A private club · First season · Europe

High octane by day.Silence at dawn.

I'm a host. Colibri Privé is a private club for people who are building something — founders, investors, people with a serious project and a network to match. We meet in one European city at a time: a house, a table, and the kind of introduction that is hard to get any other way.

  • Membership open
  • £1,500 a year
  • By conversation
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Margarita Mumford, host of Colibri Privé

Why the club exists

The days are the way in. The people are the point.

Yes, there is a long lunch, a fast car and a cold swim at seven in the morning. But that is not why anyone joins. Large projects are rarely finished alone — they move through people who trust each other, and trust is built faster over one shared day than across a year of meetings.

i.

Bring the project

Members come with something real: a company to grow, a development to fund, a market to enter. The club is where you can say it out loud to people who are able to help.

ii.

Use the whole network

Everyone arrives with their own connections — property, finance, law, hospitality, sport, family offices. One member's open question is often another member's phone call.

iii.

Meet capital properly

People with projects and people who back projects, in the same house, with no pitch decks and no stage. Introductions are made one to one, and only when both sides want them.

iv.

Keep the fun

The days are still the days: speed, taste, access, and silence at dawn. Nobody opens up to a stranger in a conference room. They do at the end of a long lunch.

Colibri Privé makes introductions, not investments. It gives no financial advice, arranges no deals and never holds members' money. Every member decides for themselves, with their own advisers.

Who is in the room

The first question is never the address

It is who else is coming. Entrepreneurs and couples, mostly between thirty-five and fifty-five, who have already built something and are usually building the next thing. They would rather spend a day with four interesting people than a week with forty. Everyone in the room has been chosen, and everyone knows it — which is why nobody performs.

A room of guests at small tables, talking
One room, small tables, no stage
Guests raising their glasses
The toast
Champagne being poured, guests laughing
Poured by whoever is nearest
Margarita and guests laughing on board
On the way, a previous trip

How it works

We keep the house.
You keep your own room.

Colibri Privé is not a travel company. I don't sell flights, I don't sell or book hotels, and I never hold a room in your name. You arrive the way you like to arrive and you sleep where you like to sleep.

What I take care of starts the moment you walk in: the house, the table, the people at it, the person worth listening to, and the hours in between. That is the part nobody can book for themselves, and it is the only part I charge for.

A house or villa is taken as a venue for the day, not as a place to stay. If you'd like, I'll tell you the two or three hotels we usually use — you book them yourself, directly.

A table laid for the morning

The shape of it

Two poles in one day, never blended

The contrast is the whole product. A day that is only fast is exhausting; a day that is only quiet is a spa. Put them in the same twenty-four hours and something else happens.

Champagne on board, in daylight
By day

High octane

Speed, taste, access, a long lunch, a table you would not have found, and an evening that runs late on purpose.

Barefoot on the grass at seven in the morning
At dawn

Silence

Water, breath, cold, bare feet on the ground before anyone is awake. Always optional, and the part people end up talking about.

The season so far

Where this has been, and what is open now

Built in the open, one city at a time. The dates that have happened are below with their photographs.

Place Vendôme, outside the Ritz Paris
8 August 2026

Paris to Monte-Carlo

Breakfast at the Ritz on Place Vendôme, and by the end of it we were in Monte-Carlo. One day, two cities, and a group that had met that same morning — which is the whole argument for keeping a day short and the room small.

The doors of the casino in Baden-Baden
11–13 September 2026

Frankfurt to Baden-Baden

Coffee in Frankfurt, then a train south. A casino open since 1824, where Dostoevsky lost badly and got a novel out of it. Then seven the next morning, barefoot in the park, and a whole day in water that comes up from two kilometres below the town at 68 °C. Both poles in one weekend.

Open now Autumn 2026

Founding members

Membership for the first season is open. The people who join now are in the room while it is still small — and they are the ones the next members will meet.

Membership
£1,500 a year.
Joining
After a conversation with me.
Travel
You book your own flights and your own room.
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Membership, and what I run

A club, and two ways to spend time in it

Membership is how you come in. The days and the gatherings are where it happens. I would rather do three things properly in the first season than publish a catalogue I cannot stand behind.

Open now · founding year

Membership

£1,500

a year

A year inside the club: the members' private circle online, live sessions between the meetings, the right to join every Colibri Privé day and gathering, and personal introductions to other members when there is a reason for one.

Events
Paid separately, per event.
Joining
A conversation with me first — to see whether the club is right for you, and to agree the terms.
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Open now

The Private Day

One day, built for you: for a single person, a couple, or a small closed group who already know each other. I take the house, set the table, bring in the one person worth listening to, and stay with it from morning until it ends.

Who
From one guest. No group to wait for.
Where
One European city, chosen with you.
Price
By application.
Apply for a day
Spring 2027 · waiting list

The Gathering

Eight to sixteen people, one city, one house, several days. Everyone arrives on their own and stays in their own hotel; the house runs from morning until night. The first one opens in spring 2027 and only the waiting list exists today.

Circle
8–16, by personal invitation.
Opens
Spring 2027.
Today
Waiting list only. No dates promised.
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Where this is

It is my first season, and the first members are founding members

Membership opened this autumn. I am not going to pretend there are hundreds of us — the first season is small on purpose, and everyone joins after a conversation with me. What exists is a way of building a day that I have tested on myself and on the people closest to me, two events I am co-hosting this autumn with a partner in Como and Monaco, and a circle that is being built in the open.

You will see the house being looked for, the plans that change, the evening that ran four hours long. In a year, having been in the first season will be the interesting thing to have been part of.

A group of guests before boarding, on a previous trip
Margarita Mumford

Your host

Margarita Mumford

Estonian, in England since 2005. My career was built in property, working closely with entrepreneurs, executives and international clients — which is where I learned that the interesting part of any room is who is in it, and that the biggest projects are rarely done by one person.

At thirty-nine I rebuilt my own life through sport and breathing: running, yoga, surfing, tennis, bouldering, cold water. That is not a detail about me, it is why the days are built with two poles instead of one.

This autumn I am co-hosting two events with a partner — Como in October and Monaco later that month. Colibri Privé is my own, and this is my first season running it.

Come for the day, leave with the people.

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Membership starts
with a conversation

Write to me on WhatsApp or Instagram. I answer within a day. The next step is a call with me — to see whether the club is right for you, and you for it, and to talk through the terms of membership. Not a form, and not an invoice.

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Membership is £1,500 a year. Days and gatherings are paid separately, and their prices are given in the conversation. Nothing is held or booked until it is confirmed.