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Musicians’ Company Evensong

St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Churchyard, London

Evensong attended by the Musicians' Company. Procession of Masters, Wardens and Clerks of all Livery Companies attending. Guests welcome. Notice distributed to Clerks in July.

Annual National Service for Seafarers (ANSS) – Wed 11 Oct 2023. St Paul’s Cathedral.

St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Churchyard, London

The ANSS (Charity No.292659) holds an Annual Service for Seafarers in St Paul’s Cathedral which is routinely supported by Trinity House, the Shipwrights’ Company and the Master Mariners’ Company amongst others and encourages pupils at Reddam House School, Pangbourne College,…

Free

Garden of Remembrance Service

St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Churchyard, London

The Opening of the Garden of Remembrance for the City & Liveries in the Garden of St Paul's cathedral. Attended by civic party and dignitaries, City services, Associations and Livery Companies.

Free

The Lord Mayor’s Show

City of London Guildhall via Mansion House and Royal Courts

Street Carnival procession through the streets of the City headed by the Lord Mayor's Coach escorted by Pikemen and Musketeers.

Free

Remembrance Sunday

St Paul's Cathedral & The Royal Exchange , United Kingdom

Service of Remembrance in St Paul's Cathedral and wreath laying at the Royal Exchange. Contact remembrance.sunday@fruiterers.org.uk should your Livery Company wish to attend these events.

Free

26th Horners’ Ralph Anderson Memorial Lecture

The Royal Society of Medicine Royal Society of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

The 26th Horners’ Ralph Anderson Memorial Lecture is to be held at 7.00pm on Thursday 16th November 2023 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. W1G 0AE.

Free

Horners Ralph Anderson Lecture

The Royal Society of Medicine Royal Society of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

The subject of his talk is: Iron or Plastic – is that really the Question? How two distinctly different industries farriery and plastics have grown together for the betterment of a horse’s wellbeing. Farriery, or the shoeing of horses, is…

Free

British Red Cross Christmas Market

Guildhall Gresham Street, London, United Kingdom

A Christmas Market in aid of the Red Cross.

City Music Foundation Lunchtime Concert – Kleio Quartet

Apothecaries Hall Black Friars Lane, London, United Kingdom

A lunchtime concert featuring Kleio Quartet from 1pm at Apothecaries’ Hall In today’s lunchtime concert, Kleio Quartet perform two beautiful quartets from well-known composers. First on the menu is Verdi’s only surviving chamber work, a String Quartet written during a…

£10

City Music Foundation Lunchtime Concert Series – Kleio Quartet

Apothecaries Hall Black Friars Lane, London, United Kingdom

A lunchtime concert featuring Kleio Quartet from 1pm at Apothecaries’ Hall In today’s lunchtime concert, Kleio Quartet perform two beautiful quartets from well-known composers. First on the menu is Verdi’s only surviving chamber work, a String Quartet written during a…

£10

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | Ending The Destruction Of Our Undersea Cultural Heritage

Virtual online

Background: For too long criminals have been destroying our undersea cultural heritage (UCH), damaging the marine environment, and desecrating naval war graves through unauthorised salvage of wreck sites. No longer. By using satellites and artificial intelligence originally designed to stop…

Free

City Music Foundation Lunchtime Concert Series – Claire Ward ‘Devotion’

Tallow Chandlers' 4 Dowgate Hill, London

A lunchtime concert featuring Claire Ward (soprano) and Jong Sun Woo (piano) from 1pm at Tallow Chandlers’ Hall Tickets are only available in advance via City Music Foundation’s website. Programme Fauré “Mandoline”, Op.58, No.1 Fauré “Le Secret”, Op.23, No.3 Brahms…

£10

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | Is Today’s Financial Literacy Education Fit For Purpose?

