Formal Hall

To book Formal Hall please click here

See the booking procedure instructions here

Formal Hall schedule - Lent 2025

Some Formal Halls are prefaced by a free, optional lecture and discussion on a particular topic or theme, delivered by an external speaker. The full schedule of upcoming talks for the year can be found on the 'Events' section of the College website.

Students, Alumni, Associates and all classes of Fellows with queries for booking Formal Hall please email formalhall@lucy.cam.ac.uk. 

Drinks take place at 7pm in Warburton Hall before dinner starts at 7.30pm. We ask that guests remain seated from after the first grace until the second grace (usually at about 9.15pm) and that mobile phones are switched off.

Alumni Benefits

A reminder about some of the rules regarding Formal Hall bookings.

1. The booking deadline is midday (12:00) two days before the dinner (i.e. 12:00 on Tuesday for a Thursday Formal Hall, 12:00 on a Wednesday for a Friday Formal Hall). Bookings can be changed or cancelled up to the booking deadline. If you need to cancel after the booking deadline, the cost of the meal will not be refunded.
2. Dietary requirements or seating requests must be made via the booking system or exceptionally by contacting the formal hall team formalhall@lucy.cam.ac.uk. Any correspondence to any other email address about Formal Hall will not be dealt with or forwarded.
3. There is a seating plan which is displayed in the dining hall and outside the Reception rooms during pre-dinner drinks.
4. Please indicate in the “additional booking information” section of the web booking form if you would like to sit with a particular person or group. The team will do their best to accommodate.
5. For student formal hall swaps, staff and Fellows organising special groups or events where spaces have been reserved, guest names and dietary requirements need to be confirmed by the Friday of the week before a dinner takes place. Places not confirmed by name will be released and made available on the Monday for general booking.
6. For those staff and Fellows organising special groups or events, seating plans will need to be organised with the office by midday the day before the dinner, in order to avoid any dietary mistakes.

Music Performances at Formal Hall

We welcome applications from Lucy students to come and perform at our Pre-Drinks. If you are interested, you can read more and apply in the Music section of the website (student login needed).

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