About
The Challoner Club is a membership club open to Roman Catholics living, studying, and working in London.
Its purpose is to encourage friendship and conviviality among Catholics, and to foster a lively community rooted in the Catholic faith.
Membership is open to all who support the objects and character of the Club, and who are keen to participate actively in its life.
The original Challoner Club was founded at 59 Pont Street, Knightsbridge, London in the late 1940s and was formally opened on the 20th of September 1949 by the Right Reverend Edward Myers, sometime Coadjutor Archbishop of Westminster, then Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster.
The First Chairman of the Challoner Club was Michael Derrick, who served as the London Correspondent for L'Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of the Vatican City, and sometime Assistant Editor of The Tablet.
In 1997, the Challoner Club on Pont Street closed down and, for decades, the Club remained closed.
In 2025, the Challoner Club was re-established by a group of Roman Catholic professionals and students, with the assistance of a priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster, and in August of that year, the Challoner Club held its Inaugural Mass and Reception.