Brigantes 2024 programme and new website

Livery news

Brigantes, the Association of City of London Liverymen in the North of England, have a new website containing reports and photographs of recent events, and the programme of events for 2024.

Event Programme for 2024

23/24 April – Brigantes Golf Spring Meeting, Ganton Golf Club, North Yorkshire

Dinner on 23rd open to all Brigantes Members, followed by Golf over the Championship Links and Dinner on 24th. Visit to Scampston Hall for non-golfers.

20 June – Brigantes Breakfast, St Georges Hall, Liverpool

Morning Talk in the Concert Room. Reception on the Terrace. Lunch in the Great Hall with Principal Guests with musical accompaniment that includes the famous Henry Willis organ which, when built, was the largest in the world.

13 December – Brigantes Winter Gathering, Cutlers Hall Sheffield and Sheffield Cathedral

AGM, Reception and early evening Supper in Cutlers Hall, home of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, followed by the Christmas Concert in the adjacent Sheffield Cathedral.

The new website also includes details of Brigantes charitable giving and guidance about how to join Brigantes, with an online application form.

The qualification criteria for Membership remains broad – open to all Liverymen of the City of London, and to Members of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks and the Company of Watermen and Lightermen, wherever they may live worldwide, subject to being in good standing with their Company.

Subscribing Members receive invitations to events around two weeks before wider circulation and a discount on the event price. The Subscription Year runs from 1st February.