Virtual online

Tips And Ideas For Parents, Based On Granular Interactions With Teachers And Students, To Help Empower Children To Navigate An Ever More Complicated Financial World Background: Children are entering into an ever more complicated financial world ill-equipped to make educated…

Free

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | Design For Life: Why Social Connectivity Matters (More Than Ever)

Virtual online

Background: The lecture will explore the role of social capital and connectivity in nurturing health, wealth and happiness, including through inter-generational progress and drawing on recent research in the field. It will also discuss how public policy might be refocussed…

Free

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | Computational Medicine and Digital Twins Improving Medical Care

Virtual online

Background: Novel medical technologies are being introduced at unprecedented rates, demanding scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy at an unprecedented pace to ensure patient safety and benefit. With success in both in-vitro/in-vivo studies, products are tested on clinical trials…

Free

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | Will The Next Dick Whittington Please Step Forward? Harnessing Entrepreneurship In The City Of London To Help Build A World-Class, 21st Century Economy

Virtual online

Background: The City has a long and profound history of an entrepreneurial mindset. It has innovation and invention in its DNA. Much of this has been driven by smart thinkers who are natural problem solvers, many of whom come from…

Free

Clerks’ Forum

Guildhall Gresham Street, London, United Kingdom

See link to courses.

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | The Future Of Building Foundations In The City: Energy Generating Assets

Virtual online

Background: Modern multi-storey buildings in the City of London are usually supported on piled foundations; long columns of concrete that take the building loads into the ground. When sites are redeveloped each new building has tended to have a new…

Free

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | Why Has Nobody Ever Told Me This? Initiating Sustainability & Success In SMEs

Virtual online

Background: Through extensive research on his MBA (1992, Open University) and PhD (2022, Sheffield Hallam) into the dynamics behind training and development programmes for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), Dr Glyn Cartwright increasingly recognised a frustrating lack of relevant evidence…

Free

Junior Wardens’ Card Game Evening

Drapers' Hall Throgmorton Avenue, London

An evening where you will meet your fellow Junior Wardens at the splendid Drapers' Hall for a two course dinner and a relaxed fun game or two of cards. No expertise required.

Lord Mayor’s Coffee Colloquies

Mansion House Walbrook, London, United Kingdom

Lord Mayor's Coffee Colloquies are a series of in-person events held at Mansion House promoting connections that help address the leading issues of the day. See the City of London website for the programme.  

Glass Sellers Annual Ravenscroft Lecture – The Legacy of George Ravenscroft

Glaziers Hall 9 Montague Close, London Bridge, London, United Kingdom

Marking the 350th Anniversary of the Indenture of Agreement (5th September 1674) made between George Ravenscroft of London, Gent of one party, and John Steward the Elder, Humphrey Kilby, John Kempster, and forty-two others, all Glass-Sellers of London of the…

£70.00

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | How Air Pollution Causes Lung Cancer In Never-Smokers Via A Therapeutically Targetable Inflammatory Mechanism

Virtual online

Background: A mechanistic basis for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) initiation in never smokers, a disease with high frequency EGFR mutations (EGFRm), is unknown. Air pollution particulate matter (PM) is known to be associated with the risk of NSCLC, however…

Free

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | Why The Wreck Of The Gloucester In 1682 Matters: The Secrets Of A Restoration Warship

Virtual online

Background: The finding of the Gloucester can legitimately be called the most important event for British maritime history since the Mary Rose was located in 1971 and raised in 1982. This talk will outline the sensational history of the wreck…

Free

Speaking uncomfortable truths to the world: A critical role for a medical writer by Dr Rachel Clarke – In-Person

Apothecaries Hall Black Friars Lane, London, United Kingdom

Dr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor and the author of three Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction books about medicine. Breath taking (2021) reveals how she and her colleagues confronted COVID-19 during the pandemic’s first wave in 2020. Dear…

£20

Lord Mayor’s Lecture | How Will We Be Long? – How Can A Piece Of Music Help Us Think About The Next Thousand Years?

Virtual online

Background: As a Longplayer trustee, my role is to help us think through what our long view might be. Here I will recount some of our thinking and ideas from over the years. Longplayer helps us ask many questions about…

Free

World Traders’ Tacitus Lecture

Guildhall Gresham Street, London, United Kingdom

Lecture by a leading individual in World Trade (Lecturer yet to be announced)

Free

Inter-Livery Bridge Competition

Drapers' Hall Throgmorton Avenue, London

The Makers of Playing Cards Company's 41st Annual Inter-Livery Bridge Tournament, with supper, held at Drapers' Hall.

