The
Clothworkers’ Annual Review
2013
T H E C L OT H WO R K E R S ’ C O M PA N Y 2013-2014 Master Christopher McLean May Wardens Michael Howell Philip Portal Melville Haggard Antony Jones
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Court of Assistants John Papworth Timothy Bousfield Christopher Jonas CBE Michael Jarvis Anthony West DL Dr Carolyn Boulter DL Neil Foster Peter Langley Richard Jonas John Wake John Stoddart-Scott DL John Coombe-Tennant Henry McDougall Andrewjohn Stephenson Clarke Robin Booth Nicholas Horne Michael Malyon Alexander Nelson Rear Admiral Michael G T Harris JP Daniel Jago Oliver Howard
S TA F F Clerk to the Company and Chief Executive of the Foundation Andrew Blessley Director of Finance and Administration Stephen White
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Chief Accountant Andy Boon
Beadle and Hall Manager Michael Drummond
Grants Manager Philip Howard
Archivists Jessica Collins Kathryn Rooke
CONTENTS Introduction Textiles Trusteeship Archives and Collections Affiliations
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Introduction
Introduction Founded almost five hundred years ago to promote the craft of clothworking in London, the Clothworkers is today a membership organisation involved in the affairs of the City of London, and which aims to invest its surplus resources in philanthropic endeavour. This Review covers the activities of the Livery Company, The Clothworkers’ Company, and its associated grant-making charity, The Clothworkers’ Foundation. Established by Royal Charter in 1528 through the merger of two older companies, the Fullers and the Shearmen, The Clothworkers’ Company was founded to promote the craft of clothworking in the City of London. It supervised the training of apprentices and protected standards of workmanship. Its members were all actively involved in the craft. Livery Companies have always had close connections with the City Corporation and their members elect the Sheriffs and Lord Mayor to this day.
The Company passes its income, having paid the expenses of running the Hall and its activities, across to the Foundation each year. This, together with income from the Foundation’s own investments, is distributed to a broad range of charities. The Company remains a membership organisation, although there are no longer direct links with its original trade. Members join as Freemen or Freewomen, and some are elected to the Livery, when they take a more active role in the Company. The Court of Assistants, headed by the Master, who serves for a year, runs the affairs of the Company, acting as a board of directors. The board of trustees of the Foundation is drawn from the Court and Livery of the Company. The Company has owned a Hall on the same site since the fifteenth century. This contains the administrative offices, together with function rooms used for member meetings and events. The latter are available for hire to third parties to make the venue accessible when not required for the Company’s own purposes and to contribute to the considerable cost of maintaining the building.
The Clothworkers’ Company accumulated considerable wealth over the centuries, largely through bequests of money and property from members, and by prudent management of its assets. The Company’s overall objectives are to administer its assets and affairs responsibly, play its part in the civic life of the City of London, support the textile industry in appropriate ways and seek to increase its charitable giving.
In modern times, the Clothworkers’ charitable activity has been channelled through its grantmaking charity, The Clothworkers’ Foundation, established in 1977 with a significant endowment from the Company.
17th century Pepys rosewater dish
Charity has always been at the heart of the Company’s activity, initially supporting members in need, but subsequently also outsiders.
This Review covers the key activities of the Company: in textiles (where the Foundation is also active), its commitment to trusteeship, the continuing interest in its heritage and collections, and its support for the armed forces. It also contains information on the broad range of charitable activity undertaken by the Foundation. The Review is directed both at the members of the Company as well as interested outside parties; we hope it will make interesting and informative reading on the modern role of an ancient City Livery Company.
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Textiles
Textiles With its roots in cloth finishing, the Clothworkers continue to be a significant supporter of textile and colour science projects in the UK.
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Our objectives ● Maintain our support of academic excellence and innovation in technical textiles, traditional textiles and colour science in the UK ● Encourage young adults to pursue studies and a career in these fields ● Support textile technology and manufacturing in the UK ● Selectively support and reward excellence in textile design ● Contribute to the preservation and accessibility of textiles collections of national importance
Academic excellence We are funding a number of PhD students in Textiles and Colour Science at Leeds. The research projects include investigating crease and wash-resistant electrically-conductive-inks; continuous filament nanofibres using forcespinning; the identification and conservation of dyes in historical artefacts; low-water dying; and filter fabrics to remove toxins from blood. Leeds are launching a new taught MSc programme in medical textiles, which links with the work of the new Centre for Textile Materials Innovation for Healthcare (see opposite); we have agreed to provide two student bursaries for UK postgraduates taking the course. We are also prepared to provide equipment grants to the Textiles and Colour Science Departments at Leeds to help the academics stay in the forefront of research in their fields; in 2013, we gave £25,000 to the Department of Colour Science for a new optidigital microscope.
