The Favour Six strangers. A favour each.

You apply with the one favour you need, in your own words, and a person places you at a table of six. If you're accepted you pay £39, and on the Monday before the Thursday a card is posted to you. On the front is another guest's favour, with no name. On the back are all six favours at your table, yours among them, unmarked. Over dinner the table works out whose is whose. Over dessert, anyone who can do one of the six says so. Nothing is collected and nobody has to say which favour is theirs.

Neither. Nobody is there to sell and nobody is seated to be matched; the tables are mixed on purpose. Six adults, one table, and each of you needs one thing. The card says it so you don't have to.

No. Text and a web page.

Every Thursday at Bocconcino, 19 Berkeley Street, Mayfair. Confirmed in your acceptance text.

Because a person places the tables, mixing who you are, what you do and the favour you've brought, and that only works if they've read your application. Nothing is paid until you're accepted. If a Thursday is full you're offered the next.

£39 plus your own bill at the restaurant. A Season is four Thursdays over twelve weeks for £156, seat held without reapplying. There is nothing else to pay the club.

Reply NO to the Sunday text asking whether you'd come back — any time up to the end of the Monday — and your £39 is refunded. No reason needed. The guarantee applies to your first Thursday; if that first Thursday was the first seat of a Season, the whole £156 is refunded.

The seat is for a dated evening; once accepted, it isn't refundable for cancellation (you're told this before you pay). You can offer it to the reserve list by replying to your confirmation; if the reserve guest takes it, your £39 is refunded. The come-back refund above is separate and always available on your first Thursday.

Something a stranger could actually do: a contact, an honest read, advice from someone who has been through it, a trade who answers the phone. Not a flat to rent, not a job for your cousin, not money. If yours reads like a classified we'll say so and ask you for another.

Three sets of people, and never with your name. First, the one guest at your table whose card carries it on the front. Second, the other four, who see it among the six on the back of their cards, unmarked; they may work out it's yours over dinner, or they may not. Third, only if nobody claims it at the table, the past guests who opted into the Monday digest, as one numbered line with your table number. The person who reads your application sees it too. Nobody else does, and your name and number never go out with it.

It goes to past guests as a numbered line in the Monday digest, on up to three Mondays over eight weeks. The first digest goes out in the week of 14 December 2026; from January 2027 it is weekly. Anyone who can help replies with the number. You get a one-line description of them and a YES or NO. If you both say yes, you're each asked what to pass on, an email address or CALL to pass your number, and you each get one text with first names, the favour and only what the other chose to pass on. Then the club steps back. If nobody replies, the favour retires after eight weeks unless you come back. We don't promise it gets sorted.

Around your Thursday, the texts your seat needs: that you're accepted and how to pay; that your card is in the post; a Wednesday reminder carrying the card's content; a Thursday-morning reminder; the Sunday questions; and, if you're introduced, the introduction and a day-14 check. After that, at most one digest a week, and STOP ends the digest, not those. Opting out of texts doesn't stop you coming back.

Text the club number on the night or after. Every report is read by a person; a guest reported twice doesn't sit again. Introductions are by text only, through the club, and you can decline any of them.

You consent to the texts when you apply, separately from the application. If your favour touches something sensitive — health, religion, anything personal — we'll ask you separately whether you want it on a card at all, or help you word it so it isn't. Favours are deleted eight weeks after you sit unless you come back (for the first Thursdays the eight weeks run from 14 December 2026, when the first digest goes out): the club keeps only who sat with whom and the kind of favour each brought and claimed, not the words. The club is registered with the ICO.