We are a completely open community club, but with a historic affiliation to the Bank of England dating back to our foundation in 1908. A significant number of our members have ties to the Bank in one way or another, be it as staff, pensioners or through family links. The club bore the Bank of England name until November 2024, when we rebranded as West Wimbledon.

Several of our members are currently serving Bank staff, which helps to promote working relationships across the Bank. It works wonderfully well until you run out one of your colleagues looking for a quick single...!

We continue to actively recruit new players from within the Bank and hope that this continues for many years to come. We are supported in this endeavour by the Bank's social network, Be.

History

The Bank of England Sports Club in Roehampton, South West London, was formed in 1908. This fantastic facility was for many years exclusively for Bank staff, but over time it's membership gradually grew to include BOE pensioners, ex staff, family members and a small number of unaffiliated "guest" members.

In 1995 for financial reasons the site itself became a separate commercial entity, as a private members club but open to all. The historic Sports Club (the collection of individual members and sports teams, such as BOECC) retained preferential membership rights at the site, albeit permitted only a restricted semi-open membership structure. This preserved the status of a majority having Bank connections, with the additional private financial contributions enabling the site to continue being used for community sport.

In 2019 the Bank announced that the site was to be leased out to a new owner, ending the preferential membership enjoyed by the individual sports teams (such as cricket) and our members. This meant that the rules permitting a limited membership structure were no longer valid, so in 2020 we were able to make the decision to become a completely open club for the first time. Regardless, one of our key objectives remains as being the "cricket club of choice" for Bank staff in the London area.

In 2022 the Sports Club (the entity) took the sad decision to dissolve after 114 years, predominantly because under the new site leaseholder there was no general access or site "membership". This made it difficult to see a future role for the Sports Club and was truly the end of an era. The Cricket Club instead became affiliated to the Bank's new Sports & Social Club: "Be".