Charities Engagement Evening 2024
Second Haberdashers’ Charities Engagement Evening Builds on Success Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the Haberdashers’ Charities Engagement Evening returned for its second year, bringing together an impressive cohort of charity leaders with members. The evening began with Sharon Shamir from Feed the Hill speaking about the reality of food poverty in New […]
Cricket Review 2024
Haberdashers’ Cricket XI: Season Review 2024 In many ways, 2024 was another landmark year for Haberdashers’ Cricket. Building on the incredible momentum from 2023, the fixture list expanded to five matches, reflecting the growing player base, camaraderie both on and off the field, and the friendships formed through a shared love of cricket. It was […]
A place of community, worship and welcome
One of the words that kept coming up at the June deputation to the Benefice of Newnham, Awre and Blakeney was community. The sense of community and family was evident, especially when meeting the welcoming parishioners in Newnham and Awre. Some have worshipped in their church over many decades and feel a deep sense of […]
Black Tudors and their links to the Haberdashers’ Company
In her 2017 book ‘Black Tudors: The Untold Story’ Miranda Kaufmann has written a seminal work which challenges the idea that it was only the horrors of late 17th and 18th Century slavery that were the beginning of Africans’ presence in England, and that exploitation and discrimination their only experience. The book takes the […]
Dedication Service for Adams alumni who gave their lives in WWI
Plaque commemorating World War 1 Haberdashers’ Adams alumni unveiled in St. George’s Church, Ypres, Belgium. On Saturday 28 September 2024 a service of dedication for the Haberdashers’ Adams Memorial Plaque was held at St. George’s Memorial Church in Ypres, Belgium. The congregation was made up of students from Years 8, 9, 10 and the Upper […]
Unveiling of the Haberdasher Tile at Cockpit Studios Deptford
The Company awarded a grant to contribute to the commission of a new piece of community art at charity partner Cockpit Studios in Deptford, southeast London. Created by local artist Amber Khokhar, the new artwork is made up of collaged triangular tiles, representing the rich mix of communities in the area. Entitled ‘Head, Heart, Hands’, […]
Queen Elizabeth II Scholars
The Haberdashers’ Company recognises Outstanding Service to Others with the Queen Elizabeth II Citizenship Award Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, the Company sought to find a way to acknowledge and commemorate the Queen’s remarkable seventy-year reign; a reign that was defined by selfless and loyal service, by tolerance […]
Haberdashers’ Character: Year 12 Leadership Conference
This event provides sixth form student leaders with practical skills to support them through their first experience of leadership, and inspirational role models to help them identify their own ambitious direction in life. In 2024 the Company hosted the inaugural student leadership conference. 85 student leaders visited Haberdashers’ Hall for a two-day event in order […]
John Banks: The Enigma Resolved
A Timber Merchant, Landlord and Property Developer Timber Merchant It has long been thought by the Company that John Banks, our Master Haberdasher in 1717 and our Benefactor too, was a silk merchant with the Levant. However actual evidence for this occupation seems to have been more linked to fanciful thinking of a haberdashery […]
Royal Maundy
The history of Royal Distribution on Maundy Thursday can be traced back with certainty to the thirteenth century and the first recorded Royal Distribution was at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire by King John in 1210, five years before Magna Carta. The distribution of alms and the washing of feet on the Thursday of Holy Week are […]