Encouraging young adults We are keen to encourage young people to join the textile industry, particularly on the manufacturing side. There is a growing skills
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shortage in the industry, since many employees in technical roles are expected to retire in the next few years. We are continuing to support the Textile Centre of Excellence based in Huddersfield and are funding the costs of an apprenticeship champion whose role is to persuade careers guidance teachers in schools to promote careers in the industry and convince companies to take on apprentices. We again provided funding to augment the Weavers’ Company placement scheme. A fellow Livery Company, they have run a scheme for several years to encourage textile manufacturing companies to take on talented textile graduates for a six or twelve month placement. The scheme pays half the employment costs for the duration, making it more attractive to the company, and the Weavers act as a broker between the graduates and the employers. The scheme has been a great success, with nine graduates placed in 2013 – we fund 50% of the cost, which last year equated to £29,500. Gratifyingly, a number of earlier year graduates have subsequently been offered permanent roles at the host company. We began a partnership with Cockpit Arts in 2011 to help graduating weavers set up in business. We funded the cost of equipping a studio in Deptford, South East London with looms, and provided bursaries to six young weavers to develop their technical and business skills over a two-year period. The first cohort will shortly be completing their term, and we have agreed a grant of £30,000 to recruit a new group.
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Textile technology and manufacturing A major initiative for us has been the anchor £1.75m grant to the University of Leeds to create a Centre for Textile Materials Innovation for Healthcare. Our support is providing the funding for the Chair, the Senior Lecturer and some specialist equipment. The Head of the Centre, Professor Stephen Russell, writes about its work: The global population is predicted to increase to c13 billion by 2067 and this, together with greater longevity, is expected to intensify the global demand for high quality, cost-effective healthcare products that can be readily accessed by all. Textile products such as wound dressings, dialysis filters, artificial ligaments, surgical gowns, vascular grafts, incontinence and ostomy products are used by millions of people worldwide, and there is a pressing need to improve technical performance and provide new solutions. The Clothworkers’ Centre for Textile Materials Innovation for Healthcare at the University of Leeds is at the forefront of research in this field and is working with clinicians, patients, textile manufacturers and healthcare companies on a raft of new developments. Chronic wounds such as leg ulcers and pressure sores are a major problem in old age and arise for reasons such as poor circulation, neuropathy, difficulty moving, systemic illnesses, age, and repeated trauma. Dressings capable of controlled delivery of therapeutic drugs to the wound site or which reduce bacterial infection and distribute wound exudate more effectively are all areas of current development.
Healthcare Associated Infections are a major global concern. Textiles containing new biocides that reduce the risk of contamination of solid and biological surfaces as well as self-cleaning materials and high efficiency wipes to reduce transmission rates in hospitals are all areas of current development. Millions of people suffer bladder control problems that negatively impact their quality of life. Research in the Centre is significantly increasing device disposal options for patients by designing discrete, leakage resistant, fully toilet flushable devices. Morbidity, social withdrawal and nursing time issues are also being tackled by development of new textile technologies that combat odour, reduce skin irritation and reduce the risk of infection for the users of ostomy and ileostomy products. Globally, millions of blood transfusions are carried out each year necessitating the processing of donated blood. Sophisticated fibre-based filters are being developed by the Centre and its partners to ensure a safe and consistent blood supply for those in need as well as to enable improved therapeutic treatments for patients at the bed-side to manage life-threatening conditions. All of these developments are reliant upon innovation in textile technology and manufacturing providing exciting opportunities for the UK industry. www.cctmih.leeds.ac.uk
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Textile Design We continue to be a major supporter of the key UK design competitions for graduating textile students Texprint, New Designers and the Bradford Textile Society Design Competition.
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Ffion Griffiths won the Clothworkers’ prize for best fabric design for interiors at Texprint, and Cherica Haye, who we supported in her studies at the Royal College of Art, won the printed textile prize. Marie Stenton was awarded the Clothworkers’ printed textile prize at New Designers.
