Lunches

This is one of the first activities of the GIN club. It brings together members who usually participate in different activities.

We typically meet about 6 times a year, although the actual timing is very flexible.

At the end of each year, the co-ordinator finds six “volunteers” to organise a lunch and agrees rough months.

It is then up to the organiser to select the date and find a suitable restaurant in our area that offers a reasonably priced “plat de jour” and can seat 20-24 members.

The organizer mails out a letter announcing the date and details of the venue, co-ordinates the reservation and takes care of collecting the money to settle the bill.

We are usually about twenty lunchers and have fun in getting to know each other better over a good meal and a glass (or two) of wine, plus discovering a variety of new restaurants.

Lunch is usually scheduled to start at 12:00 and we usually finish about 14:00.

Volunteer to organise a lunch? Contact Mark Watts with suggested month

Planned and actual lunches in 2026

Month	Date	Organiser	Venue
Jan/Feb	05/03/2026	Robert O Riordan	Basse Ruche, St Cergue
Mar/Apr		Richard Saynor
May/Jun		Rudolf Staehelin or Ken Forrester
Jul/Aug		Rudolf Staehelin or Ken Forrester
Sep/Oct		Ralph Wares
Nov/Dec		Peter Taylor

Planned and actual lunches in 2025

List of gin lunches 2010 THROUGH 2024