The Idle Working Men's Club is a working men's club

Working men's club

Working men's clubs are a type of private social club founded in the 19th century in industrial areas of the United Kingdom, particularly the North of England, the Midlands and many parts of the South Wales Valleys, to provide recreation and education for working class men and their families.-...

 in the village of Idle

Idle, West Yorkshire

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, a suburb of Bradford

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 in West Yorkshire

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, England

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The club was established in 1928 by workmen from a local sewage works who found that their shift working arrangements and the pub licensing hours

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 left them unable to have a drink after work.

The humorous pun in the club's name has attracted interest from around the world. The club has benefited by granting honorary memberships to people who would not normally fit its criteria for membership. Present honorary members include Mohammed Al Fayed, Paul Gascoigne

Paul Gascoigne

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, Uri Geller

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, Roger Moore

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, Tom O'Connor

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 and Lester Piggot. The late Richard Whiteley

Richard Whiteley

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 and Michael Jackson

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 were also honorary members.
The club's logo depicts a workman leaning on a shovel.

In keeping with the tradition of many working men's clubs, Idle Working Men's Club supports a number of charities, most notably the children's cancer charity Candlelighters.