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This year, due to COVID-19 regulations, each of the Livery Companies was restricted to entering only one team into the Inter-Livery Clay Pigeon Shoot competition. The competition took place over 8th and 9th September at the Holland & Holland Shooting Ground and was very well supported with 90 Livery Companies and 360 individual guns participating. The Lightmongers were represented with a four gun team of ... Read more

Lightmonger members Matthew Harding and Dale Nettle, through their company, Lighting Project Solutions, were awarded the New Business of the Year Award from Mansfield 2020. Congratulations to them. Matthew Harding                                                                                          Dale Nettle As you will guess from these photo’s, the Awards ceremony was held virtually with the Awards and Certificates being delivered to the worthy winners, so everything was COVID-secure! It’s great to see some ... Read more

  It is the sadness that we heard of the passing of Liveryman Peter Denny after a short battle with cancer. Peter became a Freeman of the Company in September 1999, quickly progressing on to be admitted as a Liveryman in May 2000 and was an active member of the Company. Peter had worked in the Lighting Industry for more than 40 years, working in ... Read more

Our affiliated School for blind and visually impaired children, NCW, held their Celebration Day on Friday 26th June, at which year-end prizes were presented. This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, innovation and technology enabled the event to be held virtually, using the GoogleMeet App. It was impressive to see how well the event had been organised and was carried out, with over 145 devices connected. ... Read more

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

The Construction Livery Group held its 2020 awards ceremony at Mansion House on 2nd March 2020. The awards date back to 2001 when Masters certificates were first awarded to those who hold leading positions in their profession. These were then extended to include awards for Journeymen and Apprentices. This year there were a record 15 Livery Companies presenting their awards at the ceremony, which is ... Read more

At its February 2020 Court meeting it was great to see eleven new members join the Company as Freemen; Heidi De Lucchi, Lux Box Lighting Technology; Colin George, Lutron EA; John Humphrey, Channel Safety Systems; Mark Lester, CP Electronics; Chris Murphy, Skanska Construction UK; Farhad Rahim, Buro Happold; Graham Smith, Highways Electrical Association; Gino Stocchetti, Gewiss UK; Kevin Theobald, KTLD; James Thorpe, Thorlux Lighting and ... Read more

We held our annual Carol service on the 4th of December in our Company Church, St Botolph’s without Aldgate. The service was conducted by the Rev Laura Jorgenson and was a traditional service of lessons and carols. We were very well supported by our cadet affiliations, who greeted members and their guests on arrival and who were presented with Christmas gifts by the Master. ... Read more