How Round The Table works

A directory of real UK business networking events. Free to browse, free to attend unless the host charges, and free for hosts to list.

Last updated 5 August 2026

If you’re looking for an event

Browse by area, date or type of room — breakfast clubs, lunches, evening meets, founder dinners, talks and award nights. You don’t need an account to look, and nothing is hidden behind a sign-up wall.

To book a seat — an RSVP, as the site calls it — you do need a free account. That’s so the host knows who is coming by name rather than by the front of an email address. There is no paid membership and never will be. Some hosts charge for their own events; that price is always shown on the listing, and you pay the host directly — the money never comes through us.

More for attendees →

If you run networking events

Apply to become a host and we’ll check you’re running a genuine business networking event before your listing goes live. Once approved you get a host desk: your events, your RSVPs and your guest lists.

The full host guide →

If you want to sponsor or run an area

Businesses can sponsor a placement — a banner, a category, the map, a venue partnership or an area spotlight. That’s what pays for the site, which is why attendees never do.

You can buy an area — one county, exclusive to you — or go national. National placements run on the pages that belong to no single county: the homepage, the calendar and the host pages. We sell those ourselves, and a national advert never appears inside a county somebody owns, so the two never compete.

You can also take on a whole county yourself. An area owner sells the advertising in their patch, sets their own prices and keeps all of it. How owning an area works →

Where the readers come from

Out of the rooms themselves. Every host we approve arrives with a group that already meets — they list their events here, invite their own members to join, and start pointing people at a proper listing page instead of a post buried in a Facebook group. That is why we spend our time recruiting hosts rather than buying clicks: advertising on an area only works once the area has rooms in it.

Take an area and we work the first month with you

You are not handed a county and left to it. In your first month we help you find the networking groups already running in your patch, give you the approach that actually gets an organiser to reply, and help you promote the area on LinkedIn and wherever else your market is. Getting hosts listed is the job that makes the advertising worth buying, so we do it alongside you.

What we check, and what we don’t

• Every host is reviewed by a person before their first listing goes live.
• Reviews come from people who actually went — you can only review an event you RSVP’d to, and only after it has started.
• We don’t verify what happens in the room. We list events; we don’t run them. If a host lets you down, tell us and we will act on it.
• We never sell your details, and we never pass them to a host you haven’t chosen to connect with.

Using the site, step by step

If you have never used anything like this before, this is the whole of it. There is nothing to install and nothing to pay.

1. Find something. Use Near you and type your town or postcode, or browse the calendar. You do not need an account to look.
2. Make an account when you want to book. Press Sign in at the top, then Create one. It asks for your name, your email and a password — that is all. You are in straight away; there is no email to go and find first.
3. Book your seat. On the event, press Reserve my seat. (You will see this called an RSVP in places — it means the same thing.) The host is told, and you get a confirmation email with the address and a link to put it in your diary.
4. If you cannot go, say so. Open the event again and press Can’t make it. Most of these rooms have a limited number of seats, so letting it go early gives it to somebody else.
5. Check the name the host sees. The host gets your name, company and email for their guest list — nothing else. If your name went in wrong, or you would rather it read differently, fix it under Your account (top right). It updates everywhere.
6. Say how it went. After the event has started you can leave a review. It is under Your account & past events, next to the event you attended. Only people who booked a seat can review, which is why the reviews are worth reading.

Stuck on any of it? Email hello@roundthetable.net and a person will answer.