INDEX 05
ABOUT THE CLUB
The Index began as a dinner that refused to end. Six years on it is three rooms, four hundred members, and a working belief that proximity beats process.
The Index started in 2019 as a supper club with a spreadsheet: eighteen people, one table, and a seating plan that took longer to write than the menu. The dinners kept working — companies were founded, shows were hung, one marriage survives to this day — so we kept setting the table.
The club now runs from a converted print works in Clerkenwell: a reading room, a dining room and a listening bar, stacked one above the other. The spreadsheet has become an index of four hundred members across three cities. The premise has not changed at all — put interesting people within arm’s reach of each other, then stay out of the way.
2019
FOUNDED
400
MEMBERS
3
CITIES
312
DINNERS SET
INDEX 06
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps, no theatre.
01
Apply
Tell us what you are building, exploring or hoping to contribute. Two references help; one existing member helps more.
02
Meet
A conversation over coffee in the Reading Room — not an interview, and never a pitch. We are deciding fit, not worth.
03
Belong
A card, a number, and a standing invitation to three rooms, a monthly programme and four hundred people worth interrupting.
RULE 01
What’s said at the table stays at the table.
RULE 02
No audiences. Every guest is a participant.
RULE 03
Only vouch for people you’d share a table with.