Basketry Showcase 2024

Dutch Church Austin Friars, London

All Livery Masters, Prime Wardens, Upper Bailiff, Consorts and Clerks are invited to the Basketry Showcase 2024 at The Dutch Church, Austin Friars. We will be celebrating and demonstrating the best of basketry, with talented growers and makers from across…

New Zealand Livery Dinner 2024

Northern Club Princes Street, Auckland, New Zealand

Our annual dinner will be at the Northern Club, Princes Street, Auckland on March 14th 2024. Accommodation is available at the Club. Any Livery members visiting Auckland and New Zealand of course very welcome and please contact Paul Kennerley -…

United Guilds Service 2024

St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Churchyard, London

Annual United Guilds Service at St Paul's Cathedral attended by the Lord Mayor, Bishop of London and all Companions and Guilds. ugs@fishmongers.org.uk for details.

City Music Foundation Lunchtime Concert Series – Caroline Taylor “Secrets and Sighs”

Goldsmiths' Company The Goldsmiths' Company, 13 Foster Lane, London

Soprano Caroline Taylor and internationally acclaimed collaborative pianist – and CMF Patron – Roger Vignoles give a recital at the ornate Goldsmiths’ Hall. Positioned at the junction of Foster Lane and Gresham Street in the City of London, the Hall…

£10

Air Pilots Cobham Lecture

The Royal Air Force Club 128 Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

Annual Lecture - invitation to attend will be sent to Masters and Clerks of the various companies.

Free

Past Masters Golf Tournament 2024

Foxhills Golf & Country Club Stonehill Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, United Kingdom

If you would like to compete, you can download the Word application form here.

£210

City Music Foundation Lunchtime Concert – Thomas Allery, Aaron Akugbo and Claire Ward

Merchant Taylors' Hall 60 Threadneedle Street, London

Three CMF Artists join forces to perform at the only City of London livery hall with an organ – Ensemble Hesperi’s Thomas Allery (also Director of Music at the Temple Church) Connaught Brass’ trumpeter Aaron Akugbo and soprano Claire Ward.…

£10

Eye Health for the Livery – an interactive evening with the Spectacle Makers, at St Thomas’ Hospital SE1 7EH

St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road Governors' Hall, St Thomas' Hospital (Main Entrance), Westminster Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom

An opportunity to find out more about why our eyes are so important and what you can do to help yourself and your family and make the most of your vision. Invitations have been sent to all Clerks of London…

Free

Panel Discussion and Networking Breakfast Reception to mark Mental Health Awareness Week

Guildhall Gresham Street, London, United Kingdom

Mental Health Awareness Week is an ideal time for us all to think about mental health, tackle stigma, and find out how we can create a society that prevents mental health problems from developing and protects our mental well-being. This…

The Gilded City Exhibition

Painters' Hall 9 Little Trinity Lane, London, United Kingdom

The Gilded City brings together 11 members of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers working with the ancient art of gilding. This marks the Company’s inaugural participation in London Craft Week, which celebrates its 10th edition this year. The exhibition displays…

Free

The Gilded City Exhibition

Painters' Hall 9 Little Trinity Lane, London, United Kingdom

The Gilded City brings together 11 members of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers working with the ancient art of gilding. This marks the Company’s inaugural participation in London Craft Week, which celebrates its 10th edition this year. The exhibition displays…

Free

Ride around the City

The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of the City of London Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli and the Sheriffs of the City of London Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley DBE and Alderman Bronek Masojada are proud to be mounting up and taking…

Inter-Livery Padel Tournament

LTA Roehampton The Nation Tennis Centre, Roehampton

The Competition is open to all Livery Companies and each Company may enter one or two teams of mixed doubles of which one player in each team must be a member of the Livery either Liveryman or Freeman.

Check on the organiser’s website that dates and times are correct.

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