Tallow Chandlers
Eleven medical students from Barts enjoyed supper at the Hall with the Master and Mrs Fleck and other Company members. The students are studying for intercalated degrees in specialist subjects such as global public health, experimental pathology and neuroscience. Intercalating provides an opportunity to focus on a particular area of medicine, carry out cutting-edge research and […]
The Dimes was the winning team of Cass MBA students in this year’s Challenge. One of three teams who competed in the Grand Final at the Hall on 21 November, The Dimes gave a presentation on food v fuel. They were well grilled by a panel of expert judges from the Tallow Chandlers’ Company, FOSFA […]
Ten young people from around the World received Tallow Chandlers awards from the Lady Mayoress, Lady Mountevans, on 10 November. The two overall winners were ladies from BP Chemicals (Technical Apprentice) and Castrol (Technologist). For the first time we had a winner from Azerbaijan, in the Technical Apprentice category (pictured with the Lady Mayoress). There […]
The Company’s annual award to a member of 170 (Infrastructure Support) Royal Engineers recognised the recipient’s professionalism and maturity in concurrent handling of specialist Royal Engineer teams in a number of countries including Oman, Kuwait and Afghanistan. Photo: Mrs Lindy Estlin, Sheriff’s Consort, the Sapper Award Winner and Lady Mountevans, The Lady Mayoress
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 […]