How to find a local comp club

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Looking to meet other compers? This guide lists active UK comping clubs in England, Scotland and Wales!

I’ll never forget my first experience of a compers’ meeting – it was around 2001 at a fabulous event known as ‘Big Brum’, organised by Birmingham comp club, Kompers Korner. Over 100 compers gathered annually to exchange entry forms, chat and enter fun competitions – with a massive charity raffle to end the day. I went alone to the first Big Brum and chatted to several other compers  – we had a great time, it was a relief for me to find people who finally understood the strange hobby I’d taken up!

Not long afterwards I joined the Compers News online Chatterbox messageboard and went to a meeting round the corner from my house at a Nottingham hotel – there were about 20 of us there, including comping legend Brita Bevis. I met a group of girls that day who remain some of my closest mates. Meeting compers in real life is inspiring and fun, and it certainly helps you to win prizes when you work as a team! Soon I was invited to join the Toton comp club (hosted at ‘Britain’s Luckiest Granny‘s house!), started a North Notts comp club (with Compers News Editor Steve), and attended Notts about Comping in the city centre. Since moving away from the Midlands, I’m a member of Brighton Breezy club on the South Coast, meeting with likeminded wine-loving compers once a month.

These days the bigger comping days are few and far between – London Competitors Club has excellent quarterly meetings for members and guests, and you can still find events occasionally in Manchester, Yorkshire and the South-West (read my write up on ComperCon 2017).  I hosted my own event, SuperLucky LIVE, in October 2019 in Brighton, and hope to do more events in the future!

Local comp clubs are still popular, but it can be difficult to find up-to-date information on meeting venues and times. I’ve contacted several comp clubs in order to get a current list together – if you’d like me to include details of your club or comping event, leave a comment or get in touch via my Contact page.

Facebook Comping Clubs

If you’d like to attend a comp club but don’t see a local one listed here, check the chat in my Facebook group Lucky Learners as you might find some local comping friends in the comments!

Lucky Legends Regional Forums

My membership club Lucky Legends gives you access to an online comping community, where we have regional sub-forums for areas of the UK (and ROI). Members are welcome to arrange local meet ups – simply create a new topic in your regional forum to meet new comping friends!

What happens at a Comp Club meeting?

All comp clubs work differently. A few smaller clubs are held in member’s houses on rotation, but most will be in a pub or café. They can be as often as fortnightly, or organised on a whim every 6 months! It’s rare for members to make it to every meeting, and new members or guests are usually welcome.  Comp club meetings are relaxed and informal, but there may be rotas set at the beginning of the year to decide who’s responsible for bringing raffle prizes. Here’s what generally happens:

  • Wins – members take turns to say what they’ve won since the last meeting
  • Prize draws – members may bring magazines (with entry forms in), ‘quallies’ (promotional products where a receipt is required for entry) or stamped postcards to be given away in prize draws
  • Entry forms – members bring along any entry forms, free magazines and newspapers or photocopies of current competitions, often bundled into sets ready to be distributed between club members
  • Quizzes – members might take turns in setting a quiz
  • Comping chat – members might need advice on Facebook, Twitter or a certain competition – or simply need a bit of motivation to get going after a comping break!
  • Technical help – members help each other if they have problems entering a competition, or demonstrate tips to help with social media comping.

Since the pandemic, many clubs use Zoom for their meetings – or they may have a combination of virtual and real life meet ups!

Directory of UK Competition Clubs by Region

Southern England

Midlands

Northern England

  • NEW GROUP! Merseyside Compers meet on the last Saturday of the month at 3pm in Liverpool City Centre – contact Jenny for more details at Jenbruce16@gmail.com
  • Formidable Friends meet every 3rd Saturday at 1.30pm at the Bobbin Mill Pub, Buckshaw Village, near Chorley. They average about 12 at each meeting and would be happy to meet new members!
  • Harrogate Compers (previously Ridings Round) – meet every six weeks at 1pm in Harrogate. Get in touch via their Facebook group.
  • Leeds Competition Club – meet monthly on a Sunday at The Adelphi in Leeds city centre – join the Facebook group for more details

Wales

  • Lucky Ducks Pembrokeshire – compers in South West Wales should join the Facebook group for details of meet ups

Scotland

  • Glasgow Compers Club – compers from all over Scotland are welcome to join the Facebook group to find out about their next meet-up

Compers Connect: find comping friends

If there’s not a club that meets near you, why not find a local comping friend or two, and arrange to meet up for a coffee? It could be the beginning of a new club!

