One of the things that is cropping up repeatedly is how much I get asked "what is the head count for the evening looking like" when I say 40 people, some bars are telling me it's too few, others are telling me it's too many. I'm not having great luck so far. Plus as stated on Facebook, I've been super busy with the end of the Academic Year and now going in to the 6 weeks holidays, I will have a major distraction here for 5 of those. The idea of using one of the Hilton's in London is a tad dramatic there though Shauna, but I agree with your point, these venues can get super expensive. Ideally I think we're looking to hire a venue for at a maximum 400, maybe 500 for the evening (excluding food and drinks cost) which definitely means a smaller venue where it may be a little more crowded but would work out. It'd also be pretty cost effective for us in terms of "ticket prices" adding in the charge for drinks and food (I assume a limited meal with drink offer might be appreciated) and we could be looking at as little as £20pp for the evening.

Tourist traps I.E. The Tower Of London and a few others could definitely be done with a group of 40 people or so. The situation there would be to have it pre-booked as a group. It'd work out cheaper for us (individual tickets are around £20 last time I went) and be easier to do as they'd open up a specific time frame we can go in and start a tour complete with a guide. Others like the Science Museum or the Natural History Museum don't have a price to enter or policies on group size walking in off the street to my knowledge but I could check with them if that was something someone was interested in.

Knowing where DC and the others are hitting up would also help I'm not sure how co-ordinated the rest of the effort is but whilst I appreciate that I'm the odd man out here by no fault other than my own, getting me involved in any discussions going on about location (even if it's like a whatsapp group message and I just read but not reply for a while I'll be aware of the situation) might be helpful because if there's somewhere other Londoners can't get to or aren't having much luck with I can at least try to be of more help.