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TheWoolman The Worshipful Company of Woolmen February 2015 Lana spes nostra www.woolmen.com dates for your diary Livery Schools Link Installation Dinner Master’s Weekend Showcase Skinners Hall 25th to 27th September Barber Surgeons’ Hall 29th April 4th March Sheep Drive Summer Banquet 27th September United Guilds Service Middle Temple St Paul’s Cathedral 26th June 20th March Civic Dinner Stationers’ Hall Visit to Queen’s Own 6th November The Lord Mayor’s Big Yeomanry, York Curry Lunch Guildhall 25th July 16th April Alms Court Dinner Cutlers’ Hall 13th Jan 2016 Your perfect opportunity to advertise to those with influence within the City. Call Howard Venters on 07971 792449 or Liz Venters on 01684 565533. Email: info@shepherd publishing.co.uk There is no substitute for wool… We are delighted to implement the idea of Past Master Company who retain the copyright ownership of the Richard Proctor to serialise the cartoons and poems from poems. If you can’t wait for the next instalment of these the book he produced There Is No Substitute For Wool, with amusing advertisements, you can contact the Clerk to acknowledgement and thanks to The Woolmark purchase your own copy of the collection. With acknowledgement and thanks to The Woolmark Company who retain the copyright ownership of the poem ownership the copyright who retain Company Woolmark The and thanks to acknowledgement With 2 | The Woolman | February 2015 Vol 4, No. 1, Spring 2015 ISSN 2047-6868 Welcome A Shepherd Publication his issue focuses quite heavily on Education and the Livery's Charitable Giving. TAs well as the prizes and medals awarded to students at the Civic Dinner, several awards have been made to assist students conduct research for their MAs. Patricia Hopewell and Kirsty Brabin have produced reports for us which are included in this issue. Published by We are again promoting the Livery to secondary schools through a stand at Shepherd Publishing Ltd, the Livery Schools Link Exhibition and Liveryman Rev. Peter Hullah has been Burnt House Garden charged with heading up an education committee to see what other assistance North Common we can give to secondary schools. North Chailey However, junior schools appear to have been left out of the present scheme. East Sussex BN8 4DJ Many children do not know where the clothes they wear or food they eat comes Tel: 01684 565533 from. Everything comes from the shop but the true source is not known or Email: info@ shepherdpublishing. understood. I am sure many readers like myself saw a 'Country File' co.uk programme two months ago, which stated School Farms could be under threat. The presenter, Tom Heap, reported that due to recent educational reforms, these Publisher: initiatives could soon disappear. This stems from the points system, where Howard Venters subjects taught are given status, and 'Rural Studies' are not considered Editor: important. Why not? Does all learning have to be in the classroom or Bill Skidmore examinable? Yet every day, more and more pressure is being put on the Designer: curriculum; what should we be teaching in schools? I fully understand the Chris Monk predicament facing schools... Ofsted results, league tables, but let us think about www.yellowduck.net the wider issues; what is education for? School farms and City Farms can play an important role in education. It has been proved that children who grow their Clerk own produce e.g. vegetables are more likely to eat them. Children who look after Gillian E. Wilson live stock or pets, and learn how to care for 2 Mount Pleasant Stoke Hammond them, learn responsibility. If we are not Bucks careful, we will become academic and MK17 9EX university obsessed, but there should be a Tel: 01525 270116 balance. [email protected] I was extremely pleased that Liveryman, Alderman Sir David Wootton, came at my Shepherd Publishing Ltd gives request to give the first Worshipful notice that no part of this Company of Woolmen sponsored lecture publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or to the Bradford Textile Society last trans mitted in any form or by month. This was gratefully well any means, elect ronic, mech - anical, photo copying, recording received and it was good to see or otherwise, without prior local Woolmen support the event. consent of the publishers. Every care is taken when com piling editorial and advertise ments Liveryman Bill Skidmore and the publishers can accept Editor no responsibility for errors and omissions arising from publication. Views expressed and inform ation contained in The Woolman are not necessarily those of the Publisher, editorial staff and contributors or of This issue Shepherd Publishing Ltd or of the Worshipful Company of 4 Master’s Report 16 Alms Court Dinner Woolmen who cannot therefore 6 Our new Clerk, 17 Why the Lord Mayor of London is all be held responsible for any reason arising therefrom. Major Steven John Charles Wake about Wool Neither the Publisher nor the 7 Civic Dinner 18 Woolly bikes Editor nor the Worshipful 8 New Liverymen 20 Wyedean Weaving Company Ltd Company of Woolmen endorses any services or products 10 Livery visit to the Fashion Textile Museum 23 Education, Giving Time and the Livery advertised in this issue. 