Welcome to the Stationers' E-Newsletter No. 12 – July 2008
This Stationers’ e-newsletter is a periodic update of current news and events for all members of The Stationers' Company – Court Assistants, Liverymen and Freemen – as well as for the media. We hope you find it useful, but you may, of course, unsubscribe simply by emailing admin@stationers.org
Latest News
NEW MASTER ELECTED
Upper Warden Noel Osborne was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers on 1 July and installed with traditional ceremony in the Great Hall, to the acclaim of the assembled Liverymen and Freemen.
After taking the oath, and badged and gowned, the new Master paid tribute to his predecessor, John Waterlow, for presiding over the Company for the past year “with such style, good humour, unflappability, patience – and sheer hard work.”
Looking forward to his own term, Noel Osborne said his priority would be to raise funds for the newly amalgamated Stationers’ Foundation. “The focus of the campaign will be on literacy (or rather illiteracy) in inner London schools,” he declared. The campaign would be inspired and promoted by some of the best young musicians in the world. A major event would also be held to raise funds for the Royal Marines, he said, recognising the close ties that exist with the Company.
Other officers elected on 1 July were Richard Brewster, Upper Warden, and Christopher McKane, Under Warden.
After the installation ceremony, the Common Hall assembly adjourned to the newly refurbished garden where guests enjoyed refreshments amid the flower beds on a fine summer’s evening.
FINANCIAL REPORT
In a report submitted to Common Hall, Treasurer Clifford Jakes announced that the financial year ended 31 December 2007 had shown an increased operating surplus of £115,736 compared with £94,710 in 2006. “This is an excellent result and continues the profitable trend of recent years,” the report said.
Despite this, the Treasurer warned that the Company was facing new challenges due to the current economic climate, reflected in reduced Hall lettings, and called for vigilance in monitoring costs.
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
The Stationers’ Company is seeking to appoint a Development Director whose tasks will include building close working relationships with key industry associations and institutions, promoting corporate membership and industry PR activities and, above all, positioning the Company as the ultimate forum for its industries.
The successful candidate is likely to be a graduate with a proven track record in one of the Company’s industry sectors. Please click here for details.
RECENT EVENTS
Reports on notable Company events appear regularly in Stationers’ News. The next edition, due out in September, will cover the very successful annual Charter Dinner in May and the stimulating address given by the principal guest, Sir Christopher Meyer, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, and former British Ambassador to the United States.
Another recent event was a lively Summer Forum debate on the future of the print industry on the theme: “Print Fights Back: The Power of Print in the Digital Age.” The BBC’s Peter Day chaired the event, with a panel consisting of Peter Phippen from BBC Magazines, John Charnock from St Ives and Chris Hare from Gyro International.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
SEPTEMBER
17 Livery Autumn Dinner
29 Freemen’s Association Technical Debate
OCTOBER
1 Benevolent Golf Classic
3 Livery Luncheon
8 RAF Hendon Visit
27 New Members’ Evening
NB: We should like to draw your attention to the Annual City Lecture organised by the Worshipful Company of Marketors – this year it is on Wednesday 8 October, at 6.30 pm at Glaziers Hall, and the Guest Speaker is Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer. For details, click here.
IN MEMORIAM
The Company regrets to record the deaths of Liveryman Brian Havelock Baumfield on 1 May 2008, aged 80, and Liveryman Geoffrey William Cleaver on 4 July 2008, aged 65.
