- Diary 2001 - 2020
Worshipful Company of Basketmakers diary. Highlights, events and important dates for the coming year
Charitable Trust
Our Charitable trust was created in 1982 when the Court of Aldermen required all companies applying for Livery status to have such fund.
The Trustees follow broad guidelines approved by the Court. Apart from supporting training in the craft, the Lord Mayor's Appeal and St Margaret Pattens, the guidelines are based on three premises.
The first premise is that as a small charity, support by us for large national charities in such fields as medical research would be so infinitesimal as to be ineffective. The second is that we can, from the applications we receive and enquiries and visits we make, support small charities who have innovative solutions to problems. The third is that the City is the wealth hub of the nation surrounded by a belt of deprivation in the inner boroughs.
Our Members' contributions therefore go to a variety of causes for example the support for hospices in London where the service is free, addiction rehabilitation centres where the person who persists with the treatment is carried through to a job and a home, charities training the disabled for employment and similar small charities where our size of contribution can make a real impact.
Amongst those we have contributed to recently are
St Margaret Pattens
Hospices
St Christopher's Croydon
St Francis, Romford
St Joseph's, Hackney
Trinity, Streatham & Woking
The Blind
Listening Books
St Dunstan's
RNIB, London & South East
Illnesses
Children with Leukaemia
Dystonia Society
Individual Bursaries for Basketmaking
Basketmakers Association
Care for the Disabled
Canine Partners for Independence
Demand
Hornsey Centre
John Groom
Transcend
Treloar College Trust
Social Care
Kiloran Trust
St Luke's Hospital for Clergy
Tower Hamlets Mission
Fern St Settlement
London Federation of Boys Clubs
Ragged School Museum
Toynbee Hall
The Trustees follow broad guidelines approved by the Court. Apart from supporting training in the craft, the Lord Mayor's Appeal and St Margaret Pattens, the guidelines are based on three premises.
The first premise is that as a small charity, support by us for large national charities in such fields as medical research would be so infinitesimal as to be ineffective. The second is that we can, from the applications we receive and enquiries and visits we make, support small charities who have innovative solutions to problems. The third is that the City is the wealth hub of the nation surrounded by a belt of deprivation in the inner boroughs.
Our Members' contributions therefore go to a variety of causes for example the support for hospices in London where the service is free, addiction rehabilitation centres where the person who persists with the treatment is carried through to a job and a home, charities training the disabled for employment and similar small charities where our size of contribution can make a real impact.
Amongst those we have contributed to recently are
St Margaret Pattens
Hospices
St Christopher's Croydon
St Francis, Romford
St Joseph's, Hackney
Trinity, Streatham & Woking
The Blind
Listening Books
St Dunstan's
RNIB, London & South East
Illnesses
Children with Leukaemia
Dystonia Society
Individual Bursaries for Basketmaking
Basketmakers Association
Care for the Disabled
Canine Partners for Independence
Demand
Hornsey Centre
John Groom
Transcend
Treloar College Trust
Social Care
Kiloran Trust
St Luke's Hospital for Clergy
Tower Hamlets Mission
Fern St Settlement
London Federation of Boys Clubs
Ragged School Museum
Toynbee Hall
