Tallow Chandlers
Annual awards to participants from FOSFA International trade courses were presented on 20 October. The winners were from oils, seeds and fats companies in the UK, Europe and Asia. Tallow Chandlers certificates were presented to winners under 30 and FOSFA Special Merit Awards were made to those over 30. Guests included the Immediate Past President, two Past Presidents […]
Around 40 past recipients of Tallow Chandlers awards, bursaries and scholarships came to Supper on 22 September. Some had received their awards in the early 1980s, some in 2015. The youngest was our former St Paul’s Chorister, aged 14. The speaker won our Cass MBA Award in 2014 and is now a Freeman. She described arriving at […]
Nineteen of the students receiving Tallow Chandlers bursaries, scholarships and awards this year came to luncheon at the Hall on 21 April 2016. Other guests included our speaker, Dr Hugh Rayment-Pickard from IntoUniversity, a charity that helps disadvantaged young people attain a university place or other aspiration. The students from City of London School, City […]
What is the perfect biofuels investment portfolio? That was the question set for this year’s cohort of Cass business students in the first ever Tallow Chandlers MBA Challenge. Cass Business School selected the three best presentations and the teams competed in a Grand Final at the Hall on 24 November 2015. The judging panel included the […]
The annual Tallow Chandlers Awards to exceptional Apprentices and young Technologists from BP were presented at a very well attended Luncheon on 11 November. The Lady Mayoress, Mrs Alan Yarrow, made the presentations of certificates, gold medals and candlesticks. Mr Dev Sanyal, BP’s VP – Strategy & Regions, made a very interesting speech in which […]
The Company presented its annual awards to participants from FOSFA International residential courses on 15 October at a luncheon at the Hall. The winners, oils and fats traders from around the globe, received certificates of excellence from the Master, Mr Nicholas Bull. Two outstanding participants received Tallow Chandlers Gold Medals: Miss Chloe Farrin from ADM Erith Ltd […]
Victoria Mejevitch (left in photo) won a Tallow Chandlers Cass MBA Award in 2005. Now a Liveryman of the Company, Ms Mejevitch gave an entertaining speech at the Past Award Winners Supper on 24 September. On her right is Miss Polina Zabelina, past winner of a BP Technologist award. Other guests included past recipients from Barts […]
Over 70 people attended a luncheon on 23 April to celebrate current recipients of our awards, bursaries and scholarships. They included students from schools and universities, headteachers, parents and special guests. We were fortunate to have as speaker Mr David Jarrett, Freeman and former Headmaster of Reed’s School. Pictured is Mr Joseph Simeon, a star pupil from […]
Our annual supper for recipients of bursaries at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry was held on 10 March. The bursaries support medical students during their year of intercalation. All ten of this year’s students attended, including Stavros Eftychiou, the recipient of the Ensor Zochonis Award, whose intercalated degree is in molecular therapeutics. This award […]
We are extremely grateful to the Master of the Tallow Chandlers’ Company for championing our cause. Early funding from the Company helped to establish a life-changing employability service that has assisted over 421 ex-Service personnel with disabilities into paid employment since 2010. Your support has also enabled us to leverage £60,000 from other Livery Companies […]