A significant part of the Company's charitable giving is expended on education, mostly in the form of postgraduate bursaries, grants and prizes to support students at various levels.
A bursary made to the Guildhall School of Music is part of the Company’s aim to support the cultural dimension of the City. The candidates have all been of high calibre, and some have performed for at Company dinners.
The Paviors Laing Travel Award is made to a post-graduate civil engineering student at Imperial College. Each year the Company also sponsors the Paviors Lecture held at Imperial College to bring leading personalities from the Industry before the undergraduate students.
Educational Awards:
- City & Guilds London
- Guildhall School of Music bursary
- Paviors’ Lecture at Imperial College
- This annual lecture was instituted at City University in 1975 and was transferred to Imperial College in 2000. It is delivered by a leading civil engineer and generally covers a major transport infrastructure topic. The content is designed to be of interest to students as well as to members of the Livery and their guests.
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University of Birmingham bursaries
- These are awarded annually to some three or four students studying on the MSc course in Highway Management and Engineering, based on a combination of academic excellence and financial need.
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University of Nottingham bursaries
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The award is made to a postgraduate PhD candidate studying pavement engineering and is based on excellence and financial need. While the award is an annual one, it generally covers up to three years for the period of the candidate’s research.
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Imperial College Laing Travel Award
- This annual award is made on the basis of competitive bids submitted by postgraduate research students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. The award is used to contribute to travel costs for an overseas trip which is judged to be of direct benefit to the candidates work.
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Institute of Asphalt Technology Prizes
- These are awarded to a small group of the best performing students on the Distance Assisted Private Study (DAPS) course approved by the IAT and the Institute of Quarry Management in support of the road surfacing and quarrying industries. The course leads to a Diploma and is currently run by the University of Derby.
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Physics Prizes at the three City of London secondary education schools