NEW LIVERYMEN
The Stationers’ Company welcomed the following new Liverymen who were cloathed on 3 June 2008:
Martin Giles Robert BLOOMFIELD
Operations Director, Reed Business Information
Robert Thomas James BOND
Editor, Head of Technol & Commerce Gp
Sarah Jane Ann MAHURTER
Manager, University of The Arts, Archives & Special Collections Centre
Alan Scott McKENDRICK
Chief Executive Officer, Aylesford Newsprint
Susan Mary Johnston PANDIT
Dean, School Printing and Publishing
Robert Vernon WILLIAMS
Chief Sub-Editor, Features, Daily Telegraph
NEW FREEMEN
The Company welcomed the following new Freemen:
7 July 2008
Gabriel Elias ALVAREZ PARRA
Plastic Surgeon and Publisher
Patrick BELTON
Self Employed
John Henry CHARNOCK
United Consumer Magazines
Nicholas William DIXON
Director, Dialogue Solutions
Anoush DOWLATSHAHI-GORDON
Xerox - Director and General Manager, Production Systems
Richard Thomas HUDSON
Teacher and Proprietor of Greenbank Press
16 June 2008
Kevan John BARRETT
Sales Director, Anthony Rowe Limited
Vincent James COLLINS
Collins Scott Marketing Limited
Charles John JACOBY
Freelance Writer
Neil Arthur RICHARDSON
Department for Communities and Local Government
Rani SINGH
Freelance Broadcaster Journalist, BBC
Christopher STOTT
Technical Co-ordinator, Leeds University
STATIONERS’ BURSARY BLAZES NEW MEDIA TRAIL
Sarah Bromley, winner of a Stationers’ bursary, has graduated with a Master’s degree in Electronic Publishing from City University, an award that reflects the Company’s interest in the new digital media.
Speaking at the University’s Degree Congregation at Southwark Cathedral on May 21, Sarah said: “The purpose of the bursary was to aid in the development of new skills that can help take the traditional publishing industry into the electronic era.”
She had chosen online language learning for her dissertation project because it combined her first degree in Linguistics with the new discipline of web publishing, she said.
Sarah thanked Kevin Dewey, Chairman of Trustees of the Stationers’ Foundation, for the bursary, which she described as “a huge help”. Court Assistant Dewey said Sarah’s success “demonstrates the virtuous circle we are trying to achieve through the work of the Stationers’ Foundation.”
Sarah is now working as Web Editor for a large educational publisher.
DAUGHTER’S CHARITY RUN IN MEMORY OF LATE LIVERYMAN
Philippa Andrews, daughter of the late Richard (Dick) Dickinson, Liveryman, is calling for support from the Livery for a charity run in memory of her father.
Not just any charity run: Philippa is taking part in the world’s biggest half marathon, the BUPA Great North Run on 5th October 2008 (yes, it’s over 13 miles!).
Anyone who would like to sponsor her to raise funds for Beating Bowel Cancer UK should, please, visit www.justgiving.com/rugbygirlsgorunning Phillipa can also be contacted on Pip.andrews@tiscali.co.uk or by telephone: 07956 988 785 / 01727 850960
Dick worked for the Finnish Paper and Board Industry for 40 years and was Managing Director of Varma Services in the UK and, more recently, Managing Director of M-real UK Ltd. He retired in 2006.
The Finnish Government honoured him with the award of Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland. His investiture took place at the Finnish Embassy residence in London exactly a week before his death.
Dick, who was 61, had been struggling with cancer for the previous several months. He died surrounded by his family last November.
YOUNG ‘JOURNALISTS FOR A DAY’ ON THE MOVE
The Newspaper Education Trust, one of the Stationers’ adopted good causes, is moving to bigger and better premises this summer, including a new media studio for young would-be producers to generate their own TV news broadcasts.
The Trust will still be based at West Ferry Printers in London, but it will be expanding into larger premises, thanks to support from the City Fringe Partnership and the London Development Agency. The Stationers’ Company has given funding to the project for newsroom equipment.
Since the project started in 1995, nearly 25,000 young people have experienced being a journalist for a day, writing and designing their own newspaper frontpage. Now some of them are taking up journalism as a career.
For more information about the Newspaper Education Trust (The NET), please see http://www.the-net.org.uk/
The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers is calling for entries for a major art prize designed to promote creative representational painting and the skill of draughtsmanship.
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, now in its fourth year, has made an impact on the art world, attracting talented artists to compete for prize money now totalling £22,500. It is co-sponsored by the Painter-Stainers’ Company and the Lynn Foundation, a charity devoted to children and the disabled, music and the arts. The Spectator magazine is media sponsor..
UK artists over the age of 18 are invited to submit two original non-sculptural works completed in the last three years. The closing date is mid-September. For more information, please see
http://www.painter-stainers.org/
