The Avenue Club
The Avenue Club is a busy daytime social and leisure club offering a range of classes, activities and events for those who wish to get the most out of their retirement.
Located at St Luke’s in The Avenue in Kew, we are ten minutes’ walk from Kew Gardens Underground and conveniently placed for a number of bus routes from Richmond, Brentford or Ealing.
We welcome everyone from across the local community and beyond – we have members from as far afield as Hampton.
The Club is run by Siobhan and Sue and Charlotte, who want to make sure that the Avenue Club offers ’something for everyone’. There is always an interesting mix of regular activities and classes taking place between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Friday. These include exercise classes – Balance & Agility, Seated Exercises, Pilates, Tai Chi, Yoga and Zumba as well as a monthly walk; we also have a Men’s Wellbeing group, Phone Clinic, classes in Italian and Spanish, Art, Mosaic Art and lectures on History of Art and Film as well as our Creative Writers, Drum Circle and a Knit & Stitch group. Not forgetting our Choir and ‘The Avenukes’ our Ukulele players.
We serve delicious homemade lunches on Monday and Wednesday or simply pop in for a cup of tea or coffee and a chat.
You can find a full list of all the regular activities under CLASSES & ACTIVITIES
Here are details of our full Activity TIMETABLE.
UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2023
COMING UP
Christmas Bazaar on Wednesday 22nd November we welcomed people into the Avenue Club to start their Christmas shopping. It was a hugely successful morning with tea & coffee being served along with a lovely selection of homemade cakes. Knit & Stitch were selling their beautiful homemade garments along with a Bric-a-Brac stall. The Mayor also joined us and hosted the Raffle. We raised an amazing £800 so a huge thank you to everyone that came along to support this event and all our wonderful volunteers who helped on the day.
Drum Circle will take place on Wednesday 29th November, 2pm – 3pm. Everyone is welcome!
Christmas Choir Concert will take place on Wednesday 13th December, 4pm – 6pm. Please do join us for a festive afternoon, music performed by the Avenue Club Choir, mince pies and a glass of mulled wine. We would welcome a donation on the door of £5 to include the above. We look forward to seeing you then!
Serge’s walks will take place on the third Thursday of each month. With different routes each month, Serge designs his walks for all abilities with plenty of interesting sites to see along the way. Serge’s next walk is on Thursday 14th December.
New Avenue Club Manager – We are very sad to be saying goodbye to Siobhan after two years as AC Manager, Siobhan will be with us until the end of December. We are delighted to welcome Charlotte, from the AC team, to take on the Manager role from January 2024.
Please note that the Avenue Club will be closing for Christmas from end of play on Friday 22nd December and we will reopen on Monday 8th January.
Do look at our timetable for information on all our other classes on offer and don’t hesitate to get in touch with us in the Office if you would like any more details. Come and give one a go!
In addition, in normal times, the Club also organises talks and discussions and social events, such as an annual choir concert, an Easter Tea, a Christmas lunch and an annual Bring & Buy sale.
Outings are also very popular. In the past, members have been to places such as the Bluebell Railway, Knowle House, Watts Gallery and Pitzhanger Manor, to name but a few.
For those who may need extra help and support
Some of our members are less independent and agile than others and we try to ensure that they continue to enjoy a range of activities, for example seated exercises and balance and agility. We also hope they benefit from meeting up with new and old friends.
If transport to the Club is a problem, Kew Neighbourhood Association (at KNA or on 020 8948 8054 or Richmond Good Neighbours (at RGN or on 020 3538 4060) may well be able to help.
Become a member
Our membership is growing all the time… we now have more than 450 members.
Annual subscription is only £35 for individuals or £60 for couples (on a sliding scale if you join part way through the year).
Members enjoy an unlimited mix of classes/activities and outings on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Would you like to find out more?
Call to have a chat with one of the team anytime between 10am – 3pm Monday to Friday or get in touch using the contact form click here.
What our members say:
‘I think the Avenue Club is such an asset to the community. The variety of activities, outings and clubs is so beneficial to many people. It’s such an important meeting place for its members, a social hub and enables elderly people to get out and meet people in a lovely environment’.
‘Dear Avenue Club Team, Thank you for all your wonderful work keeping us stimulated and occupied for so long, under these strange circumstances. It will be so good when we can do all these great things at The Avenue Club, but until then, thank you again for all your hard work, look forward to happier days.’
‘The Club has increased my social skills. I was very shy before but have got more relaxed as I’ve got to know people. I really like and appreciate the warm and supportive staff’.
‘I love The Avenue Club. Living in Kew has always been good but now I’ve retired and started coming here, it’s got a lot better. I’ve met so many people, it’s fantastic. Now when I walk around the area, I bump into people know all the time. Lisa and all the staff do such a good job, we are very lucky’.