SportsAid Charity Lunch with Dennis Taylor

Dennis Taylor is the guest speaker at the Old Albanian Sports Club on Friday 20 November, for a fundraising lunch in aid of SportsAid. Taylor is a former professional snooker player and commentator, and a world champion, so he's spent a good portion of his life around the table and the microphone. He'll be sharing personal stories and insights from his career, the kind of behind-the-scenes stuff you don't usually get from the telly.

The afternoon is built around lunch and networking, and it's the second SportsAid fundraiser of the year put on by Rayner Essex, a St Albans and London accountancy firm that runs local networking lunches, charity events and an annual St Albans golf challenge. The money raised goes directly to SportsAid, which helps talented young British athletes with the costs of training and competition so they can keep pursuing representing the UK on the world stage.

The venue is the Old Albanian Sports Club at Woollam Playing Fields, 160 Harpenden Road, AL3 6BB — a sports club and clubhouse used for club activities, community functions and ticketed charity and networking events. It's a familiar spot for local sporting and community gatherings, and it'll be hosting this one on a Friday afternoon.

It starts at 12:30pm. Individual places are £47.50, and a table of ten is £475, so if you've got a group of colleagues or friends who'd fancy it, booking a table makes sense. Between the lunch, the networking, and Taylor's stories, it's a full afternoon for a good cause.