Name: Trafalgar Day Dinner
Start: 2025-10-21T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-21T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Winchester House Events Venue

Join us for a festive Trafalgar Day Dinner celebrating British naval history with delicious food and great company!
About this Event

Trafalgar Day Dinner

Come join us for our Inaugural Trafalgar Day Dinner at The Winchester House Club, Putney.

Indulge in a three-course meal while delving into the intricacies of the famous battle, set against the iconic backdrop of the River Thames.
This year our guest speaker will be former Royal Naval Officer Ed Hall, now an award-winning investigative journalist, author, speaker and RNLI Thames Crew member since 2002.

As part of the festivities, we are thrilled to present a raffle and auction.
The event promises to be a memorable evening filled with laughter and camaraderie
Your presence and support at this event will help us continue the legacy of the RNLI and contribute to the crucial lifesaving endeavours of the Chiswick RNLI on the Thames.
Proceeds from this event will go to the RNLI fund to support the transfer of the Chiswick Lifeboat Station to its newly fitted home at Wandsworth Riverside.

About our speaker
Edmund Hall served in the Royal Navy in the 1980s, passing out of Britannia Royal Naval College in 1987. His brief career was cut short when he sacked for being gay, an event which led to him starting the successful legal campaign to lift the ban on gay people serving in the military.
He went on to have a career as an award-winning investigative journalist for the BBC, Channel 4 and Thames Television on subjects as diverse as the civil war in Yugoslavia, the global trade in genetically modified pigs, and his work exposed a drug-smuggling gang at Heathrow.
He has been the author of several books, including a collection of poetry about the Thames and its lifeboats, to be published in November 2025.
Ed is an accomplished yachtsman, competing in his tenth Fastnet Race in 2025, and winning a number of races and offshore series over the last 25 years. He has been a volunteer on the crew of the lifeboat at Chiswick since the station opened in 2002, where he serves as a navigator. His own yacht, Coconut, is based in Sicily, where, of course Nelson's Dukedom of Bronte is to be found.
Ed is well known for re-creating the Battle of Trafalgar with cutlery and crockery, and in the event of any planned re-animation of the heat of battle, is a surprisingly good shot with a Malteser!