LondonFurs Summer Weekender is the summer flagship from the larger LondonFurs community in London, England. It is shorter and looser than a hotel convention, but it is more organized and more branded than a casual city meetup.
Schedule and programming for 2027 is not published yet.
Not published yet.
London is served by multiple international airports, with Heathrow (LHR) being the largest and most connected. The city's Underground, bus, and rail networks make reaching central London venues straightforward from any airport. Past editions have used venues in the City of London area, which is well served by multiple Tube lines and bus routes.
Central London has a wide range of hotels, hostels, and serviced apartments at every budget level. Staying near the City of London or along major Tube lines gives the best access to the event venues. Since the Weekender is only two days, many local attendees travel in from home, but out-of-town visitors will find no shortage of accommodation options.
A year-by-year record of this convention.
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The 2026 Summer Weekender ran July 17-18 with a Friday Thames boat party aboard the MV Jewel of London and a Saturday gathering at Tank & Paddle Minster Court. LondonFurs' official July 19 wrap post thanked the staff, DJs, and volunteers, but no attendance figure was published.
The 2025 Summer Weekender brought the London community together for its 'Bardcore' themed event. The split-venue gathering across the Jewel of London featured medieval-inspired social activities.
The 2024 Summer Weekender was announced as a two-day London event on July 19-20, with a Friday boat party aboard the MV Jewel of London and a Saturday programme at Tank and Paddle on Mincing Lane. The organizer's public historical material does not publish a final attendance or charity figure.
The archived official page documents the July 21 boat party aboard MV Jewel of London and the July 22 party at Tank and Paddle, 3 Mincing Lane, under the Mardi Grarrr! theme. It lists £25 early-bird and £35 standard boat tickets. No attendance, charity, guest, or final recap figure was published in the reviewed official archive.
2027
Dates TBA
2026
Jul 17-18
Theme
Far-out Friday Boat Party / Groovy Saturday Summer Party
2025
Jul 18-19
Theme
Let's Go Bardcore!
2024
Jul 19-20
Theme
Born to Be Wild
2023
Jul 21-22
Theme
Mardi Grarrr!
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The same community runs the LondonFurs Winter Weekender in early December, with a Friday Thames boat party and a free Saturday Winter Party at Tank & Paddle.
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3 quirks & policies that don't fit the highlights grid.
Two-venue weekender: Thames boat Friday, Square Mile pub Saturday
LFSW is one of the few furry events whose flagship night runs on the water. Friday's Boat Party boards MV Jewel of London at Blackfriars Pier between 6:15pm and 7:00pm and returns by 11:00pm, four hours of DJ sets crossing under the Thames bridges at sunset. Saturday hops to Tank & Paddle Minster Court (3 Mincing Lane, EC3R 7AA, City of London), a pub venue near Bank, Monument, Tower Hill and Fenchurch Street, with a 0.6-mile fursuit walk to a nearby park and back midway through the day. Most peer cons keep all programming inside a single hotel-ballroom footprint; LFSW splits a Thames cruiser, a public-street walk and a Square Mile pub into one weekend.
Free mandatory ticketing + on-door security after April 2025 incident
Free entry, but a ticket is now compulsory for every LondonFurs event. The trigger, in LondonFurs' own words, was that "a number of incidents took place at our April 2025 meet, which caused the local authorities to be called twice", after which the venue and the authorities "wanted changes to the admissions process". The resulting stack: free tickets via Ticket Tailor (one per person, no booking for friends), wristbands for re-entry, and increased on-door security. Alcohol is the sharpest rule: "No alcohol will be permitted past the ramp or gates, within a 20-metre radius. Drinking alcohol outside the venue area is strictly prohibited, and anyone caught doing so will be banned from future events." Combined with the insurer-driven 18+ raise announced the same year (mixed-age safeguarding regulations at large-capacity events), LondonFurs effectively rebuilt its admissions stack in 2025.
Capped fursuit-bag tickets as a separate paid sub-tier
LFSW publishes a separate fursuit-bag ticket batch: one per person, one bag, capped, released alongside the boat tickets (Friday batch) and Saturday tickets (Saturday batch). A Friday bag ticket also covers Saturday, so suiters attending both days only need one. Walking in already in-suit from a nearby hotel doesn't need a bag ticket; carrying just a head in a shoulder bag doesn't either; only a full fursuit case does. The mechanic exists because Tank & Paddle's interior and the Jewel of London's deck space have hard physical limits on case storage, so the capped + cross-day-bundled bag ticket is a registration-level expression of a real physical constraint, not a policy preference.