12 Dyeing for blue Schools Link – and You! 14 Shuttle to Shetland: a weaver’s journey © 2015 The Woolman February 2015 | The Woolman | 3 Master’s Report he last three months have been exciting more and more ways you can ‘Give Time’ Tand interesting times representing you as and enjoy the Livery! your Master. Each week I have proudly att - Our City Wool Project initiative, which we ended as many as 8 events on your behalf. launched in April 2014, continues to gain As I commented at the Alms Court Dinner traction and support. Our aim is to ‘Create this has had an adverse effect on my Wealth’ and use our individual Financial promise to Carolyn to try and eat a healthy and Professional Service experience to help diet – but I can start next week! companies and individuals in our $80Bn Whilst mentioning the Alms Court, can I global wool industry – whether that is ass- thank all of you who attended and your kind ist ing a large company or helping a start up. messages of support. We filled Saddlers’ Hall We have the expertise to ‘Give Time’ and to capacity with a record 147 Liverymen and make a difference by connecting wool guests! I apologise that we were unable to companies with City expertise. I am accommodate some applications after the delighted to see some of the interesting closure date. companies we are engaging with and Your Company continues to work hard to helping them grow. Gill Wilson is now our achieve the aims that we have in our Three City Wool Development Officer and Gill Year Rolling Strategy. A strength over recent would be happy to talk to you about how years is that your Court, Wardens and you can help. The Lord Mayor fully supports Masters have set long term goals for the the unique City Wool Project and you should Woolmen. We have stayed on that path as expect to see it mentioned in his speeches – each year sees a new Master who works, in both here and abroad! their own way, to achieve those long term Talking about Lord Mayor’s Speeches, I ambitions. am sure you would be delighted to hear that The Lord Mayor, Alan Yarrow, set out his our own Court Assistant and the Lord Mayor aims at the start of his year – ‘Create Wealth, in 2012, Sir David Wootton, recently gave a Give Time, Support People’. It closely reflects lecture in Bradford entitled ‘Why the Lord the Woolmen’s longer term ambitions – Mayor of London is all about Wool’! Quite ‘Support our Industry, Give Time, Support right too! People and become the ‘Livery of Choice’ for We are blessed amongst the Liveries with those wanting to join a vibrant, historic and a fantastic mother product. It is often taken innovative Livery Company. for granted, but its usage is extraordinary. We are I am delighted, through the efforts of all For example in the neo natal Unit of Chelsea incredibly lucky the Livery, that the number of people who and Westminster Hospital the only fibre want to know more about the Woolmen and allowed next to those incredibly delicate 26 as a Livery join us continues to grow. Our new full time week old skins is Merino Wool – and we Clerk, Major Steve Wake is there to help you want to see how we can help them with Company to not with any friends or family you think might research to extend that use for all age only have such be interested to know more about the Wool - groups. men. We are fortunate, as one of the ancient Our aim of ‘Supporting People’ continues “an ancient and Livery Companies, to unusually have been to widen its activities. We made a substanti - granted an additional limited number of al contribution to the Lord Mayor’s Charities important history Liverymen places, by the Court of Alderman, from our annual London Bridge Sheep Drive, from 1180 but to to expand our activities – but then wool (Sept 27th this year), and that goes to help continues to innovate! disadvantaged people. This year it will be have such a It has struck me in talking to new Livery - focussed on disabled children. men that they want to make a contribution Our efforts with helping young shearers vibrant global and ‘Give Time’ as well as enjoying our learn a skill and develop a career has helped industry that is splendid dinners and social events.