Our Winter newsletter is out and includes highlights on Company activity since our last newsletter in August. You can download it below or using Flipbook here. WCoBM Winter Newsletter 2020_DIGITAL – FINAL With Covid restrictions continuing to impact on City events, virtual Zoom events have become the...Read More
Most Masters of Livery Companies have an experience in their year that is quite out of the ordinary, and, yet, for the most part, they know what to expect. This year however, has been very different. The pandemic disrupted much of the usual activity planned for Masters and Livery members, including that of the Worshipful...Read More
Our Livery has confirmed bursaries for three courses available via the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF). The courses, which are detailed in the BMF’s Training Prospectus, include Essential Sales Management, Diploma in Merchant Management and Foundation Degree in Merchant Management. Each bursary, worth up to £2,000 per person, will cover a third of the course fees...Read More
There’s a wealth of career options in the builders’ merchant industry for people already working in the sector or coming into it, and it’s important we work hard to attract and keep great talent, so we continue to thrive. So how do we entice the best talent into builders’ merchanting? While our industry has never...Read More
After only a few short weeks of announcing that the Lord Mayor’s Show would be going ahead this year, albeit in a scaled-back form due to the pandemic, it was sad to hear of yesterday’s announcement from the City that the Show will now be cancelled completely. According to historical records, the last cancellation of...Read More
Keeper of the Roll Simon Lawson is among the first to embark on a programme of employing ex-offenders – which he prefers to describe as ‘returning citizens’ to society – at his merchant business in London. The driver for Simon is ensuring Lawsons becomes an inclusive business for people of all backgrounds. Court Assistant Lucia...Read More
No Going Back is a new Livery Company initiative set up to support the rehabilitation of offenders through funding and job offers. Our Company is actively involved with this project, with Past Master Stephen Turner and Keeper of the Roll Simon Lawson on the steering committee. The project is London-based and focussed on jobs in...Read More
Careers in merchanting: “The opportunities are there for the taking!” Continuing our #BuildACareerWithoutLimits series we talk to BMF student George Donnelly of C & W Berry. George won the ‘Best Performing BMF Diploma Student’ award at WCoBM’s this year’s City & Awards Luncheon, achieving the highest overall average score over nine modules. We also ask...Read More
Despite the pandemic, we are not short on news to report for our Summer newsletter! We start this issue reflecting on events pre-Covid, with our City & Awards Luncheon in March just managing to get in before Lockdown. Our Master, Dame Fiona Woolf DBE, DL, had lined up a number of exciting social events for...Read More
Our Clerk Virginia Rounding has been busy researching ways we can stay connected to City & Livery life without venturing into the City of London in person. Please let us know if you have any other suggestions and we’ll add to the list! Gresham College First up must be the amazing collection of Gresham College...Read More
