INDUSTRY NEWS
November 2025
Updates from Leigh Stationers' Academy
21 NOVEMBER 2025
Items this week include:
- Remembrance Day Service: Many Voices, One Humanity
- Staffing Update: Mr Farr, Head of Angelou College
- Young Leaders Celebrated in Jack Petchey Foundation Awards 2025
- Developing Communication Skills through the Jack Petchey Programme
- Year 12 Build Confidence and Teamwork on PGL Residential
- Mock Examinations: Warm Up Sessions
- Reminder: Parent Coffee Morning - Introduction to the IB MYP
- Personal Development Updates
- Weekly Sports Fixtures Round-Up
- Greenwich MHST: Free Parent Webinar on Understanding Anxiety
- Community Flu Vaccination Clinics
Autumn Budget 2025 – CPI’s Key Asks for the Paper Industry
20 NOVEMBER 2025
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) calls on Government to ensure the UK remains an attractive and competitive location for manufacturing investment. Representing a £15 billion industry that supports over 115,000 jobs, CPI stresses that spiralling costs, including energy, Business Rates, Employer NICs and water charges, threaten the competitiveness of UK paper manufacturing. With paper-based products offering sustainable, renewable, and recyclable alternatives to fossil-based materials, CPI urges a stable policy and fiscal environment that supports long-term industrial investment and recognises the sector’s critical role in delivering the UK’s circular economy and net zero ambitions.
To strengthen competitiveness and drive decarbonisation, CPI urges Government to act on energy costs, the highest in Europe, by reinstating capital support for energy efficiency through a simplified Industrial Energy Transformation Fund; and abolishing the Carbon Price Support mechanism. A new revenue support scheme is also needed to make electrification viable, alongside a Contract for Difference (CfD) style mechanism to align UK industrial electricity prices with European levels. CPI further calls for a one-year extension to the Carbon Price Floor Compensation Scheme beyond March 2026, with a successor developed from April 2027. These measures would help secure ongoing investment in UK paper manufacturing and reinforce the sector’s contribution to a low-carbon, competitive economy.
Love Paper Week Returns For Its Second Year, Celebrating The Sustainability And Relevance Of Paper
18 NOVEMBER 2025
Following the success earlier this year, Love Paper Week will be back in 2026, running from 2nd – 6th February to highlight the unique role of paper in our everyday lives and its strong environmental credentials.
Building On Year One
Love Paper, a global campaign promoting the sustainability and attractiveness of print, paper, and paper packaging, is once again uniting the industry to collectively champion paper to businesses, consumers and communities.
In its first year, Love Paper Week introduced simple yet effective tools for organisations across the print, paper and packaging sectors to tell the story of paper’s sustainability. Growing industry support this second year will see expanded activity and broader participation, helping to reinforce why paper remains such a vital, sustainable and creative medium in today’s digital world and the sustainable packaging solution.
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Festive drinks at the Houses of Parliament on Saturday, December 13,
17 NOVEMBER 2025
Stationer Liz Perkins will be playing host to a business festive drinks at the Houses of Parliament on Saturday, December 13, at 6.30pm. Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia will be among the guests along with Lord Griffiths of Burry Port. For tickets please book on the link: - https://tinyurl.com/mrxffe77
North American Evening event at National Arts Club Manhatten
14 NOVEMBER 2025
On the evening of 12 November, 8 members and friends of the Stationers' Company gathered at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park in Manhattan as the guests of Liveryman Roger Rosen. Roger is a member of the Club and is currently curating a gallery showing called 29 Neighbors, which features art drawn from the active arts community on 19th Street in Manhattan over the course of the past century. Roger wrote the catalog, organised the recording of music written by a composer in the exhibition, and spent over a decade planning and coordinating this special showing of creativity from this historic area of New York City. Past Master Tony Mash, Liverymen Michael Healy and Tyler Carey, applicants Deb Taylor and Cath Cantrell, and guests Brian O'Leary and Brooke Horn of the Book Industry Study Group of New York joined Roger for dinner and to tour the collections of the National Arts Club. With attendees with backgrounds in writing, publishing, theatre, art, science, and more, the conversation over dinner was active and engaging, topped only perhaps by the fine food and drink the Club provides to its members and guests.
Following dinner, Roger provided a personal tour of the temporary portrait photo exhbiition on loan from the Bank of America, and then a very personal, guided journey through the exhibit he curated. We are fortunate to have such an active community of North American Stationers, interested in sharing their expertise and passions about our industries.
Many thanks for Roger for coordinating this wonderful evening.
As any Stationers plan trips across the Atlantic, please do contact Liveryman Tyler Carey at tyler.carey@westchesterpubsvcs.com, should he be able to help coordinate any opportunities to meet up with your peers from Canada and the States.
