WCoFF Event News Desk
Company Partners Lunch
I am sure colleagues need no introduction to the work of the Worshipful Company of Firefighters, Charitable Trust and like many charities the pressures on income over the period of the long Coronavirus Pandemic. We are now in the wake of the first European War for the first time in 83 years in Ukraine and from the Fire and Rescue perspective, recognised Fire and Rescue Charities have recently deli ...
The Worshipful Company of Firefighters would like to congratulate the following Fire and Rescue personnel who have been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) & Queen’s Fire Service Medal (QFSM) in the recent New Year’s Honours List: ORDERS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE King George V created these honours during World War I to reward services to the war effort by civilians at home ...
At last, things seem to be returning to normal as the Lord Mayor rolls a barrel of beer into the Old Dr Butler's Head pub when it was allowed to reopen on Monday 17th May. I'm sure many members will look forward to their first drinks back inside our local watering hole! ...
In August, during the heatwave, Events Committee member, Liveryman Rob Howard, organised a most enjoyable and successful lunch at the Dickens Inn, St Katharine Docks, by the Tower of London. Following its success Rob organised another one for this month at the Nicholson’s pub, Horniman at Hays, overlooking HMS Belfast. We intrepid travellers met up at noon on Thursday 17th September to solv ...
The annual wreath laying of the Trust is normally preceded by a church service, followed by a procession to the Firefighters Memorial opposite St Paul’s Cathedral. This year, because of the pandemic, there were serious restrictions imposed on the wreath laying ceremony, which took place on Sunday 6th September. Only a few of the principal wreaths could be laid formally. All other wreaths wer ...
