United Guilds Service
You are invited to attend the United Guilds Service at St Paul’s Cathedral at 11.15am on Friday 28 March 2025. Those attending the service are requested to be seated by 10.55am. (This is the annual service where all Livery Companies and Guilds are invited to attend)
The service will be followed by a lunch at Farmers & Fletchers’ Hall hosted by The Master, to which several other Livery Companies are invited. The lunch is available to book in the members area of our website and the cost is £90 inc VAT.
The special lunch package price includes a glass of sparkling wine on arrival, a three-course lunch with coffee & petits fours, half a bottle wine per person with the meal and a glass of port.
The Master is very keen that the Company’s row shall be full for the service and we ask, therefore, that you only accept in the firm knowledge that you will be attending the service. Tickets for the service are being offered on a strict first come, first served basis.
If you just wish to attend the service without staying for the lunch, please let us know as soon as possible by registering here.
Agricultural Business Management Course
The Education Committee is delighted to confirm the application process for the 74th edition of the Agricultural Business Management course has been launched.
2025’s Agricultural Business Management course will once again be under the tutelage of our co-course directors Keith Barriball and Karen Brosnan.
For this year the interviews, by invitation, will take place at Farmers & Fletchers’ Hall on 8-9 July.
The course will comprise of pre-residential online content delivery at the beginning of October, followed by two-week residential programme at the Stonehouse Court Hotel, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, for 9-22 November inclusive, and then post-programme group Zooms in December and again in February 2026. In addition, there is an opportunity for one-to-one online coaching.
Applications will close at 23:59 on 30 April 2025.
For more information on the 74th Agricultural Business Management course, fees and access to the online application portal, please click here.
Preparing to farm for 2040, with success
The City Food & Drink Lecture is an annual, invitation-only high profile fixture in the City of London and international food and drink industry calendars. The Lecture is delivered every year by a leading figure in the British food business who is invited to speak about the issues they regard as most important in shaping the way food is produced, distributed, marketed, sold and consumed.
Held in the Great Hall at the prestigious Guildhall the hybrid event is attended live by 550 and a further 300 virtual audience from around the world. The City Food & Drink Lecture is organised by the eight City livery companies whose roots are in the food industry – namely the Worshipful Companies of Bakers, Butchers, Cooks, Distillers, Farmers, Fishmongers, Fruiterers and Poulters.
Date: Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Location: Guildhall, City of London
Timings:
17:30 Doors Open
18:35 Welcome, Lecture, and Panel Session
20:30 Buffet Supper
21:45 Event Concludes
Keynote Speaker: John Shropshire OBE
Chairman of G’s Fresh
Interactive Q&A Panel:
Jack A Bobo – Director of Food Systems Institute,
University of Nottingham
Sarah Bradbury – CEO of Institute of Grocery Distribution
Henry Dimbleby – Co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain.
Panel Chair: Charlotte Smith