Working with schools

Many companies work with schools, often focusing on Climate and Environmental Impact. We highlight these examples of Companies’ educational projects to inspire further work. Contact the relevant company for further information. If you have other examples to offer, please contact us.

Livery in Education

The many contributions of Livery Companies and Guilds of the City of London demonstrate the importance that they place on helping education at school level and often beyond. Livery in Education booklets are published each year by the charity Livery Schools Link.

View the 2022 Livery in Education and Skills booklet.

Worshipful Company of Fuellers

• Sponsorship of STEM Days held in schools for Year 9 themed on ‘energy’ through two charities: TeenTech and the Smallpeice Trust.
• Sponsorship of City of the Future days for primary schools through TeenTech.
• Sponsorship of Future Energy summer school for Arkwright Scholars through the Smallpeice Trust.
• Provide speakers for schools on hydrogen and electric vehicles.
• Providing judges and mentors for young people entering the TeenTech Awards where projects are focused on energy or environment.
• Providing career speakers for Platanos College in Southwark with which the Fuellers have been involved for many years.

STEM Days in Schools are designed to challenge and inspire. This one focused on energy. Students can be seen constructing wind turbines.

The Worshipful Company of Fuellers working with the community

• The annual Ezra Lecture delivered by an invited lecturer on a topical issue.
• 4 x ‘Conversations’ per year. Open talks, previously held in person but recently online, discussing aspects of energy provision, carbon pricing, climate challenges etc. These have been going for 6 years.
• 2 x ‘Fuellers Advantage’ events led by academic researchers in energy to explain the latest research topics.
• The Earl of Wessex, Fuellers Future Energy Conference. First one held in November 2019. Second one scheduled for 15 November 2021 with Dame Julia King (Chair of Committee on Climate Change) as main speaker. Topics all relate to future energy in all contexts – transport, shipping, domestic heating, energy production etc. (Tickets available now!).

Some images from a recent TeenTech event.

Worshipful Company of Horners

• Gateways to Science (Previously Science Opens Doors) visited the first schools in 2013 and to date has carried out 70 visits and presented to > 3,000 children and parents. During the Covid pandemic school closures the programme has been modified for internet delivery and for example during January and February this year the website received 2,400 visits.
• Polymer Study Tours is a long running programme has delivered polymer science training to over 1,000 teachers.
• Careers HELP is a careers advice website application that is now being used in 192 schools throughout England and Wales; in addition 20 careers advisors are using HELP.
• Fantastic Plastic is a set of lectures that has been delivered to well over 5,000 students face-to-face and the new internet versions will expand the reach.
• The Horners also support the British Science Association’s CREST Star programme, the Royal Society for Biology’s Gopher Science Lab programme and the ASE’s development of internet delivered teacher CPD material to expand access to the York BEST (best evidence science teaching) programmes which we also supported.
• Funding of British Plastics Federation to produce career website and video material that introduces topic of climate change.

Worshipful Company of Gardeners

• Have issued guidance on citizen science for pollinators across schools and liveries.
• Working with an industry partner to deliver 8 monthly green city briefings. To date they have included green finance, green rooves and walls, nature-based solutions in water attenuation. The next one is the intersection between built infrastructure, wellbeing, and nature.
• Work with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission who are trying to find the best sustainable solutions for their different climatic and soil conditions for growing across the world.
• Flowers in the City judges in non-covid times visit all parts of the City at least 4 days a year, for two campaigns .They provide encouragement for planting with sustainability as part of their criteria.
• Fund a training programme for disadvantaged adults to enable them to try horticulture. A high proportion go direct into work. Aspects of horticulture include sustainability.

Worshipful Company of Water Conservators

• Works with 5/6 schools in London and 3/4 schools in Wales.
• Supports a project in Huddersfield for which they fund the education packs for river visits for around 22 schools.
• Provides prizes for environmental projects such as ponds and weather stations.
• Sponsors a cadet on HMS Scott and give prizes to to the best cadets at Northolt RAF.
• Gives University bursaries.

Worshipful Company of World Traders

• Links with around 10 schools.
• Three recent Tacitus lectures have been climate related. The 2021 Tacitus lecture was subsequently used with five of their schools. Kirsten Dunlop, CEO of Climate-KIC, delivered a 90 minute interactive webinar in which she outlined the challenges to Year 10 and 12 students. She encouraged the approach of global citizenship and stressed innovation as the key. She also set out career opportunities in this area. Breakouts featured urban planning, finance and climate change story telling.

Worshipful Company of Educators

• The Educators  gave its Inspiration Educator awards to people in Environmental Education in 2021. The link (including 8 super projects is
• Educators were heavily involved in the Careers HELP project with the Horners.