ and trainers’ facilities. • '
The Shooting and Fishing Society:''''' focus on game shooting, mainly on single and pairs of days including a highly sociable competition against the
New Club, Edinburgh. These mainly take place in the Home Counties although there is occasionally the opportunity to go further afield. • '''
Snooker Society:''' since the opening of the new wing in 2006, the Club Snooker room has been available to all Members to play within Club opening times. There has been a number of incarnations of a Club snooker team over the years, the most recent was formed in 2019, after the annual Members Snooker Competition. •
The Younger Members’ Society (YMS): formed in 2009, aimed at under 40s members, with regular social events throughout the year. The Club also maintains reciprocal membership arrangements with over 60 other clubs, in the United Kingdom and internationally, including: •
The Hurlingham Club • The
Oxford and Cambridge Club • The
City of London Club •
Phyllis Court Club • The
Tanglin Club Dress code The Club maintains a formal dress code, with jackets, ties and polished black shoes for men, and the equivalent formality for women, however, dress codes are more relaxed on Friday, the weekend and in the summer. In 2012 the Club launched its own tartan, designed by Kinloch Anderson, based on the sett of the
Clan Campbell after the founder of the Club, Neville Campbell. Red from the
Clan Morrison tartan was included as 9 Halkin Street was built for Hugh Morrison. The colour influences include the saltire and the Club's crest. ==See also==