The Master with Texprint winners In 2013, we introduced a new bursary for a final year BA student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, as well as creating a materials fund which awards students grants to purchase materials for their graduating projects, a cost many can ill afford. The Clothworkers had a connection with Huddersfield University from when it was formed in the 19th century as the Huddersfield Mechanics Institute. This link ended when it became municipally managed at the start of the 20th century. Following a visit to the Textiles Department, we agreed to make a grant of £10,000 towards the cost of installing a second-hand Dornier loom which had recently been acquired. We have since approved a bursary for the BSc/BA Textile Practice programme. We continue to support two MA students at the Royal College of Art doing textile design, and also provided funding last year to enable them to buy a new digital printer.
Seaweed hat by Julia Lohmann, winner of the Materials Innovation Fellowship
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Kimberly Harrington using the Dornier loom at Huddersfield University
We have agreed to sponsor a Materials Innovation Fellowship through The Arts Foundation. For the first of the three year period of our support, the judges awarded the prize of £10,000 to Julia Lohmann who works with seaweed.
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Textile Heritage Preservation and accessibility of collections We continue to be a significant supporter of conservation skills in textiles. We have been a longstanding funder of the Centre for Textile Conservation in Glasgow, and provide a full fees bursary for a student annually for the two-year MPhil programme. We are in the fourth year of being the sole funder of an internship programme run by the Historic Royal Palaces Textile Conservation Studio at Hampton Court. In addition, we provide bursaries to conservators to attend continuing professional development events to help them stay current with technical innovation techniques in the discipline. In 2013, we made a grant to Heritage Without Borders to hold a pilot conservation and interpretation summer school in Southern Albania, allowing the UK conservators participating to expand their skills and experience. We are also funding the cost of a sabbatical for the National Trust’s Head of Textile Conservation to enable her to write a manual on woven tapestry conservation methodology, thereby capturing the benefit of her extensive experience for future conservators.
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Heritage Without Borders participants handling traditional Gjirokastra costumes
Embroidered binding of a collection of prayers copied out by Princess, afterwards Queen, Elizabeth I when she was twelve years old
A major event in 2013 was the opening of the Clothworkers’ Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion at Blythe House. The Centre, which received a grant of £1m from us towards the £3m cost, opens up the Victoria & Albert Museum’s extensive collection to students, designers and researchers. The British Library has several hundred textile items within its collections, ranging from banners and wrappings to embroidered bindings and silk books, some dating back to the 14th century. Many of the items are in urgent need of treatment. Accordingly, we have provided half the cost of employing an experienced textile conservator for two years, with the Library meeting the balance. Hopetoun House conservators at work
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Sheldon Tapestries
Map of Oxford
In 1590, Ralph Sheldon of Beoley and Weston commissioned a series of tapestry maps which would depict a panorama of southern England from London to the Bristol Channel. The completed work, measuring some 80 feet by 15 feet, captures 8,600 square miles of Tudor England at a time when cartography was still in its infancy, and was destined to decorate Sheldon’s house near Compton Verney in South Warwickshire.
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The tapestries present in extraordinarily fine detail and in complex weaving the landscape of England. They were woven at a workshop set up by Sheldon’s father at their family home in Warwickshire, the first significant English tapestry workshop, which also produced small items such as cuffs for gloves. The tapestries contain wonderful pictorial material such as trees, hills, church towers, mills and sketches of towns (which were always shown from the south). Conservation Today, the tapestries are held by the Bodleian Museum at the University of Oxford, with other pieces in the collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Warwickshire Museum. The Bodleian’s tapestry maps, bequeathed to them in 1809, cover almost 700 square feet, but are very fragile and unsuitable for display. As a result of a major redevelopment programme, customised display facilities will allow these unique objects to be viewed by the general public.
Accordingly, the Bodleian put together a proposal to conserve these unique objects ahead of any display. Following a tender process, the Bodleian awarded the conservation contract to the National Trust Textile Conservation Studio, based at Blickling Hall in Norfolk. We were pleased to be able to provide a grant of £40,000 to the University of Oxford towards the cost of conserving these important tapestries. Other contributors to the £200,000 project included the J Paul Getty Charitable Trust and the Drapers. The first map is expected to be completed by September 2014, with the full set ready for display in 2015.
However, in order for these rare fragile maps to be hung in safety, extensive conservation is required.
