A handful of pages picked to highlight the breadth of the work of the Livery.
COVID arrangements will affect the proceedings for the forthcoming election of the Lord Mayor. Read how this year’s election will be conducted.
This free guide covers short descriptions of all the City Livery Companies, their coats of arms, contact details, and a map of livery halls.
Livery Schools Link works with livery companies and schools to benefit young people in education to improve student employability.
Livery Companies have a strong tradition of philanthropic giving. They have for some time provided funding specifically to enable offenders’ rehabilitation. This has included the work of the Sheriffs and Recorder’s Fund which has provided individual grants to prison leavers and also funding for charities such as Bounce Back, whose programmes focus on helping people leaving prison to find and keep work.
The Lord Mayor of London, William Russell, gave a virtual briefing to the Livery to set out his key objectives for the coming year.
The Clothworkers’ Company is championing trusteeship and encouraging good charitable governance in the UK through the The Charity Governance Awards.
Building Back Better – The City’s Role in a Green-Led Economic Recovery is the title of next year’s annual Gresham College Lecture on 1st February.
During the Covid pandemic, the Lord Mayor has commenced issuing a monthly Bulletin providing various information including what the Livery is doing collectively to support the pandemic crisis and those in increased need.
Carols for The City will be broadcast live from 5.30pm on Tuesday 6th December. This means that there is no limit on who can attend.
In the first phase of the Livery Kitchens Initiative (LKI), three Livery kitchens (Grocers, Drapers and Merchant Taylors) and a City caterer (Party Ingredients) delivered just over 34,000 individually packed meals to NHS staff.
Read what people have to say about Livery Companies and Guilds.
As a Liveryman, what has made me swell with pride is the way the Livery reacted to Covid-19 by launching the NHS Livery Kitchens Initiative to deliver 600 two-course fresh, free and quality meals per day to several Barts Health Trust Hospitals. Pure joy at the end of a long and dangerous shift in full PPE.
The Livery Companies and the City Corporation actively partner with our youth, whether this be through bursaries, career advice, or ‘just in time’ donations when it matters the most. This is a great display of our aligned commitments towards social mobility and creating equal opportunities.
I was honoured to serve as Master of my Livery Company and then as Sheriff where I learned that fellowship, support of the Lord Mayor and assistance to charity are paramount, championing and protecting all that we collectively value and share.
