Message from the President

October 2025

To Members and friends of the British Schools & Universities Club of New York –  

Welcome to the Club’s website, we hope you find the site user-friendly and informative.  Please browse the pictures from previous activities and delve into the History to learn more about the Club. We look forward to your joining us at our events.

We are a social club and we build our community through our events.  We usually enjoy a variety of activities throughout the year including the annual formal Dinner, the Commonwealth Reception and more informal events such as a Bangers & Mash dinner, curry brunches, Easter Monday brunch, monthly Club Tuesday evenings and bridge afternoons. We have maintained our monthly first Monday zoom meetings, instituted during the Covid restrictions, which have proved quite stimulating.  We also host activities such as wine tours, museum and garden trips.

Our discussions are lively and can cover cultural, social, political and philosophical topics. And sport, of course. However, BSUC is at heart a social club, so while discourse should be open, it should also be respectful, polite and tolerant. We have a diverse membership and, as we do in life, we should always be mindful of the sensitivities of our fellow members, friends and colleagues.

This year 2025 is our 130th anniversary, which we are celebrating at several events, which you will learn about from our website, as you are doing now.  We are updating our history so keep reading.

I am honoured to have been re-elected President in 2025, and I would like to thank the Board and the Committees for their extensive support and encouragement in all our activities.  We hope you will join us soon as I very much look forward to meeting you in person.

My hearty greetings,

Geoffrey Baldwin

President, BSUCNY 

(Raised in Manchester, studied at Oxford, came to New York in 1987 to join the United Nations)