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The Company

The top part of the Arms is one of the spans of Waterloo Bridge with the Thames depicted under it,
thus representing construction and London, forming a link with the City. The bottom part of the
Arms is a device formed from two squares, again representing construction. The divisions on each
side of the carpenter’s square are unequal signifying the change from imperial to metric
measurement in the industry concurrent with the year of approval of the design. The scroll below
the arms depicts the motto of the Company “Constructio cum Honore”; this translates to “Construct
with Honour”.
Event Feedback

As those of you who attend our various events will already know, we always seek your opinion on
how well the function meets your requirements and wishes. We have now been doing this for about
three years, but last year was the first year that we shared the results with you, our members. We
are doing the same again this year.

As you know we use a free web-survey format provided by fluidsurveys.com®. Those of you who
have attended an event are sent an e-mail after the event giving you access to the relevant survey
on the fluidsurveys® website. You can then complete the survey on whatever device you prefer to
use. The completed surveys are anonymous (unless you decide to put your name on the form) and
are collated by fluidsurveys® in such a way as to give us a report that is then transcribed onto an
Excel spreadsheet for distribution to the Chair of the Publicity and Events committee and thus to
Court via the Reporting Warden.

The vast majority of our surveys this year have resulted in “Very Good” and/or “Excellent” markings,
but the reception following the Carol Service was clearly so deficient that the Company decided not
to charge anybody for it, so it has been left out of the annual analysis.

Looking back over the last year (previous year’s figures in brackets) 81% (78%) of responses marked
events overall as “Very Good” or “Excellent” and value for money was marked as “Very Good” or
“Excellent” also in 81% (76%) of the responses. These figures would again suggest that, whilst we
should not be complacent, our events over the past year have improved slightly and have continued
to meet the requirements of our members. The Publicity and Events committee hope to provide an
even better and more varied programme of events for next year. As such, they would welcome
suggestions from Members for informal events that our Members might find attractive. As always,
we are looking for unusual, but not necessarily expensive, events and we will endeavour to find
refreshment venues post-event that Members would find conducive to extending the fellowship
experienced during the event in an even more relaxed style.

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