The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators and the Society for the Environment, have signed a concordat to work together. This took place on 25 September 2024 at the Michaelmas Court Meeting of the Water Conservators, in the Barber Surgeons’ Hall in the City of London…
How we help
…2023, Christopher’s thesis project, ‘Changes in the nutrient flux of a wastewater-impacted reach of river when subjected to combined sewer overflow discharge’ won prestigious awards from the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management award and from the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators. Here, he…
Livery Charity Chairs and Trustees 2024 Annual Conference
Livery Company Masters, Clerks and Trustees were invited to the conference. It was an opportunity to hear from charity experts on current issues, to see how fellow Livery Charities are responding to challenges and opportunities and to meet each other. After opening remarks by Deputy…
The Master’s Blog
…2024 Master’s Blog Sometimes raising money for charity is hard work and time-consuming. This was not one of those occasions! Courtesy of the Plaisterers’ Livery Company, Masters and Company members and guests gathered… Read more 37th Annual Tacitus Lecture Worshipful Company of World Traders February…
Breaking the Code and Winning the Secret War
A group of Company Members visited Bletchley Park to discover the incredible achievements of Britain’s World War Two Codebreakers. We were ably guided by Court Assistant Christine Jarvis who is an expert on London and well beyond. As several of the group had travelled considerable…
Consorts’ Mudlarking
The Company of Water Conservators was pleased to host about 40 Consorts Mudlarking on the banks of the Thames in the City of London just below the Millenium Bridge. A previous event in July 2023 organised by the then Consort, Georgina Drummond, was so…
Policy Development and Engagement
…can be examined and debated in ways which are non-confrontational. The Company draws on a very wide and deep experience and knowledge of its Members Our work has seven strands: Responding to formal consultations particularly by government departments and parliamentary committees , these are archived…
Dinner to meet the Masters, Prime Wardens and Upper Bailiffs of the Livery Companies of the City of London, Mansion House
Until the last quarter of the 19th century the Lord Mayor hosted an annual banquet for the heads of the Great Twelve Livery Companies. Today the dinner is for all Livery Companies. It is held to celebrate the partnership with the Livery Companies of the…
37th Annual Tacitus Lecture Worshipful Company of World Traders
…companies in the Footsie 500 companies are led by gay leaders when it should be 25/30 to reflect the national statistics. Companies and societies need to continue to change. We need to price carbon into everything we do, so as to challenge our use of…
Worshipful Company of Plumbers Banquet, Mansion House
…for schools run by Livery Companies. Erasmus’s path-breaking New Testament was published in 1516, the same year as Utopia by his friend Thomas More. While Erasmus complained about English beer, More experimented with the hydrology of a fictional island roughly the size of England and…