Pictures © National Trust
Map of Worcestershire
Conservators working on the maps
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Charitable Grants 2013 University of Leeds Final instalment of £1,750,000 grant for the Clothworkers’ Centre for Textile Materials Innovation for Healthcare £1,030,000 University of Leeds – School of Design PhD bursary in historic dyes
British Library Salary costs of a textile conservator
£41,500
Cockpit Arts Bursaries for weavers
£30,000
The Weavers’ Company Textile Education Fund Work placements with textile companies £29,500
Centre for Textile Conservation MPhil bursaries at the University of Glasgow University of Leeds – Department of Colour Science Optodigital microscope
£25,500
University of Manchester BSc bursary in Textile Science and Technology £5,000 Hopetoun House Preservation Trust Tapestry conservation equipment
£5,000
Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum Interpretation exhibition £5,000 Total
£1,416,700
Company Support 2013 University of Leeds Clothworkers’ Innovation Fund
£100,000
Huddersfield Textile Centre of Excellence Apprenticeship champion £33,000 £25,000 Textile Company Archives Research project £25,000
National Trust Manual on tapestry conservation methodology £21,600 University of Leeds – School of Design MSc bursaries in Medical Textiles
£6,100
£70,000
Texprint Supporting graduating UK textile design students in promoting their work £45,000
Royal College of Art MA bursaries in Textile Design and digital printer
Bradford Textile Society Fabric design competition
New Designers Printed textile prize Total
£10,000
£1,300 £144,300
£20,000
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design BA bursary in Textile Design and materials fund £12,500 Heritage Without Borders Workshop for textile curators and conservators £10,000 University of Huddersfield Dornier loom for Textiles Department
£10,000
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Trusteeship
Trusteeship Common purpose The Company continues to encourage members to become trustees or school governors in order to participate in civil society through pro bono involvement. Improving charity governance through our members acting as trustees, and the Company funding appropriate initiatives, is our common purpose.
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Trusteeship We have partnered with a third sector recruitment specialist, Prospectus, to help our Liverymen to prepare to be trustees. Prospectus deliver a practical workshop for new Liverymen and provide bespoke support in order to help individuals find and secure trusteeship positions. A number of additional Liverymen are now trustees as a result. Supporting governance We have continued to sponsor seminars for the voluntary sector focused on issues of interest to trustees. The events were developed and delivered in partnership with New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), a research consultancy. We welcomed nearly 400 delegates to five seminars, held in our Hall, covering topics such as ‘Managing and planning for risk’ to ‘Fundraising: What trustees need to know.’ Each seminar was accompanied by a free guide; nearly 1,500 copies of the guides have been downloaded. Further seminars are planned for 2014.
During 2013 we continued to support NCVO’s Governance Forum which brings together third sector organisations interested in raising the standards of governance in the sector. The group met twice during the year and discussed various governance issues. A regular forum delegate commented: “I have used the latest thinking (as shared at the Forum) to “move on” a slightly stuck discussion and got a result that reflected good governance practice. It was helpful to be able to say that the proposals I was putting forward were informed by discussions at the Governance Forum.” We will continue to support the group by hosting the forum in our Hall in 2014. Governance Awards We are launching, with Prospectus and other partners, a Governance Awards event to recognise outstanding achievements in the field. This will be held at Clothworkers’ Hall later this year.
Georgian wool weights, gift of John Stoddard-Scott Master 2011-12
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Archives
Archives
The Master and Wardens' Election Day caps, given in 1606
We are fortunate to have an extensive archive, with documents relating to our history going back to the 14th century. Unlike many Livery Companies, we decided to retain the archives within our own control rather than pass them over to the Guildhall Library as many other Companies have done. Over the past decade, we have made significant investment in the archives, installing modern rolling racking, storing documents in more appropriate conditions, and undertaking an extensive, and ongoing, cataloguing programme. We have on the staff a qualified archivist who manages the activity, including dealing with the many enquiries we get from researchers. Accessibility We have also embraced technology. The catalogue of our collections has been loaded onto the searchable industrystandard database, CALM, and should be available online in 2015. All our historic Freedom and apprentice records have been transcribed and uploaded to a database. We worked with the Institute for Historical Research to construct a website, ROLLCO, www.londonroll.org which is capable of hosting multiple Livery Company records. We are delighted that, in addition to the Clothworkers, the Drapers, Goldsmiths, Mercers, Salters, Bowyers, Tallow Chandlers, Girdlers and Founders have all joined the initiative. We hope that other Companies will follow suit, and we are providing some support to the Institute to facilitate this. A few years ago, we funded a piece of postdoctoral research into the sources of the Company’s wealth. The key findings have been put onto a website People, Property and Charity www.clothworkersproperty.org which provides a rich resource for researchers.
