A Warm Welcome from David Duckham

ddA very warm welcome to my Sporting Clubs website! Yes, that is me pictured above in my youth, playing rugby for England.

These days, I spend much of my time clinging to a radio microphone, as pictured, as host of the 40+ Sporting Dinner Events that my wife Jean and I promote each year. I am proud to say that our story has been a very successful and enjoyable one, ever since the very first Event in Plymouth sixteen years ago.

Find Your Nearest Club/Venue

Events are staged regularly in Bristol, Cambridgeshire/West Suffolk (Newmarket), Devon (Plymouth and Exeter), Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire (Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick) and West Midlands (Solihull).

With the exception of Stratford-upon-Avon, Sussex and Warwick, four Dinner Events per year take place at each venue, ie. on a quarterly basis, and companies are invited to join as Members.

For all of your enquiries, please don’t hesitate to contact David Duckham or one of his Team.

Black Tie Events with a Sporting Theme

The Southern Sporting Clubs have been promoting corporate business dinners with a sporting theme very successfully since 1995 and now stage regular Events at no less than thirteen venues across the southern half of England.

The Events provide a relaxed, informal arena in which to entertain clients and friends, and in the company of sporting heroes,such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bt OBE, Sir Vivian Richards KNH OBE, Sir Gary Sobers, Jack Charlton OBE, Gareth Edwards CBE, Steve Davis OBE, Will Carling OBE, Willie John McBride MBE, Phil Tufnell, Jimmy Greaves and many more.

Who are The Southern Sporting Clubs?

The Southern Sporting Clubs (Ltd) is a commercial enterprise that was originally formed and the Inaugural Event staged in November 1995. The Directors, David and Jean Duckham, now administer from their base near Stratford-Upon-Avon in south Warwickshire a network of thirrteen Sporting Clubs – Business Dining Clubs with sporting celebrity and professional guest speakers & entertainers – across the southern half of England.

David, a distinguished former International sportsman in his own right, is also a very accomplished after-dinner speaker and Master of Ceremonies who has worked with the best and most popular celebrities and entertainers on the circuit. Both he and his wife Jean are sales and marketing professionals with many years of experience.

What do the Clubs Offer?

The Clubs’ principal objective is to provide a regular series (normally four Events per year at each Club) of memorable social evenings at high quality venues. The Black Tie Dinners (and occasionally Luncheons) are tailored specifically, in terms of style and tone, to provide an ideal platform and regular networking arena for local business people (and private individuals) to entertain their customers, friends and colleagues in a convivial atmosphere of good fellowship. In addition – and very much as a secondary objective – the Clubs do recognise the needs of the local community at large by staging an unobtrusive and very low key raffle at each Event to raise funds for local worthy causes. Club Members themselves are invited to nominate a Charity of Appeal of their choice.