Charter Dinner 2025

Charter Dinner
Open to Liverymen only and their guests.

Tickets: £125 (four course dinner)
Ticket deadline: 21 April 2025

Schedule:
6.30pm Champagne Reception
7.00pm Four Course Dinner
10.30pm Carriages

We are delighted that Liveryman The Rt Hon the Lord Sedwill of Sherborne (Mark) has agreed to be our guest speaker at this event.

Lord Mark Sedwill GCMG FRGS is Chair of Geopolitical Advisory for Rothschild & Co and a non-executive member of the Group Supervisory Board. He is also a non-executive director of Lloyd’s of London.  He is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, He chaired the 2021 G7 Panel on Global Economic Resilience and is Chairman of the Atlantic Future Forum.  

Lord Sedwill was Cabinet Secretary & Head of the Civil Service (2018-20), National Security Adviser (2017-20), Permanent Secretary at the Home Office (2013-17), and British Ambassador and NATO Representative in Afghanistan (2009-11). Before that he had a diplomatic and security career serving in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Pakistan.  

Educated at St Andrews and Oxford Universities, Lord Sedwill is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Institute of Directors, an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University, of St Edmund Hall, Oxford and of the Royal College of Defence Studies. He is an Honorary Doctor of Laws of St Andrews University and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. He is President of Civil Service Retirement Association, of the Special Forces Club and of the Special Boat Service Association, a Vice-President of the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charities, and an Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines.  He is a Trustee of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He is also the recipient of several awards and honours for national and international public service.

The Charter Dinner celebrates the granting of the Company's Royal Charter by Queen Mary Tudor on 4 May 1557. Official Company guests are invited to this dinner, who include the chief executives of our Corporate Members, chairmen of affiliated Trade Associations, with their chief executives and senior executives from our main suppliers.

Guests and spouses/partners are welcome, but your spouse may be seated opposite you, not adjacent (unless you otherwise specify).

Liverymen are asked to remind their guests that they should not leave the table until the Master and principal guests have departed and certainly not before the Loyal Toast. Badges should NOT be worn by private guests.

Formal Pour Mémoire invitation cards will be posted to you on receipt of the booking.

The deadline for booking is Monday, 21 April 2025, after which no refunds will be given.

The champagne reception will take place in the Court Room at 6.30 pm. Following this, a four-course dinner will be served in the Hall at 7.00 pm. Carriages will be at 10.30 pm.

Dress code: Strictly Black Tie and Decorations.