Master’s Blog: February 2023
Once again I have had an active month representing the Company at a number of celebrations and charitable endeavours, as well as enjoying the Fellowship within our own Company. February has been a good month for Awards celebrations, with events hosted by the Worshipful Livery…
January 2023: Master Audrey Canning
January has been a relatively quiet month for Livery activities, a blessing in disguise as I also have had much non-Livery activity to manage. Nevertheless, your Court has been active with a full programme of Committee Meetings as well as a splendid evening at the…
DBE announced for Dawn Childs
We warmly congratulate Member of the Livery Dawn Childs FREng FIMechE FICE FRAeS FWES on her appointment as a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours. She joined the RAF from school, studied mechanical engineering at Bath University and was…
November-December 2022: Master Audrey Canning
November was a month of representing the Company. The start of the month was dominated by two key City Year landmarks, Acts of Remembrance and the succession of Lord Mayor. The start of the first full week of November saw the Livery Companies gather for…
October 2022: Master Audrey Canning
I write this Blog having just attended our Annual Banquet at the Mansion House on October 28th, a very enjoyable conclusion to a busy month. October commenced with John and I attending the Worshipful Company of Musicians Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral where I joined…
September 2022: Master Audrey Canning
What was expected to be an ordinarily busy month, became quite extraordinary. The month started in what I now realise is a traditional manner, with an invitation to attend the Glasgow in London Dinner, to promote the relationship between the London Livery Companies and their…
A New £20,000 Prize for Innovative Engineering applied to the Alleviation of Poverty
The Worshipful Company of Engineers in co-operation with UK-based charity Tech4All, are offering an award for the most creative engineering-based solutions to the alleviation of poverty. The award is intended to encourage engineers to use their skills and expertise to create solutions to alleviate the…
Intercompany Livery Halls Walk
Middle Warden Dolores Byrne and Clerk David Swann completed the Intercompany Livery Halls Walk on 5 September 2022. Starting at HQS Wellington we walked, talked, listened and enjoyed the brief historical background on each of the 39 Livery Halls we visited on our 10 km…
New 2022 Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows Revealed
The Master, Wardens, Court of Assistants and all members of the Company congratulate member of the Livery Dawn Bonfield MBE on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). The Academy’s summary of its new Fellow states: “Dawn Bonfield MBE has…
August 2022: Master Audrey Canning
August is traditionally a quiet month in Livery circles and indeed I have found time for some well needed R&R – though most of my free time has been spent putting the finishing touches to the September ‘Masters Out of Town’. But it hasn’t been…