🧵 Social Fabric London
About Social Fabric London
Social Fabric is a continually updated list of portals to connection: groups, event hosts, third spaces, and other places where people can find community.
Generally, listings:
- Are free or reasonably priced
- Hold recurring events
- Encourage interaction rather than passive attendance
Heavily inspired by socialfabric.nyc
Last updated August 2026. Suggest an addition.
Table of contents
- Policy / Activism
- Sports and movement
- Assorted Interests
- Founders / Startups
- AI / Tech
- Music
- Less Specific Aggregators
Policy / Activism
- Newspeak House - residential college with a popular event space, they do an open-invite dinner (Ration Club) every Wednesday
- Looking for Growth - YIMBY / Abundance
- Land Talks - YIMBY / Abundance
- Abundance London - YIMBY / Abundance
- Revolutionists’ Night - “semi-structured pub discussions where we talk about how to end factory farming”. London meetups are every Thursday, recent Lumas are here and here
Sports and movement
- Sportas — easy-to-book adhoc sports games
- Rabble - easy-to-join less-serious team games
- Ecstatic Dance UK - Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings
Assorted Interests
- London Rationalish - monthly reading and discussion group broadly around “improving human reasoning and decision-making”
- TPOT Office Hours - “friendly ambitious nerds” get together every Tuesday, current location is the Masque Haunt pub in Old Street
- Effective Altruism - global community seeking to “unite people with a desire to be more effective in how we do good”
- London Effective Giving - monthly socials and other events for those intereseted in impactful charitable giving
- Climate Connection - founders and funders in climate tech
- Psychedelic society - workshops, socials, retreats for psychonauts
- London Vegan Network - heaps of events, most not about food
Founders / Startups
- PLUGGED — founder community with a cowork space and frequent socials
- Indie Beers - monthly get together for (mainly) solo entrepreneurs
- Founders Running Club
- Unicorn Mafia - hackathons, demos, talks, conferences
AI / Tech
- AI Tinkerers - talks, workshops, hackathons
- Society for Technological Advancement (SoTA) - events (and newsletter) around emerging science and technology
Music
- Full Joy - outdoor jams
Less Specific Aggregators
- Reddit /r/londonsocialclub - people looking for companions for gigs, games, sports, etc
My take
Usually an early-20s, male, tech crowd
- Luma - Tech / AI focus