Flight Club is turning 10 in October and taking the celebrations on a UK-wide birthday tour, with a month of parties in each city it calls home!
And the Flight Club crew aren’t hitting the road in any old party bus…they’ll be setting off in style, in a thirty-year-old fire engine that has special significance to the origins of the OG of activity bars. The month-long celebrations are kicking off in London, where it all began for Flight Club, with a special free-to-attend pop-up party at Clerkenwell Fire Station on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd October.
There’ll be DJs, street food, flowing drinks, spin the wheel prizes to be won and a fun challenge to land the longest bullseye, with a £1,000 bar tab up for grabs for the champion. The Mayor of Islington is even coming along to declare the party officially open!
It’s a big celebration of 10 years of Social Darts, and everyone is invited. The added bonus of all this merriment is that all of the proceeds from sales at the party will go to Flight Club’s charitable foundation, which supports 21 local and national charities, including Hackney Quest, supporting young people and families through life’s challenges, MediCinema, providing free cinema screenings inside hospitals and the Ben Kinsella Trust, tackling knife crime through education and campaigning.
You can join the celebrations by showing up at Clerkenwell Fire Station any time between 12 noon and 10 pm on either of the two days.
The Flight Club team is no stranger to mammoth fundraising projects. In fact, a 2010 fundraising expedition around the globe in a fire engine (hence the fire engine connection) is where it all began for Flight Club.
Co-founders Steve and Paul, CFO Ross and a crew of friends circumnavigated the planet in a fire engine in memory of Steve’s father, who spent 33 years serving as a firefighter. They raised £120,000 for three charities (Macmillan Cancer Support, The Fire Fighters Charity and The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation) and achieved a Guinness World Record.
The expedition taught Steve and the crew the skills they needed to launch a business and, more importantly, underlined their passion for bringing groups of friends together for unforgettable moments of joy. Five years later, Flight Club was born, with the first venue opening in London’s Shoreditch. Fast-forward ten years, and there are now 28 venues around the globe, with plenty more on the way.
Fifteen years after Steve and the gang headed off on an incredible adventure around the world, “Martha,” the original fire engine, is coming out of retirement, especially for this special 10th birthday tour. The team is aiming to raise £250,000 in total from this birthday tour.
Address: Clerkenwell Fire Station, 42-44 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4RN
Dates: 1st & 2nd October
Time: 12 noon – 10 pm
