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The Master’s Year

EDITORIAL

This is the 2016 issue of “The Constructor”, the would welcome your feedback in order to help
annual journal of the Worshipful Company of inform future editions.
Constructors. Following a positive response to
last year’s issue we have decided to continue in We would also welcome articles for the next
the same vein, and this is now my second year issue and these should be sent to the editor at
as the Editor. thejournal@virginmedia.com no later than
31 July 2017.
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I hope you will find this, the 38 issue of the
journal, both interesting and informative. We Roger Lilley - Editor
A Message from the Master

The newly elected Master gives his thoughts on the year ahead

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It is a great honour to have been elected as the 40 Master of this Worshipful
Company of Constructors and I am delighted to be given such a privilege,
representing the Company within the City and beyond as well as following in the
footsteps of those Masters that have gone before. I would like to thank you all for
giving me this opportunity to serve as Master for the next twelve months.
I’ve spent my working life as a Quantity Surveyor and I am currently a Director of a Quantity Surveyor
and Cost Consultancy Practice. I set the Company up in 2006 to provide a bespoke QS/ Financial
service not only to the Client but also the Contractor side of the industry. This country-wide role has
brought me into contact with the whole spectrum of Client, Consultant and Contractors and their
inherent relationships.
Outside of the building industry I have been a Scout Leader and an Assistant District Commissioner
for Scouts in my home area, where I was involved in organizing and running management training
courses and in mentoring scouts to develop their full potential in a wide range of subjects as well as
advising on appropriate career paths specifically in the building industry and related disciplines. I
have also been a parent Governor at a Grant Maintained Secondary School, where I served on both
the Finance and Building committees, and I am an active member of The National Trust, English
Heritage and the City Livery Club.
For my year as Master I’ve chosen the theme of “Apprenticeships and Membership”. Like many
Livery Companies our biggest challenge is to encourage and recruit new and younger women and
men to become initially Apprentices, then Yeomen and move on to be a Freeman with a swift
transfer to the position of Liveryman. Therefore, during my year, and hopefully beyond, I am looking
for the Company to develop our apprenticeship, mentoring and membership programmes to achieve
an increase in our core membership. I will also seek, on behalf of the Company, to provide further
awards and scholarships which will continue to expand our current commitment and thereby
enhance our standing within the City Livery community. Communication will also be at the forefront
of my year, with a newly designed website, use of social media, briefing forums, presentations and
events for the younger members on topical and relevant subjects.
The last twelve months have been special for the Constructers in that we had Past Master
Dr Christine Rigden as the non-aldermanic Sheriff. In my year we expect to have an Honorary
Constructor, Alderman Dr Andrew Parmley, (a member of the Government Committee for
Apprentices) as Lord Mayor.

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