By personal invitation — Est. 2025
Someone handed you a QR code, or slipped a link into your texts. You scanned it — and now you’re holding a lunch invitation with a catch. Welcome. You’re exactly where they wanted you.
By QR or SMS · Frontline charities · One lunch a year
The invite
There are only two ways onto this page — and someone chose to put you on it.
Someone already in on it slid a code across the table and watched you scan it. That look on their face? That was the stitch up starting.
One SMS, no explanation — just a link. You tapped it, because of course you did, and here you are.
The catch
We’re not going to pretend otherwise — here’s exactly how you get stitched up.
An excellent table, a handful of the right people, and a bill we quietly take care of. No pitch over the entrée — just a genuinely good lunch, with you happily unsuspecting.
We ring to say thanks — and to ask you to put real money behind a frontline charity. You knew it was coming. You came anyway. That makes you a very good sport.
How it works
A simple format that turns a free meal into real commitments from people who can honour them.
The flagship. Once a year, the whole table — the city's sharpest and most generous in one room.
Twenty-four hours later, the honest ask. No guilt trip — just a straight conversation.
Small, high-net-worth lunches hosted by Deputy Mayor Mark Hammel, plus a special guest or two.
Money out the door to frontline charities. Real things, done — the kind you can point at.
The room
This is the city’s most capable operators and most generous high-net-worth people, deciding together to make something happen. Places are limited on purpose — because the point is real commitments, not a table of five hundred.
Where it goes
Every dollar goes to frontline charities doing the unglamorous, essential work close to the ground — no overheads dressed up as impact.
Your invite gets you a seat — but it’s yours to claim. Tell us who you are and we’ll confirm the date, the room, and who else is coming.
Save the date
Tentative — we'll confirm closer to the time