Join us for an unforgettable dinner and interview with the accomplished entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Lloyd Dorfman. Reserve your place now.

New Layout

As many of you know, our Sanctuary is currently closed for major renovation works. We are delighted to confirm that our popular Friday Night Community Dinners are continuing, but with a smaller capacity.

Ticket Types

In response to popular demand, we now offer speaker tickets, allowing guests to join us in the Stern Hall for the speaker session only. Our two new ticket types are explained below:

• Sold Out — Dinner & Speaker Ticket:  Includes dinner in the SFC followed by the the speaker session in the Stern Hall. 
• Speaker-Only Ticket: Allows guests to attend the speaker session in the Stern Hall at 9:00 PM.

All ticket holders are warmly invited to join us for our Erev Shabbat Combo Service before dinner featuring music from the WLS Choir, Maya Levy, and our Shira musicians.

Schedule

• Erev Shabbat Service: 6:30 PM in the Stern Hall, followed by Kiddush
• Dinner: 7:45 PM in the SFC
• Speaker Session: 9:00 PM in the Stern Hall

About Sir Lloyd Dorfman

Sir Lloyd was the Founder of the Travelex Group, the world’s largest retailer of foreign exchange which he started in 1976 from one small shop in central London. The business was sold in 2015. 

He has a variety of other business interests. He is Chair of Dorfman Media Holdings, formed in 2018 (a media company focused on film and TV finance, production and related service companies), and also Chair of Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications. He was Chair and co-Founder (2014) of Doddle, the e-Commerce IT Platform which was acquired by Blue Yonder in 2023.  

He is a shareholder and Board Director of the London Theatre Company and sits on the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board. He was Chair and majority shareholder of The Office Group, the leading flexible office company from 2010 until its sale to Blackstone in 2017.  He still retains a separate significant flexible office portfolio.

In the charity sector, he became Chair of the Royal Opera House in 2022, having served as a Trustee since 2015. He is also Deputy Chair of Community Security Trust and a Trustee of UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation.

In addition, he is Vice-President of King’s Trust International (formerly Prince’s Trust International), having been its Chair from 2015 to 2021. He was also Chair of Prince’s Trust from 2015 to 2018, having joined the charity’s Council (Board) in 2007. 

He served on the Board of the National Theatre for over nine years and one of its theatres, the Cottesloe, was renamed the Dorfman Theatre in 2014. He was a Trustee of BAFTA from 2017 – 2023, a Governor of St Paul’s School from 2005 - 2016, a Trustee of the Royal Academy Trust from 2014 – 2022, Chairman of The Roundhouse from 2007–2010 and a Trustee of JW3 from 2007 - 2019.

He is Vice-President of six of the charities with which he has been previously involved (King’s Trust International, JW3, St Paul’s School, The Roundhouse, West London Synagogue and Jewish Care).

In 2022 he was awarded a CVO in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. In 2018, he was awarded a Knighthood for services to Philanthropy and the Arts, following his appointment as CBE in 2008 for services to Business and Charity. In 2011, he was awarded The Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy. In 2025, he was awarded the Variety Club’s International Humanitarian and Philanthropic Award.

He is Honorary Colonel of the Third Battalion of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, a Freeman of the City of London, a member of the Mercers’ Company, an Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. 

He is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, White’s and The Garrick Club.  He is married with three children and five grandchildren.

Join the Waitlist

Dinner tickets are now sold out, but we would be delighted to welcome you after dinner for our speaker session with Sir Lloyd Dorfman.

Speaker ticket holders will join for the interview at 9pm—leaving plenty of time to eat out at one of the wonderful restaurants in Marble Arch, or dine at home before attending.

If you would like to join the waitlist for a dinner ticket, please email admin@wls.org.uk. Should you purchase speaker-only tickets and later be offered a dinner ticket from the waitlist, the cost of your speaker ticket will be deducted from your order.