City Livery Concert – Sunday 26th June 2016 – Barbican – London Symphony Orchestra – Sir Simon Rattle As the Sponsoring Alderman for the 2016 City Livery Concert I would like to invite your members and their families/associates to this key event in the City of London calendar.  We are very fortunate that the Conductor […]

CHARITY AUCTION Wednesday 30th March 2016 Furniture Makers’ Hall, 12 Austin Friars, London, EC2N 2HE To celebrate the end of Wynne Gilham’s year as the first Lady Master of the Worshipful Company of Upholders, we are holding a one-day Exhibition and Charity Auction at Furniture Makers’ Hall, 12 Austin Friars, London, EC2N 2HE. The event […]

By kind permission of the Master of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, the 2016 Brigantes Breakfast, the Northern lunch for City of London Liverymen and their partners, will be held in the magnificent surroundings of Cutlers Hall in Sheffield, one of the finest venues in the North and home to the Company since 1638. […]

A shearing afternoon for Liverymen has been arranged for the afternoon of the 11 July, at 4.30pm, the eve of the Great Yorkshire Show. Instruction will be supplied by two senior The British Wool Marketing Board personnel. The purpose of the event is to instruct Liverymen how to sheer sheep and to have a go […]

Wool Innovation Prize The Worshipful Company of Woolmen and The Company of Merchants of the Staple of England are launching a prize in the UK for innovation in the use and application of wool. This is open to any individual who works with wool. Awarded Annually Application has to be innovative and commercially viable Apparel […]

Please note that bookings for the Help Musicians UK’s Celebration of Music event (formerly known as The Festival of Saint Cecilia) are now open. This special event helps to raise funds to support and help the work, of over 2500 musicians a year and will once again feature the robed procession of Livery Companies. The […]

A number of places at the Royal Welsh Show have been reserved for The Worshipful Company of Woolmen on a first come, first served basis. The package for the show per person on Tuesday 21st July will consist of: Two course lunch followed by coffee (drinks can be purchased from the bar) Complimentary Show Programme […]

I enclose my Annual Report to Livery Company Clerks on the activities of the Mansion House Scholarship Scheme over the last twelve months, covering Alderman Dame Fiona Woolf’s mayoralty. As you will see from the Report, 2014 was another successful year for the Scheme, now in its sixteenth year. Dame Fiona appointed ten new Mansion […]

For Information about this year’s Sheep Drive and for Booking Information, please use the following link to go direct to the dedicated Sheep Drive Website. THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF WOOLMEN’S ANNUAL SHEEP DRIVE ACROSS LONDON BRIDGE ASSISTED BY THE SOCIETY OF YOUNG FREEMEN AND SPONSORED BY THE MAMONT FOUNDATION   SUNDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2015   […]

The Parish Church of St Michael’s Cornhill in the City Of London in partnership with the Cambridge Theological Federation, supported by the Maurice & Hilda Laing Trust is running a series of Lent Lectures for 2015. The series of lectures features prominent speakers and begins next Wednesday and continues on successive Wednesdays throughout Lent. The […]

Please find below an open invitation to all Liverymen. Please download the attached document for more details. Dear Liverymen You are warmly invited to join fellow City of London Liverymen for an inaugural Northern lunch in the magnificent Banqueting Suite at Manchester Town Hall at 12 noon on Friday 29 May 2015. The principal speaker […]

City Briefings are aimed particularly at new Liverymen and Freemen; partners are also welcome, as are Court Assistants and Liverymen of longer standing, who have not previously been to a Briefing, who are also encouraged to attend. They give a short introduction to the work of the Corporation, especially the relationship with the livery companies. […]

North vs South On the 16 and 17 June the North v South Match was held at Hawkstone Park, Shropshire with the golfers enjoying good weather throughout. The Northern Team of Robert Allan, Roger Bowers, Peter Ambler, Alan Morrell, Peter Meredith and James Barker (guest) won The Tankard for the Stableford Competition. The Southern Team […]

Richard Excell hosted the lunch for 14 Past Masters at the Army and Navy Club St James Square. The Master gave an update on the significant progress that had been made on the City Wool Project. Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail