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SUMMARY:Help Musicians' Festival of St Cecilia 2025 and Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Help Musicians’ annual celebration of music \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for this year’s Festival of St Cecilia\, a celebration that honours St Cecilia\, the patroness of music\, and the musicians who enrich our lives. \nThis year\, the service will be held at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 19 November at 11:00 am\, followed by an optional lunch in the private dining room at The Ivy\, Victoria. \nUnder the expert direction of Andrew Nethsingha\, Director of Music at Westminster Abbey the combined choirs of Westminster Abbey\, St Paul’s Cathedral\, and Westminster Cathedral will reunite to perform once again. This years’ service will feature the premiere of a specially created anthem by Piers Connor Kennedy\, along with a special performance to be confirmed at a later date. \nHelp Musicians relies on vital funds to support musicians across the UK. While tickets to the service are complimentary\, we warmly encourage guests to make a donation when booking. 100% of every donation will directly support the thousands of musicians who need our help every year. \nWe hope you will be able to join us for this special occasion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Wednesday 19 November 2025\nService: 11am – 12noon\nLunch: 12.30pm (The Ivy\, Victoria) £80 \nBuy Tickets HERE
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/help-musicians-festival-of-st-cecilia-2025-and-lunch/
LOCATION:Westminster Abbey\, 20 Deans Yard\, Westminster\, London\, SW1P 3PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Church Service,Lunch
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SUMMARY:Celebration Church Service before the Annual Banquet
DESCRIPTION:As a Company\, we always used to hold our annual service on Installation Day\, but because that was already so crowded\, the service had to start impractically early – typically\, 3pm. \nOddly\, the evening of the Annual Banquet evening is only annual occasion\, when we meet together in numbers\, when there is not already something else to be done before we all dine. This year\, therefore\, the service\, at which we remember those Livery friends no longer with us\, give thanks for our Livery Company and the good we can still do\, and look ahead to the future\, will be held just before the Banquet at the much more manageable time of 5.30pm. \nClearly\, proximity to Mansion House is a consideration when selecting the church\, and happily\, the Master has been able to persuade the delightful Rector of St Stephen Wallbrook\, the lovely Wren Church located right next to Mansion house\, to let us be the first Livery to worship there after its multi-million pound restoration. \nSt Stephen is an amazing space architecturally\, and one of those very rare churches built “in the round”. Its centre piece is a huge\, circular altar carved by the word-famous sculptor\, Jacob Epstein\, and it holds other treasures too. \nThe service will last 30 minutes\, and is naturally free. So come along in all your finery (The Rector is joining us at Mansion House\, so he may be wearing his evening dress too!) and then we will all walk the few yards across the greet the Lord Mayor and any of our livery friends and guests who have not been able to make the service.
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/church-service-before-the-annual-banquet/
LOCATION:St Stephen Walbrook\, 39 Walbrook\, London\, EC4N 8BN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Church Service
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241120T160000
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SUMMARY:Help Musicians' Festival of St Cecilia 2024 and Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Help Musicians’ annual celebration of music\n\n\n\nThe Festival of St. Cecilia has been the flagship event in Help Musicians’ calendar since 1946. It is a key moment for us to come together to celebrate what music brings to all of us\, and to mark the contribution that musicians make to our lives. \n2024’s service will see the combined choirs of Westminster Cathedral\, St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey unite to perform under the direction of Andrew Carwood MBE\, Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral. \nThis year’s service will feature the premiere of a specially created anthem by Heloise Werner\, who has been supported by Help Musicians\, and we are thrilled to present a highly anticipated performance by pianist and Help Musicians Ambassadors\, Isata Kanneh-Mason. \n\nDate: Wednesday 20 November\nService: 11am – 12noon\nLunch: 12.30pm (Cote Brasserie)
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/st-cecilia-2024/
LOCATION:St Paul’s Cathedral\, St Paul's Churchyard\, London\, EC4M 8AD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Church Service,Lunch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231211T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T160443
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SUMMARY:Carol Service 2023
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Carol Service will be held in the beautiful chapel within Mercers’ Hall on Monday 11 December. \nWith music from the Bread Street Chamber Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral School\, this will be a lovely event for the festive season. \nDrinks and Canapes will be available following the service in the Ambulatory where there is currently an exhibition entitled Whittington’s Legacy on display. \nIf you wish to have a little more time in the exhibition\, the Mercers’ have kindly agreed to open the Hall from 5pm to allow attendees to view the exhibition before the service begins at 6pm \n\nPlease see below more information about the exhibition: \n2023 marks 600 years since the death of Mercer Richard Whittington\, and the start of his remarkable philanthropic legacy. Whittington’s Legacy\, an exhibition celebrating Whittington as merchant\, Mercer and philanthropist \,will be on display until 15 December 2023. The exhibition commemorates both the anniversary of his death and the establishment of his charity. \nRichard Whittington (c 1350-1423) was the youngest son of a minor landowner in Gloucestershire and came to London as an apprentice. He made his fortune in the Mercers’ trade and through financing the Crown. Whittington was active in civic life\, serving as Lord Mayor four times\, and Master of the Mercers’ Company three times. He was known for being charitable in his lifetime\, as well as leaving his entire estate to charity. Whittington directed his trustees to entrust his legacy to the care of the Mercers’ Company and his substantial bequest established the Company as a manager of charities. \nWorks from the Company’s own archive and collection will be displayed alongside loans from private collections and institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum\, the London Metropolitan Archives and the Leathersellers’ Company. A key object on display will be the surviving wardrobe accounts from the reign of Richard II\, on loan from the National Archives\, in which Whittington’s name appears on multiple occasions\, selling fine fabrics to the king. \nThe exhibition also explores Whittington’s influence on the philanthropy of subsequent Mercer benefactors\, concentrating on the three centuries following Whittington’s death\, up to 1750. During this period the Company was entrusted with many of the benefactions that form the core of its charitable work today. The displays will consider philanthropy in areas such as the church\, education\, almshouses\, and helping the poor and prisoners\, all of which have their roots in Whittington’s charitable activities and legacy. The exhibition will feature the Company’s recent acquisition of Corona Charitatis\, a sermon preached on the death of Mercer Richard Fishborne and important loans include a magnificent portrait of John Bancks\, on loan from Chequers Trust\, and a full length portrait of Sir Baptist Hicks from the collection of the Middlesex Guildhall Art Trust\, usually on display at the Supreme Court. \nWhittington’s Legacy will highlight information about the Charity of Sir Richard Whittington today\, which since 2018 has awarded 303 grants to 245 organisations totalling £20.7 million. This is a truly remarkable legacy for a man best known today as a pantomime character. \nWhittington’s Legacy will be on display in the Ambulatory from 30 January 2023 to 15 December 2023. \n\nTickets:\n \nCarol Service only: £20 \nCarol Service including Drinks and Canapes: £59 \nThe exhibition has no charge \nPlease book below where possible \nIf you are unable to book below\, then please contact Clare Ferrar on clareferrar@accountantslivery.org or 07828 554967
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/carol-service-2023/
CATEGORIES:Church Service
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230509T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230509T183000
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SUMMARY:Clergy Support Trust Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Clergy Support Trust Festival will be held for the 368th time\, starting at 5pm\, Tuesday 9 May 2023. \nThe Service at St Paul’s Cathedral is the oldest choral festival in the world. Free and open to everyone\, it brings together three of the UK’s finest cathedral choirs. \nThis year we welcome the choirs of Llandaff and Leicester Cathedrals to join St Paul’s Cathedral choir. \nThe Festival is a unique and extraordinary event. It celebrates the work of the Trust and the clergy families we serve\, with our generous supporters. \nThe Service includes a majestic procession of the choirs\, cathedral clergy\, Masters of City Livery companies (including the Master Chartered Accountant!)\, Stewards of the Festival and other dignitaries down the central aisle of St Paul’s. \nYou can book tickets for the Service (free) below \nIf you are unable to book online\, please contact Clare Ferrar on clareferrar@accountantslivery.org
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/clergy-support-trust-festival/
LOCATION:St Paul’s Cathedral\, St Paul's Churchyard\, London\, EC4M 8AD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Church Service,Inter-Livery Event
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SUMMARY:Carol Service and Drinks
DESCRIPTION:This year’s service will be held in St Mary le Bow Church\, the church of the famous Bow Bells! With the Choristers from the Bread Street Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral School\, this is a lovely way to mark the Christmas Season with fellow Livery members. \nThe church is of Saxon origins\, with a Norman crypt\, that was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 by Sir Christopher Wren. It was badly bombed from enemy aircraft during the Blitz in 1941\, and restored between 1956-1964. The sound of the bells of St Mary’s is prominent in the story of Dick Whittington in which the bells are credited with having persuaded him to turn back from Highgate and remain in London to become Lord Mayor. Traditionally\, people living within earshot of Bow Bells are considered to be “Cockney”. \nThe church itself is beautiful inside as well as light\, airy and a perfect setting for the annual Carol Service\, which for many members marks the real start of the festive season. \nAfter the service\, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy drinks and canapes in the stunning\, ancient crypts below the church. \nA lovely opportunity to enjoy some festive music and celebrate the season with fellow Livery Company members. \n\nTickets \n£59 including drinks and canapés \n£20 just the service\, \nTickets include a donation to our affiliated choir\, The Bread Street Choir \nBook below\nor contact Clare Ferrar on clareferrar@accountantslivery.org\nor 07828 554967
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/carol-service-2022/
LOCATION:St Mary-Le-Bow\, Cheapside\, London\, EC2V 6AU
CATEGORIES:Church Service,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T160000
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SUMMARY:Festival of St. Cecilia Service and Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join together at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the value of music.\nThe Festival of St. Cecilia has been the flagship event in Help Musicians’ calendar since 1946. It is a key moment for us to come together to celebrate what music brings to all of us\, and to mark the contribution that musicians make to our lives. \nThis year\, the combined choirs of Westminster Abbey\, Westminster Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral will unite to perform under the direction of James O’Donnell\, the Abbey’s Organist and Master of Choristers. \nThe service will premiere a specially created anthem by composer\, Nico Muhly\, and we are privileged to welcome Help Musicians Ambassador Lesley Garrett CBE and Musicians Company Master Jeff Kelly for spoken contributions. The service will also include music from clarinettist Josh Pyman\, who the charity has supported. \nThe service will be held at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 23 November 2022\, starting at 11am\, and will be followed by an optional lunch. \n\nMore details of how to book coming soon. \n 
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/festival-of-st-cecilia-service-and-lunch/
LOCATION:Westminster Abbey\, 20 Deans Yard\, Westminster\, London\, SW1P 3PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Church Service,Lunch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220401T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220401T153000
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SUMMARY:United Guilds Service
DESCRIPTION:SORRY: This event sold out in just four days! \nAt a meeting of the City’s Livery Companies in 1943\, it was decided to hold a Service in St Paul’s Cathedral\, to lift the spirits of the City after the Blitz\, which had only recently ended\, having wrought such devastation on the capital in particular. This has now become an annual event\, held in the presence of the Bishop of London\, the Lord Mayor\, Sheriffs and Aldermen\, and is one of the few occasions where the Liveries and Guilds all worship together. \nAdmission is by ticket only. We always take a party to the service\, usually using our full allocation of places. The service starts at 11.30am (though we have to be seated before then) and after it ends at about 12.30pm\, we and lots of other Liveries and Guilds walk the short distance to the lovely Plaisterers’ Hall for a drinks reception followed by what is always a pretty lively\, three-course Lunch. \nWe are usually allocated 23 places\, but I haven’t been told this year’s number. Members can bring one guest\, and bookings will be honoured on a first-come-first-served basis. \nThe UGS is naturally free (The Company makes a donation centrally\, and there is the usual collection during the service.)\, and places at the lunch afterwards cost £89 each\, inc Vat. \nSORRY: This event sold out in just four days!
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/united-guilds-service-2/
LOCATION:St Paul’s Cathedral\, St Paul's Churchyard\, London\, EC4M 8AD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Church Service,Lunch
ORGANIZER;CN="Jonathan Grosvenor":MAILTO:clerk@accountantslivery.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211210T180000
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SUMMARY:Carol Service and Supper
DESCRIPTION:Our Master is delighted to be holding our annual Carol Service and supper at St Margaret (on Lothbury\, EC2R 7HH\, just behind the Bank of England)\, which is not only a beautiful and historic\, 12th century City church\, but also that of our Institute (plus five Liveries and two Wards!). The Rector there is our good friend\, The Reverend Prebendary Jeremy Crossley. \nThe church is Grade 1 listed and has exceptionally fine 17th Century woodwork\, thought to be by Grinling Gibbons. St Margaret is a fine setting for this important occasion in our Livery year\, which for many of us marks the start of the Christmas season. \nAfter the service the Master has arranged for a delicious buffet supper to be served in the church hall. There will be a feast of Christmas food and drink\, with mince pies and other festive goodies much in evidence\, along with plenty of nice wines and other temptations! \nConsorts and guests are obviously extremely welcome. Dress is smart business wear and (plus warm overcoats for all!). Tickets are £49 each and will be invoiced after booking. Please book by Monday\, 6th December. \nThe Church’s website is here.  Direction and a map are here.
URL:https://accountantslivery.org/event/carol-service-2/
LOCATION:St Margaret\, Lothbury\, Lothbury\, London\, EC2R 7HH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Church Service,Dinner
ORGANIZER;CN="Jonathan Grosvenor":MAILTO:clerk@accountantslivery.org
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