…one met the age 6 to 9 criterion to participate. I asked my granddaughter if she would like to go. After some discussions she said she was nervous but would give the balloon party a go. Following the Company visit to the Thames Barrier on…
The Guildable Manor of Southwark’s Charter Day, Thanksgiving Service, Quit Rents and Court of Exchequer
…through disuse. The ceremony marks the City’s acquisition of Southwark from the Crown. The City maintains a constitutional presence in the Borough through the Courts Leet. Southwark is an independent authority under its free tenant burgesses who constitute the Courts Juries. The Foreman and officers…
GDPR
…erasure (can request deletion (certain circumstances)); the right to restrict processing (may store data but not process it); the right to data portability (individuals may obtain/reuse their data across different services); the right to object (profiling; direct marketing; scientific/historical research and statistics); rights in relation…
Our Coat of Arms
Home About us Our Coat of Arms The Company’s Grant of Arms was presented by Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms at the Installaton Lunch in the Watermen’s Hall on Thursday lst July 1993. The citation that was presented is of considerable length, but there are…
Celebration of Time, 22 Bishopsgate
…‘Connect to Prosper’. According to Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, time travels faster as height increases. The experiment involved placing a highly accurate atomic clock on the 61st floor at 22 Bishopsgate, the tallest building in the City of London, and comparing it with…
Mistress Paviors’ Luncheon at Watermen’s Hall
To mark the impending conclusion of her period in office, and, as we were later to discover, her birthday, Lizette May, Mistress Pavior, invited a cross-section of friends from the Consorts, the Worshipful Company of Paviors, and the Professional Ladies’ Club to a delightful lunch,…
City Giving Day
Celebrating volunteering and philanthropy in the City. City Giving Day is a main initiative of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal. Launched in 2014, City Giving Day is a unique annual event that unites businesses in the City and beyond through their charity and community partnerships. As…
Breakfast with the Lord Mayor
…bigger than the finance sector, we tended to be very fragmented with limited cross-sector collaboration. This was in contrast to smaller cities with a greater sense of coherence, collaboration and a stronger corporate identity. I discussed the examples of our metropolitan cities with Anthony Finkelstein…