The SuperLucky Compers Connect database will help you do this – use the search box to filter the list of compers to your local region or town, then send a DM to say hello!

You could also create a post in one of the regional Lucky Legends forums or on the Lucky Learners Facebook group and ask if other compers nearby would like to meet up?

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22 Responses

  1. Trish Ainscough says:
    21/01/2026 at 9:34 pm

    Hi Di, Formidable Friends comp group meet every 3rd Saturday at 1.30. Bobbin mill pub, Buckshaw Village, Nr Chorley. We average about 12 members at each meeting and would be happy to meet new members.

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    • Di says:
      22/01/2026 at 7:54 am

      Excellent, thanks Trish! I’ve added you! Did you want to put a contact email in, or are you happy for people to just pop along?

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  2. Helena Romanowska says:
    27/02/2025 at 12:54 pm

    Not sure how you update details but Harrogate Compers has a FB page but contact person on here Emily is.no longer involved (not a rift or anything horrible. She got married and is busy having a different life).
    We have our next meeting on 8th March at The Tap on Tower Street in Harrogate but we have members from as far afield as Middlesbrough and Barnoldswick as well as Bradford and Leeds. We would welcome fresh members as our numbers have dwindled due to illness and departures from this comping life.

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    • Di says:
      27/02/2025 at 3:17 pm

      I’ve updated this to a link to your Facebook group Helena, but if you would prefer me to list your email address let me know!

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  3. Mrs Sharon Curran says:
    23/12/2024 at 1:38 pm

    I’ve sent you information on the Buckinghamshire Compers group via your contact me page.

    It would be great if we could get our information added to the list of comping groups,

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  4. david j says:
    10/01/2021 at 8:40 am

    Hi Angela do you know of any clubs in Suffolk? I’m new to this.

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  5. Di says:
    26/01/2020 at 5:55 pm

    Thanks Debbie! I already have separate Berkshire, Wiltshire and Hampshire groups listed on my Facebook Groups post but I can add you to that?
    https://superlucky.me/facebook-groups-for-compers/

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  6. Les says:
    12/02/2019 at 11:02 pm

    Hi, I am in Kennington, Oxford and looking to see if there is a comp. group Oxford group yet?

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  7. Laura Corrall says:
    28/12/2017 at 6:47 pm

    I’m Norwich too. There is a facebook group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/892596654127433/
    As far as I’m aware there are no meet ups from this group.
    Di, Does this mean we could set up meetings for Norwich?

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    • Di says:
      30/12/2017 at 9:14 pm

      Of course! First thing is to post in the Norwich/Norfolk Facebook group and ask if anyone is already in a club – if not, perhaps see if people want to meet for coffee one weekend or at a pub one weekday evening?

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  8. Superlucky Di says:
    12/01/2017 at 12:00 pm

    Are you in the Facebook group Chloe? I would post in there and ask if anyone knows of a club having regular meetups in the area. If not, you could suggest meeting in a pub/venue close to you and see how it goes! https://www.facebook.com/groups/MerseysideCompers/?hc_location=ufi

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  9. Superlucky Di says:
    13/02/2016 at 9:56 am

    I’d rather you didn’t James – forums and Facebook groups are where you should be focusing your attention on promotion!

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  10. Superlucky Di says:
    18/01/2016 at 10:11 pm

    I certainly can Sue – could you email more details to di@superlucky.me – I need a contact email address please!

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    • Sue Swanborough says:
      18/01/2016 at 11:23 pm

      Hi Di, have spent most of the evening, apart for when I played badminton, going through your facebook page, comps etc etc.  Thing is I then find it difficult to get away from comping
      My email address is sueswanborough@btinternet.com
      We meet about once a month in different venues to share the driving fairly.  We take details of comps we have found, sjop magazines, anything that includes comps. We also take a bag of goods that have comps on them, up to value of £5 and swap the bags around the table. Also have a facebook page to keep in contact with each other

      Thanks
      Sue x

      Sent from Samsung tablet

      ——– Original message ——–

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  11. Tanya Cameron says:
    04/02/2015 at 12:38 pm

    I’m in Banbury (Oxfordshire) and love comping but have also found the same as you!

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    • Melissa Lee says:
      06/02/2015 at 2:20 pm

      Hi Tanya! This is good news, I’m in Kidlington so about 30 mins from Banbury. I wish we had a club nearby but it’s fab to find out there is a local comper nearby at least!

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  12. Superlucky Di says:
    17/01/2015 at 11:35 am

    I’m still awaiting a response from Rosemary! If it does I’ll be sure to add it on to the list.

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