Charitable Trust News

The Trustees hard at work (Assistant Barry Rose, Past Master Andrew Drysdale, Assistant John Rushton, Past Master Michael Wilkey, Assistant Christopher Dancaster, Assistant Derek Ross)

The Trustees have met twice in 2006. Their main priority has been to achieve the transfer of assets from the First Trust to the Second (with the blessing of the Charity Commission) as the objects of the latter are wider than those of the former. The task has now been achieved but progress has been slow.

The Company's links with King Edward's School Witley have been strengthened by the Trustees' decision to award a prize annually to the pupil who contributes most to school discipline during each academic year as they have with the University of Greenwich where one student is to be awarded a prize for his essay on e-mediation. A further grant has been awarded to a musician at the Guildhall School of Music and a contribution made to the making of a video by the College of Estate Management . A number of other proposals are under consideration, the aim being to support the City and/or initiatives in dispute resolution. Please therefore continue your financial support to allow us to help others.

Assistant John Rushton

Aloysius Gng who is undergoing pupillage to become a Chartered Arbitrator who was admitted as an Apprentice on 26th April 2006.