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Technology will allow a greater number of people to access our records and, importantly, reduce the demands on our archivist’s time. However, we are also keen for visitors to the Hall to be able to view items from the archive. We have recently added a new display case in the entrance hall which will contain a selection of interesting items from the archive, with supporting commentary. Research We are also keen for research on material in our archives to be published. During 2013, the archivist had a paper published in Textile History entitled Jane Holt, Milliner & Other Women in Business: apprentices, freewomen and mistresses in The Clothworkers’ Company, 1606 –1800. This article drew on analysis from the ROLLCO database and looked at women apprentices, Freewomen and mistresses in the Company in the 17th and 18th centuries. In addition, we are sponsoring an essay on Richard Hakluyt and The Clothworkers’ Company, to be published in 2016 in the Oxford Handbook to Hakluyt. This will accompany a new edition of Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation, the single most important collection of travel writing in the early modern period.
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Archives
Wardens’ Chits
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Amongst the Company’s hidden treasures is a fascinating collection of Wardens’ Chits. These were the bills presented to the Quarter and Renter Wardens requesting payment for expenses. Surviving as a continuous and complete series of 35 hefty volumes covering 1699 to 1835, they comprise handwritten, itemised invoices from suppliers to the Company, be they grocers, gardeners, surveyors, silversmiths, carpenters, coffee house owners or pub landlords. There are also bills for taxes, receipts for the various petticoats, loaves and blankets distributed on behalf of the Company’s many Trusts, and salaries to officers, scrubbing women and Clerks. Detailed records Most bills are endorsed with a signed receipt of payment and a number have engraved bill heads and trade cards. Included is nightsoil man Bennet Foulger, who had the unenviable task of clearing ‘stopp’d funnels and ... cess pits’. The Beadle’s quarterly report could run to three pages, others are small scraps of paper claiming a few shillings for tobacco and newspapers. Consumption trends The Wardens’ bills tell us exactly what the Company was spending its money on over two
centuries, from the building work taking place after the Great Fire, to the ingredients ordered for Livery Dinners. They contain receipts for silver and works of art, some of which the Company still owns; they reveal the names and marks of ordinary Londoners and ordinary women, like Mrs Careless who provided the Company with bacon; and they name the poor pensioners attending the Hall for alms on St Thomas’ Eve. They also reveal the Company’s fashionable tastes. Sixty chocolate pots were purchased in 1767, far exceeding the quantity of tea and coffee purchased in the same year, showing that Clothworkers were clearly keen to taste this bittersweet new beverage. Committed to making our history and our archive accessible to all, the Company is now in the process of having these Chits digitised so that more researchers can access them, wherever they are in the world, and without causing any physical damage to the archives themselves. Whether social historian, family historian or simply the curious, these absorbing, informative documents are riveting to read and we hope that digitisation will encourage professional and hobbyist research alike.
Details of Philip Christian’s gift in the Renter Warden’s Accounts, 1701
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Collections
Collections Our objectives are to maintain and, where appropriate augment, our collections, whilst supporting talented artists and craftsmen in the relevant media.
Vase by Hiroshi Suzuki, gift of Paul Wates Master 2003-4 Tapestries On the main staircase of the Hall, we have a set of three late 18th century Brussels tapestries depicting the story of Cyrus, King of Persia. Although they were purchased in the 1970s, long after the Hall was completed, they are well suited to the setting.
Silver We have an extensive collection of plate going back to the late 17th century. Our policy is to add to the collection by commissioning contemporary pieces from talented upand-coming silversmiths. This is augmented by generous gifts from some Past Masters following their year of office.
Conversely, on one wall of the Livery Hall is another Brussels tapestry which is smaller, faded and little noticed; it was acquired by the Company as a stopgap in 1988 rather than commissioning a new work. The Court has now decided to replace this piece with a new contemporary work from a prominent artist.
We have recently commissioned a new loving cup from Rauni Higson; these items are used at all our Livery Dinners and a key consideration in all our commissions is that the pieces will have a practical use.
