On Friday 29th October 2021, Andy Williamson was installed as the new Master of the Worshipful Company of Builders’ Merchants (WCoBM) at one of London’s largest Livery Halls – Plaisterers’ Hall. During the prestigious Installation ceremony Court Assistants Richard Hill and Alan Hawkins were elected to support the Master in his year, as Senior and...Read More
A pilot scheme to help prison leavers build a better life for themselves is gathering momentum as Livery companies see the benefit of giving ‘returning citizens’ a second chance, says our Master Stewart Pierce. In 2019, WCoBM embarked on a new Pan Livery project – No Going Back (NGB) – that provides training, employment opportunities,...Read More
Our Summer newsletter, published in August, highlights Company activity this year to date. You can download it here or view the newsletter using Flipbook here. As the pandemic and associated challenges continued into 2021, the Company remained active and resilient. The world of virtual continued, as shown on pages 10-15, allowing the Master and our...Read More
It was great to see our Company represented in The Livery Kitchen Cookbook, with a dedicated recipe for Boeuf Bourguignon! The cookbook commemorates the combined efforts, generosity and donations of City Livery Companies, individuals and volunteers to an initiative that supported NHS hospital workers during the pandemic. The Livery Kitchen Initiative (LKI) was set up...Read More
Our Company is pleased to support a new charity called Down Tools, set up to fight knife crime. The organisation is reaching into schools and working with young people to build awareness about the dangers, risks and consequences of carrying knives WCoBM’s donation was used to print 20,000 bookmarks, which will be distributed to schools...Read More
WCoBM donated nearly £90,000 last year to a wide range of causes to support charitable organisations and initiatives during Covid-19. Additional donations were made to those supporting the NHS and frontline key workers, as well as trade charities such as the Rainy Day Trust, Crash, Lighthouse Construction Industry and the Timber Trades Benevolent Society, all...Read More
The Drapers Company is inviting Freemen and Liverymen of the WCoBM to join them for a webinar on the Livery Kitchen Initiative (LKI) on 9th June. Jointly presented by Col Richard Winstanley OBE, Clerk to the Drapers’ Company, Mr Rej Bhumbra, Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon Barts Health NHS Trust, and Mrs Laura Winningham OBE, Founder...Read More
Fellow Liverymen Since I last wrote to you at Easter we had the sad news of the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip was a fantastic champion for the UK and the City of London over more than seven decades, and an active supporter of the Livery. He will be very much...Read More
Dear Masters, Prime Wardens, Upper Bailiff and Clerks, Over two years ago, arising out of the Pan Livery working groups that were set up in 2017, a Livery philanthropic initiative started to take shape. It was important to those involved in creating the ideas that such an initiative had to have certain key objectives: It...Read More
Our outgoing Clerk Virginia Rounding features in a new documentary on #CelebratingCityWomen. The documentary looks beyond the big stories in our history to uncover the unsung heroes, women of the Square Mile. Featuring interviews with historians, artists and curators – among others – the short film takes you back in time, discovering the stories of...Read More
