The company seeks ways of encouraging involvement of its wider membership

The Master, Wardens and Court of Assistants have always encouraged a wider membership of the Company than those in London and its immediate area.

This has resulted in a considerable body of Liverymen and Freemen who are not able to attend the Company's functions on a regular basis, if at all, for geographical reasons.

There are two main ways in which this problem could be addressed. The first would be to provide some means whereby on any occasion a member has travelled to London, arrangements can be made to meet other members of the Company. The second would be for an active liaison between members in a particular geographical locality.

At this time it is the first of these possibilities that is being investigated. One suggestion has been that arrangements could be made at relatively short notice for an informal event along the lines of the recent “Noggin and Natters”. Another has been that it might be possible for members of the Company who are also members of other Livery Companies to invite, on suitable terms, those visiting London to the functions of other Livery Companies.

Please contact Chris Dancaster on christopher@dancaster.org with any comments, suggestions or expressions of interest.