A Walk with the Lord Mayor in Marylebone

Discover the various solutions for housing needed including the mansion blocks, the brutalist Luxborough Tower and Octavia Hill’s social housing.

How the Marylebone High Street regeneration has seen independent shops change the face of a run a down High Street.

The history of Paddington Street Gardens includes plague and grave robbing.

How Catholics could worship at a time of oppression and exclusion.

How two brothers challenged the established church and formed a new expression of the Christian faith.

Enjoy the Christmas lights of Marylebone on this early evening walk, which will finish at Marylebone Lane near Bond Street.

The Westminster Guides are the official guides of the City of Westminster. Our Association, also known as CWGLA, was established in 2007 and prides itself on quality assured training and support for our guides. You can recognise us by our distinctive yellow/blue badge bearing the City of Westminster's coat of arms.

This year the Lord Mayor of Westminster will be supporting 2 charities, the proceeds of the 2025 - 26 walks programme will be donated to these charities.

Hotel School - is a London-based charity founded in 2017 by Jeremy Goring, CEO of The Goring Hotel, and Mick Clarke, CEO of The Passage, London's largest voluntary sector homeless resource centre, investing in people who have experienced homelessness and other disadvantages to equip them with hands on experience within the hospitality industry, since its inception the programme has achieved a 70% success rate of graduates securing employment within the hospitality sector.

The Avenues Youth Project - a best-in-class youth centre who believe every child from 8 - 18 should have the opportunity to realise their potential, whatever their life circumstances, having built a safe-space youth centre in 1979 is now seeing 1,000 young people benefitting from their programmes each years.