This Diary is no longer maintained (for 2025 and beyond).
However dates and details of inter livery sporting events (loosely defined) and other annual events open to all masters and often liverymen, including major church services, can be found at the Sports pages of this site.
They include:
Archery organised by the Bowyers' & Fletchers' Companies (a bilateral contest just for these two companies)
Art exhibitions organised by the Painter-Stainers’ Company
Beerfest organised by the Brewers’ Company (first Thursday in July)
Bridge organised by the Makers of Playing Cards Company (first Monday in March at Drapers’ Hall)
Brigantes events organised in the north of England for those who live or come from anywhere deemed “the North”.
Cart Marking organised by the Carmen's Company (July in Guildhall Yard)
Cask Race organised by the Coopers' Company (June in Guildhall Yard)
Chess organised by the Tax Advisers’ Company
Christmas Market at Guildhall (biennially in late November)
Cricket organised by the Haberdashers’ Company
Croquet organised by the Glovers’ Company
Curling (suspended in 2022)
Cycling organised by the Communicators’ Company
Doggetts Coat & Badge Race organised by the Fishmongers' Company (only for Watermen on the Thames)
Five-a-side Football organised by the Leathersellers' Company
Goldsmiths’ Fair organised by the Goldsmiths' Company (Sept/Oct)
Golf organised by the Coachmakers' Company (May), the ‘Prince Arthur’ at Walton Heath
Livery Halls Walk organised by the Environmental Cleaners' Company (September)
Magical Taxi Tour to Disneyland Paris organised by the Hackney Carriage Drivers' Company (masters invited to “send-off” in September from Canary Wharf)
Padel Tennis Tournament organised by the Saddlers’ Company at the Lawn Tennis Association in Roehampton (May)
Pancake Races organised by the Poulters' Company (Shrove Tuesday in Guildhall Yard)
Petanque organised by the Distillers’ Company at the London Pétanque Club (July)
Pewter Live organised by the Pewterers' Company (June)
Quiz organised by the Guild of Young Freemen
Real Tennis (late October/early November at Queen’s Club)
Red Cross Christmas Market at Guildhall (biennially in late November)
Sailing organised by the City Livery YC (offshore) and Framework Knitters' Company (dinghies, but dormant).
Sailing in Seaview Mermaids - Great 12 only!
Sheep Drive organised by the Woolmen's Company (last Sunday in September on [a] London Bridge)
Shooting (clays) organised by the Environmental Cleaners’ and Fishmongers’ Companies (May at the West London Shooting School)
Shooting (rifle) organised by the Bakers' Company (at Bisley)
Skiing organised by the Ironmongers' Company (January in Morzine)
Tacitus Lecture organised by the World Traders' Company (fourth Thursday in February at Guildhall)
Tennis organised by the Feltmakers' Company (September at Queen’s Club)
(see also Real and Padel Tennis above)
Walk, around all livery halls, organised by the Environmental Cleaners' Company (September)
Wizardry in Wood organised by the Turners' Company (every four years at Carpenters’ Hall)
Church Services
United Guilds' Service organised by the Fishmongers' Company (two Fridays before Good Friday at St Paul’s)
Clergy Support Trust Festival - at St Paul’s (usually the second Tuesday in May)
Bart’s View Day - at St Bartholomew the Great (usually the second Wednesday in May)
Evensong organised by the Musicians' Company (October at St Paul’s)
Following the election of the Lord Mayor at Michaelmas, a number of ceremonies occur, leading to the LM Banquet on the Monday following the LM Show. All these (eg incl Silent Ceremony etc) are described at this note.
Lunches in Livery Halls.
There are several halls which offer regular weekly or monthly lunches for liverymen or freemen and their guests, of any company. They need to be booked in advance, and details of some are below:
Little Ship Club & City Livery Club, every Friday, book on 020 7248 2800 or online
Ironmongers' Hall, every Monday Book here
Watermen's Hall, mid Friday each month from The Cook & The Butler - Date Details here
Butchers' Hall, telephone 020 7248 1163 or e-mail Sarah Levy Date Details here
How to remember the dates of the Quarter Days:
Assuming one knows they fall in March, June, September and December, then a way of getting the exact day is to count the number of letters in each month.
So Lady Day in March – five letters in March, so 25th
Similarly Midsummer Day in June – four letters in June, so 24th (election of Sheriffs)
And Michaelmas in September – nine letters in that month, so 29th (election of Lord Mayor)
However it doesn’t work in December, but we all know when Christmas Day is!
