Annual Lunch
It has been a custom that KCLEA Summer Lunch is on the Monarch's Birthday to network with other KCLA members, their partners and their guests over drinks followed by a two course lunch.
In 2025 it is on Saturday 14st June and doors will be open from 12 noon.
The venue is the 8th Floor of Bush House – just across the newly pedestrianised Strand from Kings College.
Bush House was from 1940 to 2012 the Home of the BBC External Services, better known by their current name of BBC World Service -
broadcasting around the world in Radio and Television – and their vast website - in over 40 languages.
It was where KCLEA President, Peter Weitzel, started to work full time in the BBC and he has invited Kings Engineers who have worked in Broadcasting - and his first boss at BBC Bush House.
It is always an event where members, partners and their guests remake friendships and share stories and find out more about the role Kings Engineers and Kings Engineering played in yesterdays world and how Kings Engineers are making today and tomorrow's world a better place.
We are also pleased to meet the Bursary and Award Winners and the Leaders of the student Societies.
If you would like to get in touch with those you graduated with – the Alumni Office can help you find and invite your contemporaries.
Just email forever@kcl.ac.uk with the Subject " KCLEA lunch group"
We are keen that member's partners and those who graduated more recently are included in the Gathering.
Please Register Promptly: you will need your alumni number from emails from alumni office
The subsidised price is £30 a head for those who graduated more than 15 years ago and their Guest and £20 a head for those who have graduated since 2010.
We enter by the Centre Block Door at the Aldwych opposite Kingsway and meet from noon over drinks – with a few displays of Kings Engineering and other items of interest, as we catch up on what has happened over the past year.
We then move to the open areas to see the RAF Fly-past at 1pm – we are right under the route - and then come back in for a two course Lunch and more conversations with KCLEA members their guests, recent graduates and selected students. We look forward to meeting you all.
There will be minimal speeches as the purpose is for those there to remember their time at Kings and to share the achievement of their lives and very varied Careers until we drift away from 2:30pm – and leave the rooms by 3:30pm.
We exit the way we came in by the Centre Block Door at the Aldwych opposite Kingsway.
The Aldwych is served by a vast number of Buses From North, South, East and West.
See TFL site: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/aldwych-a4-300923.pdf
And the following Tube and National Rail:
Temple (District and Circle line ) 7 min walk
Holborn (Central and Piccadilly line) 7 min walk
Covent Garden (Piccadilly line) 8 min walk
Charing Cross (Bakerloo and Northern line and National Rail) 12 min walk
Tottenham Court Road (Elizabeth. Central and Northern line) 14 mins walk
Waterloo (National Rail, Jubilee Northern and Bakerloo lines)18 min walk
Farrington (Thames Link and Elizabeth line) 20 mins walk.