Updates from Leigh Stationers' Academy
14 NOVEMBER 2025
Items this week include:
- A Message From the Principal
- CCF Wins Cadet Military Skills Competition
- Caxton Students Climb Corn Du and Pen Y Fan
- Many Voices, One Humanity: Remembrance Day Service
- Parent Coffee Morning: Introduction to the IB MYP
- Personal Development Updates
- Mock Examinations: Warm-Up Sessions
- Reminder: Seasonal Flu Vaccinations
Remembrance Day Service: Many Voices, One Humanity
14 NOVEMBER 2025
On Tuesday 11 November 2025, Leigh Stationers’ Academy held its annual Remembrance Day Service, Many Voices – One Humanity. Led by Vice Principal Mr Smith, this year’s service brought together over 1,000 students, staff, and guests from The Stationers’ Company.
Principal Mr Sparks opened the service by reflecting on the words of Maya Angelou: “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” He explained how Angelou’s call to confront the past with honesty and empathy connects to this year’s theme, “Many Voices – One Humanity.” Mr Sparks invited students and guests to listen to the voices of those who served, those who rebuilt, and those who still live with the cost of conflict—reminding all present that remembrance is not only about memory but about action: showing courage, compassion, and unity in everyday life.
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The Challenge of Maintaining our Hall
12 NOVEMBER 2025
This month, Nick Long, Hall Manager took the Trustees of the Stationers’ Hall Charity on a tour to see at first hand where the latest capital grant for summer works had been spent. We started by entering the roof above the card room through the door at the end of the third floor meeting rooms. The repaired windows, roof covering, resealing and repointing of the brickwork was clearly visible. It was a view we had not seen across into Amen Corner and the little garden and the Roman Wall to the side of the Old Bailey. We also looked at where parts of the cornices had been repaired from the courtyard and at the partial re-rendering of the Tokefield Centre. Abseilers had accessed some of the harder to reach parts of the buildings but the immediate decision was what was most urgent for repair. Shocking to us all was the state of the main side wall that holds the Caxton Window. You can see that it is the original brickwork and it is crumbling. There have been numerous bits of repointing over the centuries, often with unsuitable materials. Scientific analysis has allowed the team to ensure that in future the appropriate plaster and materials will be used to avoid the present a sticking plaster solution. One area that the Clerk is describing in the photos is an experiment with layers of a sealant that allows brick to breathe applied so we can monitor it over the next year and assess whether it is a solution for the entire wall once we have the funds to repair it.
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The World Library and Information Congress is coming to London for the first time in 25 years
12 NOVEMBER 2025
The most prestigious international event in the calendar of library and information professionals is coming home to London in 2027. Freeman Sue Lacey Bryant, who is President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), is delighted to share the news.
After a successful bid by a partnership led by CILIP, The World Library and Information Congress, will take place in London and across the UK in 2027.
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A Night to Remember at Stationers' Hall - Fablittlebag wins at IEA's
11 NOVEMBER 2025
The seven category winners of the awards, organised by The Stationers' Company, were unveiled at a packed ceremony and champagne lunch last Friday (17 October).
The flagship award, Innovator of the Year 2025, which was presented by Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, was award to us for our sustainable and discreet period disposal bags. Our bags are designed to tackle the plastic pollution caused by tampons and pads in waterways, by stopping people flushing them down the loo. We are also seeking to normalise the conversation around periods and period waste disposal.
https://fablittlebag.com/blogs/news/fablittlebag-wins-stationers-company-innovator-of-the-year-2025
IPIA sets out to strengthen print’s community ties
10 NOVEMBER 2025
With a mission to strengthen the ties that bind the print community together for the long-term, the IPIA’s flagship Recognising Excellence event returns on December 3rd, 2025, at the Crowne Plaza, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Bringing the print industry together for a day dedicated to connection, collaboration, and celebration, this year’s event underscores a central pillar of the IPIA’s strategy. Its goal is to enrich the print community by stimulating partnerships, inspiring innovation, and empowering business growth through shared learning and networking.
Recognising Excellence will see printers, technology developers, suppliers, and agencies come together for a dynamic programme of activities designed to strengthen the industry’s collective success. From the Expo and Business Networking Hub to the Networking Lunch – and culminating in the Gala Dinner and Awards – every element of the event is designed to create meaningful opportunities for professional connection and collaboration.
Chair of Warrants Committee John Livingston launches Operation Christmas Child
10 NOVEMBER 2025
Last week Freeman John Livingston took a break from his work chairing the Stationers Warrants Panel to launch the Operation Christmas Child appeal at his church. John is a lay preacher at Datchet Baptist Church who have been supporting the “Shoebox” appeal which sends boxes packed with gifts to kids in less developed countries who would not get a present at Christmas.
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