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comprehensive in-house Database (click
here for member access) went
on line, through this Site, to all Companies in January 2006.
The data provided by all 107 Livery Companies, and
from Guilds on their way to Company status, show that there are
some 240 London schools in 32 Boroughs which are, or have recently,
either received help from or enjoying a continuing link with a Livery
Company or both. 42% of those schools are in Hackney, Islington,
Southwark or Tower Hamlets. There are Livery Company governors at
34 (14%) of the 240 schools.
The Database offers a valuable tool for all Companies
and for Livery schools link in sharing information on existing Livery
support for schools and identifying where effort is currently directed.
It enables Companies to consider where they might most sensibly
develop any new links and where , and in what, they might encourage
individual members to offer their services. In that context, the
Database also identifies a group of schools in areas of significant
deprivation, currently without Livery support, and enables Companies
intending to extend their educational support readily to contact
those schools.
Long-term partnerships between
schools and Livery Companies have proved valuable in the past and
it is a desirable objective for Livery Schools Link to help effect
more such partnerships.
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