William Jones was one of the Company’s earliest and most generous benefactors. He bequeathed money to the Company in 1614 for a school in Monmouth and for almshouses in both Monmouth and Newland. He also... Read More
Charity News
On arrival at the offices of Construction Youth Trust I met two of their programme workers. At that moment I knew that the Company had made a wise decision to support this charity: the spark,... Read More
Blind in Business was able to support 28 blind people into jobs over the course of their award’s term.
The charity delivered career planning sessions and helped young people develop skills suitable for the workplace. The participants were also given mock interviews, all of which helped develop the young people’s... Read More
We all have our own unique notion of identity, culture and language. Our life experiences all contribute to who we are, and the people we hope to become.
Heather Joseph-Dublin, former pupil at Hatcham College, wanted to explore this... Read More
“Some of these people are highly gifted, they just got on the wrong track” Simon Lawson, Lawsons Builders
This way of thinking chimes with the No Going Back project that the Company has been instrumental in setting up, along with a number of other Livery... Read More
Rev'd Sheridan James, The Master, Freeman Erica Fitzpatrick, Liveryman Natalie Wilson, Liveryman Charles Cope, Past Master Caroline Davis, The Clerk and Rev'd Graham Hunter, Liveryman, at St Catherine’s.
A... Read More
All the tools are neatly laid out, each screwdriver and pair of pliers in their rightful place along the length of the ‘shed’. There is clearly a great deal of care and attention here, and not just for the hardware.
This is the Men’s Shed (soon to be rebranded the Joy of Sheds), a... Read More
There are two impressive things about the work of Street-Doctors. First, the sessions they deliver for small groups of young people are potentially life-saving: teaching simple, memorable steps with the aim of preventing deaths from knife crime. Second, and equally impressive, is that the sessions are run exclusively by volunteers.... Read More
Stepping up on to a makeshift step Father Grant pulls himself up to peer over the fence into the church’s garden. He breezily explains that for some reason the gate is padlocked from within, so the only way to access the garden is by first manoeuvring... Read More
The Smallpeice Trust’s Arkwright Engineering Scholarship programme is designed to inspire sixth form students to pursue their dreams and change the world as future leaders in engineering... Read More