Keeping Going in Difficult Times
Background material to the presentation made by Ann Murdoch, Almoner at the “Keeping Going in Difficult Times” meeting on Tuesday 9 March 2021. Download document. […]
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Keeping Going in Challenging Times – how the Merchant Company adjusted in 2020
Tuesday 9th March from 6pm-7pm The first of a series of events to help our members learn more about the Company. We will hear from the Chair of the Charities Committee, June Lumsden and former Chair, Brian Gordon, about the role the Committee plays in the Company. We are also delighted to welcome the Company’s […]
Festive Frivolity 2020 Style
Festive Wine and Cheese, Tuesday 22nd December, 7.30pm for 7.45pm start. Given the need to cancel our Members’ Dinner this December we have been working on an alternative to bring the Company together (albeit virtually). The result is a Festive Wine and Cheese party – surely a winning combination. This guided tasting event is being […]
Royal Approval for Watson’s Junior School Development
Our Master, Peter Hillier, represented the Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh at the formal opening of George Watson’s College’s John Martin Building by HRH The Princess Royal, a Past Master of the Merchant Company. This project has extended the Junior School building to provide modern, bright classrooms, a new Junior School […]
An Insight into Art and the Merchant Company – Video
Vince Mason takes members on a journey around the art work in the Merchant Hall. Members are requested NOT to share this video. […]
Breakfast in Times of Change
Our Business Breakfast meeting this month was held via Zoom and featured Jacqui Low, who is known to many of the members as a former Assistant on the Master’s Court, Executive Chairman of Indigo and Chairman of Partick Thistle Football Club. The members and guests who attended were treated to a highly interesting and thought-provoking […]
An Insight into Art and the Merchant Company
How do you experience the artwork that defines the Merchant Company at a time that prevents people joining together? It seems the answer for this question is the same as has been the answer for most things over the last five months – Zoom. And so it came to pass, that on Thursday 20 August, […]
Unique Virtual Meeting for the Company
At 12.31pm on Thursday 18 June 2020 a unique meeting in the history of the Company took place. Given the lockdown situation members could not attend the Merchants’ Hall for the usual June Stated Meeting of the Company. Hence the meeting was held using Zoom, a medium unknown to many before lockdown but now quite […]
COVID-19
The Royal Company of Merchants is not alone in finding itself having to adjust to the impact of COVID-19 on its operations. The Company has been operating as near to normal as possible, with meetings becoming virtual and staff working from home. Clearly there have been no members events held, and we were very sad […]
Association of Assistants’ Dinner
On Friday 6 March, The Association of Assistants held another successful and splendid dinner within the Hall, hosted by the Chairman. This year’s Guest Speaker, and Member of the Association of Assistants, Julie Ashworth who gave a tremendous presentation about her life and experiences which enlightened the assembled party. It was incredible. The Master offered […]