Inside this Issue

    Master's Message

Our year so far has been a series of feasts, spiritual, temporal and cultural.  Two services at St Paul's and at five other beautiful City and West End churches, plus diners, lunches, receptions, museum visits, some wonderful music and interesting lectures.  In the process I estimate that I have met about 30 of this year's Masters, 78 to go!

Talking to the other Masters has confirmed my impression that the Paviors' Livery is unusual in being old but having most of the characteristics of modern Liveries.  One of the most important and perhaps the most unusual of the characteristics is the opportunity we provide for Liverymen to take an active role in the

running of the Company.  This is by the appointment of Liverymen, one for one year and one for three years, to the three main committees, finance, charity and marketing.  In addition there are two places on the Liverymens' Committee filled by annual election of the Livery.

The appointments to the committees are made following consultation, during the Summer, by the current Master with the Upper Warden, the Clerk and others, followed by a formal proposal to the Court Committee and the Court.  Our perennial problem is that we do not know all those who might wish to be considered.  As this process will start next month we should be very pleased to hear from any one with an interest in any particular committee.

The committees normally meet two or three times a year.  They are important and an excellent way to both learn how the Company works and to influence its development.  It is your Company come and help us manage it.

John Carpenter