Hotsy Totsy's Summer Party!

We are thrilled to invite you to Hotsy Totsy's Summer Party, taking place at in the beautiful garden and dining room at the University Women's Club in the heart of Mayfair.

This venue is very much in line with Hotsy Totsy's female-focussed ethos. It was founded in 1883 as women, in tiny numbers, had started to attend university and take exams but could not yet graduate (except from the University of London, which started awarding degrees to women from 1878; Oxford from 1920 and Cambridge 1948 (wtf!)). Among their number was Gertrude Jackson, an enthusiastic member of Girton, Cambridge’s first women’s college.

In 1883, she floated the idea of founding a club for university women in London; by 1886 over 200 women had shown interest, and the University Club for Ladies, as it was then called, was set up on New Bond Street.

Early members included pioneering surgeon Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, her sister, the mathematician Cicely Fawcett, women’s education activist Emily Davies, and Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, mother of Marie Stopes, founder of the first birth control clinic in Britain. The fight for women’s rights and education was at the heart of the club and – understandably, given the era it was founded – it named several suffragists and suffragettes among its members.

For the next 35 years the University Women's Club moved premises several times as the membership grew, until in 1921 it finally found its forever home in 2 Audley Square, Mayfair, where we will be Hotsy Totsying on Thursday 29th June.

Hotsy Totsy has exclusive use of the beautiful dining room on the ground floor opening up to the tranquil terraced garden to enjoy bubbles, nibbles and great company in the London early evening sunshine (hopefully!).

This event is open to both members and guests and we would love to welcome you! 

Tickets are: £99 members with alcohol / £79 members without alcohol. £119 guests with alcohol / £99 guests without alcohol.

Your ticket includes all drinks and nibbles - dietary requirements are catered for.