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The Lightmongers annual Charity Golf Fund-raising Day had to be cancelled this year due to COVID-19. Undaunted by this setback the Lightmongers Charitable Trust, based on some creative thinking from Liveryman James Hill, organised a ‘socially distanced” Charity Golf Event, fully compliant with COVID regulations and guidance! A further innovation was to announce the results through a ZOOM presentation ceremony on 14th July, which was ... Read more

There is no doubt that a Zoom meeting cannot replace the pomp, ceremony and human emotion of a traditional Lightmongers' Ceremony but the Education Committee, under the Chairmanship of Stuart Mucklejohn,  made a splendid job of staging a virtual event to enable the presentation of the 2020 awards.  However, the winners will not lose out, as they will be invited to attend 'real' events later ... Read more

During May Captain (now Colonel Sir) Tom Moore received the Freedom of the City of London, in recognition of his phenomenal COVID-19 fund-raising on behalf of NHS charities, with which we are all very familiar. The ceremony was the first of it’s kind to be done on-line, due to COVID-19 restrictions and was streamed on-line on YouTube. You can view it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0DhZsmH39M.   Following ... Read more