Tapestry weaving is an endangered skill and there are now only two surviving studios in the UK. We will be engaging Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh to weave the artist’s design, and anticipate that it will be ready to be hung in 2016. This is a strong statement of support for our root craft, and will allow Dovecot to recruit and train a new weaver. Pictures Our collection of paintings is dominated by portraits of notable Clothworkers over the centuries. We have recently added two pictures to the collection. A portrait of two brothers, Christopher and Richard Jonas, both Past Masters and Chairmen of the Superintendence Committee, was painted by their sibling, Johnny Jonas, a prominent artist, and is hung in the Reception Room next to his picture of two other brothers previously on the Court, Richard and John Horne. We were given a portrait of Sir Thomas Howell, a Court Assistant in the 19th century and Director General of Contracts in the War Office during the Crimean War, by his descendant Peter Howell, Freeman. We have also taken steps to improve the display of paintings, installing specialist lighting on individual pictures and mounting more informative labels, as well as completing a comprehensive programme of cleaning and conservation.
Main staircase tapestries
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Bookbinding Bookbinding is an endangered craft which the Company decided several years ago it would support. As a result, we are slowly building up a collection of fine bindings and currently have six books out with binders. We recently took delivery of a binding of The Annals of St Olave’s, published in 1894, by Peter Jones. Supporting talent As part of our patronage of selected arts and crafts, the Company is keen to support up-and-coming talent in these areas. With silversmithing, we have recently made a grant to Bishopsland, a training workshop which provides one-year residencies for craftsmen. The grant is for students to purchase bullion, the essential raw material for making their pieces. In bookbinding, we fund prizes in the Open Choice category of the Design Bookbinders annual competition, provide bursaries for binders to attend masterclasses, and co-fund a scholar in bookbinding through the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust. We are also holding a competition at the City and Guilds Art School to design a bookplate for use in our collection.
Annals of St Olave’s, bound by Peter Jones
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We have sponsored a competition at the Royal School of Needlework for several years where students design kneelers for use at our church in the City, St Olave Hart Street. The winning designs are stitched by the students. Finally, we offer a placement with the Company to a student taking the MA in Archives and Records Management at University College London to provide them with essential practical experience.
Affiliations
Affiliations The Company has active relationships with several units of the Armed Forces. 47 Squadron This Royal Air Force Squadron is our newest service affiliation. Amongst other activities, they have been carrying out operations in Afghanistan and the Falkland Islands flying Hercules C130 aircraft, and in 2013 they were part of the UK’s support to the international disaster relief effort in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. The Company provides support in the form of funding for family outings for Squadron members and also for social occasions. We enjoyed getting to know members of the Squadron over the past year, welcoming several Officers to a dinner held at the Hall, where the Wing Commander kindly presented the Company with a framed print of a C130 boat drop, commissioned by 47 Air Despatch Squadron, to mark the end of a successful first year of the affiliation. The Squadron arranged for the then Master to attend the Inter Service Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon in August, and he was guest of the Squadron at a service at St Clement Danes to celebrate the RAF’s 95th anniversary. HMS Dauntless The Company is proud of its affiliation with this Type 45 destroyer and crew. 2013 was a relatively quiet year for the Ship, as she underwent maintenance. This was following her maiden deployment on the Atlantic the previous year, clocking up 30,000 miles visiting 18 countries across four continents.
Scots Guards taking part in the Queen’s Birthday Parade Scots Guards During the year, a group of five Clothworkers paid a visit to Catterick Garrison where they were given an insight into the life of a Guardsman. In the summer, the Master and two members of the Court attended the Queen’s Birthday Parade to watch the Battalion carry out their ceremonial duties. In addition to our usual support of a family outing and Christmas party, we also provided funding towards a painting of operations in Afghanistan. The painting by Arabella Dorman has been finished and is hung in the Officers’ Mess at Catterick. First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps) We have previously supported the FANY by helping to fund its Adjutant and Training Officer roles, two of the small number of paid roles in the organisation, as the Corps are volunteers. In 2013 we agreed a new three-year commitment to help fund the positions of Operating Officer and part-time Administrator. The Master attended their Annual Reception and we welcomed a delegation, led by the Commanding Officer, to our December dinner.
The Master headed a group of ten Clothworkers on board the Ship for an Affiliates Day in Portsmouth in April. In terms of support, the Company funded the restoration of a wardroom table and a new entertainment system for the Junior Ratings’ Mess.
Wing Commander Graeme Gault presents the framed print to the Master
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