Esteemed Members, Welcome to the 2024 Annual General Meeting!   As we reflect on the past year, I am thrilled to share the countless achievements and vibrant moments that have defined our exceptional and much-loved Club. Together we’ve woven a [...]

Take a Moment with Sallie Barker MBE, County Club member, the next Mayor of Guildford, and we think it is fair to say, all-round ‘force of nature’. Quite frankly, it would take longer than a moment just to list Sallie’s [...]

This month we ‘Take a Minute’ with Karin Walker, active County Club member, Founder of KGW Family Law, and fierce supporter of the arts. On the face of it, turning down an opportunity to read English at Cambridge in favour [...]

Matt has been Managing Director at Guildford based IT company Unigold 2000 for more than twenty-seven years, having previously worked with British Airways and ABN Amro during a career that has combined first class service principles with some serious IT [...]

‘I just wish I could spend more time there’, so says Club Member, Hongmei Dong, known to one and all as Mei, the charming and fascinating Director of Guildford’s premier beauty and skin treatment salon. It was a chance conversation [...]

As many of you will be aware, our General Manager of almost twenty-years, Kevin Lorimer has left The County Club for pastures new. We could not let the moment pass, without paying tribute to this fine man and taking a [...]

As this year’s Guildford Fringe Festival gets into full swing, we thought it would be appropriate to share a few details about the driving forces behind the largest arts festival in the area, Club Members, Charlotte and Nick Wyschna. Nick [...]

Our occasional look at the activities and achievements of Members outside The Club focuses this month on David and Mandy Thomas. Mandy is a retired geography teacher, having taught at both Guildford High School and the Royal Grammar School, where [...]

‘The County Club is a bolt-hole for me, a place to relax and unwind, switch off my mobile and just enjoy a few moments alone with a newspaper, a cup of leaf tea and maybe an indulgent shortbread. There is [...]

It is rare that the word ‘unique’ can be used with complete justification, it is rarer still to be able to apply it to a hospitality venue. But here at The County Club, we are entirely confident that our meeting [...]